Injury prevention

An ideal health promotion and prevention program should include enough information that the audience understands it and that they are able to apply it to their lives. Health promotion and prevention aims to keep people healthy and to employ healthy behaviours. As the World Health Organization states, it is “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health” (Rural Health Information Hub, 2017). Programs can touch on things like social and environmental factors

personal relations, and by customers or clients. Some workers, notwithstanding, are at increased risk at certain worksites. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries that there are a total of 4,405 fatal work injuries in 2013, 4,628 fatal work injuries in 2012.

1. What were the characteristics the disasters and what community resources were used? On April 15, 2011 severe weather and tornados hit Mobile, Alabama, with wind speed at 80 miles per hour (Press Release: Alabama Red Cross Responds to Tornadoes and Severe Weather, 2011). The tornado touched at least 6 counties so Alabama Governor Robert Bentley had to declare a state of emergency. Seven people lost their lives and after preliminary damage assessment were performed indicating that in the Alabama

1 Describe the growth and developmental tasks that were displayed by the child you interacted with in this setting (Erikson, Piaget, and Freud). Were these tasks age appropriate? Did you assess any developmental challenges in the client that you interacted with? How were they dealt with (by you and by the health care team)? Answer: Industry vs inferiority, the fourth stage of Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development. This stage occurs during the stage occurs during childhood between the

Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention Interventions: Haiti 2010 *Primary prevention nursing interventions: Primary prevention and nursing interventions include: the workers and volunteers receiving available, necessary and appropriate shots prior to entering Haiti. For the Haitians, immunization would also be given. This is very important against, Hepatitis, and other rare, yet deadly diseases, such as measles, mumps, rubella, and pertussis. Education regarding: safe and proper sanitation

The American Journal of Health Promotion defines “Health Promotion as the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move towards a state of optimal health, which is a balance of the physical, emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual health.” The main purpose of health promotion in nursing practice is that nurses have a major role to play in order to guide individuals to make healthy decisions by including their patients and families, communities that further form organizations

with autonomy and lack of control. There is concerns that doing repetitive motions and tasks can lead to musculoskeletal disorders, such as repetitive strain injuries. OSHA has stated this including the mention of performing same or similar tasks repetitively. “Exposure to these known risk factors for MSDs increases a worker's risk of injury” ("Ergonomics", 2017). Heavy lifting and persistent standing can contribute significantly to physical stress. Standing for long periods of time in the same position

Etiology, Behavioral Aspects, and Educational Implications of Emotional Behavioral Disorders Emotional Behavioral Disorder (EBD) also known as (Behavioral Disordered, Seriously Emotionally Disorders, and Emotional & behavioral Disorders) is the 4th largest disability category under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. EBD like most disabilities has some sort of vagueness to its definition. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 (IDEA) defines EBD as a condition exhibiting

Minority group Asian Americans are one of the fastest growing ethnic / racial minority in the United States. Asian Americans growth rate is 5.2% of the Nation’s population. Asian Americans most at risk of cancer, heart disease, stroke, unintentional injuries (accidents), and diabetes and also have a high occurrence of the following conditions and risk factors: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hepatitis B, HIV/AIDS, smoking, tuberculosis, and liver disease. Asian American men are 40% less likely

successes, or a time when the client may choose to rearrange priorities, or adjust strategies. Health promotion aims a wide range of targets at different levels in the community. The huge benefits resulted from health promotion and disease prevention efforts make many realize that this domain of health care is worth to be invested in. The focus is shifted evermore from the medical to the preventative approach, from treating the disease to avoiding the onset of it.