Nursing and Healthcare Essays

Health Promotion Plan: Older People
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Introduction: Caspersen .et .al (1985) defined physical activity as any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that result in energy expenditure. The aim of this essay is to plan a health promotion based on o...

Older People With Strokes
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Introduction: An estimated 150,000 people have a stroke in the UK each year (Scottish Stroke Care Audit 2005/2006) with a mortality of over 67,000 (British Heart Foundation, 2005) . It is the third most common caus...

A Hygienic And Healthy Environment
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Introduction: Human development can be defined as the process of enlarging peoples choices and improving human capabilities the range of things that they can do or be in life and freedoms so they can live a long an...

Literature On Yoga And Dysmenorrhea
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Introduction: “A great literature is chiefly a product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainities of nation “- Mecken H.C. Literature serves a number of important functions in the r...

Flexibility And Stretching | Essay
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Introduction: Man’s interest in flexibility is by no means a modern development. The importance of flexibility and its practice is evident from Roman times in the training of Gladiators, and in more recent ti...

Hypertension And Blood Pressure
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Introduction: Hypertension is a common and major cause of stroke and other cardiovascular disease. There are many causes of hypertension, including defined hormonal and genetic syndromes, renal disease and multifac...

Denying Treatment To Smokers
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Introduction: For many years, smoking has been one of the most popular topics in our health education. Many people are aware that smoking causes a great deal of diseases ranging form minor cough to deleterious lung...

The Hyper Globalist Perspective
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Introduction: The aim of this assignment is to evaluate the hyper-globalist perspective on globalization using examples from the obesity. The first part of the assignment will define globalization and then briefly ...

Childhood Obesity And Health Inequalities
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Introduction: Childhood obesity is distributed disproportionately in different regions. Socio-economic status, racial groups, (lobstein et.al., 2006) being more common in lower expectary and morbidity are common in...

Challenges Hospital Management In Nepal
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Introduction: The WHO defines health as ” A complete state of physical, mental and social wellbeing, not merely the absence or disorder” (WHO, 1948). It means that complete state of wellbeing is health ...

Normal Occlusion And Its Characteristics
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Introduction: The development of human dentition from adolescence to adulthood has been the subject of extensive study by numerous dentists, orthodontists and other experts in the past. While prevention and cure of...

Yoga As A Health Benefit
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Introduction: The classical techniques of Yoga date back more than 5,000 years. While Yoga has been used in India for centuries to treat disease, only recently has there been scientific evidence and growing intere...

Time For A Fat Tax: Obesity
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Introduction: Obesity has been a growing worldwide problem for the past three decades, especially in European countries and the United States of America. Between 1980 and 2004, the prevalence of obesity in Europe a...

Drinking And Smoking In Students
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Introduction: This chapter reviews the literature in relation to drinking and smoking behaviour. It also looks at the concurrent use of alcohol and tobacco within student life. For the purpose of this study the aut...

Case Analysis Of Ethical Conduct
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Introduction: The nonprofit hospital has the duty to provide healthcare to its poor and indigent citizens. They charge these patients list prices for their healthcare services. This subgroup of the population funct...

Discuss The Concepts Of Health
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Introduction: This assignment is a reflection of team work in the first enquiry. This assignment is going to discuss the concepts of health, my beliefs about health and illness, and how the unit may have altered my...

Quality Life For Older People: Dementia
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Introduction: There is no mental disorder that is inevitable in old age. Older people describe their overall well-being as good. Hence there is such a thing as “normal” ageing in terms of mental (as wel...

The Alma Ata Declaration
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Introduction: The Alma Ata Declaration was formally adopted at the International Conference on Primary Health Care in Alma Ata (in present Kazakhstan) in September 1978 (WHO, 1978). It identifies and stresses the n...

The Consumption Of Alcohol
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Introduction: INTRODUCTION Public Health is the science of protecting and improving the health of communities through education, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and research for disease and injury prevention. In o...

Modern Global Epidemic Of Obesity
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Introduction: In his Annual report of 2002, the UK Chief Medical Officer has described it as a health time bomb. Overweight and obese children are likely to stay obese into adulthood with increased risk of associat...

Factors Affecting Health Communication Campaigns
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Introduction: A comparison of HIV Aids and Polio Campaigns in Aligargh, Uttar Pradesh Introduction: Last two decades of the century has seen a renewed interest in the field of health communication, disease preventi...

The Importance Of Health Communication
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Introduction: The healthcare systems around the world are making full use of the communication methods to improve quality of healthcare services provided and people’s life. They are utilizing the newly develo...

Health care in the Amish culture
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Introduction: The religious and cultural beliefs of the Amish culture have led to variations in health care practices that are different from main stream American culture. The Amish have a health care belief system...

The Leisure Ability Model
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Introduction: Therapeutic Recreation seeks to promote the capacity and ability of groups and individuals to make self determined and responsible choices, in light of their needs to grow, to explore new perspectives...

Psychological factors affecting health
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Introduction: How does psychology affect ones physical health? Several psychological factors including stress, behavior due to chronic pain, depression, and cultural beliefs can have adverse affects on the bodyR...