Health Sciences & Medicine Essays

Healthcare has increasingly become an issue of concern for many Americans. Because the issue is so intricately tied to other issues of race, class, economic resource it has become charged both politically and socially. “On March 15, 2004, the Wall Street Journal reported the results of a recent survey regarding the economic concerns of the nation.

Substance use in adolescence has been noted to have negative consequences, including health and emotional problems, lower social competence, and problems with school or work. Substance use generally starts during adolescence, and several risk factors have been noted, including peer pressure, popularity, and depression.  

The author states that severely overweight increases the risk for high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, and diabetes and, hence, for diseases for which these conditions are risk factors (diabetes, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, neurological disorders, cancers, and kidney diseases).

The author states that the human body demonstrates the characteristics of any other physical object. These include transmissivity, opacity, emissivity, reflectivity, conductivity, and magnetizability. A specially designed imaging system that can capture the changes in these characteristics with the disease would serve as an imaging device.

The author states that childhood is also where eating habits, which typically last a lifetime, are formed. The Surgeon General’s report on physical activity has been very clear that if people had 30 minutes of physical activity a day, either weight lifting, running, walking, sports activities, gardening, aerobics, dancing, etc.

Adolescent obesity can be examined from many angles. Among the most interesting are the media, community, and nutrition education. These have shed light on the causes and solutions of adolescent obesity. It has been hypothesized that children who watch more television are likely to become obese teenagers and adults because of their decreased physical activity, and increased caloric intake. 

U.S. Health Care System The absence of other politicians desire to resist the insurance and other lobbies very easy destroyed the Clinton efforts. temporary remission in the increasing health care spending as HMOs was a good try to limit increasing of cost.

It is easy to understand this because a highly skilled nurse is a reliable assistant for a doctor, and the success of patient treatment depends on his/her skills and knowledge. “This year's theme underscores the breadth of directions that a nurse's career may take," said American Nurse Association president Barbara Blakeney, MS, RN.

While reflecting on such care delivery, I found that evidence-based care is actually a scientific process of arriving at a decision regarding management strategy that involves academic theoretical learning and experiential training on the backdrop of a model of collaborative care that involves input from all the professionals involved in a particular patient’s care.

In the discussion part, it is reported that “The cumulative attack rate among unvaccinated, susceptible children 12 months of age or older was approximately 86 percent in Building A and 9 percent in Building B. The low attack rate in Building B suggests that most children in this building were never exposed to Varicella.

The involvement of human beings in medical research is also important as it increases our understanding and knowledge of how to treat various diseases and medical conditions, to validate theories and to understand human behavior. However, it can also be said that advancing medical research is vital for benefiting those involved in medical research.

The author states that medication errors may occur in the process of treating the patient since the treatment has several stages. The first stage is whereby the patient visits the doctor and after the doctor examines the patient he prescribes the medication that the patient ought to receive.

Baseline measurements will include the measurement of the outcome variables which will be demonstrated by the medical history from the medical records and electrocardiogram and cardiac enzymes level (troponin I, creatine phosphokinase (CPK, CK), and lactic acid dehydrogenase, LDH) to make sure that the CHD is not present at the outset. 

In keeping with my continuing education, I am required to attend classes that focus on different current health care topics. One week, I attended a lecture on patient consent and its issues. The professor taught us that only doctors were allowed to sign consent forms from now on, especially with patients who are incompetent.

Undergoing surgery or any kind of treatment in a hospital is not a pleasant experience. On one hand one is away from home and family and on the other hand, hospitals tend to give most people the jitters. Hence it is not surprising that once admitted to the hospital patients feel depressed and lonely. It is the duty of the hospital staff to make sure that patients stay mentally strong and happy.

Constipation is common in older people because of the loss of muscle tone in the bowel. Older persons experience difficulty passing stools, and this can lead to the bowels being opened with a frequency less than in normal individuals. Constipation has many causes. In elderly persons with dementia, these causes include poor appetite; inability to afford, shop for, or cook; and lack of exercise. 

A proper diet is essential in maintaining proper mental and physical health as well as helping to avoid a long-term health crisis. It may seem like we are eating a balanced diet of healthy foods, but only by carefully documenting the foods we eat over a period of time can we get a complete picture.

The National Health Services is considered to be the best provider of health care service for several years. However, this recognition and stability in terms of providing the number one quality of health services to the people, NHS decided to make changes with their structure, policies, and procedures in order to keep up with the changing time. 

Learning disabilities occur in 3-13% of adults. Males are females are equally susceptible to this problem, thus there are no gender specificity for learning disabilities (LD) occurrence. Contemporary system of curative and preventive care requires sufficient number of facilities for health screening. Persons with LD are not exclusion.

This also represents about 17% of the population under 65 years of age. There are 10 million uninsured children and 32 million adults between 18 and 65 years of age. Current data show that the largest racial group, the white, non-Hispanic group with a population of 166.6 million, has the largest percentage (69%) of employer-based insurance.

The cost would be determined based on manpower assessment, cost of preventive measures, transport, employees for intervention, and data computation. The quality will be maintained through quality assessment in a periodic fashion and through the determination of the correlation between prevention and outcome.   

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a collective term which encompasses a host of disorders.  Understanding and diagnosing this disorder was once believe to be the sole responsibility of pediatricians and neurologists. Although detection of the disease starts here, a cooperative environment incorporating all facets of the health care disciplines are necessary to maximize benefits to the affected child. 

Artificially provided nutrition and hydration (ANH) is a medical procedure that can be withheld or withdrawn like any other. A decade has passed since that heated discussion occurred. Today in Japan, end-of-life issues have become an even more urgent problem. Many people are living longer lives and most of them die in hospitals connected to high-technology medical equipment.

Environmental, or second-hand, tobacco smoke is implicated in causing lung cancer. Beta-carotene which serves as an antioxidant help deactivate free radicals, unstable molecules that are the by-products of cells “burning” oxygen for energy when used by smokers increases the risk of lung cancer and when used by a non-smoker prevents heart diseases.

The autistic individuals lack the awareness of the members of the family as people who have feelings and ideas, and as such incidence of autism in a family has a devastating effect on family life. Clinicians and researchers have achieved consensus on the validity of autism as a diagnostic category and many features central to its definition.

She has called an ambulance today due to having dry cough and sob for three (3) days. She is unable to talk. Her respiratory rate is 35 breaths per minute. She is unable to complete a peak flow. Her lips are cyanotic, and her sp02 on-air is 89%. Her blood pressure is 95/62. She looks pale. Her temperature is 37.5 C.

Researchers are now emphasizing the need to understand more about nitric oxide to be able to set clearer methodologies for its use (Smith et al, 2004). A more in-depth understanding of the incidence and implication of nitric oxide production by the body is needed to create structured and appropriate procedures in utilizing it in respiratory treatments as well as other applications with other diseases.

Thus if not taken care of now the disease would further spread in other human beings and would also affect the marine life heavily. Q3. If table 1 is examined it is clearly known that there is a huge difference in the mortality rate that is occurring due to the Toxoplasma gondii associated protozoal meningoencephalitis in the population A and population B.

There are notable changes in approaches to achieve quality health care. There is a need to measure the quality of care. There is general consensus as to the assessment of the quality of healthcare based on three criteria. These are structure indicating the characteristics of the provider, process indicating parameters of care encounters between the provider and the patient, and outcomes of care.

These can be achieved through such methods as leaflets, posters, magazines, newspapers, the internet, keep fit and slimming classes and campaigns such as 'Cycle to work campaign' or 'Campaigns against phone masts'. Most promotion material is geared towards particular target groups such as teenagers, middle aged men, children, OAPs and pregnant women.

The sufferings have some relation with past sins and healing through divine god is something like the inner dying of the old and resurrection through new life. One would get healed not by understanding the cause of illness but by total surrender into the hands of mighty god which would carve a new identity out of the old me

Teachers can play a very big role in controlling FAS by identifying and working with children suffering from the syndrome. In cases where the condition is out their ability to help, teachers can refer such to specialists. There is also a need for all pregnant women to attend prenatal clinics for it is there where the syndrome can be detected.

This report will also include an interpretation of the analysis explaining the findings, limitations and ethical considerations of the study. The reported study has established that, over all, women agreed that they experience high level of satisfaction in their screening.

Good diet can be possibly anything and there is nothing called bad diet but when an individual becomes obsessed with any particular food item that will harm his body, the same becomes bad diet. Hence it is very fair to conclude that eating right and working out are the two most important things in order to stay fit and healthy.  

The strategy has been to select the set of research studies in such a manner that one part of the set has found that personality changes do occur in adults following TBI while the other part of the set has found the opposite – that personality changes do not occur in adults following TBI.

Public health movement was started around the globe to assess the progress on the achievement on the objectives of the Primary Health Care declaration of Alma Alta. In 1986, the first international conference on Health Promotion was organized in Ottawa, Canada. This was the first international gathering.

Alcohol is associated with a continuum of birth damage, which may be very serious or relatively inconsequential (Barrison et al., 1985). At the most serious extreme is a combination of developmental delay, growth retardation, neurological abnormalities and characteristic facial dysmorphology known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).

Dental Caries is mainly common of all oral diseases, and as the common individual has his foremost experience with this infection in early days, it is chiefly vital to deal with it from the 1st to his 12th year of existence. For in these years, the milk teeth blow up, function, exfoliates and the stable teeth are exclusive of the 3rd molars.

Several health adversities prevail and experts are beginning to elucidate a system, requiring broad collaboration within each laboratory, in order to investigate biochemical aspects; consequently, contribute to the knowledge gap therein complex health issues like major histocompatibility complex (MHC).

God has allowed pain in order to warn man of the proximate possibility of danger lurking inside his corporal system i.e. that something potentially or actually damaging has caused irregularity and imbalance in his body

Rapee Ronald highlights the cultural factor, as “According to the cultural factor, people are considered abnormal if their behavior violates the unwritten rules of society”. (Ronald, 2001, p8.4)  An example is the crying of a 2-year old child, which is considered quite acceptable. However, the same phenomena repeated by a man would seem quite strange.

The author states that over the last 30 years very little has changed in New Guinea as far as an increase in salary levels or a rise out of poverty. There are also many natural hazards to this country. These include volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones, large-scale landslides, flooding, sporadic droughts, frosts in highland areas.

The author states that the performance improvement division takes care of the command’s commitment to the philosophy of continuous performance improvement. The performance improvement programs conform to the quality assurance programs as detailed in Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) standards.

Certain ailments like osteoarthritis (OA) also lead to the malfunctioning of the quadriceps, which in long term result in reduced mobility and increased socio-economic burden. In majority of the cases relief is sought by taking simple analgesia drugs or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in order get rid of the pain generated during this period (McAlindon et al, 1993).

A holistic health approach may be very suitable to target pediatric population in order to modify these lifestyle behaviors very effectively. This is specifically important since the acquired diseases are preventable, and prevention has been demonstrated to be possible through sustained actions directed at families and individuals.

I saw what the medical world had to offer, narrowed the scope to internal medicine, and want to narrow it even more. Experience has shown me a great many things, but there are many things left to see. An interventional cardiology superspecialization is my dream, doing angiographies and angioplasties on patients in need of vascular corrections. 

Childbirth is perceived as a powerful experience, capable of changing life's perspectives, in all cultures and ethnic groups. The consequences of this experience "are influenced by a complex interaction of religion, culture, education, social status, economy and the perceived position of women within the society.

Scientists are now able to produce neurons and glia successfully from stem cells in culture. Besides, the use of genetic engineering with stem cell therapies can halt the further degenerative process and can serve as a powerful therapeutic tool. Hence, there is hope for patients with these diseases and can gain from stem-cell-based transplantation therapies. 

The above title is a statement of caution derived from conclusions and deductions of a critique of reports. These reports are on researches into the relationship between prenatal stress and smoking, and ADHD in children. The reports are critical descriptions of approaches by different researchers into this relationship.

The present population is struggling with diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and cardio-vascular disease to name a few. Nutrition and diet have a pivotal role to play in all the above-mentioned conditions. The poor quality of our typical urban lifestyle along with lack of physical exercise and unregulated dietary intake have made this a major issue of concern.