...Outline I. Introduction A. Audience hook: One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish; fish, fish, fish that is all we seem to see advertised lately. Make sure you take that nasty tasting, smelly fish oil pill the doctor says. We have all heard how much we need essential fatty acids like that of omega three fish oil, but how essential is it really? B. Thesis statement: Research suggests that omega three fatty acids play a critical role in how our bodies function, reduce inflammation and aid in heart disease prevention. C. Preview of Main points: i. Omega three fatty acids play a critical role in how our bodies function. ii. Reduce inflammation. iii. Aid in heart disease prevention. II. Omega three fatty acids play a critical role in how our bodies function. A. Our diet and nutritional make up has vastly changed from our great ancestors. i. Once relying on living off the land, hunting and gathering and fishing as ways for our nutrition and sustenance, to fast food being available on every corner. (Danaei, 2009) ("Why We Need Omega-3s?") ii. Regular consumption of natural fruits, veggies, nuts, seeds, lean meats to cereals, grains and high processed sugary carbohydrates. ( Danaei, 2009) ("Why We Need Omega-3s?") iii. A diet low in total and saturated fat but contained a powerful amount of essential fatty acids to a diet high in trans and saturated fats that leaves us often times feeling sick. (Danaei, 2009) ("Why...
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...Essay 2: Assessment of the Community And Aggregate Population Aneilla Alcin, RN NSG 3028 Caring for the Community South University Thesis Statement and Introduction Understanding the relationship between health outcomes to the environment is part of the foundation of modern nursing (Nightingale, 1969). A windshield survey is an informal method used by community health nurses to obtain basic knowledge about a given community. It provides a subjective view of the various physical characteristics of a communal area as observed while driving or walking through a neighborhood. Community assessment is an essential function of community nursing. Understanding the various types of community will help clarify the process. The first type of community described is a “geopolitical community” (Harkness & DeMarco, 2012, p. 177). It is an aggregate of people living or working in a defined geographic area. The second is “phenomenological community” (Harkness & DeMarco, 2012, p. 177), which is a collection of people sharing common interests, or philosophies and inter/intra personal connections. Borders for this type of community are not as clear as a geopolitical community. A phenomenological community can exist within a geopolitical community. An example of this is the homeless. The third is a broader view, encompassing a society, a nation, or the international community of the world as we know it. The Community Assessment: Windshield Survey (Cut and paste...
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...A lot of people don’t know what lupus is but it is very common and today I will inform you on what it is, causes, risk factors, symptoms, side effects and complications, test and diagnosing, treatment, and little incite on how someone with lupus feel. Lupus is a long-term autoimmune disorder that may affect the skin, joints, kidneys, brain, and other organs. Lupus is a very hard disease to discover because of it’s on and off symptoms. Lupus has four types: systemic, discoid, drug-induced, and neonatal and systemic is the most common out of the four. What is Lupus? Lupus is an autoimmune disease, which means the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue. Under normal function, the immune system makes proteins called antibodies in order to protect and fight against antigens such as viruses and bacteria. Lupus makes the immune system unable to differentiate between antigens and healthy tissue. This leads the immune system to direct antibodies against the healthy tissue - not just antigens - causing swelling, pain, and tissue damage. An antigen is a substance capable of inducing a specific immune response. This leads to long-term (chronic) inflammation. Causes and risk factors The underlying cause of autoimmune diseases is not fully, but most believe that lupus results from both genetic and environmental stimuli. Since lupus is known to occur within families, doctors believe that it is possible to inherit a genetic predisposition to lupus. There are no...
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...issues: economic situation, special needs, health of the population being served, process and benefits of the program. He asked you to include two visuals to illustrate the issues. We know that there are several ways to help children, and one great way is to ensure they are properly fed. The hearts and minds of children cannot be fully engaged in learning, unless their bodies are content and ready to learn. When children come to school hungry, they are rushing though hectic schools lunch periods, or when they become restless because there is “no time” for recess, their learning abilities will be challenged. Poor nutrition and the lack of physical activities for today’s youth are major contributing factors to obesity and chronic diseases. A study conduced by Y.C. Wang et al. in 2006 found that the spike in childhood obesity between 1988 and 2002 could have been prevented by an average reduction of 110-165 calories per day. It also affects cognitive skills, behaviors, and the ability to concentrate. School plays an important role in providing healthy environments for learning and good health. This is why we need nutrition and health programs: to support a readiness to learn. In today’s society, most families’ hectic lifestyles relyies heavily on fast foods places restaurants to feed their families. For the most...
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...Chronic Liver Failure Alcohol Abuse & Cirrhosis Alcohol abuse is one of the most common causes of cirrhosis, and one of the leading causes of severe liver damage worldwide (Doig & Huether, 2010). It is interesting to note that alcoholic cirrhosis is responsible for 50-70% of all underlying liver pathologies in ACLF in the Western countries and only 15% in Asian countries (Kim & Kim, 2013). Strong alcohol odor, significantly high blood alcohol levels, lethargy, peripheral edema, ascites and abnormal protein levels are all signs of a patient’s chronic alcohol abuse. Alcohol is a potent hepatotoxin (Park et al., 2014). Liver has an essential function of de-toxifying alcohol and its toxic products. Two enzymes, alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde...
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...Grace Jung Component 1 English 240 September 10, 2015 Component 3 Research Question: Are artificial sweeteners a safe alternative to sugar? Can they help people lose weight, or can they actually have the opposite affect? Working Thesis Statement: Americans should eliminate the regular consumption of artificial sweeteners because it could have a reverse effect on losing weight and can lead to chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease. Working Bibliography: Azgad, Y. (2014, September 14). Gut bacteria, artificial sweeteners and glucose intolerance. Retrieved from http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-09/wios-gba091514.php Brookshire, B. (2014, October 1). The sour side of artificial sweeteners. Retrieved from https:// www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/sour-side-artificial-sweeteners Brown, R., Banate, M., & Rother, K. (2010, October 8). Artificial Sweeteners: A systematic review of metabolic effects in youth. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ articles/PMC2951976/ Conti, L. (2008, May 22). Artificial Sweeteners May Contribute to Metabolic Disorders. Retrieved from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-sweeteners-confound-the-brain/ De Chant, T. (2014, September 18). Artificial Sweeteners Don't Mix Well...
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...Policies and strategies to improve nutritional status[7] Ministry of Health and Population strategies Health strategies In order to improve the health status of the Egyptian population, MOHP has developed several strategies, including the following: * Preventive care system: the specific areas of intervention are immunization, quarantine measures, safe water supply, food hygiene, public cleanliness, environmental hygiene and infestation control. * Primary health care: through which medical services are provided to the general population and to vulnerable groups (pregnant and lactating mothers and children under five years of age). * Curative care services: where sick people find medical treatment. Nutrition strategies Before 1992, ad hoc programmes addressed the problem of malnutrition. Following the International Conference on Nutrition (ICN), held in Rome in December 1992 and sponsored by FAO and WHO, nutrition programmes in Egypt have been enhanced. Egypt presented a country paper at the conference and took part in post-ICN condensed nutrition activities. A ministerial decree of 1994 formulated a high-level inter-ministerial committee representing the ministries of agriculture, health, planning, information, supply, education and academia. The outcome was the development of the Egyptian National Strategy for Nutrition, which has nine main policy areas. Each policy area includes a problem statement, a goal, measurable objectives, actions, authorities responsible for...
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...COMMUNITY INTERVENTION FOR DENTAL CARIES Community Intervention for Dental Caries Avril James-Hurt MPH 607: Community Health Analysis Benedictine University Professor Uche S. Onwuta Background Rural Healthcare Disparities The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (2010) defines rural as a twofold concept: “micropolitan statistical area” of 10,000 to 50,000 inhabitants and “noncore statistical area”, which is smaller than a micropolitan area. Despite 25 percent of Americans live in rural communities, they have unique healthcare concerns; “Compared with urban Americans, rural residents have higher poverty rates… tend to be in poorer health, have fewer doctors, hospitals, and other health resources, and face more difficulty getting to health services” (AHRQ, 2010, p. H-10). The AHRQ (2010) explains further, “Residents of micropolitan areas had worse access to care for 50% of access measures. Residents of noncore areas had worse access to care for about 40% of access measures” (p. H-11). Rural children suffer health the aforementioned disparities; more than 30 percent of young children in the rural southern United States are poor. Due to their developing bodies; younger children are especially vulnerable to negative health outcomes. Childhood health problems can persist into adulthood. McKenzie, Pinger, & Kotecki (2008) explain it is difficult for unhealthy children to learn. Early childhood poverty is correlated with fewer years of completed matriculation...
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...------------------------------------------------- College of Arts & Sciences ------------------------------------------------- University of Phoenix Augusta Campus Syllabus Whenever there is a question about what assignments are due, please remember this syllabus is considered the ruling document. Although I will not make any changes in the learning objectives of the course, there will be modification of the weekly assignments that vary from the published UOP curriculum. This means that my assignments will differ from those in the course curriculum module that you downloaded. PLEASE NOTE: WHATEVER IS IN MY SYLLABUS ALWAYS TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER WHAT IS SPELLED OUT IN THE COURSE MODULE/SYLLABUS (ie weekly assignments, dates, activities). GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION Course Number: SCI/100 Course Title: Paradigms of Health Group Number: AGUC0909A Course Start Date: 09/20/2010 Course End Date: 10/18/2010 REQUIRED READING: Students are required to read all materials available at the Course Materials site for this course on http://ecampus.phoenix.edu. Facilitator Information Facilitator's Name: Barbara Welcher Home Telephone Number: (706) 733-5457 Preferred Address (OLS): welb359@email.phoenix.edu Insel, P. M., & Roth, W. T. (2008). Core concepts in health (10th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. All electronic materials are available on your student Web site. ------------------------------------------------- General Course Description This...
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...(THESIS) Obese people should have to pay higher premiums. The heavier a person is the higher your insurance is going to go up due to the health risk factor. When you work for a business or company full-time the insurance is through them and they just take the payment out of everyone’s paycheck. It is not fair to the people of normal weight to be responsible for the payment of high insurance that goes along with obesity. Instead of everyone paying the same amount they should determine each person’s own premium. Also, the people that are paying higher premiums because they are obese should get something out of it as well, they shouldn’t just be penalized for being overweight. (STATEMENT OF CASE) It seems to be that most of the population is now considered obese, or overweight. With being overweight comes health risks and these health risks associated with obesity land you into the hospital. As we all know taking a visit to the hospital is not cheap, but it seems non-overweight people are paying for the self-inflecting obese people. There should be a way to determine one person’s premium, they can do it for car insurance, why not health insurance as well. Furthermore, if employers are expecting overweight people to pay more for insurance they should get something out of it. BODY (POINT 1) It seems that obese people are taking the money right out of our pockets. The taxpayers and people that copay for health insurance are paying for people to have free healthcare. These people...
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...Chapter 1 Introduction In earlier civilizations, trepanization (drilling holes in the skull) was performed because of the belief that this would release demons that had entered into the skull and had to be released, if headache relief was to result. In the seventeenth century, it was suggested by Willis that the head pain of 'megrim' or migraine resulted from the swelling of blood vessels within the head. Interestingly, this explanation of blood vessel swelling is close to the belief today that such swelling is involved in migraine headaches (Edmeads, 1997). At the turn of the twentieth century, Sir William Osler proposed that headaches were due to 'muscular rheumatism' of the head. This was probably the first suggestion that muscle abnormalities might be involved. During the 1940s, Wolff carried out a series of experiments that showed that involuntary contraction of scalp and neck muscles could result in headache development. Other causes have been suggested; these were more serious than muscle dysfunction and would evidently require other medical interventions (Solomon, 1993). In the worldwide view, headache can be such a big health problem as evidenced by the establishment of the World Headache Alliance in 1997. The organization exists to alleviate the burden of headache worldwide, in particular, by sharing information among headache organizations and by increasing the awareness and understanding of headache as a public health concern with profound social and economic...
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...investigators in the field of nutrition who made careful and painstaking studies which have given knowledge on how best to select, combine and prepare food to promote the health and efficiency of the individual The world’s demand for food is becoming greater than ever. The current world population of 8 billion needs new innovations to meet the growing challenges of the poor and hungry world. Over nutrition, obesity, and related diseases characteristic of the developed world, is becoming serious public health problems in countries with widespread food insecurity. Children suffering from under nutrition today could well be afflicted with chronic diseases of development as adults. The economic development that has led to improved food security and better health in some countries needs to be harnessed, while at the same time incentives to avert the adverse health effects of the nutrition transition need to be taken. The potential of novel foods to alleviate under nutrition is becoming more apparent. But they are unlikely to have a role in the prevention of diseases associated with over nutrition in developing countries, which use growing incomes to replace their traditional diets high in complex carbohydrates and fiber, with diets that include a greater proportion of fats (especially saturated) and sugars. More aggressive public health policies are needed to steer populations in nutrition transition towards a healthy lifestyle and diet rather than investing in particular novel foods. ...
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...Their Association With Subclinical Mastitis Cases in Dairy Water Buffaloes, Bubalus bubalis Thesis Proposal Cyndi Candelaria Biendima Patricia Malapit Cabatit Submitted to the Department of Biology College of Arts and Sciences University of the Philippines Manila Padre Faura, Ermita, Manila In partial fulfilment of the requirements for Undergraduate Thesis (BIO 200) TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page1 Table of Contents2 Introduction3 Review of Related Literature6 Proposed Methodology14 Presentation of Results20 Literature Cited22 Line Item Budget26 Project Timeline27 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Cases of intramammary infections such as mastitis in water buffaloes contribute to large annual losses in milk production and net profit for smallholder farmers in the Philippines. Social and economic factors might prevent households from diagnosing, treating, and eliminating from circulation those animals or animal products, such as milk, that are afflicted with mastitis or which came from individuals afflicted with mastitis; this is especially true in the case of the asymptomatic subclinical mastitis, which tends to become chronic and difficult to eradicate by conventional antimicrobial therapies (Brouillette & Malouin, 2005; Ng et al., 2010). With the advent of technology comes new techniques in identifying and treating diseases such as mastitis through more rapid, accurate, and efficient means, such as fluorescent dye staining...
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...UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES Bachelor of Arts in Communication Research Joyce M. Aguillon Precious B. Romano SmokeCheck: A Study on the Effects of NCR Male High School Students’ Exposure to and Recall of Anti-Smoking Advertisements to Their Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Smoking Thesis Adviser: Professor Randy Jay C. Solis College of Mass Communication University of the Philippines Diliman Date of Submission April 2012 Permission is given for the following people to have access to this thesis: Available to the general public Available only after consultation with author/thesis adviser Available only to those bound by confidentiality agreement Student’s signature: Student’s signature: Signature of thesis adviser: Yes No No UNIVERSITY PERMISSION I hereby grant the University of the Philippines non-exclusive worldwide, royalty-free license to reproduce, publish and publicly distribute copies of this thesis or dissertation in whatever form subject to the provisions of applicable laws, the provisions of the UP IPR policy and any contractual obligations, as well as more specific permission marking on the Title Page. Specifically I grant the following rights to the University: a) to upload a copy of the work in these database of the college/school/institute/department and in any other databases available on the public internet; b) to publish the work in the college/school/institute/department journal, both in print and ...
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...2014-2015 Undergraduate Academic Calendar and Course Catalogue Published June 2014 The information contained within this document was accurate at the time of publication indicated above and is subject to change. Please consult your faculty or the Registrar’s office if you require clarification regarding the contents of this document. Note: Program map information located in the faculty sections of this document are relevant to students beginning their studies in 2014-2015, students commencing their UOIT studies during a different academic year should consult their faculty to ensure they are following the correct program map. i Message from President Tim McTiernan I am delighted to welcome you to the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), one of Canada’s most modern and dynamic university communities. We are a university that lives by three words: challenge, innovate and connect. You have chosen a university known for how it helps students meet the challenges of the future. We have created a leading-edge, technology-enriched learning environment. We have invested in state-of-the-art research and teaching facilities. We have developed industry-ready programs that align with the university’s visionary research portfolio. UOIT is known for its innovative approaches to learning. In many cases, our undergraduate and graduate students are working alongside their professors on research projects and gaining valuable hands-on learning, which we believe is integral...
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