Health Advocacy Campaign: Fighting Mental Illnesses one Day at A Time Millions of American’s are affected by mental health illnesses. As a nurse I understand that mental health illnesses have no respect of person. The National Alliance on Mental Illness reported that approximately 61.5 million Americans are affected by mental illness in a given year‚ and almost 13.6 million individuals live with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia‚ depression‚ or bipolar disorder (National Alliance on
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Running head: Community Health News Community Health: A Case of Measles Kimberly K. Turner University of Phoenix NUR 471 Park Balevre‚ MSN‚ RC‚ BC May 12‚ 2008 A Case of Measles Earlier this year in January‚ San Diego County encountered the first case of measles since the 1990s. Many citizens of the United States were not concerned‚ but given the highly contagious nature of this viral infection and the fact that many parents are opting not to vaccinate
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Health Promotion/Community Health Project and Paper Focus Group of Forest Park Howard Mohr Community Center After-School Program Forest Park‚ IL By Susan Reighard Population Health Loyola University New Orleans Online Course Instructor: Dr. Angelique White-Williams May 2010 Health Promotion/Community Health Project and Paper: Focus Group of Forest Park Howard Mohr Community Center After-School Program‚ Forest Park‚ IL The purpose of this paper is to summarize and detail the observations
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Outcomes and Evaluation of Community Health Project Jeanette Gorton Walden University NURS6150‚ Section 14‚ Promoting and Preserving Health in a Diverse Society April 16‚ 2011 Outcomes and Evaluation of Community Health Project It is important to evaluate any public health program to determine its contribution and health impact on the population it was designed to help‚ in addition to its sustainability
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cover the topic of advocacy in health and social care. Use these articles in conjunction with the module materials to discuss how advocacy can increase the power of service users when engaging with health and social care services. At some point in people’s lives‚ they will find themselves in a situation where they may need to participate in decision-making about their care and this essay looks at how advocacy can increase the power of service users when engaging in health and social care services
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Community Education This paper is the culmination of the literature‚ research‚ project design‚ and evaluation completed to define a community‚ the effectiveness of community education‚ and who is identified as a community educator. Within the context of these assignments‚ variations of community and persons identified as community educators were discovered; but the commonality of the research and the projects was the idea of “community betterment”. As quoted from the book‚ Linking Adults
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Introduction In this assignment the author will explore Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and the role of the community nurse. The author will explore the assessment‚ challenges and role of the community nurse in order to gain a better understanding of Community Health Nursing. The following is the case study to which the assignment will be based: Liam Byrne is an 8-year-old boy who lives with his parents Elaine and Michael and his two siblings Fiona aged 4 years and Deirdre aged 6 years. They
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A REPORT OF THE ROLES OF THE DIFFERENT PROFESSIONALS INVOLVED IN MENTAL HEALTH. To HEALTH. To provide advocacy to qualifying patients as defined in the 2007 Mental Health Act Code of practice independent mental health advocate in Northumberland. 1 To offer one-to -one advocacy and promote‚ develop and support other forms of advocacy as required. 2 To support individuals to speak for themselves‚ or to represent them where they are unable to speak for themselves if required. 3 To complete all relevant
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our careers. I believe that patient advocacy should never be just one person’s job. That is why I really wanted to explore this article and see how patient advocacy can be seen as a team sport. This article contributes to the knowledge we have learned about advocacy thus far in our course. We have learned that advocacy is not just an individual task and that it needs to be taken seriously by all staff members. This article also helps to show that health advocacy is an issue that is not only placed
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Developing a Health Advocacy ProgramThere are multiple population health issues that need to be addressed and obesity is one of them. Obesity impacts multiple people but the impact on children has grown. Obesity rates have been steadily rising in children. In 2010‚ 43 million preschool children were overweight or obese‚ a 60% increase since 1990. This is an obvious increase and shows no sign of stopping without efforts to combat this epidemic (Harvard School of Public Health‚ 2014). The purpose of
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