...In a thorough evaluation of the articles, the common theme of the new health care reform was present. Many articles took a different look at the negative aspects as well as a few positive aspects that the new bill would bring to the medical system. Being a predominant issue to the public, the health care legislation is highly criticized. The passing of the bill will affect more than just the medical system. It will affect the doctors, patients, and financial status of hospitals. In noting that this reform can affect the population, people are continuously opposed to the law. If the bill passes to become a law, opportunity costs will be present. Such opportunity costs can include waiting in lines, less quality in patient care, or even a downfall to the hospitals that cannot keep up with the change. Today’s society is not willing to change. Americans are mainly against any type of change that can alter their lifestyle. The health care reform is seen to have a negative effect on the medical system. Another similarity with the articles is they all establish some credibility. Each author chose to include a credible physician, actuary, or reliable higher figure to support their argument. The article “The Discipline of Efficiency” from the National Journal uses Foster the chief actuary, but then questions his credibility. When an author is trying to persuade the audience to understand his argument, questioning the credibility of data collected makes the reader not want...
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...feel pressure to do well, to learn the material, to impress the teacher, to please their parents, to take care of themselves financially and sociologically. For many students, college will be the first step into adulthood and the first time that they really have to take responsibility for their own lives. A person finally breaks free from their parents or guardians and has to do for themselves. Therefore it is important to accept this responsibility and also to be accountable for choices and the actions that are perpetrated by the individual. One of the ways that a person can take responsibility for themselves is to reduce the stress and thereby do better in their scholastic endeavors. Researchers have determined the top ten most common hassles associated with attending college which contribute to stress. These include: fear about the future, lack of sleep, wasting time, smoking and its health effects from either first or second-hand smoke, their physical appearance, the feeling that they have too much to do, misplacing or losing important materials or personal property, not having enough time for the things they must do, concerns about the high standards they set for themselves or that parents or the school sets for them, and the feeling of loneliness and homesickness that accompanies college enrollment (Huffman 2012, page 97). All of these things are negatives and students will have to confront these issues and they will often have to deal with these issues on their...
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...Authoritarian Parenting Style Authoritarian parenting can cause children to develop a negative lifestyle. When your children are starting to grow older you need to give them more freedom. Expecting your children to do what you always want won’t happen because as they grow up they start to understand what they want to do in life more. Strict discipline that is continuous when the children grows up will make them rebel because they can now make their own choices and decisions without much help. Parent don't know that they are hurting their children and causing problems like depression and stress in an early age. Strict parenting often leads to emotional health problems that causes stress and depression. When kids start to becoming a teenager around age 12 or 13 they can begin to develop depression. In 2013, 7.7% of children age 13 experienced depression. The highest is 13.8% of children age 15. Depression often caused children to be stressed.32% of children are stressing about family problems. 25% of children often take it upon themselves by hurting others or hurting their self when they are upset. Strict discipline effects basic life skills and their attitudes. Low self esteem of authoritarian parents can make their children feel like they didn't do anything right at all and not feel valued. Overprotective parents sometimes can make children feel like they are lacking some skills, and can't do something. Children sometimes develop a lack of trust in people and find it...
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...spread. They can’t be seen but can be felt. They can happen to anyone which lead in changing routines in an opposite way impact from time to time. Although many people think mental health aren’t problems, one common illness is insomnia and could be treated in different ways. Insomnia is the inability amount of sleep that is needed. Insomnia is not about the number of hours an individual sleeps or how fast an individual sleep, it’s about difficulties falling asleep, maintaining asleep and awakening too soon in the morning, due to the quality or quantity of sleep. For example, Bill Clinton is a president/politician. He claims he sleeps five hours a night Since he is a politician he talks, engages, and stay active in everything political. That’s why he suffers from insomnia. About 54 million Americans suffer from mental disorder every year. Precisely 90% of adults are full of depression meanwhile, they experience sleep problems, so 50% of adults are affected by insomnia....
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...The article’s main claim is that social determinants of health (such as income and gender inequality) should be considered in Canadian health policy because they shape a person`s life and link “government policy, the market and the health and well-being of citizens” (Raphael, 2008, p. 232). As such, Raphael cites three barriers that impede the recognition of social determinants in Canadian policy. They are: 1. The dominant biomedical ideology of positivist science based on the empirical evidence, sees health and illness as individual pathology, taken out of social and environmental determinants shaping health (Raphael, 2008, p. 224). 2. The public ideology of individualism isolates health issues as personal responsibilities as opposed...
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...TO EXCELLENCE WITHOUT DRUGS ABSTRACT Excellence For Youth ‘EFY’ is a non-governmental organization established in year 2008. Our organization’s focus is on youth and drug addiction. This report mainly consists of information about the formation of EFY. As a start I have introduced our organization and the organizational structure. Followed by is our mission and vision. And then I have described our main objectives and goals. Moreover I have talked about the issues regarding drug abuse and drug addiction. Furthermore this report contains the programs held by EFY to help and support drug addicts and their families to overcome the strategies they face due to drug related problems. The report concludes by explaining how effective these programs are to our society as a whole. INTRODUCTION Excellence For Youth (EFY) is a non-governmental organization officially registered on 05th October 2008 by a group of Maldivian, recovered addicts to help youth who are addicted to drugs to maintain their recovery and to raise public awareness on drug abuse, drug trafficking and drug addiction. The reason why we chose to implement this organization is because drug addiction and drug related issues are the worst social problem faced by the Maldivian society. Drug abuse has become the initiation of most of the other crimes such as robbery, gang fights and murder. Our aim is to prevent youth from being exposed to drug abuse and other crimes by creating awareness about drug addiction in the whole...
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...Change and Culture Case Study 1 Sharon Reed HCS/514 October 15, 2012 Steve Kovak Change and Culture Case Study 1 In the world of health care organization mergers are common as the pressures of free market drive organizations into combining resources with each other. Not every merger is a success. The health care organizations in most successful in making a merger are characteristics. The characteristics be examined and used to reveal key insights about organizational structure and ways that the free market system operates. The main reason corporate entities are to merger with companies to increase level of competitiveness in the market. A middle manager in a health organization had experience with merged with a previous competitor. Competition result to delivery of poor quality of care. The new organization has in place outpatient and inpatient service whereas one organization does not. Mergers can occur when two different organizations decide to joint together as one. In a merger is often a clash of cultures as two different organizations interact with each other and attempt to become one. Organizations that take advantage of a merger can resolve conflicts of culture and develop new collective attitudes. Each organization has its own ways of doing things and change will be made. Change in any organization comes with conflict and resentment which, management must resolve. In organization culture brings life experiences from each employee. Culture made of morale, values...
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...CONCEPTS OF HEALTH INTRODUCTION As humans remain different in nature, so are their perceptions and response towards certain issues of their lives and well being. The concept of health assumes to be a typical example of this and hence, poses debate about what it is. “Health” is a word which means different things to different people (Ewles & Simnett, 2003). This essay intends to critically discuss the meaning of health by exploring different definitions and their contraindications. Naidoo & Wills (2000) defined health in two main ways: the positive approach, where health is viewed as a capacity or an asset, and the negative approach, which emphasises the absence of illness, diseases or disorders. “Health” as defined by the World Health Organisation (1949) is ‘the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease. This definition, as well as emphasising health in a positive sense, is significant in stressing mental as well as physical aspects of health, and social as well as individual wellbeing. This would be viewed as an ideal towards which health care and other social actions may be orientated. However some authors argue that health is holistic and includes different dimensions, each of which needs to be considered (Ewles & Simnett, 1999). Seedhouse (1991) criticism of this definition believed that a more realistic view was needed. He used a holistic approach in his seminal work, stating that health is closely linked to empowering...
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...Balancing Fun, Friends, Fraternities, and Your Future Freedom! Fun! Party all night, sleep all day! Healthy habits? Why would I care about that during the best years of my life? College is the time that you branch out from your parents and start making your own decisions about the way you live your life. You can: experiment, choose your own schedule, choose your own diet, and pretty much do whatever you want to do. No one will be there to tell you what to do every minute of every day; with that freedom, also comes responsibility for your own actions. Some of the decisions you make in college, good or bad, can affect the rest of your life. Why not take the time in college to develop good habits that will serve you well for the rest...
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... Argosy University PSY260 Abstract This assignment I will discuss child poverty from the “State of America's Children® 2010 Report”. I found that poverty does not exclude anyone. Poverty hits every race, every country, anytime, it is a sad truth that negatively effects the lives of many children and families poverty continues to rise and it is now at an all time high. Not to mention the unemployment rate. What can we do to put a stop to these rising factors? Introduction Over the last decades, the world has made many changes, and the effects of those changes have profoundly been felt by many families everywhere. Today, children are being raised in single parent homes and it is hard when one parent has to work two jobs because absence of the parents can have very drastic effects on the child. (Miller, 2007). Sadly the numbers are at an all time high, when it comes to families and children living in poverty. Unemployment rates are growing and will continue to grow. Sadly more and more families are out of work and having to live without their basic needs being met. Many children experience poverty during their preschool years, which increases the likely of them even graduating from high school...
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... Date: The social determinants of health are the living and the working conditions which influence people’s health. Therefore our health is also affected in part by the social and economic opportunities available to us. Discussed below are the identified social factors affecting health in our society. Stressful conditions making people to be anxious and worried damage ones health. Stressful circumstances make it hard to engage in physical activities or even practicing health eating habits since the body energy is focused on dealing with day to day challenges (Brunner & Marmot, 2006). Stress also leads to prolonged biological reactions which strains the physical body. Therefore, continuous stressing circumstances will result to weakening of the resistance to diseases of the body and interferes with the functioning of the hormonal and metabolic systems. According to Brunner & Marmot (2006), the improvement of health may only be achieved if living conditions are improved and therefore, focus must be placed on solving the source of the problems instead of dealing with the underlying symptoms. Another social factor affecting health is the distribution of income. This is because it is the level of incomes which shapes how people live. Low incomes results to social and material deprivation as the basic needs are a challenge to meet for the low income earners (Raphael, 2010). Food, clothing and shelter are the prerequisites of health and for the people with low incomes it...
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...THE RESEARCH QUESTION The study should be based on finding out the effects of toxins on living organism. This research will try to find out the positive and negative effects of enzyme toxin in plants and animals. The excessive use of toxins can be harmful to the environment while the use of controlled amounts of this same enzyme can be useful to the environment. Toxins are said to be any poisonous substances that are produced in the living cells. Organic chemist Ludwig Brieger is said to be the first chemist to use the word toxins in the 19th century. Small molecules, proteins and peptides are all said to be toxins. These organisms are capable of causing diseases on the contact with any contact or absorption by body issues. Toxins greatly vary in the degree of severity from the minors such as bee stings to majors such as botulinum toxins Toxins are also constituents that are made by plants and are harmful to humans. But some toxins can be used in small doses and help in medication but become poisonous when used in large amounts DESCRIPTION OF IDENTIFIED PERSPECTIVE (natural sciences) In the natural science subjects such as biology and chemistry, toxins are well described and experimented on by scientists. In chemistry toxins are said to be chemical agent depending on their method of production. On the other hand, toxins that disturb organisms may be said to be biologically produced. Toxins can be either biologically or chemically produced depending on the mode of production...
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...Having this mental disorder makes it hard to distinguish what is real and what is not real. Schizophrenia affects more than one percent of the world’s population. One percent may not seem like a lot but when you put it into perspective of just how many people are in the world it makes to be a larger number than you really think. Schizophrenia is also known as a type of psychosis. This disrupts normal speech, thoughts, and behaviors. Having Schizophrenia can disrupt your normal lifestyle and imposes a significant burden on the patient including a very poor quality of life with increased morbidity and mortality. This mental disorder is a heterogeneous collection of psychotic conditions illustrated by positive delusions, hallucinations and negative symptoms. Some of the abnormalities found in the brain are from the ventricular enlargement and decreased cerebral cortical and hippocampal volume of the brain. There is also involvement of the temporal lobe and adequate evidence of a modification in normal cerebral asymmetries. The changes in the brain are due to synaptic, dendritic and axonal organization, which can be found all by, an ultrasound of the brain. Our genes and our environment can greatly affect the symptoms of Schizophrenia. Most cases of Schizophrenia are associated with your genes and runs in your family. Ten percent of people who have a blood first degree relative with this disorder like a parent, brother, or sister are likely to have the disease. Those who also have...
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...Task 2: Describe conditions that affect the behaviour of children AO2 Childhood Stress and Anxiety What is stress and anxiety? Both adults and children can suffer from stress and anxiety. It is important to remember that just because someone may be small or young it doesn’t mean that they don’t have the same feeling as adults do. Children can experience all sorts of strong feelings about what is happening to them. Therefore it is natural for some children to suffer from anxiety and stress. Young children will be experiencing a lot of new things in their lives such as leaving their parents for the first time, starting nursery and school, having to make new friends, being in new environments, learning to trust people who aren’t their parents, learning new skills such as speaking, walking and toilet training. These can all become stressful times for children. In some circumstances it can be made even worse by having parents who are arguing or going through a divorce. This can cause a lot of stress on the child and the parents may not even know the true affect that the circumstances are having on the child. Also a death of a family member or friend can cause a lot of stress on a child. When someone is stressed then this can also lead to having anxiety problems as well. This means that when someone is stressed they may have feelings of anxiety. Anxiety is defined as ‘apprehension without apparent cause’ this means that anxiety can occur even when there is no immediate threat...
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...3 List of Symptoms………………………………………………………………….3 Analysis……………………………………………………………………………4 Alternatives……..…………………………………………………………………4 Action Plan………………………………………………………………………..5 Bibliography………………………………………………………………………6 Identification Anna was known as the “star performer” in her position as a consulting manager for Global Consulting (GC) in Toronto. Anna is finding it difficult to balance working part time and being a first time mother, she was a high performer and knew how to share her time between her busy job, her husband and friends. She is finding it stressful to do all of this with her new family addition. Problem Statement Anna is in a stressful situation which is becoming a threatening factor to her physical and emotional health. Anna is producing unwanted stress by working more hours than she should. Anna is still expecting to be that high performer and working long hours without coming to terms that her life is changing with her 18 month old daughter. She currently doesn’t have a balance between work and personal life. Key Facts * Management staffs are very accommodating to Anna’s part time work situation because they are fond of her; however they are still expecting the same work load as if she was fulltime and constantly add more duties to her. * Anna’s current workload is at 60% but it demands more attention than she expected which impedes on her time with her daughter. * Anna is having a difficult time juggling both, motherhood which can be...
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