5,313 people in Springfield suffer from asthma, and over 5,000 people die every year from an asthma attack. The city of Springfield’s high asthma rates can be blamed on dust mites. Springfield has many older buildings and older housing stock. Older buildings in Springfield have more dust mites compared to the newer building in Springfield because typically older buildings tend to have more of a connection of dust mites, mold, and many other asthma triggers. The ventilation in older houses causes poor air conditions and makes living conditions hard.
This type of asthma is called occupational asthma (What Is Asthma?). Asthma is a common chronic disease worldwide and affects approximately 24 million persons in the United States. It is the most common chronic disease in childhood, affecting an estimated 7 million children, and it is a common cause of hospitalization for children in the United States (Morris). In the United States, asthma prevalence, especially morbidity and mortality, is higher in blacks than in whites. Although genetic factors are of major importance in determining a predisposition to the development of asthma, environmental factors play a greater role than racial factors in asthma onset.
- Explain the function of research in Health and Social Care What is research? Research is an investigation which follows a systematic and scientific approach which looks into and studies new materials, sources etc. so that we can establish facts and reach conclusions. We decide that we need to research a topic when we have a question that needs to be answered or a problem that needs to be resolved. There are a number of ways to carry out research; however there are two main approaches which are qualitative and quantitative.
Contents Page 3 – Section 1 - Breakdown of the Unit Page 5 – Section 2 - Assignment Briefs, Rules and Deadline Dates Page 6 - Section 3 - Grade Tracking Sheet Page 7 – Section 4 - Tutor Information Page 8 – Section 5 - Lesson Materials Page 9 - 1: What is learning and lets find more out about your abilities. Page 21 - 2: How do we improve you? Action Plans and Reflective Practice. Page 33 - 3: Health and Social Care Organisations and their careers. Page 39 – 4: Evaluation Page 41 – Section 6 - Feedback sheets.
DECKER CLINICAL DATA BASE/PEDIATRICS( Student: Joshua Chilson Clinical date: 5/1/13 Patient age range: 1- 2 years old Admitting diagnoses :( include short pathophysiology) Dx: Elevated lead levels. Lead is a highly toxic metal that was used for many years in products found in and around our homes. An elevated blood lead level in a child is defined as 10 or more micrograms of lead in a deciliter (μg/dL) of blood. Children are more vulnerable to lead than adults. While all children are at risk from lead, children living in older housing and in poverty are at the greatest risk.
The murder of Steven Hoskin (2007) also identifies significant failings in interprofessinals (Flynn 2007). Laming (2009) states that it is not just professionals working in adult services or in children services that should work together but, professionals should work together across children and adult services. Because after all children live in families with adults and difficulties and difficult encountered by one will invariably impact on the other. Laming (2009) reminds us of some striking statistics. It states that in the UK at least 200,000 children live in household where there is a known high risk case of domestic abuse and violence, with very many more affected at some point.
Week 9 Wrap-up of Human Diseases Final Project Disease Trends and the Delivery of Health Care Services Resource: Appendix A Employees in the health care system manage a wide variety of health issues and diseases. This course has provided you the opportunity to take a broad look at many of these health issues. The next step is for you to look at how disease trends will influence the delivery of health care in the
It is not alright that there are 45.7 million people without insurance, while political leaders and almost everyone is insured. According to Dr. Sara Collins, an economist, and Vice President for Affordable Health Insurance at the Commonwealth (2010), “Nearly two-thirds of the 45.7 million uninsured people under age 65 have incomes that are less than 200% of poverty, or about $44,100 per year for a family of four” (p. 3). As you can see, these are people who are working, but do not have the proper health care insurance that their family needs and should have access to. There is no doubt that the system needs to be
According to the National Center on Family Homelessness, a group focused on bringing attention and an end to homeless children in America, there are approximately 1.5 million children go to sleep every night without a home once a year. That is an alarming and saddening statistic. The report issued by this group in 2009, titled America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness, uses various information on poverty levels, health and well-being, education, and state government initiated projects to give each state in America a grade based on their levels of homelessness and also their initiative to bring the number of homeless children down. You may be surprised to know that homeless children in America are not evenly scattered
Infection rates are high in children peaking at more than 80% in those aged 5 – 9 years and falling to low levels in adults (MOH, 2009). Malaria infection during pregnancy causes maternal anaemia and placental parasitemia both of which are responsible for miscarriages and low birth weight babies among pregnant women. 13.7% of all admissions of pregnant women in 2006 were as a