Author Archives: «Gerald M»

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…

Disability/Chronic Condition Assignment Autism Spectrum Disorder Part I: Description of Diagnosis/Condition Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a new diagnosis included in the DSM-V that reflects four previously separate disorders, into one single condition with different levels of severity of symptoms (APA, 2013). ASD now includes the previous DSM-IV, Autistic Disorder, Asperger’s Disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder…

When children are first born, they receive vaccinations, which are substances that increase a child’s immunity to diseases. Although most parents choose to have their child vaccinated, some parents believe that vaccines can cause their children to receive diseases such as asthma, arthritis, or autism. This decision made by many parents has started what is…

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…

ISSUE Despite comparatively high levels of spending on healthcare, the health of the U.S. population continues to lag that of its counterparts (Alper, 2014). In this paper, we evaluate the current landscape of funding for public health initiatives, the lack of uniformity of financial accounting standards for public health spending, and our proposal to address…

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…

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: 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…

Autism comes in many different shapes and forms and varies by everyone that is diagnosed. It can range from mild, and functioning, to the more severe. Autism Spectrum disorder covers five different disorders: Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Rett’s Disorder, Autistic Disorder, Pervasive Development Disorder, and Asperger’s Syndrome (Miller). These severities are determined by the many spectrums…

The integration of auditory feedback from self generated speech sounds into upcoming motor commands is important for the stability and control of speech production. For example, children with profound hearing impairment experience greater difficulty acquiring and maintaining speech than their normal hearing peers ( Campisi, Low, Papsin, Mount, & Harrison, 2006; Kishon-Rabin, Taitelbaum-Swead, Ezrati-Vinacour, &…