Adelle Davis once said, “to say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party”. We may all know many Acts were passed to increase the likeability of a revolution. The Boston Tea Party surely was one of the…
Placement Reflection With Memory Service Health And Social Care Essay
This essay will include an introduction providing an overview of the placement undertaken and the relevant client group who access the service, a critical evaluation of three assessments that have been used within the service, one being Occupational Therapy specific, a discussion and examples given of how risk is assessed and managed within this practice…
Effects of Red Bull on Young Adults
Research Proposal Aims The aim of this study is to investigate the acute effects of drinking a can of Red Bull, which includes taurine and caffeine, on heart rate and blood pressure in healthy young adults. It is hoped that this study will lead to the mandatory regulation of the amount of caffeine contained in…
Establishment of Non-Opioid Directives and Coverage of Non-Opioid Therapy
This paper will discuss advocacy for Ohio Senate Bill 51 which aims to establish a Non-Opioid Directive and coverage of evidence-based Non-Opioid therapies by certain insurance carriers (S.B. 51, 2019). This Bill was chosen due to the catastrophic opioid crisis that currently exists in the State of Ohio. An overview of healthcare policy and advocacy,…
Suicide as a Public Health Emergency
Introduction Suicide, which is now the tenth leading cause of death in the United States, is a rapidly escalating public health emergency. (Puntil, York, Limandri, Greene, Arauz, & Hobbs, 2013). The suicide rate in the U.S. has increased by 33% over the past 20 years, yet attention to this growing health concern and funding for…
Public Health Issue of Contraceptives for Women
The topic within sexual health that I believe public health has ineffectively and negatively addressed is contraceptives for women. Although there are numerous options along with, what seems like, plenty of opportunities for women to get contraceptives easily, there have been and continue to be problems for specific aspects of it. Particularly universal access to…
Public Health Communication Essay
Influences on Public Health Communication Social Ecological Model The Social Ecological Model is a theory-based research looking at the many different personal, cultural and environmental factors which help in determining our behaviors. The SEM help to further understand the differences and similarities within personal and environmental factors. This model studies relationships between a person, or…
Changing Public Health Priorities
Changing Public Health Priorities: Implementing Socioeconomic Determinants of Health to drive Policy Action The “medicalization” of public health systems receives the bulk of funding yet socio-economic determinants of health play an equal, if not increased, role in determining population health. How public health agencies use funding to provide public health services is a huge concern…
The West Virginia Opioid Crisis
The West Virginia opioid crisis has reached a dangerous level of seriousness within our communities in recent years. To understand this level of danger in an attempt to prevent and eradicate this epidemic an understanding of what opioids are, how they affect a person, how addiction begins, and how to recover from such addiction is…
Epidemiology in Disease Control and Prevention
The purpose of this discussion post is to briefly review the concepts of epidemiology in disease control and prevention. I will also define and apply the ecoscoial epidemiology paradigm to obesity in my community. Epidemiology means many things, but largely, it is the study of the health status in our community as determined by statistical…