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    in the area and lack of health care services. With these barriers, rural communities face more sickness and deaths. In this paper, the author will discuss factors that sustain health care services in rural communities and how to make it better with a proposed solution that may assist with this issue. Factors that contribute to sustaining the issue, what factors may ameliorate the issue. When one looks at the barriers that rural communities face with the issue of health care services, there are

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    Characteristics School based center and Community health center. The school based center employs one contract school psychologist/licensed professional to provide care to patients/students. There were a total of 350 students across three campus centers. The school clinic and community health-health center and school based center was primarily geared towards Medicaid. Intervention or issue School district and community health center collaborating together to diagnose mental health problems that influence the

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    Merriam-Webster defines Public Health as “The art and science dealing with the protection and improvement of community health by organized community effort and including preventive medicine and sanitary and social science” (Merriam-Webster). Throughout recent history, factors that have seriously threatened human safety whether it be disease, genocide, pollutants, or plague, have been identified as public health concerns by various governments and organizations. These situations are remedied by creating

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    address the health concerns and needs of the adults living in Bedford Stuyvesant(Bed-Sty) community who have type 2 diabetes. Many needs were observed and documented and included barriers, access to health service challenges, access to affordable healthcare, access to community-based support organization and unavailability of safe parks and other available spaces to exercise. Through this need assessment proposal, I hope to highlight the health needs, why it is considered a public health issue for

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    organization, the Behavioral Health division is a community mental health center that focus on children from the age of five to nineteen. Helping People Succeed have become a leader in the community due to the services they provided in Martin, St. Lucie, Okeechobee and Indian River counties. We serve over five hundred clients per year. Since the Medicaid expansion and mental health changes under the affordable healthcare in 2014. The organization behavioral health division is projected to increase

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    This assignment will investigate the Community Health Profile for Oldham, a metropolitan borough within Greater Manchester. Oldham has a population of around 224,900 (Oldham Council, 2017). At present, there are several prominent health issues in Oldham, according to Public Health England’s Health Profile (2017), such as: levels of obesity in Year 6 children; under 18 conceptions and children in low income families. The intention of this assignment is to gather further evidence and talk in more detail

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    B1. Community I did my study for this assignment in Stokes County, North Carolina which is where I recently moved to from Iowa. Stokes County is made up of several small towns but King, which is where I live, is the largest town. Stokes County is in the middle northern part of the state near the Virginia border, a mountain chain, and a lot of wilderness. Some of the towns are incorporated and some are not and a few only claim to be villages. Using the Population Economic Status Assessment, I looked

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    I completed my practicum at the State University Health Research Center. The HRC was launched in March 2014 by the State School of Medicine. Its mission is to utilize the Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach to build the community capacity and leadership for health promotion and disease prevention across the diverse populations of the county. The HRC is funded by a 5-year, $4.1 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of the Prevention

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    Community Health Nursing Reflection NUR/405 2012 Diane Schlicke RN MSN Community Health Nursing Reflection The role of the community health nurse in the participating family’s community is to focus on the health needs of the aggregate or group. Community health nursing refers to a systematic, comprehensive focus on wellness, health protection, and disease, and injury prevention for the population residing in a specific area. The nurse functions as advocate, case manager, consultant, health

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    within organizations, systems, or communities after initial implementation efforts or funding ended (Blasinsky, 2006). Medicine is a service oriented profession which requires professional attitudes and a sense of empathy and caring. Medical schools recognize the merits of creating community programs as students, and many schools have incorporated it into their curriculum (Loh et al., 2015). In medical school, students may create or participate in various community involvement projects that aim to

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