Health care marketing analysis Brandy Marsh HCS 539 May 14, 2012 Debbie Schrager Health care marketing analysis According to The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (n.d.), “prenatal care has been recognized as the cornerstone of our health-care system for pregnant women since the beginning of the twentieth century” (public health importance). Prenatal care is an important aspect of a woman’s pregnancy. For some women obtaining prenatal care can be difficult so prenatal clinics have become a valuable resource. Organizations such as Planned Parenthood of Southern New Jersey offer reduced or sliding scale pricing for women who cannot afford prenatal care. Marketing for Planned Parenthood is vital to the organizations success.
For Teenagers who fall pregnant, it is difficult to juggle the insecurities of teenage hood with learning basic parenting skills. As a result, teenage parents often consider abortion. Statistics show that New Zealand has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the world, with around fifty girls in every thousand falling pregnant. Of these pregnancies, about half result in abortion. An advantage of putting a parenting licence in place will be to educate these teenagers on basic parenting skills to qualify them to raise a child, avoiding such abortions.
Ethical dilemma: Sarah has been trying to conceive her first child for quite some time and her wish has finally been granted. During her prenatal visit her physician did some blood work and came back with positive results of her child having Down syndrome, and tay-sachs disease. The ethical dilemma is should Sarah bring and intellectually disabled child into this world? Should she trust in god and believe that god has her back? Will the child suffer because of the chromosomal disorder?
The nurse must execute this process through selection, performance, management and evaluation of nursing actions. The nurse is responsible for assessing the health status of the patients. The RN is a provider for health counseling and teaching patients. The nurse is responsible for administering medications, treatments, and other health regimens that are ordered by a licensed provider. With the practice of the scope of RN, there are also standards that every RN needs to follow.
Have you ever wondered who is responsible for being the caregiver for the babies while in the hospital? Neonatal nurses have the responsibility of providing the care for babies when they are first born. Neonatal nursing has many education requirements, an outstanding job outlook, as well as great benefits. Neonatal nurses care for newborns for the first 28 days of the babies’ lives, the children’s most vulnerable stage. Nurses specialized in this field are required to focus not just on healthy infants, but also on ill or premature babies.
The vaccination programme is only temporary to deal with the heightened risk of whooping cough infection during this outbreak. A similar programme is already under way for pregnant women in the US, although the evidence for its effectiveness is still unclear. Dr Mary Ramsay, the head of immunisation at the Health Protection Agency (HPA), welcomed the measure. "We have been very concerned about the continuing increase in whooping cough cases and related deaths. "It's also important we continue to remind all parents to ensure their children are vaccinated against whooping cough to continue their protection through
PAD's resources help parents prepare for the challenges their children face every day. PAD's programs are designed to prevent substance abuse among teens by giving parents ways to talk to their children about drugs and to identify
There needs to be community awareness of this situation. One way to do this could be more education in schools on the subject of depression, and more resources available to youth at their schools such as hotlines or free counselors available in the area. Counseling should be available to students at their schools for no cost and students should not be made to feel embarrassed to use these resources available to them. Also, if evaluated by a medical practitioner, and needed, antidepressant medication should be available for no cost to youth. There are free facilities that will hand out free birth control to students, why not antidepressants?
Harm reduction is a philosophy that was first developed by people organizing against the HIV/AIDS crisis and other issues among injection drug users. The philosophy has been further used for different types of harmful behaviors that individuals subject themselves to or are subjected to. Harm reduction calls for non-judgmental, non- coercive provision of services and resources to the individuals who are utilizing the services. It also provides survival techniques to assist the victim and victim’s children if they decide to reunite with the abuser or have a encounter with the abuser. Safety plans are also a strategy that is used.
Human Services Contemporary Practice Models Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) is designed to prevent, reduce, and or treat adolescent behavior problems such as drug use, conduct problems, delinquency, sexually risky behavior, aggressive violent behavior, and association with antisocial peers. It also improves prosocial behaviors such as school attendance and performance. Improve family functioning, including effective parental leadership and management, positive parenting, and parental involvement with the child and his or her peers and school. It is different from other treatment models (BSFT) is an evidence-based treatment intervention for indicated populations. BSFT successfully reduces problems in adolescents and strengthens their