What Are The Pros And Cons To Organizing Health Fairs

The individuals and organizations best suited to assist with reducing the smoking rates are included in the coalition. Claxton-Hepburn Primary Care (7 clinics in the county) is a delegate for primary care providers.The St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce will be an invaluable resource due to their extremely diverse distribution of influence on local business. They also would benefit by reducing the amount of tobacco use in this county, because it would allow workers to be more efficient, utilize less breaks, and decrease the amount of sick days taken as a result of tobacco related health issues. St.Lawrence County Board of Legislators will provide support from a legal standpoint and influence local governmental policies.

As Executive Director, I will provide staff leadership for Better Health Association. Our goal for the company is to improve the well-being of individuals. Audiences of all ages will be able to take part in learning about living a healthy lifestyle and developing the skills needed to make healthy choices to prevent diseases and ameliorate conditions for those already afflicted with illnesses. Over the course of the next year, It is my responsibility to develop and lead the staff, management structure, dedicated to achieving the mission for Better Health Care Organization. I plan to make significant changes to our organization, to help guide individuals in Central Ohio, to living a better and healthier lifestyle. My goal is to empower the staff with the training needed to meet our company’s standards.

Community health fairs address the needs of the underserved population and assist community members with access to health care. A health fair is the greatest outreach tool to provide accurate information about health issues and trigger behavior change. (Challenges and Failures of Health Fairs and Community Screenings, n.d.). Burron states health fairs must be engaging, creative and convenient for the participant (Burron, 2011).

As Meghan considers how to target 18- to 24-year old young women with an anti-smoking campaign, she should consider several things, including where her target audience will get the most exposure to the campaign, what the health risks are of smoking, specifically for women and how the tobacco companies target women in the age. She could also look at why people in that age bracket smoke. Is it because they are in a stressful time in their life? Is it because there is peer pressure? Is it because people older than them smoke and have given them a bad example. I think messages that emphasized how smoking is unattractive and unappealing because that age group often cares about physical appearance and what others think about them. A good spokesperson

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2010) Tobacco control state highlights, 2010. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Office on Smoking and Health. Retrieved for http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/state_hihlights/2010/pdfs/highlights2010.pdf

I have won various awards such as the Best Graphic Designer at Claflin University, Honor Roll, and Deans List. I have worked with Claflin Theater Production as a work study student, AmeriCorps Saturday Academy, and Claflin University Tobacco Free Alliance program. My role for the Theater Production was to assist by completing tasks for school plays. I am a member of AmeriCorps and my role is to tutor and mentor students from middle schools around Orangeburg area. The Claflin University Tobacco Free Alliance is a grant funded by the SC Tobacco Free Collaborative. The mission is to educate citizens of the Orangeburg, Calhoun and Bamberg counties about the effects of tobacco use as well as benefits of cessation. The two primary goals are to educate priority populations as well as focus on workplace policy.

As Executive Director, I will provide staff leadership for Better Health Association. Our goal for the company is to improve the well-being of individuals. Audiences of all ages will be able to take part in learning about living a healthy lifestyle and developing the skills needed to make healthy choices to prevent diseases and ameliorate conditions for those already afflicted with illnesses. Over the course of the following year, it is my responsibility to develop and lead the staff, management structure, dedicated to achieving the mission for Better Health Care Organization. I plan to make significant changes to our organization, to help guide individuals in Central Ohio, to living a better and healthier lifestyle. My goal is to empower the staff with the training needed to meet our company’s standards.

Each part is divided into many small topics to help the readers find and understand the information easily. For example, for Behavioral Health Professionals, we can search the information about Behavioral Health and Tobacco Use, Why Clients Use Tobacco, Common Myths, The role of Behavioral Health Professionals, Treatment Considerations, and Helping Referral Options. The provided information is cited from researches of professionals or schools of

It collects and records information on contents of cigarettes and passes the information to the public. The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) supports research on drug abuse and publishes non-technical reports of these researches and cessation programs for the public. The Office of the Surgeon General publishes materials on smoking health issues and cessation. The Center for Diseases Control (CDC) through it Office of Smoking and Health (OSH) acts as the lead federal Agency for comprehensive tobacco prevention and control. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) through its Evidence Based Practice Center (EPE) in 2005 published a report on tobacco use, prevention, cessation and control based on a systematic review of literature using data from the Surgeons General’s 2000 report. While the federal government agencies emphasize on smoking cessation, the local agencies put smoking bans in public building and areas.

CVS is the first the first national pharmacy chain store to ban tobacco and focus on the health and well-being of its patients and customers (Drell, 2014). This is a nationwide initiative, however, it doesn’t immediate solve the problem, but it is a step in the right direction. In light of CVS’s removal of all tobacco products from its shelves, the drugstore chain plans to offer its customers robust smoking cessation programs (Drell, 2014). The target public is the heavy tobacco users—the age range differs but it includes both men and women.

Although it was not exciting material, it was interesting. The most interesting aspect was the use of assessment in the program. Some may have never considered the use of assessment in smoking cessation before. Mrs. Luckett spoke on how encourage the smoker to quit and well as the process for leading the smoker to cessation. Along the way, it is important to “assess” the smokers’ readiness to quit. Dr. Susan Lofton’s speech, “Horton Hears a Sue,” offered important information on how to the nurse can protect herself in legal proceedings. Not surprisingly, the best defense is good, ethical patient care and meticulous, factual, non-judgmental documentation. Another very interesting point Dr. Lofton made was the impact a nurse’s social media profile can have in a courtroom. It does not seem right that a nurse’s weekend trip to the beach that she worked hard to afford should be used to make her look like a stripper or an alcoholic, yet that is the reality of the modern age. As nurses, we have the responsibility to present ourselves and in turn, our profession, as respectable, ethical

This association also advocates that nurses who work with smoker patients should show knowledge, skills and abilities for supporting and monitoring of smokers in the smoking cessation process, implementation of preventive actions against second-hand smoke, trying to develop interventions to stop smoking and

One of the Healthy People 2020 objectives is to promote health and to reduce chronic disease risks. A concern that correlates with my chosen vulnerable population of homeless people and is relevant to them is tobacco use. Taylor et al. (2016) maintain that 75 % of homeless people smoke cigarettes. Therefore, I am choosing the objective number, TU-4.1 “Increase smoking cessation attempts by adult smokers” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2016, pare 4). This objective states that half of the people who smoke have made an attempt to quit smoking in the last year. And I believe it is appropriate for this vulnerable population because the survey revealed that great deal of the interviewed people rate their health as not good enough and were willing to try to change it by altering the risk factors. To stop this growing epidemic, Healthy People 2020 has put a system of strategies in play that will help ensure that people willing to make a change can get the help they need to achieve their goal. Community health nurse can help achieve this objective and make this goal happen by providing education and implementing interventions to teach the homeless people and help them quit

Karen Johnston is a director of a health planning agency which employs approximately 18 staff members and also serves on the Community Advisory Board (CAB). This program typically incorporates two student interns from her health planning agency. The CAB is a vital program as it advises the program faculty on issues that concern curriculum, internships, job placements, and scholarships.

‘Health promotion and primary health care principles are integral to public health as they seek extensive solutions to problems that defy biological, genetic or biochemical solutions’ (Mittlemark, cited in Keleher 2001, p. 7). However, health inequalities are still prevalent across the public health sector which need to be addressed. Particularly, this paper will focus on the National Tobacco Campaign and how these principles are incorporated in the program and their success in addressing the health inequalities associated. Smoking is one of the largest leading causes of preventable death and disease in Australia and is also ‘responsible for more drug-related hospitalisations and deaths than alcohol and illicit drugs combined’ (Australian