According to NAMI—nearly one in five adults in America experience mental illness. When an organ is damaged‚ you go to a doctor--so why wouldn’t you do the same for the brain? Mental health is just as important as you physical well-being and should not be ignored or stigmatized. According to the World Health Organization‚ “Every year about 800‚000 people commit suicide every year with suicide being the second leading cause of death among 15-29 year olds”. Yet to this day‚ many of those individuals
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Running head: CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN HEALTH AND ILLNESS Cultural Heritage Assessment in health and Illness Grand Canyon University: The United States has always been an open country with its kindness in welcoming people of other nations into it. The population of the United States is growing notably because of the migration from the rest of the world. This writer lives in Richmond‚ a city in the state of Virginia‚ a multicultural
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Government statistics The office of National Statistics providing a large range of health and care issues‚ Publications includes Social Trends and‚ for more detailed information on health issues‚ Health Statistical Quarterly. The publication provide a wide range of statistics on birth rates and death rates; infant mortality rate and suicide rates as well as appointments GP’s surgeries and hospital admissions‚ and these are looked into as social class‚ gender‚ age and geographical location. Government
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Gordon’s Functional Health Pattern In 1987 Marjorie Gordon proposed a functional health pattern as a guide to establish a comprehensive nursing data base. A comprehensive family assessment provides a foundation to promote family health (Edelman and Mandel‚ 2001).There is 11 categories that provide a systematic and standardized approach to determine the aspects of health and human function. By interviewing the entire family it becomes possible to determine the functional and dysfunctional (or risky)
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Global Trends and Patterns in Income‚ Life Expectancy and Education Content GDP (PPP) 1 Life expectancy 9 Education 17 Summary 24 GDP (PPP) Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a country in a given period. GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of standard of living. Being one of three components of HDI (Human Development Index) GDP can also be used to measure trends and patterns
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GORDON’S 11 FUNCTIONAL HEALTH PATTERNS Values‚ Health Perception: How does the person describe their current health? What values did you learn as a child that are still important to you? What steps does the family take to improve their health? Nutrition: Can they describe what their family’s daily diet consists of? What kind of foods do they like to eat‚ what foods do they avoid and why? Can they describe their weight pattern over the last year? Sleep‚ Rest: Can the person tell you what
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Children’s Functional Health Pattern Assessment Short Answer Questions Compare and contrast identified similarities as well as differences in expected assessment across the childhood age groups. When assessing children from toddlerhood through school-aged‚ the health practitioner will find that some of the expected results to be similar. Patterns of sleep and rest prove to be the most similar through the development of a child. A child’s required hours of sleep do not significantly change
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Functional Health Patterns Community Assessment Guide Functional Health Pattern (FHP) Template Directions: This FHP template is to be used for organizing community assessment data in preparation for completion of your collaborative learning community (CLC) assignment. Address every bulleted statement in each section with data or rationale for deferral. You may also add additional bullet points if applicable to your community. Value/Belief Pattern Predominant ethnic and cultural groups along with
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Modern social and economic situation‚ making powerful and various stressogenny influences‚ population health has a pernicious effect on mental. Every third citizen of Russia in the life faces problems of violation of mental health. The increase in quantity of mental disorders‚ the complete suicides‚ heavy offenses is in the last decade observed. The person — a being not only biological‚ but also social. The child deprived of the social environment‚ can’t become the full-fledged person‚ it doesn’t
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An artefact that plays a major part in my popular culture is the “Cochlear Implant”. A Cochlear implant is an electronic device that has been surgically implanted to help a person who is profoundly deaf‚ or severely hard of hearing to receive sound. These devices are made to replace the sensory hair cells in the cochlear of which have been damaged‚ the Cochlear Implant enables sufficient amount of hearing‚ allowing a better understanding of speech. However the quality of the sound is different from
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