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A Community Health Issue in Kentucky/Smoking Cessation

Orem defines a "self-care deficit" as when a clients condition or injury prohibits that individuals ability to meet the requiremen...

Pharmaceutical Industry and the WHO

In fourteen pages this paper discusses the global pharmaceutical industry and the World Health Organization's efforts to combat va...

Health and Alcohol as Perceived by a GP Nurse

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

Public Health Advertising v. Direct to Consumer Advertising

2004). As this indicates, disease education in the EU is allowed, but American-style DTC advertising is prohibited. Consequently...

Public Health/Then & Now

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

Overview of Public Health Services

through the work of 11 agencies, with a particular focus on aiding those citizens who are "least able to help themselves" (HHS, 20...

Public Health Management

change will soon be out of business whether it is a public or private organization. It is also true regardless of industry. As Tho...

Establish Ethical Culture in Public Health

2007). It is much better and will have more impact if this training and communication happens in a face-to-face situation and not...

Macroeconomic Effects of the "Public Option"

goal of totally reforming all of US healthcare has been shelved, with the focus now being exclusively on health insurance. The na...

A Public Health Inspection of Apartment Housing and Public Swimming Pools

manufactured before 1978 are particularly likely to contain lead-based paints because it wasnt until that year that lead-based pai...

Reaction Paper/Public Health Readings/Videos

individuals contact ring, smallpox could be halted with available resources, making the seemingly impossible, possible. Similarl...

Entertainment Public Health Education

This research paper pertains to entertainment education in public health education campaigns. This terms refer to public health me...

Taking a Toddler’s Blood Pressure

pressure There are three types of high blood pressure observed in children. The first type is called "white-coat" high blood pres...

Weight and Self-Esteem

The percentage of obese children between the ages of 6 and 11 was 18 percent in 2012 while 21 percent of adolescents are obese. Th...

Disease Surveillance; A Literature Review For Research Into Attitude And Practice Of Ministry Of Health Physicians Toward the Surveillance System In Saudi Arabia

a history of proactive surveillance beginning in 1933 when a rule decree was implemented in order to help prevent the spread of co...

Fast Food and Obesity

exercise he usually engaged in. Spurlock is 6;2: tall and weight 185 pounds at the beginning. His BMI was normal. For his height...

Health: Fast Food

is well known that the United States is one of the most obese nations in the world. It has become such a problem that it also affe...

A Program to Reduce Overweight Kids

The prevalence of obesity has increased across the world over the last three decades. Effective programs to curb and prevent overw...

Major Issues in Obesity

at least 30 kg/m2" (Allison et al, 1999, p. 1530). It was found that approximately 22% of adult Americans, about 40.5 million pers...

Childhood Obesity Statistics, Public Health Assessment

This paper pertains to low-income community assessment, and then presents statistics on childhood obesity prevalence. Three pages...

U.S. and How to Address the Public Health Crisis of Obesity

body mass index that is greater than the 95th percentile for age and gender, they are classified as obese (Dietz & Hunter, 2009). ...

Community Obesity and Health Promotion

his ideal weight yet less than that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a ...

Should New Drugs Be Labelled As ‘New’ To Indicate A Higher Risk Than Established Dugs?

funds used to ensure drug safety focused in the approval of new drugs. After a drug is approved there are few quality reports unde...

Planning an Obesity Education Program for 16 - 18 Year Olds

The paper will start by consider the problem, looking at the issue and the current gaps; it is only when the context of the issue ...

Public Health and AIDS

In a paper consisting of six pages AIDS is interpreted in terms of its status as a public health issue and the opinions regarding ...

Risks and Opportunities in Public Health Provision

will have suitable clothing compared to areas that are not acclimatised that the lower temperatures (Sanders, 2010). Where severe ...

Addressing Gun Safety

practitioners to alert their clients to this possibility (Christoffel, 2007, p. 626). Impact of the problem on the client An onl...

Safety and Health

also places emphasis on the role of ongoing training and self improvement. Even if we look at commercial models for the way an org...

COBRA and What It Means to the Economy

The role of public and private entities in health care is not a new debate. This paper details the Consolidated Omnibus Resolution...

Public Health Care v. Home Health Care

of Healthcare Organizations is one organization which has had a definitive impact on the quality of care being provided across the...