Health Care Issues in the U.S Health Services Organization Management – BUS 500 January 23, 2011 Explain how health is affected by behaviors, economics, and social structure. A person’s behavior is one of the most important components to their health. Behavioral lifestyle decisions significantly impact the leading causes of death in the United States. Bad dietary behaviors along with alcohol consumption and tobacco use lead to chronic diseases such as cancer, stroke, and heart disease. There is a strong association between sexual behavior and the spread of communicable diseases such as AIDS, herpes, gonorrhea, and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Yakima County Health Overview There are many factors that determine the health of a community, including environmental factors, as well as resource availability. We determine the health of the county, compared to what is considered the healthiest of all counties in the United States, keeping in mind the resources that are available to it as well. A. Yakima County Demographics: Population, Age group, Ethnicity, Religion, Sex, Mortality rates, etc. B. Health Risk Factors C. Discuss the most common health problems among residents of the Yakima County.
There are many areas, which affect the health equity of Mrs Smith, with support it leads to better health. Social support – Mrs Smith and her partner Mike need to engage and receive social support from other family members and the community (nursing, healthcare, social worker) Stress – both Mrs Smith and Mike will feel high anxiety and stress and may have a lack of control over living and work circumstances. This may lead to more mental and physical health. Work – Mike is caring for Mrs Smith and currently refusing home services, his employment opportunities may suffer as a consequence. As health carers we need to ensure Mike and Mrs Smith are educated in understanding the importance and the health care support that is available.
Strain on back, limbs, pulled muscles to staff. Environmental Hazards. Poor lighting on the stair well. Service user smoking in their flat. Psychological hazards aggression from others.
The model which is related to the case study is socio-medical model. They live in a damp house which has to be repaired and it is expensive for them to keep the house warm since they both don’t have any jobs. This relates to socio-medical because they are having hard time to live in that place which in depressing area and the environment in not well. Tamsela, Ales and their children seem to have bad health which might be because of their inappropriate diet and maybe the pollution too. It is also related to the bio-medical model because Tamsela has asthma and her husband has bronchitis.
Risk factors of malnutrition for elderly living at home include poor self-perception of health, increasing age and depression (Johansson, Bachrach-Lindstrom, Carstensen, & Ek, 2008). This is reaffirmed by Silver (2009) whom states that social isolation and poor mental or physical health, all of which can contribute to depression, are risk factors for malnourishment in the older person. Jock may be at risk of malnutrition due to his social setting and physical capabilities. Nutritional assessment is paramount in the provision of care for Jock and management of his CCF. A multi-faceted approach to nutritional assessment is outlined in studies to ensure that results accurately portray the person’s intake, particularly as many elderly people are malnourished (Elsawy & Higgins, 2011).
Public health or community nursing involves knowing and helping communities. The three Community Nursing Diagnoses chosen for this paper are: Risk for injury among apartment community related to dilapidated apartments, Knowledge deficit related to nutritional intake as evidenced by inconsistent dietary guidelines, and Risk for ineffective health maintenance among lower income families in the Lake Highlands Community related to lack of community resources. Risk for injury is the first diagnosis I will discuss. Most of the apartments from the road appear kept up, but after going through the gates a different version emerges. Trash, broken balconies and buildings desperately needing paint is what is seen.
This would relate to Bettys ‘internal locus of control’ which is a term used to describe the beliefs held by people that they have the power to make health-related choices and to control their health behaviours (Hinote, 2007). Social class correlates with other aspects of a person such as income, housing, education and living environment. According to Naidoo & Wills (2000), people from lower social classes experience more sickness and ill health and that a person in social class I is likely to live around 7 years longer than a person in social class V. Despite living in a large detached house it is possible that Betty survives solely on a state pension or that her house was left to her through inheritance and she could therefore be living in relative poverty. Relative poverty is when someone’s way of life and income is much worse than the general
Introduction This article is about people with long-term, often repeated episodes of homelessness who also has alcohol problems. The author identifies the reason for this study is the barriers set by housing agencies are to in depth. The agencies have a long list of test and medical guidelines to follows. A Brief Summary The author chose this reason because it is believed that if barriers need to be lowered to obtain a spot in the housing units. Homeless people would attempt or even be entered into the house faster.
Air pollutants, inaccessible means to day to day healthcare facilities, inhabitable living, and underdeveloped neighborhoods are the most common determents of anyone’s healthcare (Lavizzo-Mourey, R., 2009).By many Americans obtaining good healthcare the productivity of the economy will increase. (Laviizzo-Mourey, R., 2009). Make health a community effort, Develop a healthy workforce, Apologize to patients for inaccurate treatment plans, decrease the spread of infections within hospital facilities will aid in a decrease of cost and excessive visits to the hospital (Arnst, C.