Neighborhood News Report
Neighborhood News
Community health affects everyone and when the population is undereducated, problems can arise. The writer will discuss two community or public health articles related to the Neighborhood News and propose possible ways the health community can help in health preventative maintenance and education of the population.
Critical Capacities According to the article “ED sees critical capacities”, Dr. Gordon suggests “that people need to be educated on particular symptoms because most of the time injuries or sickness can be treated at home”. One way the healthcare community can assist in the education of the indigent and low income patients is by initially tracking the common chief complaints of patients in the ER. By doing so, a consensus can be made as to what education the …show more content…
As a health care community, we need to ask ourselves if everything is being done to educate on the direness of the problem. We have continually educated on the importance of hand washing, yet physicians continue to not wash their hands. Hand sanitizers and sanitizing cloths can be seen in every public area from shopping malls to grocery stores and people are sneezing and coughing into their elbows. What more can be done? Should we make it more accessible and at a low cost for the public to receive the flu vaccine? Should we single out just the population at risk, infants and people with chronic diseases? Should health care businesses mandate healthcare workers receive the vaccine or wear a mask when at work? The answer is all of these. As a healthcare community, we need to find out the reasons why people do not receive the flu vaccine. One reason could be fear of getting the flu from the vaccine, another could be cost. Again, we cannot educate without finding out what the deficiency of knowledge
Community health affects everyone and when the population is undereducated, problems can arise. The writer will discuss two community or public health articles related to the Neighborhood News and propose possible ways the health community can help in health preventative maintenance and education of the population.
Critical Capacities According to the article “ED sees critical capacities”, Dr. Gordon suggests “that people need to be educated on particular symptoms because most of the time injuries or sickness can be treated at home”. One way the healthcare community can assist in the education of the indigent and low income patients is by initially tracking the common chief complaints of patients in the ER. By doing so, a consensus can be made as to what education the …show more content…
As a health care community, we need to ask ourselves if everything is being done to educate on the direness of the problem. We have continually educated on the importance of hand washing, yet physicians continue to not wash their hands. Hand sanitizers and sanitizing cloths can be seen in every public area from shopping malls to grocery stores and people are sneezing and coughing into their elbows. What more can be done? Should we make it more accessible and at a low cost for the public to receive the flu vaccine? Should we single out just the population at risk, infants and people with chronic diseases? Should health care businesses mandate healthcare workers receive the vaccine or wear a mask when at work? The answer is all of these. As a healthcare community, we need to find out the reasons why people do not receive the flu vaccine. One reason could be fear of getting the flu from the vaccine, another could be cost. Again, we cannot educate without finding out what the deficiency of knowledge