Some ideas and theories in science meet with resistance. One of the examples when an idea is meeting with the resistance is immunization. More often children immunization meets with public resistance. As the vaccination of children is parents' decision many decides not to do it. Data published by NHS show that there is high number of measles reported due to 1-16 years old children who missed the vaccinations between 1990s and 2000s.
Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Mary Lou Lamer NUR/405 January 25, 2013 Dawn Warner Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Introduction “Although it is necessary to identify health risk factors among individuals and groups in the community, it is of paramount importance that nurses learn to identify and work with health problems of a defined population or the total community”. (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, pg. 395). The “windshield survey” is one method that the nurse can use to collect data about a particular community, however, understanding the meaning of community, community health, community as a client, and partnership, as they relay to nursing in the public setting, is important to successful data assessment. Community “Community is a locality – based entity, composed of systems of formal organizations reflecting society’s institutions, informal groups, and aggregates”.
One nursing intervention that could have a positive impact the community is organizing specific programs for the members of the community with neighborhood resources. Neighborhood meetings could be held monthly so that the members can get together to make resolutions to problems within the community. Here is where they can evaluate community resources and discuss ways in which they may become politically active in requesting much needed services for their community. There are some community health partnerships that can assist organizing neighborhood health functions. The American Heart Association can set up a free health screening program in the local Safeway or Rite Aid stores in the neighborhoods.
The top three community diagnoses that will be addressed are adolescent pregnancy, sexual transmitted disease and Obesity. The number of teenage pregnancy is alarming in some parts of Alabama. According to the Alabama Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Alabama has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the United States and this includes Center Point, Alabama. In 2009, 8,365 children were born who mother ranged between the ages 10-19 (Reeves, 2010, para. 1).
This county has a behavioral health department. The budget has been cut and cut again but there are still programs available to those who need it that will address their depression. Because it is my findings that some of the pregnant people from the neighborhood are more likely to become depressed, the community health partners would have to take that into consideration when it comes to a treatment plan. These women would need to be educated on birth control, which could be a second diagnosis: knowledge deficit. Some women do not realize that birth control is available to them for free in some cases.
Abortion is the termination of the entire pregnancy yet selective reduction is performed to improve the survival rate of the remaining fetuses and also the mother. Selective reduction is performed early in the pregnancy, normally between weeks 9 and 12, it is most often performed when there are four or more fetuses present, can be used to reduce triplets to twins, and with a fetus with severe defects (www.webmd.com). Infants born part of a multiple pregnancy are at increased risk of prematurity, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, slow language development, behavioral difficulties, chronic lung disease, and death (Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction, 2013). These risks play an important role in a mother’s decision to utilize selective reduction. Maternal risks of a multi-fetal pregnancy include hypertension, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and postpartum hemorrhage (Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction, 2013).
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.
Prevention of Teen Pregnancy: The Benefits of Sexual Education Programs In the United States, the rate of teen pregnancy continues to remain the highest in the developed world with approximately 26.6 births for every 1,000 adolescent females between the ages of 15-19 this past year. This totals to an unfavorable measure of 274,641 infants born to young women in this stage of life. Although prevention programs continue to grow and become more available throughout the states each year, their approach to influencing minors is questionable. Most engage in an abstinence-only education and believe that having teens refrain themselves from sexual intercourse is the only way to put a stop to unwanted pregnancies. Practicing abstinence may be the most utterly method for minimizing this rate, but it’s an irrational method.
One in 50 had used it twice, and one in 100 had done so more often than that. 6. In the 18 to 19 age group, 16 per cent of girls - more than one in six - had used the pill once and one in 25 had taken it twice. According to the New York City Department of Education; the morning-after pill is available to high school girls at 13 public schools in New York. Side Effects include: nausea, lower abdominal pain, fatigue, headache, and dizziness; abnormal menstrual cycles, depression panic attacks weight gain and unsteady blood pressure Why the day after pill / birth control should not be dispensed to high school students: Parents have the right and the responsibility to be the first and primary educators of their children.
Teens, Television, and Toddlers Today in America, an average of three in ten girls become pregnant by age twenty (McKinnell 41). Adolescents are the future to the United States, therefore it is important for teenagers to make good decisions. However, premarital sex has become a negative, but popular choice that can lead to teenage pregnancy, which prevents teenagers from living the easiest and most stress free life. The teenage pregnancy rate in the United States increased in 2006 for the first time in fifteen years and now the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the world (McKinnell 41). Although there are many factors that could have contributed to the increase in teenage pregnancy, the media plays a huge role.