...alternative medicine was discussed. In this essay I discuss after reviewing the different articles a couple of things. The topic of the paper reviewed will be discussed, as well as the research question or the hypothesis. If there are any variables they are identified. The participants, the type of research (qualitative or quantitative), the data collection process and how the data was analyzed will be noted. The results of each article and each of their findings will be noted. Then, there will be a summary of the findings in the research, and it will be told whether or not the data supports or contradicts the hypothesis. The strengths and weaknesses in the articles reviewed will also be mentioned in the article review. An analysis of four articles was preformed in order to test Complimentary and Alternative Medicine’s Effective in Increasing Health Quality. The topic of the first paper was to establish why older Americans tend to use complementary and alternative medicines. In this article (Tait, Laditka, Laditka, Nies, Racine & Tsulukidze, 2013), there were a couple of hypotheses made based on four categories, conventional medicine was no help, treatments were too expensive, they were recommended by a healthcare provider and lastly, they were recommended by family, friends, or coworkers. The hypotheses are the same for all four categories. The first one being that it is more likely for women who use CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) more than men...
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...Along with the usual movie trailers, press junkets and reputation generated hype generated by the name Stephen Spielberg, 2001's Artificial Intelligence: AI was propelled forward into one of the largest multimedia marketed films. The majority of the buzz surrounding this film was created by the viral marketing plan of using Internet surfers and the online gaming community. Warner Brothers spent over $1 million on the game project. Users could sign on and play a highly interactive and intricate murder mystery. It required users to have a broad knowledge of history, mathematics, sciences and other subjects. Gamers created online "communities" to play the game. Faxes and phone calls and emails would be sent from "Mother" as clues to help users solve the game. Though the game was specifically designed for the most experienced and dedicated science fiction online community, movie makers wanted to draw in that specific audience as research had proven that that particular audience wouldn't have responded favorably to AI, because it would've been seen as too mainstream. As more buzz was generated more and more everyday users would log on and search on Google for names such as "evan chan" or "jeaninne sallis" and enter into the labyrinth that is the game. As more and more buzz was generated, an undercurrent of anti-buzz was created. Sites dedicated to urging users to stop playing the game and face the truth popped up. But in the business of disseminating information and creating...
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...P2 * For each of the six types of dementia you need to outline : * 5 effects on the quality of life * 2 effects on the impact on health * 3 effects on the impact of the increased likelihood of abuse * There is a power point on Moodle to help you with this. * You need to use case studies ( make them up yourself or come and see me) to show examples for each effect EG: Fear: A person with Alzheimer’s may feel fear about going out alone. An example of this would be George who is 78 and has Alzheimer’s. George is always fearful of going out alone after he went into town to go shopping and due to his Alzheimer’s forgot where he was and what he was doing. He was found by the police and taken to the police station before going home. This frightened George so now he will only go out with his wife or his son. P3 Guide You need to describe 7 pieces of legislation and two frameworks. How do they ( the legislation and frameworks) make sure the people who work with individuals with dementia do their job properly. There is a long power point on Moodle to help you with this. P4 Guide You need to explain the roles and responsibilities of the health and social care workers in improving the health and quality of life for people with dementia. To do this use the case study of Peter in your assignment brief You need to include: * 5 aspects of the person centred approach choose from * Principles of care. * Dignity ...
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...Heritage Assessment Paper Trista M. Pattison Grand Canyon University: Family Centered Health Promotion May 19, 2013 Heritage is defined as something acquired from the past or given to someone as a result of their birth (Merriam-Webster,2013). Heritage can vary for everyone not just because of our genetics, but also due to how one chooses to continue with aspects of that heritage for the next generations to remember. Heritage also plays a major role in how people may see the medical field and illnesses. There are multiple ways to assess a person’s heritage to make sure that patient is being cared for in a way they see fit. The Heritage Assessment Tool is one way to evaluate the needs of patients. This tool helps the health care team understand what that patient finds to be an important part of them, to make sure they are being cared for as a whole person. The assessment tool helps the health care team know what cultural background the patient has and what parts of that culture or cultures they choose to apply to their life. It also assesses the religious aspect of the patient to make sure the staff knows those variables, as the patient may have special religious needs to be covered while being cared for. The Heritage Assessment Tool assesses if the patient has a lot of family involvement, which lets the staff know they have family support for when they get discharged and that the family should be involved in the discharge discussions. These things...
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...between a doctor and his responsibility to his patient as defined by this document - in theory. However, there is always one uncertainty that tarnishes this idealistic dedication of the physician: money. The effects of financial incentive on a doctor and on the medical field in general have been called into question in recent years. It can be seen, through various court cases and controlled investigation, that financial incentive has a significant effect on the practices and actions of not only doctors, but anyone who has the potential to advance the medical field. While it may be argued that financial incentive is a driving force in the progress of medicine, there is clear evidence that the continued monetization of the medical industry is a hindrance to treatment and a violation of a fundamental contract that people of medicine hold with those that they are responsible for. The case of Henrietta Lacks is a stark example of the violation of this fundamental contract. An impoverished black woman who lived in the time of segregation and racism, she contracted cervical cancer and received treatment from Johns Hopkins hospital, where a sample of her cancer cells were sent to Dr. George Gey for research without her express permission. While this at first may not seem like a momentous event, there were far reaching impacts of this collection according to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a nonfiction account of the event, by Rebecca Skloot. The book follows the story of the Lacks...
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...the serpent with an arrow. The next day he returned to the place and heard the sound of a mortar and pestle. Tracking down the noise, he found two boys grinding marijuana leaves. When he asked them what they were doing, the boys told him they were preparing a medicine to give to their master who had been wounded by an arrow shot by Liu Chi-nu. Liu Chi-nu then asked what the boys would do to Liu Chi-nu if they ever found him. Surprisingly, the boys answered that they could not take revenge on him because Liu Chi-nu was destined to become emperor of China. Liu berated the boys for their foolishness and they ran away, leaving behind the medicine. Sometime later Liu himself was injured and he applied the crushed marijuana leaves to his wound. The medicine healed him and Liu subsequently announced his discovery to the people of China and they began using it for their injuries” (Abel, 1980). Another emperor Shen-Neng of China discovered the healing powers of marijuana. Shen-Neng, who lived around the twenty-eight century B.C., was the person generally credited with teaching the Chinese about medicines and their actions. Concerned that his priests were suffering from illness, Shen-Nung determined to find an alternate means of relieving the sick. Since he was also an expert farmer and had a thorough familiarity with plants, he...
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...Medical Error’s TUI University BHS-499 Senior Capstone Project Module 5 SLP Professor: Medical Error’s I. Introduction: Background and Context of Medical Error’s. Preventable medical errors kill more Americans than diabetes, influenza and Alzheimer’s; and if tracked separately, would be the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. The National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine (IOM) has estimated that 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical errors. Medical Error’s II. Importance, Relevance/Extent of Medical Error’s. There are many types of medical error and they can be classified from minor to major depending on the result of the error. According to the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in November of 1999 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report estimating that as many as 48,000-98,000 patients died as a direct result of medical error in the hospital each year. Patients are always at risk and medical errors may result in: (AHRQ) • A patient inadvertently given the wrong medicine. • A clinician misreading the results of a test. • An elderly woman with ambiguous symptoms (shortness of breath, abdominal pain, and dizziness) whose heart attack is not diagnosed by emergency room staff. Medical Error’s III. Cause of Medical Error’s. Some or most of the hospitals around the world are under-funded and using limited funding efficiently could be very difficult task. Limited funding...
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...Anne Fadiman explores the delicate nature of cross-cultural medical care in her book “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down,” a title taken from the Hmong phrase “qaug dab peg,” an interpretation for epilepsy and its spiritual connections with the evil spirit (“dab”). Through her deep dive into the world of the Hmong people and their interactions with American medicine, her research combined with the personal story of the Lee family and their experience navigating the complicated system of eastern medicine, exposes the difficulties that so often occur when two very different cultures approach healthcare. Fadiman follows the Lees, an immigrant family who relocated to Merced, CA after conflict in Laos forced them out of their home. The book...
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...works occur during an event. In the medical field, which this case revolves around, have thing change a lot during the course of not only a day even within every hour this change. Whether it's from a patient's medical records, stock of inventory, medicines provided to a patient, and even when a patient enters and exits the hospital. With a system like EDA thing will only occur when things change and this pattern seems to be able to handle those changes better than the others. The following image will show basically how this type of system will work. A system that integrates EDA may also provide a higher level of service to help with the implementation of EDA. Things like security, reliable messaging, content based routing, and mapping and transformation. The security that this provides is message encryption, authentication, and access control. With the messaging this provides it will ensure that all messages will be delivered once and only once to all subscribers. An EDA will provide you with an integrated broker suite, IBS, that will route a published even to another topic. Last but not least an EDA will also provided you with mapping and transformation. With the help of an IBA you can transform incoming messages into an alternate format based on the...
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...In today’s society, drugs are considered both good and bad. We have prescription drugs that help us with health problems and we have drugs that cause negative effects to our minds and bodies. How does society view it when one drug considered bad, is now a prescription drug. That drug I want to talk about is Marijuana. How do you react when a friend is using a once called bad drug? I have a friend named Lucas that uses medical marijuana as an alternate to prescription pain killers. He was involved in a car accident that has left him with chronic pain. He did try pain killers for a while but they were not completely helping with his pain. He visited his primary physician and talked about his ailments and the doctor recommended alternative medicines....
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...Developmental History Case Study A child’s developmental history provides descriptions of when and how the child achieved certain milestones, such as rolling over, crawling, and responding to sounds. Developmental histories also aid in the diagnosis of developmental disorders (Texas Autism, 2009). Saundra Moskoff recently analyzed the developmental history of Brittney Hoffman. This case study details the risks and developmental complications, the probable results of deficits, long-term consequences associated with disorders and illnesses, and the potential issues for Brittney based on the responses within the developmental history. Risks and Complications The developmental history contains nine areas: demographic information, primary caregiver/parent information, family history, childcare, pregnancy, birth, development, medical history, and medical care. Demographic Information Brittney’s demographic information indicates she lives in a middle-class neighborhood and attends a local preschool. A child’s environment greatly effects his or her development (Santrock, 2010). Healthy relationships within a loving family and the opportunity to interact with other children are essential qualities in the life of a child. Living in an impoverished neighborhood is a developmental risk factor. If the developmental history reported Brittney lived in an indigent neighborhood, an assessment in the areas of physical needs such as nutrition and personal hygiene may indicate neglect...
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...Health Care Professional Lingareddy Akshay Reddy Instructor name: Patricia Otiede Module: Management Practices for the Health Professional 04/16/2016 So while talking about the financial backing cuts issue with alternate officers of associations managers ought to introduce the information how the instruction programs for workers have helped the representatives and execution and nature of association. What's more, requirement for training programs for future ought to be talked about. The disservices of decreasing instruction spending plan ought to likewise be examined which will give a period to think for different officers of divisions. After investigation and getting results an overseer or supervisor ought to make a presentation and make information like measurements, force point presentation, diagrams, pie graphs, and so forth and audits from workers, coaches and now and then buyers ought to be recorded. Every one of this information ought to be gathered and exhibited convincingly to hold the instruction spending plan. How association's execution and quality gets influenced adversely by diminishing instruction spending plan ought to be introduced to the officers of association. By showing the benefits of instruction spending plan and detriments of diminishing training spending plan one can hold the instruction spending plan, yet the method for presentation ought to be fitting and persuading. Each time some new advances comes and workers must...
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...Demographics of an Aging Society Sherry Grant HCS/490 August 27. 2012 Mrs. Makala Pollard Demographics of an Aging Society The natural order of the life cycle states that all babies will grow old. Barring any disasters along the way this is in fact true. With the various technologies available, increased knowledge of medicine and treatment, and the resources available to caregivers the life expectancy of humans has increased greatly. With this increase come several changes in the health care market, concern for resources, and challenges to meet the necessary needs of this growing population of elderly health care consumers. Between 1900 and 2000, life expectancy in the U.S increased from 51 to 80 years for women and from 48 to 72 years for men (Population Reference Bureau, 2002). By 2030, it is estimated that 70 million U.S citizens will be over age 65, and 8.5 million Americans will be over age 85 (National Center for Health Statistics, 1999). This increasing elderly population will have a growing need for health care services, a need for resources available for not only the elderly health care consumers but also for those that care for them. With the increasing life expectancy comes an increasing prevalence of chronic disease. It is estimated that by 2040, almost 160 million people in the U.S, most of them elderly, will be living with chronic conditions (Population Reference Bureau, 2002). Chronic conditions pose a threat to the patient in the sense that their daily...
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...because of the complexity of the testing. Computer technology has now taken analysis from the laboratory to the patient’s bedside, the doctor’s office or the patient’s home. This testing is called point-of-care testing (POCT) and is defined as testing at the point where patient care is given, wherever may be. The POCT results are timely, allowing more time for rapid treatment of the patient. It empowers clinicians to make decisions at the “point-of-care” and has the potential to significantly impact health care delivery and address the challenges of health care disparities. The success of this potential shift from curative medicine, to predictive, personalized, and preemptive medicine relies on the development of portable diagnostic and monitoring devices for point-of-care testing. Our parent’s knew point of care testing as it was the way that medicine was delivered in the patient’s home through physician...
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...in general, and for the winter. Freeman has had little to no help from government programs in his efforts to provide proper shelter for the veterans living there. Liberty’s way is only one of many veteran’s homeless shelters struggling, and receiving no help. Another issue having to do with veteran care is that not every veteran is able to receive proper health care for their physical or mental health needs. For instance, my step dad, Scott, who is a disabled veteran who is unable to work. He does not receive the amount of health care he needs from the Veterans Association. Many days, like the one this past Saturday on December 3rd, my dad was stuck in bed due to the amount of pain he was in. He has no pain medicine that he can take, other than over the counter medicines that don’t help him; therefore, he has no choice but to try and deal with the pain. However, many days he can’t fight through the pain, and he is forced to lay in bed, unable to sit up without pain. This is only one veteran’s story, there are so many more who have the same situation, or have worst situations. Of course, veterans do receive some help; however, veterans do not receive the care that they deserve. No veteran should have to worry about not having a home, nor should a veteran have to worry about their health. Nevertheless, there are veterans who do have to worry about these things. There are still veterans out of the streets, and receiving no help from the VA. There are veterans who have medical...
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