Health Case Study: Baker County

This author’s personal perceptions concerning patients facing a lingering terminal illness, have been shaped by over 20 years of critical care nursing experience. Facing death and illness on a daily basis requires self-examination and a high degree of comfort with one’s own mortality, limits and values. Constant exposure to the fragility of life forces respect for the whole person and the people who love them. A general approach to patients who are actively dying is to allow them to define what they want and need during this time. The nurse’s role

Services are provided through various health clinics, hospitals, schools, community centers, and public housing centers. In the United

496,950 people reside in Volusia County (2012). Out of the 67 Florida counties, Volusia ranks 23rd in clinical care. Volusia residents have access to many hospitals and clinics and that number is growing quickly. As of 2005 there were 1016.010 general practitioners per 100,000 people.

In the United States we are very fortunate. For the most part we do not live in fear of disease outbreaks from day to day. Our government along with the Centers for Disease Control and Public Health Departments have managed to have adults and children vaccinated and set up recommendations regarding those vaccinations. Despite all that is done our country allows freedoms. One of these freedoms is to not vaccinate your child from communicable diseases due to personal beliefs. With the worlds populations becoming more mobile, that sets your child up for dangerous encounters; because some countries are not as strict on laws regarding vaccinations and some

Measles was discovered in the 19th century by a Persian Doctor, but was not recognized until 1957 as an infectious agent in human blood by a Scottish physician. In 1912 measles became a notifiable disease and in the first decade that records were kept there was on average 6,000 deaths per year reported from the disease. (Center For Disease Control). There is no definite origination of measles but scientists believe that it dates back to the Roman Empire about the 11th and 12th century (NCBI, 2010). The first outbreak known in America was in 1657 in Boston,

Chesterfield County, Virginia has a population of about 328,000 as of January 1, 2014 with 752 people per square mile. There was a 3.6% increase in the population from April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013. 65.4% of the population is white non-Hispanic, 21.6% are black non-Hispanic, 7.2% are Hispanic, 3.2% are Asian and 2.1% are two or more races. In 2012 there were 3657 births and 1654 deaths in Chesterfield County. They are rated as being safer than 50% of the cities in the US with 41 violent and 1049 crimes against property (Crime rates for Chesterfield, VA, n.d.).

The racial make-up of the system 's student population includes less than 1% Asian, 3% multi-racial, 18% Hispanic, 30% Black, and 48% White. All students in Candler County are eligible for breakfast and lunch at no cost. In addition, all schools are Title I Schoolwide Schools. There is a Mennonite Church School, with a little over 20 students attending, located in the geographic boundaries of Candler County and 27 students are home-schooled.

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A more in depth breakdown of the county has proven a majority of the population is white in 2013 with them consisting of 89.3%, African Americans was 7.2%, American Indian and Alaskan was 0.2%, Asians was 0.2%, Hawaiian Pacific natives was 0.1% and Hispanic/Latino was 2.1%

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, coordinate efforts in conjunction with states and other partnersto offer a system of health surveillance, which would monitor and prevent disease outbreaks, which includes bioterrorism. The goal of the agency is to implement strategies to prevent diseases as well as maintain national health statistics. Another role of the CDC is to safeguard against international disease transmission, this is vital as the agency has personnel located several countries outside the United States. Looking at the agency’s core functions, examining influences in the workplace, and identifying roles of the agency personnel is vital to

“Bioterrorism remains a major threat for the United States despite more than $65 billion spent on protecting the country from myriad dangers, the Bipartisan WMD Terrorism Research Center said in its latest report Wednesday. The center's Bio-Response Report Card evaluated U.S. preparedness for countering threats from bioterrorism and found the country remains vulnerable to multiple threats and "largely unprepared for a large-scale bioterrorist attack."”(UPI.com, 2011). There have been over a dozen leading U.S. bio-defense experts that have taken part in figuring out where we are exactly as a county and what the effects of a terroristic attack

The Broward County school system consist of a very wide diverse set of pupil from 204 different countries that speaks 184 different languages. Broward County School system is a melting pot consisting of Whites, Blacks, Asian, Hispanic and the others being Native Americans, Pacific Islander and multiracial.

A basic overall assessment of Pasco county health concludes that the county is a moderately healthy community with chronic illness being a major issue. When comparing Pasco County In the area of Health outcome to the 67 other counties in Florida Pasco places 45th. The higher the score the worse the county is. (County Health, 2013) There are two categories that the rankings were broken into were health outcomes and health factors. Health outcome refers to mortality and morbidity. Health factors pertain to health risks including factors like alcohol use, access to care and education. With Health factors Pasco ranked 28th. The rankings vary by a large margin and lead to the conclusion that the county has relatively healthy.

In the www.census.gov.com, Bakersfield city population estimates was 368,483 in July 1, 2014.The male’s population is 181,676, and 49.3% of the Bakersfield. The female’s population is 187,083, and 50.7%. The population has been change since 2000. Persons under 5 years percentage was 9.0, under 18 years was 31.5 percent, 65 years and over was 8.4 percent, and female persons was 51.0 percent in April 1, 2010. The white alone was 56.8 percent, black or African American alone was 8.2 percent,

>Among all the factors that are attributed to population health, the environment is perhaps the greatest. It is common knowledge in public health that if the physical environment is unhealthy, so is the population that live there. Even though the many of the environmental issues are being addressed by the State and County authorities, Clayton County is experiencing a slow rate of change. While the air pollution-particulate matter is declining, it is currently at 13.2, which is higher than the national average of 9.5, and the 12.8 for the state’s average.2 In addition, this county has drinking water violations and severe housing problems. As a result of these and other environmental issues, Clayton County ended up with a county ranking of 159 out of 159.1 This is not a good thing for the population of Clayton County.