...Public Health and Health Care Paper Health care focuses on the health of individuals whereas public health focuses on preventing disease and injury while promoting and protecting the health of populations. Public health is the science and art of promoting health, prolonging life, and preventing disease as a result of organized community efforts. Public health by way of systematic effort, identify the health needs of the community and then organize ample health service for the defined population (Association of Schools of Public Health, n.d.). The interdisciplinary approach of health services, biostatistics, and epidemiology are incorporated in public health. The purpose of this paper is to describe Center of disease control and prevention (CDC) as a public health agency and how it contributes to the core functions of public health. This paper will also examine the specific ways CDC influences the health care organizations and provider and will also discuss the roles of the agency workers including specific responsibilities, competencies, and skills. CDC as an agency and its contribution to the core functions of public health. CDC is the lead federal government public health agency and a key operational element of the Department of Health and Human Services. The CDC manages a variety of programs intended to control and prevent specific disability risks, injury, and disease on a national level through dissemination activities, program development, research, epidemiologic surveillance...
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...Health Care Paper In: Other Topics Health Care Paper Executive Summary The Report describes a proposal for the Renfrey Memorial Hospital Board of Directors with regard to the health care problems. RMH located in Midwest in US, is facing a problem of lack of nursing staff. It used various strategies, such as increased remuneration, provided good working environment and invested in technology to deal with this problem and retain nursing staff. The report identifies the strategies used by several others hospitals in US and among them two viable solutions are selected for RMH. Then an analysis of the selected solutions is done in terms of stakeholders groups involved and the one who are affected. In the end, best solution concerning the problem is discussed along with its impact on RHM. Managing the standards of care in hospitals and healthcare organizations is unique, yet delicate undertaking the demands for adherence to government regulations and absolute professionalism. Managers of healthcare organizations are expected to demonstrate leadership flexibilities by incorporating sustainable strategies while planning and implementing pre-determined organizational objectives for achieving the best standards of care. The entire organizational design and structure impact on the effectiveness of communication and feedback processes with the open systems approach providing for more interactive and consultative approach among employees across the organizational hierarchy. Introduction ...
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...changing focus of public health by Maria Joyce Key sections include: Environment, infectious disease, locating public health, the enlightenment, the Sanitarians, national provision of services, the inception of the National Health Service, ‘crisis in health’, The New Right, The Third Way, new public health. Public health, the new ideology may be taken to mean the promotion of healthy lifestyles linked to behaviour and individual responsibility supported by government action; whereas traditionally the description tended to relate more to sanitary reform and ‘healthy conditions’. The chronological development of public health is mapped out, supported by the outlining and discussion of the emerging themes and influences pertaining to the study of public health. The approach to public health is positioned alongside the health of the population and the prevailing political/societal influence at the time. Public health is impacted on by poverty and environmental factors. Presently government policy to improve public health is delivered in a strategy that recognises the need for health improvement at times when the greatest impact on health is poverty and exclusion. The evidence reviewed demonstrates clearly that poor health without appropriate resources or intervention is cumulative and that the ‘right’ form of intervention can bring about long term health gains. Intervention from a national agenda needs to include individual’s health and the health of the community brought...
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...Health Care Utilization Paper I have chosen to conduct my assignment on Option A. Obama’s Health Care Reform, commonly called ObamaCare but officially called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or Affordable Care Act (ACA) for short, was signed into law on March 23, 2010 (ObamaCare Facts, n.d.). According to “HHS.gov/HealthCare” (2015), “the Affordable Care Act puts consumers back in charge of their health care…under the law, a new “Patient’s Bill of Rights” gives the American people the stability and flexibility they need to make informed choices about their health” (About the Law). In my paper, I will be discussing why health care reform is part of an ongoing debate and its recent legislation. In what ways have recent health care reform measures expanded or inhibited access to care? One of the ways health care reform have inhibited access to care is ending disapproved insurance coverage due to an individuals pre existing medical condition. In addition, another way recent health care reform has expanded in our society is the availability of affordable insurance to everyone. This is the most popular part of health reform: Health plans must sell coverage to everyone, regardless of pre-existing conditions, and can’t charge more based on health or gender ("Consumerreports.org", 2006-2015). Furthermore, health care reform have inhibited access to care by extending coverage for children up to the...
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...Health Promotion: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Health promotion is a very vague term that can mean many things and has many definitions depending on who you ask. According to O’Donnell (1987, p.4) health promotion is “the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health.” This definition makes a lot of sense and sounds like he is speaking of the physical aspect of health. There are different kinds of health including physical, mental and physical. I believe this is why there are so many definitions. The U.S. Public Health Service proposes that health promotion is more of advocating health in hope that it will become a “societal norm” for people individually as well as for the private and public businesses (Kreuter, 1980). The medical field is one “public business” that does a lot of health promotion for everyone, nurses especially. Nurses’ role in health promotion is necessary and critical. Nurses have a multi-disciplinary knowledge including many resources to help people understand their situation and get their health moving in a forward direction. Traditionally, nurses focused on preventing disease and changing the behavior of individuals regarding their health. Due to nurses becoming more diverse in their knowledge, their responsibility of being a “health promoter” is more complex. Currently, nurses are so focused on treating people who have illnesses and teaching them how to become healthy that teaching patients how to...
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...Running Head: SCH FAM Lacey Jackson Family Health Assessment Grand Canyon University April 7th, 2013 Schauer Family Health Patterns “A family is a set of interacting individuals related by blood, marriage, cohabitation, or adoption who interdependently perform relevant functions by fulfilling expected roles. Relevant functions of the family include values and practices placed on health or family health practice. Health practices, whether effective or ineffective, are activities performed by individuals or families as a whole to promote health and prevent disease. How families complete developmental tasks and how well families, including individuals within a family, generate health-promoting behaviors determine families' potential for enhancement of family health practices” (Edelman, 2010). When a nurse is conducting a family health assessment, it is important to understand each individual and family’s health patterns and the way they interact with and react to the environment. Marjorie Gordon is a renowned nursing professor and theorist who proposed 11 functional health patterns as a guide for collecting data regarding all aspects of human and health functions (Gordon, 1994). These are Health Perception and or Health Management Pattern, Nutritional and or metabolic pattern, Elimination Pattern, Activity and Exercise Pattern, Cognitive and Perceptual Pattern, Sleep and Rest Pattern, Self-Perception and Self-Concept Pattern, Role Relationship Pattern, Sexuality and...
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...Assessment Data Milwaukee is the city of focus for The Final Community Health Paper. The City of Milwaukee is populated woth just under 600,000 people. Milwaukee lies along the shores and bluffs of Lake Michigan, which supplies three rivers: the Menomonee, the Kinnickinnic and the Milwaukee. Milwaukee’s lakefront resembles that of an oceanfront Lake Michigan is too large to see across. Milwaukee's terrain is relatively flat, except for steep bluffs along the lakeshore that begin about one half mile north and four miles south of the downtown. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 96.9 square miles. 96.1 square miles of it is land and 0.9 miles squared of it is water. Included in this graph is some basic demographic information: General Characteristics | Number | Percent | U.S. | Total population | 596,974 | | | Male | 285,363 | 47.8 | 49.1% | Female | 311,611 | 52.2 | 50.9% | Median age (years) | 30.6 | (X) | 35.3 | Under 5 years | 47,545 | 8.0 | 6.8% | 18 years and over | 425,990 | 71.4 | 74.3% | 65 years and over | 65,123 | 10.9 | 12.4% | | | | | One race | 580,824 | 97.3 | 97.6% | White | 298,379 | 50.0 | 75.1% | Black or African American | 222,933 | 37.3 | 12.3% | American Indian and Alaska Native | 5,212 | 0.9 | 0.9% | Asian | 17,571 | 2.9 | 3.6% | Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander | 301 | 0.1 | 0.1% | Some other race | 36,428 | 6.1 | 5.5% | Two or more races | 16,150 | 2.7 | 2.4%...
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...In the physical element of the health triangle, I get 30-60 minutes of physical activity everyday, and I get more than eight hours of sleep. I also do not use any tobacco products, smoke, do drugs, or drink alcohol. I also have good hygiene by brushing my teeth, taking showers, and flossing everyday. Next, In the mental/emotional portion of the triangle, If I make a wrong decision, I take responsibility for my actions. I have a sense of control over my life and I express my emotions in appropriate ways. I always have an optimistic outlook in life, I make responsible decisions. For example, the other day I forgot to pick my trash I left in the living room, Instead of blaming my brother, I took responsibility for my wrongdoings. Lastly, in the...
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...Family Health Assessment In order to provide proper care to families, one must be able to assess the patients holistically. As well as evaluating the patients physical, social, environmental, and spiritual domains (Grand Canyon University, 2011). The “ family defines health, makes decisions regarding health practices, and is the most frequent provider of health care to family members” (Nettle et al., 1993). Gordon’s eleven functional health patterns serve as a framework for clinical assessment and can be applied to the individual, family, and community (Grand Canyon University, 2011). Furthermore with the functional health pattern it will allow the nurse to develop interventions and a health care plan for the patient to prevent and treat...
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...Running head: Allied Health Professionals Allied Health Professions that Promote Better Patient Care Ashley N. Lee GCU: HLT-418V Trends & Issues in Health Care January 23, 2015 Allied Health Professions that Promote Better Patient Care Allied Health Professionals work together has multidisciplinary teams as well as interdisciplinary teams to promote better patient care on many different levels. Each specialty brings their own personal skill let learned from on the job training and from educational studies that equip them to handle various patients in various settings such as hospitals, acute care, long-term care, and outpatient facilities. This paper will look at two different allied professions and how they interact together to provide high quality care to their patients. . Allied Health The allied health profession makes up for about 60% of the health care workforce. They work collaboratively with nurses, physicians, dentists, pharmacists and other allied health professionals to provide high quality care to patients in various settings (Allied Health Professionals, n.d.). The ASAHP defines allied health professionals to be “the segment of the workforce that delivers services involving the identification, evaluation and prevention of diseases and disorders; dietary and nutrition services; and rehabilitation and health systems management” (Allied Health Professionals, n.d.). Among these many professionals two that work closely together are Physical...
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...can greatly influence how the change is perceived by employees and how quickly they adapt to the new normal. Communication is very important, especially during times of change. It’s crucial that leaders help remaining employees understand why downsizing was necessary. Informed employees who understand the rational for the downsizing will be able to feel more confident about the choices that were made and hopefully less concerned or worried. Frequent communication is critical. Leaders should make every effort to speak with each employee individually and let him or her know that they are valued within the organization. These one-on-one meetings allow employees to express their opinions about the situation and to ask questions. In order for health care teams to function smoothly, communication must take place on different levels. First, you must make clear to each team member what is expected of her. The flow of communication, however, must work in both directions. Transparent communication is promoted through honesty and cooperation. When managers are able to tell employees and other stakeholders as much as possible as soon as possible, it reduces the stress and anxiety that accompany a downsizing event. Face-to-face communication is the best method for communicating about downsizing. Finally, managers must find a way to make the communications two-way. Employees and other stakeholders want to hear transparent and consistent information from their managers, but they also want an...
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...Health Care Spending Paper Candace Kovacs HCS 440 January 23, 2012 Pranab Rout Health Care Spending The United States is spending trillions of dollars on health care every year. Health care spending is continuing to rise to higher levels at unsustainable rates. The excessive amounts spent on health care accounts for a substantial portion of the national budget. Trends such as the aging of the population, obesity, and technological changes are expected to affect the future of health care spending patterns (RAND Corporation, 2011). Even though health care spending seems excessive right now, there are several ways it can be addressed effectively to decrease the amount in the future. Spending The National Health Expenditures (NHE) includes the amount of spending on private and public administrative costs, personal health services, government public health spending and investments involving costs of equipment, non-commercial medical research, and buildings (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2011). The current level of the NHE has raised $2.1 trillion in the year 2006, $2.25 trillion in 2007, and projects to reach $4.3 trillion by 2017 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2011). The most recent forecasts of health care estimates a yearly growth rate of seven percent, which equals to the gross domestic product (GDP) of 19.5 % by 2017 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
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...Perspective on Health Care Nicole Asta HCS/212 January 14, 2013 Patricia Wolcott Perspective on Health Care I’ll be honest the main reason I got interested in healthcare was because I have been obsessed with ER all my life. George Clooney was my dream doctor, and he still is today. But as I grew older and relised that my day dreams may never come true, I still remained interested in healthcare. However, I did make the critical reaslation that I detest blood and anything to do with it. However, I still enjoy learning and working in the healthcare field, on the technological side. I how that when I achieve my degree that I will be able to work some day in the CDC. In that regards, what I have always found most interesting, in the history of health care, is the development of the vaccinations and other for diseases. I also am interested in programs like the Center for the Control of Disease and Prevention (CDC) which was founded in 1946. As well as hospice programs, I am currently volunteering at a local hospice and enjoy it very much. As for the vaccinations, what interested was a long term interest in personal health. I have always been a rather healthy person, and rarely ever do I get sick. So when I did, I always wanted to know why I was sick. I read quite a bit about different illness and what was being done to prevent them. I would always read about the early 19th and 20th centuries. About, how many people died from contaminated water and food, inadequate living...
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...By Dee Bizz Technology and Health Care Paper Athena Health ABC consultants have been assigned the task to introduce a solution to make health care delivery easier and user-friendlier for this organization. Health care delivery is in a constant state of flux and is ever changing. Technological advancements continue to push the industry and the demand from consumers for a faster, smarter, and economical product. The request for uncomplicated and more complete health care delivery can be at your fingertips with the introduction of Athena Health. This product is software is a solution that encompasses every aspect of health care delivery for this organization. The software can address every area of the organization from health care to human resources. Components coming all together to deliver the best care that can be given to patients while maintaining the focus on the patient. Patient Encounter The initial patient encounter for an admission to this organization ranges from forty-five minutes to an hour and a half. We believe that we can cut this patient encountered time in half while still maintaining the quality of the encounter. This software utilized on a tablet or notebook will automatically make the admission process stream lined. The medical assistant will be able to take all of the patient’s insurance information and vitals while accessing the prior health history of the patient. The medical assistant will be able to have all consents signed and gather all pertinent...
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