...Women’s Health Issues Mary Shipp HCS/455 June, 18, 2012 Katherine Smith According to freedictionary.com the definition of health care policy is “a principle that no one can legally perform any acts that endanger the public health.” Health care access is an “ability of a person to receive health care services, which is a function of availability of personnel and supplies and the ability to pay for those services.” Health care policy also are many rules, regulations, and guidelines that exist to operate, finance, and shape health care delivery. Women’s Health Care Besides developing the same health care issues as men do, women have different health care issues also. Health care for women’s issues should be deal with differently from that for men. If health care providers do not take these issues seriously, women will suffer. Heart Diseases Men and women are affected from heart disease differently. It is the number one cause of death in both men and women. According to the Center of Disease Control (CDC), heart disease causes 29% of deaths in women annually. Usually more men die from heart disease but women are more likely underdiagnosed or mis-diagnosed. Once the heart conditions are diagnosed correctly, it is often too late. Breast Cancer Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women. Breast cancer can cause fear in women causing them not to go to their providers for testing. Breast cancer can also cause women to make harsh choices in getting mastectomies...
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...Women’s Health as a group aggregate Allen Foucht American Sentinel University Women’s Health as a group aggregate Community health nursing is crucial to providing communities with essential information about at risk populations and prevention strategies for them. Nurses employ the nursing process to aid in preventing unhealthy behaviors and diseases while promoting good health. The community includes individual people, families, women, men and seniors. The primary focus is prevention of disease and illness and promoting healthy practices in the community (Nies & McEwen, 2011). Past models of community and public health have started with issues that were focused around environmental hazards such as water and sewage issues (Nies & McEwen, 2011). Community health planning was dominated in the 1980’s and 90’s by political administrations (Nies & McEwen, 2011). Current trends now follow the Healthypeople 2020 (United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2012) which have outlined a 10 year period of national objectives to improve the lives of all Americans. This paper will focus on the aggregate group of women and the group’s health as a community. Although women and men share health problems, some affect women differently. One example is heart disease where women may experience different symptoms than men. Another example is breast cancer where 12 % of women are at risk of acquiring the disease as opposed to less than 1% of males (United States Department...
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...Women’s Health: the Final Frontier Throughout history women have typically been stereotyped as being the child-bearers, and have not received much medical care or medical research beyond the reproductive organs and their functions. A woman’s body contains more than just her ovaries and uterus, but since men are predominantly in the fields of healthcare and research, this stereotype that only the reproductive organs matter continues to perpetuate and plague American women. Women account for 42% of all deaths related to heart disease and heart attacks; deaths caused by cancers have increased exponentially since the beginning of the twentieth century (Kaiser Foundation online). Although these facts are frightening, more frightening is the lack of understanding and treatment. Each year thousands of women live without the necessary healthcare and treatment in order to stay healthy; and most treatment and awareness education for women is geared towards reproduction. The U.S Department of Health and Human Services came out with a report entitled “Women’s Health Issues: An Overview” back in May of 2001. This overview states that “until recently, medical research has largely ignored many health issues important to women, and women have long been under-represented in clinical trials.” The result of this under-representation in clinical trials is that medical doctors give treatments to women as they would to men. This can potentially harm the woman, because women and men...
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...Impacts of Health Reform on Women’s Reproductive Health Stephanie Bucher COMM/215 January 10, 2015 Linda Camp In March of 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law by President Obama. This federal law intended to make health insurance more affordable and more readily accessible to citizens and legal residents of the United States. (Salganicoff, 2014). The Affordable Care Act benefits all of the citizens of the United States, and it has been especially beneficial to women's health issues. It has been said to be the "greatest advance for women's health in a generation" (Health Reform is Making a Difference is Women's Lives, 2012). The passing of the Affordable Care Act will allow approximately 6.8 million low-income woman to gain access to health insurance. (Levy, 2012). Women have faced discrimination in health care for generations and the Affordable Care Act has put provisions in place to address and fix this long-standing problem. ("Why The Affordable Care Act Matters For Women: Coverage of Women's Preventive Services, Including Contraception", 2012) Before the passing of the Affordable Care Act, women faced many obstacles when trying to seek care. One in Four women of reproductive age lacked health coverage, and what is especially shocking is that four out of ten poor women of childbearing age were uninsured. (Gold, 2009). These numbers are unacceptable, and most Americans believe that change needs to happen. Since the law passed, many substantial...
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...Women’s Health -What were significant or important things you learned about women’s health that you did not know before? Name at least 3 and explain why. One of the important things I’ve learned in Women’s Health is located in Chapter 3, called “Developing a Healthy Lifestyle”. I learned about the life expectancy of women in the United States and all over the world. I was not aware that life expectancy in the U.S. is 80 years old. Honestly, I thought it was younger than that. Next, I learned the leading causes of death for U.S. females. I know cancer (breast especially) is one leading cause. I was not aware that heart disease is the actual leading cause. Lastly, I learned the overall health for women. I learned how to keep my body healthy and make myself a better, more energetic me. I would have to say, however; my favorite chapter this semester was definitely chapter 3. There are plenty of things I learned about women’s health that I was unaware of before. I learned more about women’s grief in losing someone close. I learned more about depression and how it truly affects a woman. Most importantly I learned how to manage my stress. I have had major problems when dealing with stress. After reading chapter 5 “Managing the Stress of Life,” I learned how to deal with my stress in a more positive way. Now my stress never gets the best of me! Also, I have learned a lot more about healthy relationships. There were times where my husband and I would fight over something little or...
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...Final Analysis Paper Women’s Health Product: Olay, Anti-Aging Eye Roller In today’s society there are a lot of beauty products for women that promise to get the job done. These products could be make-up, dieting pills or drinks, and aging products. Women need to be careful though because these products may not do what they are supposed to do. The products could cause health problems, allergic reactions or just not work at all and people then waste their money. If a women wants to buy a product for themselves, they first should do research. Their research should including reading reviews to see if the product will work and then see if the products are FDA approved and if doctors or health professionals recommend them. If all seems true and real, then buy the product but first do research to keep yourself safe. The product Olay, anti-aging eye roller is a product that reduces puffy-ness under women’s eyes, this product furthermore helps with aging. The message this ad is sending is negative but could also be positive. It could be positive because it is showing women that you do not have to age, that there are products to help with looking younger. On the other hand, this message it also negative. This is because the ad is not that it is not ok to look older. Women can look beautiful when they are older, they do not have to buy products to fix themselves. This ad could go either way to people; it depends on how they look at the message. I have asked different women with...
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...MEMORANDUM To: Anna Rieve From: Kristi Helmer Date: November 5, 2015 Subject: Audience Analysis Memo I have chosen to contrast two websites that deal with Women’s Health, more specifically health during pregnancy, childbirth, and newborns. The websites are BabyCenter.com (http://www.babycenter.com/) and the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (https://www.awhonn.org/awhonn/). The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is a website that promotes an organization. “Promoting the health of women and newborns” is the mission statement of this organization. (AWHONN, 2015) The primary audience for this website is obstetrical and neonatal professional nurses and nurse practitioners. It is an...
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...Assignment 1 I chose to write about this article because I found it extremely important and a concerning issue that I think most females should know about. The article I chose was written in the Science Daily on March 24 2015. It is a very newly founded discovery that I think should be brought to attention. The article discusses and explains the research behind how women with diabetes are more likely to have a higher staged breast cancer than women who do not have diabetes. The study was tried on more than thirty eight thousand women who have breast cancer. Out of that total a little over six thousand women had diabetes. According to the article, “Breast cancer patients with diabetes were significantly more likely to present with advanced stage breast cancer than those without diabetes.” The researches statistics proved that unlike women without diabetes those with diabetes were fourteen percent more likely to get stage two breast cancer, twenty one percent more likely to get Stage three and sixteen percent more likely to get stage four. However, this was not the only finding that I found to be extremely important. The article also discussed how those with diabetes are also more likely to have the cancer spread throughout their bodies causing lymph node metastases, and larger tumors. The article really raised my attention because many members of my own family including my personal family have diabetes so this topic hit home for me. I was intrigued to find that there was...
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...Margaret Sanger Leader in Women's Health Vickie Doscher Hampton University Margaret Sanger Leader in Women's Health The early twentieth century was a turning point in American history-especially in regards to the acquisition of women’s rights. It was a time of grave social conflict and human suffering. As Margaret Sanger found out, women, especially those who were poor, had no choice regarding pregnancy. Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women. Born in 1879, Sanger came of age during the Comstock Act, a federal statute that criminalized contraceptives. Margaret Sanger believed that the only way to change the law was to break it. Starting in the 1910s, Sanger actively challenged federal and state Comstock laws to bring birth control information and contraceptive devices to women. Her fervent ambition was to find the perfect contraceptive to relieve women from the horrible strain of repeated, unwanted pregnancies. Sanger's commitment to birth control evolved from personal tragedy. One of eleven children born to a working class Irish Catholic family in Corning, New York, at age nineteen Margaret watched her mother die of tuberculosis. Just 50 years old, her mother had wasted away from the strain of multiple childbirths and miscarriages. “Although she was now spitting blood when she coughed we still expected her to live on forever. She had been ill for so long; this was just another attack among many” (The...
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...Women’s health provides a great platform to learn about a wide variety of topics: history, psychology, politics, media, religion, etc. They are all applicable areas of study, when examining the health of a woman, and women’s health enables us to study them with a feministic perspective. Over the course of the semester I would like to learn more about gender inequality, including a more in depth look at the reasoning behind the wage gap between men and women, why rape culture has become as glorified as it is in our current society, the different ways various regions of the world affect women differently both physically and mentally, the different ways in which certain political situations affect women, how others view women and how women view themselves. I would also like to this class to help me recognize the different ways we creates assumptions or judgments about others unknowingly, and instead change my perspective and allow me to see others through their shoes....
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...HSA 300 Prof. Date: 11/25/2013 Topic: Women’s health issues and what is being done to ensure improved health of women. Women have unique health issues. And some of the health issues that affect both men and women can affect women differently. Women in the United States can now expect to live almost eight years longer than men, but they suffer greater morbidity and poorer health outcomes. Compared to men of comparable age, women develop more acute and chronic illnesses, resulting in a greater number of short- and long long-term disabilities. For instance: • Heart disease and stroke 42% of women who have heart attack die within a year compare to only 24% of men. • Not counting some kinds of different types of cancer for example: Lung cancer (52.4/100,000), Colorectal cancer (35.4/100,00), breast cancer in the United States is the most common cancer in women, no matter your race or ethnicity (118.7/100,000) In 2010 • 206,966 women and 2,039 men in the United States were diagnosed with breast cancer. • 40,996 women and 439 men in the United States died from breast cancer • The differences between men and women are equally pronounced for mental illness. For example: anxiety disorders and major depression affect two to three times as many women as men. • Clinical depression is a major mental health problem for both men and women; however, an estimated 12% of women in the women in the U.S, compared with 7% of men, will suffer from major depression in their lifetime. Eating...
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...Mid Term Women’s Health As a women in the United States I am very fortunate to have access to health care. I know that many women in other countries are not as fortunate as I am. There are many disparities when it comes to health, however there is one humbler in the equation. Mental health services can be sorely lacking, both in the United States and in other countries around the world. Women that come from all walks of life can have trouble receiving the care that they desperately need when it comes to their mental health. In this paper I plan to explore the stigmatization of depression and how postpartum depression can be found in women around the world. Women’s health has come a long way in the United States, no one is denying that. However...
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...Disparities in Women’s Health in USA José Francisco Pereira AKA Frank Pereira COH 601 Prof. GinaMarie Piane, MPH, DrPH, CHES The United States of America still have a long way to go until able to reduce the country disparities related to maternal and infant mortality. With a population distributed in an uneven geographic area that requires specific healthcare delivery related to ethnicity, lack of education, lack of primary care provider and prejudice, it becomes a difficult task. As reported by The Office of Minority Health of the U.S. Department of Health& Human Services (HHS) the largest population concentration of Hispanic/Latino is in San Jose, California, and African American is in Michigan. The City of San Jose or the state of California has not provide specific vital/healthcare information to the HHS and Michigan reported Infant Death Rates as fallow: White – 1997= 6.1 (±0.5), 2007 5.8 (±0.5) whit a decline of 0.3 (±0.5); African American – 1997= 17.6 (±1.7), 2007 16.5 (±1.7) whit a decline of 1.1 (±1.7); Others – 1997= 4.7 (±2.2), 2007 10.7 (±2.2) whit a increase of 6 (±0.5). The HHS reported a total infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births in the United States shows for 2005, still showing a relative disparity between African Americas (13.6), White (5.8) and Hispanic/Latino (5.6). HHS showed that Hispanic/Latino had the lowest rate and the Afro American the highest rate (afro American/ white ratio = 2.3). The report shows a radial infant mortality...
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...Marketing Mix for ‘FACTOR W’ – A health drink for women Project report submitted for partial fulfilment of the Marketing Management (MK-101) course work under Prof. Krishanu Rakshit Submitted by Section A Group: 2 Table of Contents Introduction | 3 | Scope, Definition and Analysis | 4 | Scope of project | 4 | Details of questionnaire | 5 | S-T-P analysis | 6 | Competitor analysis | 10 | Recommendations and Discussion | 12 | 4Ps: Product | 12 | 4Ps: Price | 13 | 4Ps: Place | 13 | 4Ps: Promotion | 15 | Conclusion | 17 | Introduction As people are becoming more health-conscious, supplementing dietary needs with health drinks has become the norm. Hence, there is a large scope of health drinks business in the present world. There are various big brands in this business area, for example, Bournvita, Horlicks, Complan, Boost etc. These brands have to innovate continuously in terms of their marketing mix (product, price, place and promotion) to sustain their businesses and to grow their market share. The importance of each marketing mix in respect of health drinks has been stated as follows: * Product The health drink should have such ingredients that are the potential requirements of a particular market segment. For example, health drinks for children should be rich in calcium as calcium is necessary for the development...
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...Women’s Rights During 19 and 20th Century During the 19th and 20th Century, many women played a big role in historical change and the continuation of rights for women. Men believed that women were not suitable for jobs outside the home; traditionally a woman’s place was in the home, where she taught, nurtured, and cared for her family and was supportive to her spouse. In Seneca Falls, New York, is the first women’s rights convention in 1848, which set the agenda as well as outlined grievances for the rights of the women movement. The movement called for twelve resolutions with the adoption of equivalent treatment of both sex under the law for the rights of voting. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton in 1869, formed the National Woman...
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