Health Reflection Paper

Obesity was significantly more prevalent amongst female African Americans in this community. With the highest rate affecting women between the ages of 45 to 64. Obesity was also higher amongst Black females who’s educational attainment was lower

Over this last week, I have received a patient named Sherman “Red” Yoder. He is an 80-year-old male farmer, who lives alone in the farmhouse that he had grown up in. Red was married for 50 years and has been a widow now for 10 years. Red has one son, Jon, who takes care of the farmhouse and the land. He has one daughter-in-law, Judy, who is in involved with his care. Red was diagnosed with diabetes six months ago. Diabetes mellitus is a chronic condition that affects your body 's ability to use the energy found in food. As of only a few weeks ago, Red has been managing his diabetes with insulin. Insulin is a hormone that controls blood sugar. Before he began using insulin, he managed his diabetes with oral medication. After carefully assessing Red’s chronic illness, diabetes, many red flags were presented that could interfere with his management. In turn, this would cause further complications.

After reviewing this article, I have determined that the dimensions of health involved with this issue are physical, environmental, and intellectual. For starters, this issue affects a person's physical health because it causes the body to deteriorate until eventually the person dies. Those who become addicted fail to take proper care of their body with healthy products but rather ingest harmful ones. Another dimension involved is environmental because depending where a person lives will depend how accessible these painkillers are. In an area where a doctor over prescribes painkillers, or people illegally sell painkillers, there should be a higher addiction rate because painkillers are easier to obtain. The final dimension involved

The purpose of this paper is to identify one health problem that is most prevalent in my community. Residential demographic information will be provided. I will use Milio's framework for prevention to analyze this health problem. Then, compare the health problem to Healthy People 2020 national goals. Lastly, I will introduce one long term goal and three short term goals with their interventions.

Mrs. J. is an African American 69years old retired teacher who was diagnosed with advanced type2 diabetes one year ago. She has been responding well to the interventions, including medications, dietary measures, and physical exercises, until recently. She was admitted into the emergency with muscle weakness, vomiting, fatigue, headache, and confusion. Physical examination revealed that her skin was dry and had lost its turgor, while an osmolality blood test revealed an elevated level of sodium in her blood. She confirmed that in the past week, she had breached the diet as was indicated by a dietician, and had been consuming less water. She further confirmed that she felt unfulfilled due to the disease, and the recognition that she was getting older ‘made’ her seek fulfillment by ‘living her life’. Mrs. J. saw diabetes as a limitation to the full enjoyment of her last days on earth, and said she has left it all to God.

Mrs. Jameson is an African American 69-year-old retired teacher who was diagnosed with advanced type 2 diabetes one year ago. She has been responding well to the interventions, including medications, dietary measures, and physical exercise, until recently. She was admitted into the emergency room with muscle weakness, vomiting, fatigue, headache, and confusion. Physical examination revealed that her skin was dry and had lost its turgor, while an osmolality blood test revealed an elevated level of sodium in her blood. She confirmed that in the past week, she had breached the diet as was indicated by a dietician, and had been consuming less water. She further confirmed that she felt unfulfilled due to the disease, and the recognition that she was getting older ‘made’ her seek fulfillment by ‘living her life’. Mrs. Jameson saw diabetes as a limitation to the full enjoyment of her last days on earth, and said she has left it all to God.

Every year the step team does a performance during the Health Fair. This year we wanted to try something different, so we decided to teach steps to children from the area. Most of our steps are elite and very tedious to learn so we had to figure out what steps would be appropriate to teach without the children losing interest. Originally, we started with three kids who are siblings of one of my teammates. Later on in the day, after the drill team performed, some of drill team members came over to learn a couple of step moves, along with a couple of girls from the dancing school.

One thing I did not like about the Student Health 101 website was the titles of the articles and the overall layout of the website. I felt the website did not look like a school related website, but a website that looks like it is going to be filled with pop-up ads. I also felt the titles of the articles were very click-bait like one of the articles was titled “5 things you didn’t know about vaping” and looked like something you would see at the bottom of webpages as advertisements. I did not feel the website had a very professional feel to it. However, when I actually clicked on some of the articles I found the content to be very easy to read and useful.

DignityMatch will interface with the NDR using Health Level Seven (HL 7) standards. HL7 is computer content standard that will enable NDR and dignityMatch to communicate, exchange data accurately, effectively and consistently and to use the information that has been exchanged. The DignityMatch will make a record requests to NDR as programmed by the stakeholder at predetermined time (for example, 12:00 AM very day). The linkage is processed according to the following steps:

The competency, “Analyze determinants of health and disease using an ecological framework” was met through the exercise, “Health Problem Analysis Worksheet” and through reading Chapter 2 in the book Public Health: What it is and How it Works.

Goal: to write a blog article on how to save money on a wellness program for companies

Diabetes is a major problem in our society today. Many people have heard about the disease; however, they do not know too much about its complications. Diabetes is a chronic, progressive and lifelong condition that affects the body’s ability to use the energy found in food (WebMD, 2016). Many new cases are confirmed every year and unfortunately, many go undiagnosed for years. Diabetes is a serious disease and need to be taking seriously. The disease can lead to many other health problems such as blindness, nerve damage and kidney diseases. The more the community understand and made aware of the seriousness of the disease, the better it can be control and or prevented.

Public health is a dynamic field of medicine that is concerned primarily with improving the health of populations rather than just the health of individuals. Winslow (1920) defined public health as;

The Women’s Health Issues course this semester have been interesting and informative. I gained great perspective on health topics affecting women’s health status and ways biological and social factors put women at a higher stake for health issues. One of the most important thing I am taking away from this class is the importances of understanding women’s health, as a Public Health student women’s health has been a topic of interest for a long time. Coming from a developing country where many women grapple with health issues from discrimination and prescribed roles, it has been important for me to take this class and to have better understanding on health disparities that exist globally between women and men. In the following paragraphs I

It was two o’clock in the morning. I heard my brother screaming my name and I knew it was happening again. We had begun taking turns spending the night in my mother’s room to keep an eye on her. Nights like this had occurred so many times before that I no longer panicked. My mother was on the floor seizing because the doctors were still trying to get her insulin dosage correct. My brother immediately called 911 and we waited for them to arrive. What I did not know was that this time was not like before. My mother went into a coma for eight days and when she finally woke up her short term memory was gone. She did not remember her kids or anything about her adulthood. We had to reteach her her entire life after her childhood including the death of my father and her youngest son. She could no longer work because she could not remember how to do her job or anything related to accounting. Doctors were not sure if her short term would ever return and it did not. Even though brain trauma due to hypoglycemia is a rare occurrence, it can occur. Hypoglycemia seizures are also considered a medical emergency. However, they can be prevented. I often replay this night in my mind trying to figure out what my brother and I could have done differently. Current literature suggest that the gold standard, glucagon, is not being used as often due to lack of patient teaching and education. From personal experience, I know that diabetic educators and physicians did not teach my family members