HEALTH INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL DIVISIONS Introduction Today, it seems to be an obvious truth that “social and environmental factors account for a substantial portion of health inequalities between and within countries.” [1] The ubiquitous nature of economic and social inequalities is noted by all scholars. [2] This is a truth that seems well-enough established both…
Overview of the Function of Sleep
Sleep is a complex physiological process that occurs in some extent in all animals, indicating its physiological importance. Sleep plays an important and intrinsic role in many behavioral and physiological functions. However, although sleep is important and is critical and exists within every living things life, it still remains unknown what the function and purpose of sleep…
Benefits of Melatonin as a Sleep Aid for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
This paper examines the prevalence of poor sleep latency, duration, and fragmentation in children diagnosed with autism. It explains the possible causes of sleep disturbances, and its effects on the child and families’ wellbeing. It explores studies that support the use of melatonin, provides instructions for proper use, and explains the limitation of studies presented…
Development of Intervention to Promote Healthy Sleep
Development of Intervention to Promote Healthy Sleep Sleep is vital to overall health and healing. In a hospital setting sleep can be interrupted by a multitude of internal and external factors. This project is aimed at exploring ways to increase sleep/rest on an acute care unit and decreasing factors that disrupt sleep quality. Sleep deprivation…
Prevalence- Aetiology and Pathology of Type 2 Diabetes
Introduction A summary of the prevalence, aetiology and pathology of type 2 diabetes What is diabetes? Diabetes is a group of conditions characterised by high blood glucose Type 2 diabetes occurs due to insufficient insulin secretion and/or insulin resistance Hyperglycaemia results from defects in insulin production, insulin activity or both 4.6 million people have diabetes…
Nurse Role in Sleep Recommendations and Sudden Unexpected Infanct Death
Introduction The sudden and unexpected death of an infant less than one year is termed sudden unexpected infant death (SUID). There are two common causes for SUID one is termed Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) which is the unexplainable death that typically occurs in healthy infants under the age of one year old. The second…
Importance of Human Milk Banks
Background Human milk is the preferred nutrition for preterm infants. (WHO/UNICEF, 2003) Human milk has been proven to be beneficial to reduce the risk of short term and long term complications related to prematurity.(Victora et al., 2016, Belfort and Ehrenkranz, 2017) Not all mothers are able to provide adequate breast milk to meet their babies…
Nutritional Factors for Patients with Crohns Disease
According to Hart & Ng (2011), “Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)”. Kavic (2015) explained, “This disease is characterized by periods of relapsing symptoms caused by immune mediated inflammation”. Around two million people in the world are affected by Crohn’s disease (CD) and includes anywhere of the gastrointestinal tract being affected by…
Fibromyalgia (FM) Symptoms- Causes and Treatments
B. Trimble Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia (FM) is a condition of unknown etiology, characterized by extensive pain, atypical pain processing, sleep disruption, fatigue, and often psychological distress. People with fibromyalgia may also have added indications, such as morning rigidity, tingling or numbness of the hands and feet, headaches, migraines, irritable bowel syndrome, sleep disorders, cognitive problems, problems…
Models of Health for Obesity Intervention
Introduction Public health has been a topic of government debates. It is an increasing issue that is provoking a lot of publicity. Strategies are being implemented as well as policies in order to tackle the ever increasing problem of obesity which is clearly a public health issue. A case study from the Nuffield Council on…