Vulnerable Population Teen pregnancy general refers to a pregnant female under the age of twenty. Teen pregnancy is associated with poor prenatal care and pre-term delivery (Brown, 2010). Pregnant teens are more likely to receive late or no prenatal care, have gestational hypertension and anemia, and achieve poor maternal weight gain (Webster, 2004). Teenage mothers are also more likely to have a pre-term delivery increasing the risk of child developmental delay, illness, and mortality. Teen mothers are more likely to drop out of school, remain unmarried, and live in poverty, their children are more likely to be born at low birth weight, grow up poor, live in single-parent households, experience abuse and neglect, and enter the child welfare system.
The government saw women in the workforce as a temporary change. After experiencing independence, women were no longer willing to accept being second best. Women in the 1940s and 50s faced many social, physical and emotional challenges in their lives. These challenges are expressed in three texts: the film text Mona Lisa Smile directed by Mike Newell, the song At Seventeen by Janis Ian and the Diary of Anne Frank. A challenge is an obstacle that prevents an individual from reaching their goal.
She delivered around six hundred babies and she never once had a death of a child or the woman who was delivering. Taking into consideration the time period and conditions for delivering babies that is an amazing feat Elizabeth Simpson Haigh was another pioneer woman. She immigrated from England to America. Her and her five children made the migration to Utah on the handcart train. She joined the Latter Day Saints and so did her children.
Women who weren’t married worked in cotton and woolen mills and often took refuge in company boarding houses which consisted of six women in one room, two women to a bed. They had simple jobs which was two dollars every two weeks with 12 to 16 hour days. A woman with a better education got an extra dollar a week for teaching. Lucy Stone for example, she is the founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association. She became a teacher at the age of 16 and slowly saved money she earned which was one dollar a week.
Vulnerable Population Sara Williams Nur/440 09-12-11 University of Phoenix Vulnerable Population A vulnerable population is a group of persons whose range of options is severely limited, who are frequently subjected to coercion in their decision making, or who may be comprised in their ability to give informed consent (SensAgent, 2011). Vulnerability is a general concept meaning “susceptibility,” and its specific connotation in terms of health care is “at risk for health problems” (De Chenay & Anderson, 2008). A vulnerable population is not just about the physically ill patients, it can also affect the mentally ill, and low social economic population. According to Aday (2001), vulnerable populations are those at risk for poor physical, psychological, or social health. Young single mothers fit into this category as well.
Female pharmacists only accounted for 12.7% of the workforce in 1972, yet by 2003 women accounted for 51.5%. Figure 1 shows that women have made great
In Season 1. Lydia became very confused, fell, and fractured her hip. She was hospitalized and had undergone surgery to repair her hip. Danillo spent much of his time at the hospital, blaming the staff for not taking care of her, neglecting his own health during that time his blood pressure was elevated and several attacks of angina. He adjusted his medications according to the reading of his blood pressure and did not seek medical attention.
Fact 7 Obstetric fistula still exists because health care systems fail to provide accessible, quality maternal health care, including family planning, skilled care at birth, basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care, and affordable treatment of fistula. Fact 8 In 2008 over 2000 health professionals were trained in preventing and managing obstetric fistula. Fact 9 Patients with uncomplicated fistulae can undergo a simple surgery to repair the hole in their bladder or rectum. The treatment cures up to 90% of obstetric fistula patients. However, since 2003 only 12 000 women in over 45 countries have received obstetric fistula treatment in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
They talked how hard it is to be ambitious woman, who knows what she wants and all the negativities about being powerful woman. It is hard to be a woman in the 21st century and to live with all kind of stereotypes, to fight for equal rights, and to be: a good mother, wife, and woman with career at the same time. Traditionally, the female stereotypic role is to marry, have children and take care for the household and her husband. This is unfair and hard to live it. Not every woman on the planet wants to get married and have children.
Superwomen: Choosing to stay at home vs. Climbing the corporate ladder It’s hard to believe in 2013, women still battle with this age old dilemma, of feeling the need to choose between either staying at home with their children or working outside of the home. It’s true that the majority of mother’s in the U.S. work outside the home (U.S. Bureau of Census, 2012) , as it has been for the last two decades, however, there are still women that debate whether to stay at home or work. The women’s right movement has fought for women to stand up and be heard in the corporate world, what would are four mother’s say? Choosing to climb the corporate ladder allows women to be heard.