Heart Diseases in the Philippines Mortality and morbidity The data we gathered shows that the average morbidity level during 2000-2004 almost did not change in 2005. However‚ the level of mortality is alarmingly increasing. This means that more people die from heart diseases than before. Since we are comparing average of 5 years with another succeeding year‚ we expected that the data won’t have significant differences just like in our data about mortality. This means that if we see big difference
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chronic diseases. One disease that has been the number one killer of men and women in the U.S. is cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease has many contributors‚ but smoking itself is a high risk to contract the disease. Non-smokers also have to pay attention to the air they are breathing because the smoke around you can kill you! What is heart disease? Many of us at a young age believe that heart disease can only happen to "older" people. The truth is that heart disease has to
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Research Project Periodontitis and Heart Disease Andrea Wilson University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Abstract According to the American Heart Association‚ cardiovascular disease and heart disease are used interchangeably. Cardiovascular disease is a disease that is associated with the heart and blood vessels. There are many different types of heart diseases and they all include a variety of problems. Periodontal disease is a complex chronic inflammatory disease that results in the loss of
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Review of Literature Nancy D. Guerrero Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion March 31‚ 2013 Health promotion has been defined by the World Health Organization ’s (WHO) 2005 as "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants‚ and thereby improve their health.” Health Promotion is focused on bringing awareness to the public in order to prevent an increase in disease. Health promotion can also give the individual the tools
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Running head: RIVIEW OF LITERATURE REVIEW OF LITERATURE SOON TAYLOR GCU: NRS 429 JUNE 8‚ 2012 PROF. MELANIE ESCOBAR REVIEW OF LITERATURE Introduction We are facing the revolutionary era of shifting health concept and promoting health behavior through multi-influencing factors includes technological advancement and media. More people are aware of the benefits of physical fitness‚ good nutrition‚ stress management‚ and avoidance of health hazards such as smoking and are striving for the
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Coronary Artery Disease Tabatha Turner Practicum I Arkansas Tech University Coronary Artery Disease “Acute coronary syndromes represent a spectrum of clinical conditions that are associated with acute myocardial ischemia” (Gulanick & Myers‚ 2011). Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is one of these clinical conditions that affect approximately 13 million people (Rimmerman‚ 2011). Because coronary diseases are the leading cause of death in men and women‚ nurses need to be involved in the care
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Chapter Two: Review of Literature 2:1 Participation in Physical Activity Children both male and female are physically active from the moment they are born. Children are keen to get actively involved from an early age‚ this usually comes in the form of play but as children begin to develop and mature their views and opinions of physical activity are strongly linked to their experiences as a child. Weinberg and Gould (2007) suggests that “involvement in physical activity for boys and
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Review of Literature Brittany M. Warnke Grand Canyon University: NRS- 429V May 12‚ 2014 Review of Literature According to the World Health Organization‚ “Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over‚ and to improve‚ their health” (2014). It is no surprise that a large cause of death in the United States is often a combination of genetic and environmental factors‚ as well as lifestyle choices (Chiverton‚ Votava‚& Tortoretti‚ 2003). Health promotion has always
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Review of Literature Sarah Shipley Review of Literature Health promotion is defined by the World Health organization as the process of enabling people to increase control over‚ and to improve‚ their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions. Health promotion is a whole body and mind approach instead of looking at one specific problem or fix. Health
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Stress Associated with Preterm Delivery Donnita Rountree Liberty University Literature Review Preterm preterm labor can lead to short and long term health issues for the mother and her infant such as immune system complications‚ which protects the uterus from infections (Smith‚ et al.‚ 2011). Although studies are have been inconclusive on how stress effects preterm delivery‚ studies have shown that stress-related hormones play a role in preterm labors‚ as well as other
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