Community Health Advocacy Project Overview Each week you will use the Weekly Guide to guide you through the process of creating a hypothetical‚ community health advocacy project due in Week Six. The following breakdown represents each week’s part: • In Week One‚ you select an aggregate and write questions to help you identify areas of strength and of need. • In Week Two‚ you focus on describing the characteristics of your aggregate and writing an action plan on how you would
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Perspectives Public Health in India: Dangerous Neglect Public health services‚ which reduce a population’s exposure to disease through such measures as sanitation and vector control‚ are an essential part of a country’s development infrastructure. In India‚ policies have focused largely on medical services. Public health services‚ and even implementation of basic public health regulations‚ have been neglected. Various organisational issues also militate against the rational deployment of personnel
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Public health as agreed by the faculty for public health (2010) is “ The science and art of promoting and protecting health and well-being‚ preventing ill-health and prolonging life through the organised efforts of society.” A health needs assessment HNA‚ is a public health tool which underpins a large proportion of government policy. It offers ideal opportunities to engage with an identified population‚ and accumulate evidence from them and about them. This provides an evidence base from which
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drab subject of Community Dentistry which most of students hated well I found some interest on Public Dental Health services‚ recordings for case studies‚ Indices and Epidemiology. There I learnt that the delivery of health services and primary care was very difficult in a vast and diverse country as India. Epidemiology and diagnosis of diseases like AIDS‚ tobacco cessation program‚ Dental health education were interesting. I even made a project in my third year on oral manifestations of HIV. The project
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major public health issue in the United States‚ which is commonly overlooked‚ is the prevalence of individuals with mental retardation. According to an article on Medscape’s eMedicine web site‚ “mental retardation (MR)‚ also known as intellectual disability (ID)‚ is a descriptive term for sub-average intelligence and impaired adaptive functioning arising in the developmental period (age less than 18 years) (Zeldin‚ 2012). Intellectual disability is a major social‚ educational and health problem
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between public and community health. “Public health nursing focuses on populations. It is not about the setting where care is delivered. It is first and foremost a philosophy applied in any setting where populations exist” (Stanhope & Lancaster‚ 2008‚ p.191). Public health is designed to help improve the health‚ safety and welfare of the general public looking at the long term‚ prospective health of the entire public. Public health involves the health of the county‚ state and nation. Public health
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The Health Problem Hepatitis C virus affects over 3 million Americans but studies indicate that 75% of those people infected are unaware of the presence of the disease. Estimates indicate that approximately 150‚000 in the US will die from liver cancer and liver disease stemming from viral hepatitis within the next 10 years. According to the CDC‚ of the 3.5 million people in this country that have the disease‚ 75% of them are between the ages of 47-67‚ but unfortunately most of these people are not
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Public Health uses a wide spectrum of evidence based methods to improve the health of individuals as well as to educate the public. Furthermore‚ Public Health strategically evaluates past achievements and failures to enhance both preventative and response measures against the perpetually reemerging and newly evolving health threats. The public health system is a complex structure in and of itself that addresses social and economic issues as well as individual behavioral issues. It requires strategic
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encouraged its staff to expand their work within public health. Known today as the nation’s premiere health promotion‚ prevention and preparedness agency‚ the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is without exception recognized for conducting research and investigations‚ and for its action-oriented approach. CDC administers research and findings to enhance people’s daily lives and answer to health emergencies‚
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In public health many strategies were put in place to increase someone’s life span‚ prevent illness and encourage healthy things. They had many roles within these strategies‚ starting with keeping a record of the health status of the population. They did this because they could then see what the overall health was and then they would prevent life threatening diseasing from coming out. This means they would be able to inform people with the problems that could occur. An example of this would have
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