National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Executive Summary The main objective of this report is to analyse the economics of breastfeeding and to see whether is there a case that is against breast feeding or is there a case that supports breastfeeding. This report has a detailed explanation of how breastfeeding plays an important role from an economic perspective and the cost advantages and disadvantages of breastfeeding in Australia and other countries. It also evaluates the importance of breastfeeding and the benefits that a child gets

the United States, the infant mortality rate for 2016 was 5.9 per 1,000 live births. For African Americans, the rate was 10.8 per 1,000 live births compared to 5.0 for Hispanic and 5.0 for Caucasian. In comparison to the rates in Kentucky, the national averages are lower. In 2011, the rate for the United States was 6.5, and in 2006 the rate was 6.7. Overall, the mortality rate is decreasing. The differences in infant mortality rate defined by race can be attributed to access to healthcare.

Limited regulations of The FDA on cosmetics Frequently, consumers like you and I buy items everyday not knowing chemicals or harsh byproducts that they are made with. We trust that cosmetic products we buy everyday will be safe, but there are ingredients in our daily products that could or has caused some health or skin conditions. In 1820, the U.S gathered physicians to create, The FDA and regulations on drugs in the United States. The general purpose of The Food and Drug Act was to have a standard

profession is committed to the care of patients and families throughout health and illness and across all setting of care. Nurses assess and plan care to deal with the multidimensional range of needs for those faced with cancer. Nurses have been integrally concerned in efforts focused on cancer prevention, and they also are essential in the emerging area of clinical heredity for prevention and early

2015 – 2016 Statistic on Asian American Cancer Health Disparities April is National Minority Health Month. Despite major advances in medicine, ever-evolving technology and more noteworthy access to medicinal services over the past century, there are tenacious disparities in health that disproportionally influence racial and ethnic minorities and other helpless populations. These disparities are obvious in some key measures of wellbeing including life expectancy, the risk for disease, and access to

2015 Identifying and Addressing the Prevalence of Skin Cancer in Women 18-29 Years Old Skin cancer is the most common case and source of cancer in the United States. In fact, every year there are more skin cancer cases than cases of breast, prostate, lung, and colon cancers combined (Skin Cancer Foundation [SCF], 2015). Skin cancer has the ability to impact many Americans. One in five Americans will develop at least one case of skin cancer in the course of a lifetime (SCF, 2015). About 3.5 million

Patient factors include age, gender, education, ethnicity, socio-economic status and how much patient knows about cancer and cancer symptoms. Age appears to be the major determinants of cancer survival. Cancer survival rate for almost all types of cancers decrease significantly with age. Research has shown that elderly patients generally do not receive the same standard of treatments and care, as compared to younger patients. Elderly patients are also reported to be less likely to receive surgery

develop clinical symptoms, HPV may cause cancer many years later (CDC HPV, 2015). For example, one in every 142 women will develop cervical cancer due to HPV in her lifetime (CDC HPV, 2015). HPV vaccines have been developed and administered in recent years for the prevention of HPV and cervical cancer, but it must be given prior to HPV exposure (CDC HPV, 2015). The HPV vaccine is greater than 90% effective in eradication of the HPV strains that cause cancer (CDC, HPV, 2015). HPV has unique public

Childhood obesity is a medical condition that is found in children, teenagers and middle aged people. Everyone has a unique body shape and structure that is engineered right for them but sometimes the body will store more body fat than required. If an individual stores more fat than an average person is supposed to, then they can be categorized as obese. Childhood obesity can be identified seeing if the weight of a child is well above that of an average for a child 's height and age. For an

the second this past year at age 17. It was July 20th, 2013 when I first shaved my head. I had done so to raise awareness for Alopecia Areata, an autoimmune disease that causes one to lose hair. I also did this fundraiser to stand in solidarity with cancer patients who go through chemotherapy. I raised a total of $640 and split it evenly between the American Cancer Society and the National Alopecia Areata Foundation. During the summer of 2016 I began fundraising for my second head-shaving fundraiser