Obesity presents a critical health concern worldwide owing to ever-changing lifestyles. I have chosen to discuss possible ways of preventing obesity in adults. According to the World Health Organization, the global level of obesity has almost tripled since 1975 (“Obesity and Overweight,” 2020). The primary question is “What are adults...
The modern concept of the organization of mental health care involves the use of a biopsychosocial approach, which is the basis of community-oriented psychiatry. According to this perspective, when considering the causes of mental disorders, a set of factors is taken into account, such as biological, psychological, and social. Each...
Abstract The single-payer healthcare system aims to enhance equality in the United States, primarily through improved health insurance availability. The proponents view that the proposal will boost preventive care while the opponents feel that it will propagate inefficiencies. Regardless, the single-payer method has benefits, which outweigh its disadvantages, especially concerning...
Health and one’s wellbeing are a complex and important set of topics, especially in the field of medicine. There are many factors that contribute to a person’s state, both physical and mental, and it is the job of a healthcare professional to discern and control these factors. One of the...
Introduction Nursing practice is complex and requires a sound theoretical basis. Nursing theory offers a frame of reference for a nurse’s philosophical outlook and actions in the context of health care. This paper is a reflection on the aspects of theory-based practice and related personal experiences. Definition of Terms There...
A comprehensive approach and government intervention are needed to tackle the issue of ready-to-eat meals consumption. One of the suggested solutions is implementing a tax on convenience food. Similar practices around the globe have helped decrease the demand for restricted products, such as a tax on fat products in Denmark...
Bush Bush emphasized the importance of affordable healthcare – he believed that it is the absent component within the exceptional healthcare system of the United States. While the government expenditure on health had been growing for many years, Bush believed that to reach efficiency, the United States must leverage electronic...
Introduction Information technologies such as electronic health records are increasingly being adopted in healthcare. They offer a variety of well-documented advantages that increase the quality and efficiency of the treatments that are provided by various medical facilities. One particular benefit is the improved cooperation and collaboration, both between different professionals...
Introduction Addiction is a compulsive and chronic need for a substance, behavior, or activity that is associated with harmful effects and adverse symptoms upon withdrawal. Examples of items that can cause addiction include tobacco, alcohol, and drugs of both the prescription and illicit varieties. The condition can lead to self-destructive...
The Problem Bowel and urinary incontinence are some of the most widespread conditions found in patients around the world. Statistics say that approximately 8.7% of all people the planet are currently experiencing this condition. In an elderly population, the percentage of cases rises up to 40% (Aguiar & Franco, 2018)....
The human body is an extremely complex organism; however, scientists learn increasingly more about the processes taking place inside of it. It also applies to such a field as genetics, since many important discoveries have been made that allow experts to conclude how the genome works and how chromosome rearrangements...
Child obesity is an issue for public health that has a long term economic and social cost and threatens the health of the nation. In the modern scientific literature, it is determined as a specific medical condition of a child characterized by the high body mass index (BMI) or the...
Some foods hide danger even though they look harmless, whereas others can bring numerous benefits despite being considered quite unhealthy. Chocolate falls into the category of products that are usually perceived as high in fats and, thus, detrimental. However, this statement is only partially true since dark chocolate, unlike milk...
Evidence-Based Solution Bowel and urinary incontinence have been recognized as one of the most frequent issues to occur in a hospital setting (Aguiar & Franco, 2018). According to Stokes, Crumley, Taylor-Thompson, and Cheng (2016), nurses encounter BUI in 8% to 37% of all patients to enter the ICU. At the...
Statement of the Threat The 2019–2020 COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus. It broke out in the Chinese province of Hubei in December 2019 and within a few months has spread worldwide triggering a global health alarm and changing the daily lives of...
Introduction In nurse care, there are numerous theories and models aimed to facilitate or improve the work processes of nurse practitioners. Some of these theories are describing the importance of high-quality interaction with patients. According to the approaches that will be presented below, the level of such interaction may depend...
Why I choose this PICOT question Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is still a prevalent device-associated issue in healthcare institutions all over the world. This type of infection commonly occurs as a complication of inpatient hospitalization. The leading causes of CAUTI are contamination of the catheter upon insertion, catheter infection...
Introduction Breast cancer or Carcinoma of the breast is a malignancy that develops in the breast duct or glands (McConnel, 2013). It usually occurs in the form of a breast tumor that can be detected with the help of an x-ray, or doctors can encounter it manually as a lump....
Introduction The evolution of nursing practice began with improvements in healthcare, but real progress was achieved after nursing was recognized as a prestigious profession, rather than gender-specific trade. Modern nursing practice is a result of numerous obstacles humanity encountered in the past century, ranging from wars to technogenic disasters to...
Introduction Oral health disparities are common globally. In the United States, inadequate access to both preventive and acute oral care services has resulted in oral health inequalities. Ethnic and racial minorities are most affected regardless of gender, and socioeconomic status. Untreated cases of tooth decay among Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic...
Tea is one of the most widely consumed products around the world. In particular, black tea is the most popular type, with green tea taking second place, followed by oolong and white variations of this drink (Tea and cancer prevention, n.d.). People traditionally attribute health benefits to this ancient beverage,...
Introduction In the modern world, many people can significantly benefit from genetic counseling. It is so because this phenomenon demonstrates how individuals and their families can be affected by genetic conditions. Here, attention is drawn to family health history because this information shows what genetic health-related illnesses are typical for...
Introduction Sport has always been an integral part of human society. The inborn desire for achievement and competition preconditioned the appearance and development of various games that attracted people’s attention and guaranteed rewards for winners. For this reason, athletes have always been trying to achieve new levels of performance, improve...
The development of the information society poses many challenges to medical science and practice. There is a tendency to increase the amount of medical information and the development of science-intensive medical technologies. Patients’ demands to obtain qualified medical care from several sources are growing. At the same time, the limited...
Demographic First of all, it is important to establish the age and sex of individuals who are mostly affected. The answer to the question of when the dissatisfaction with body image starts may help to determine factors that contribute to the development of the problem. According to studies, “preadolescent girls...
Recently, the issue of marijuana addiction and the spread of this substance have drawn much attention from specialists and the general public. The problem is that there are different opinions about whether the use of marijuana should be illegal, or if it can be legally used for specific purposes. Some...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychological injury that is often observed in veterans. According to Garrett and Hough (2018), PTSD is a prolonged reaction to a stressful event, which is often characterized by recurrent thoughts, nightmares, lack of concentration, and overreaction to environmental stimuli. PTSD may also be characterized...
Introduction Nurses working in psychiatric services are exposed to a much greater degrees of verbal, emotional, and physical violence when compared to other nurses. Niu et al. (2019) report that, on average, nurses in psychiatric wards experience 0.55 incidents of patient-incited violence per bed per month, which is 20 times...
Introduction The topic of abortion has long been subjected to controversy due to the varied opinions on whether the healthcare service should be allowed. The issue is especially relevant to consider in the context of Nicaragua due to a severe restriction on abortion through nationwide legislation. This means that a...
Background The introduction of electronic health records (EHRs) has provided value to healthcare providers by promoting efficiency and effectiveness. It is an empowering tool for medical professionals that allows access to patient health information as well as the exchange of patient treatment information that facilitates shared decision making and improves...
Introduction Every year, politicians are paying more attention to issues related to the health system. The planet is constantly threatened by various diseases such as, for instance, Ebola of COVID-19 that spread quickly and uncontrollably. Another example is climate change that “has become increasingly relevant to public health as its...
Introduction Panic disorder (PD) is one of the most common mental illnesses around the world, and it can negatively influence the life of a patient. Panic disorders disrupt every aspect of human life, making it hard to do even small daily activities like learning, working, or taking care of oneself....
For decades, the US healthcare system has been one of the most discussed topics among its residents. Researchers and governors put much time, money, and effort to introduce to the world the cure to various diseases. The ideal healthcare system would provide the same care for each world community resident....
Numerous discussions about the rise of the opioid crisis are developed to understand its positive and negative outcomes. Opioid misuse is a serious public health concern that requires immediate solutions (Volkow & Collins, 2017). It is not enough to identify the problem and use statistics to prove its urgency. Modern...
The rise of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) has been seen around the USA. Since 2014, the country has faced a substantial increase in sexually infected people. For six years, America has had 1.8 million cases of chlamydia, almost 600,000 cases of gonorrhea; around 36,000 people were infected with syphilis (“Healthwise:...
Kurt Lewin introduced the Change Theory of Nursing, and it has been one of the widely used models when implementing change in nursing. Lewin’s model has three stages – unfreezing, change, refreeze, which underscore the three major concepts of this theory including driving forces, equilibrium, and restraining forces [1]. In...
The health care system of the United States is one of the best in the world, yet there are some challenges it continuously discovers. Nowadays, many citizens struggle with overweight, lung deceases, liver problems, and most of these appeared mainly because of bad habits and lifestyles that are often consciously...
The United States is one of the few developed countries with no universal health insurance system. Despite the advanced medicine, the US health care system remains one of the main problems of the nation. All the blame is on the inflated prices that the taxpayers and the state have to...
How Nurses Can Help Drive Healthcare Innovation This source proves the role of nurses in modern American health care. It helps to see the current situation in nursing practice from the point of view of direct participants of nursing care, and it will be used in the paper. It contains...
Schizophrenia is a psychotic disease that is affecting over 20 million individuals globally. The condition is characterized by impaired thinking, distorted perceptions, emotional distress, and strange social behavior associated with withdrawal, delusions, and misbeliefs. Depending on the determined symptoms, schizophrenia may be classified into schizoaffective, catatonia, hebephrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, and...
The United States is still suffering from the opioid crisis that claims many lives. Although there are always risks such as addiction and respiratory depression, this class of powerful drugs may be helpful for patients in acute health conditions to relieve severe pain. Nevertheless, the investigation conducted by Frontline, in...
Pay-for-performance is a relatively new invention in the field of human resource management. Unlike a fee-for-service approach that has dominated most markets and business fields, this compensation strategy encourages the quality of the service rather than its quantity. To increase the service quality, many business entities switch to pay-for-performance as...
Introduction Any form of healthcare improvement should be focused on bettering patient experience, patient safety, service costs, and quality. These objectives can be achieved by the deliberate and step-by-step implementation of the Triple Aim initiatives. However, it is important to distinguish the setting differences between long-term care and acute care....
Introduction Edema is the extravasations and piling of interstitial fluid in muscles. It is gravitational and develops in the lower parts of the body such as the feet when a person stands for so long. Pitting edema can be evidenced by exerting pressure on a puffy skin of an individual...
Methods Cardiovascular diseases cause more deaths among African Americans, as opposed to their white counterparts. Therefore, it is indispensable to develop mechanisms for mitigating the causes of the diseases. To begin with, high blood pressure that causes coronary heart diseases is due to obesity and low-stress reduction techniques among African...
Bisphenol A has detrimental effects on human health. It acts in a similar fashion as estrogens. This may cause unnecessary body reactions, which may be harmful. Other effects of the chemical include increased risks of heart conditions, as well as diabetes. Children may also develop complexities during development. The substance...
Preface This essay is dedicated to an overview of problems women face when diagnosed with breast cancer. We will attempt to highlight flaws in the modern US health care system and propose possible solutions. Breast cancer is a disease characterized by the growth of abnormal cells in a breast tissue...
Introduction Currently, cosmetic surgery is one of the most popular ways to look more attractive and younger. Women all over the world use cosmetic surgery for numerous reasons. Some of them dream to attract men’s attention, some just want to perfect their appearance, some women wish to stay young as...
Free markets are among the economic tools that foster positive competition because they allow entities that provide the best goods or services to elevate themselves based on their competitive advantages. America’s privatized health insurance model is one example of a free market that ensured that individuals could choose the insurance...
Introduction Health care services should be efficient and effective to deal with all the patient illnesses. The medical care system ought to be advanced and able to treat all kinds of diseases. The following paper indulges on my field experiences in our tour to two hospitals in Madrid. Did any...
Introduction The H1N1 influenza pandemic that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared officially in June 2009 brought to the fore issues of response and preparedness (Jhung et al., 2013). Jhung et al. have asserted that H1N1 is both a protracted and significant public health emergency that portends enormous effects in...
Introduction Obsessive-compulsive disorder, OCD, is a neuropsychological ailment that is typified by unreasonable thoughts and fears which are known as obsessions. Such obsessions cause an individual to assume repetitive behaviors known as compulsions. This study is about the different aspects of OCD in terms of diagnosis, treatment, occurrence in different...
1 Diabetes Diabetes is a disease that is marked by the lack of insulin in the human body, or by the factors that interfere with the action of insulin. As the result of such lack and improper action of insulin, the level of glucose concentration in blood increases, causing hyperglycemia...
While opening a single-specialty group practice, its initiators may face numerous financial, managerial, and performance-related challenges. However, irrespective of their type and specialty, all healthcare facilities and organizations should deliver holistic, high-quality, effective, and affordable medical services to their customers. Therefore, in order to ensure successful performance of their practice,...
Both major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BD) are mental conditions that affect the normal functioning of the brain and cause serious deviations from standards of behavior in a civilized society. Researchers note that when acts of depression occur it is very hard to distinguish between the two disorders...
Definition There are many names for such a mental disorder as depression – “the blues,” major depressive disorder, clinical depression, etc. – but all of them relate to the same disease. Depression can be characterized as a feeling of sadness and melancholy that continues most of the days of every...
Introduction According to World Health Organization (WHO), childhood obesity is a severe global public health dilemma. Currently, many children and adolescents suffer from childhood obesity. It predisposes them to the danger of contracting numerous diseases like heart-related illnesses (Biro, & Wien, 2010). Mostly, medical professionals use the term overweight to...
The rhythm of life of our society has changed recently and it manifests itself in exacerbation of many problems that really affect the quality of living of modern people. Our world has never been perfect and very often the things that we believe to be the signs of welfarism of...
Numerous children of different origins and genders suffer from pediatric obesity, which is a result of many factors. They include insufficient physical activity, health issues, and screen time. That is why there are a few evidence-based strategies that are designed to minimize the impact of screen time on pediatric obesity....
The U.S. health care system should always overcome some issues to provide patients with a decent degree of care delivery. Since this system is a versatile phenomenon, these issues are of different levels. This information means that every hierarchical layer of the health care industry is forced to meet its...
Introduction To begin with, during their lifetime, humans have to go through a lot of stress. Hectic routine, family issues, or problems at work might cause negative emotions. Usually, it is possible to manage these problems and keep balance. However, some situations are so terrifying that they might cause the...
Cover letter This evaluation argument endeavors to persuade society to embrace euthanasia. Every human being deserves a less painful and dignified death when that time comes. Euthanasia is a justified relief from painful but incurable ailments. It also saves the medical industry a lot of resources that would have otherwise...
Introduction Physical health has always been an essential part of human being. A healthy man is a mentally and physically strong person. In order to reach this kind of harmony it s important to keep fit from little up. Although not every parent devotes enough attention to this sphere of...
Sex education is an important process in an education and family setting as it aims at creating awareness among children on the best way to cope with issues and practices related to sex. I believe that knowledge in sex education empowers an individual and in this case a child thus...
Long-term care refers to all those medical and non-medical services given over a duration of time to a person suffering from a chronic disease or disability, or those who have experienced an accident. It basically aims at helping a person meet their daily needs such as bathing, dressing and feeding....
Obesity – Problem and Statistics Obesity is a national problem today with no age group being spared from its ill effects (Newman, 2004; Bray et al., 2004). The rising weight of the American population is a growing source of concern as they are becoming heavier and more obese (Newman, 2004)....
Abstract Gender identity is described as the differentiation of a living individual based on their gender. When the topic is in context to a human being, then there are three broad categories of gender differentiation. The first is a male, the second is a female and the third is the...
Implications of the article to health care According to Ferman in his article on future health care trend and implication, is predicted in three aspects. The hospital’s outcome and prices, the insurance coverage, and hospital leaders’ aspects. Health care outcome and Prices The prices and outcomes of the hospitals will...
Introduction Eating disorder has the highest mortality rate of all the mental disorders. It is found that up to 20% of those with eating disorders yield to their sickness. (Marano, 2004). The National Association of Anorexia and Associated Disorders declared that the problem is rapidly sweeping across America. Incidence of...
System access controls are a concept that refers to the use of various verification techniques used by entities to restrict particular system access to certain individuals. The use of system access controls is as old as any known civilization on Earth. System access controls could be used to restrict the...
Introduction Marijuana (cannabis) is a drug widely used for medical purposes in America. Sill, marijuana is prohibited on the state level which creates problems for medical staff and patients. Marijuana is a drug that should be prohibited but its legal status will help doctors to avoid criminal responsibility. Legal status...
Introduction Evidence-based practice is the consistence application of the best available evidence together with clinical expertise in making clinical decisions concerning patient’s medical care (Dawes & Hill, 2000). Thus health practitioners use both qualitative and evaluative approach in addressing healthcare issues. Moreover, the practitioners have the opportunity to evaluate clinical...
Introduction Euthanasia, otherwise known as mercy killing or assisted suicide, has been a controversial subject for many centuries. Proponents of the practice believe that individual freedoms of choice that exist in life also extend to the end of life. They also argue that the sentiment of humane treatment afforded animals...
The Red Cross was founded in February 1863 in Geneva, Switzerland, by the Geneva Public Welfare Society. The society set up a team of five Swiss citizens to form a committee to look into the idea of dealing with the protection of the sick or wounded in the war. The...
Sleep is an important and inevitable activity, and humans need a minimum of eight to nine hours of sleep each night in order to stay healthy. However, in this fast-paced life and industrialized world, sleep has become more of a luxury than a necessity. Sleep can be defined as a...
Introduction During the past decade, the world witnessed not only a rise in the incidence of lifestyle diseases like diabetes, heart problems, stroke, and cancer, but also increased deaths resulting from these diseases. But as if these grim statistics are not yet daunting, the trend also is that these diseases...
Introduction Whether contracted in the early fetal development stage or inherited, autism is a disorder which affects cognitive brain functions thus impeding a person’s ability to communicate effectively. The disorder distorts not only how people perceive sensory information but how the brain processes it as well. Symptoms of autism are...
Critique This original research is from the peer reviewed journal, Journal of Advanced Nursing. The paper is a report of a phenomenological qualitative study conducted by a nursing student Kristina E.K. and Professor Britt-Marie Ternestedt to describe the essential structure of the lived experience of patients living with severe chronic...
The benefits to society by the introduction of new medical technologies have been considerable. For example, the introduction of vaccines and antibiotics has significantly improved the well-being of people all over the globe. The science of stem cell treatments, potentially as or more significant as these other innovations, is beginning...
Just as any psychological diagnosis, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) does not have well-defined properties, as there is still an ongoing debate as to its actual mechanics. It has been noticed that people who had been experiencing an extreme emotional shock for a prolonged period (it usually happens during the...
Introduction Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is considered the most general form of dementia, occurring mainly among older people. Dementia is a brain disorder, which affects a person’s capability to carry out simple everyday tasks. Alzheimer’s affects those parts of our brain which control our thoughts, language, and memory. It causes nerve...
Introduction Intensive care unit (ICU) constitutes one of the essential patient care systems at medical centers. Its role is pivotal in sustaining the life of patients and varies with the degree of complexity of patient condition. Over the years, concerns on patient safety are increasing at an alarming rate. Previously,...
An Introduction to Diabetes A human body performs many different functions, necessary to lead a healthy life. These functions include processing food, purifying blood, excreting waste materials, producing and balancing hormones, etc. One of the important hormones is insulin, which is produced and used by the body to convert sugar,...