I attended the event titled Unnatural Causes Bad Sugar on Thursday, October 22 from 6 to 7 p.m. The event centered on the ways in which many factors influence people’s lives and significantly impact health. The first part of the event centered on watching a short video that focused on the damage to health that Native American tribes faced after they lost their water. There was a large increase in the amount of Native Americans who got diabetes and who were dying. It was thought that biology and genes were one of the main causes behind the increase in diabetes, but in reality there were many other factors. Geographic location, social and economic class status, and income level has an impact on a person’s health.
According to the CDC, 16% of WISEWOMAN clients have diabetes, and 14% have prediabetes. This high ratio of diabetic and prediabetes clients, provides an excellent opportunity for diabetes self-management and National DPP programs to partner with WISEWOMAN, to increase access to DSME and lifestyle change programs. This presentation will provide an overview about the WISEWOMAN program, share an update on WISEWOMAN and diabetes partnerships across the country, and suggest best practices for diabetes educators to use to leverage federal resources to pay for the National DPP.
"Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) provides a comprehensive set of 10-year, national goals and objectives for improving the health of all Americans" ("Healthy People 2020", 2015, p. 2). It monitors and evaluates whether the goals of improving health indicators are met or getting worse. Community health problems should be analyzed in order to comprehend and effectively resolve the problem ("Analyzing Community Problems", 2015). Levels of prevention are phases wherein healthcare professionals can intervene in the health of individuals and communities. Primary prevention involves seeking ways to prevent a person from having a disease they can be prone to.
With this in mind, the plan identifies five key categories and multiple sub-categories or social determinants, relevant to improving health. The five
Health Education Strategy – Point Mar Case Study: Childhood Obesity In health education and promotion, utilizing an effective strategy in intervention programs is vital to the success of the program. According to Rural Health Information Hub (2017), health education strategies are tailored to suit the target population. Considering the Point Mar Case Study, with the focus of this paper being to develop an effective health education strategy to address childhood obesity, with adult onset of type II diabetes. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] (2015), essential knowledge, enumerates the characteristics of an effective health education curriculum to include, dissemination of essential knowledge to shape the group
Given the high prevalence of diabetes among the Native Indians, Alaska America and the Lumbee Indian of North Carolina, there had been some interventions like, support tribal intervention in effort and fully funding for IHS that will help to provide a good geographical risk of the problem which will encourage community base research. The purpose of this paper is to implement education outreach programs that will help the people in the rural community of Robeson County to manage diabetes. The education outreach on healthy eating is focus in developing the strength of farming that they already have to better handle diabetes. With this approach they will not have to spend additional money to buy vegetables form the market.
The community has already established diabetic clinic, to this is one step ahead in deal with diabetes. Also the availability of Community Park is the huge advantage for the community because they can use for outdoor activities. Identify and understand the status of community health
This process of collaboration can be difficult for non-indigenous CHNs, as they may not have a large awareness of the accepted interventions for diabetes mellitus
Introduction Learning enables you as an individual, to gain more knowledge about something which you have never learned about. Learning also has to do with past experiences which are influenced by behavioural changes (Weiten, 2016). There are different types of ways to learn; through, classical conditioning, operant conditioning and observational learning which will be discussed and analysed in the essay. Behaviourism Behaviourism is considered one of the main subjects in psychology and the two main people who founded behaviourism were, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, also known as B.F Skinner and Ivan Pavlov who were famous for the work they did on classical and operant conditioning (Moderato & Presti, 2006). According to Moderato and Presti
1a) Operant conditioning 1b) Operant conditioning is learning controlled by the consequences of the organism's behavior. In other words, the organism's actions are shaped by the reward or rather, lack of reward that follows. 1c) Operant conditioning can be applied to studying for finals. I would be the organism in this case and the behavior that is encouraged would be the act of studying.
Intervention is not a solitary occasion, not a one-time meeting where mysteriously issues are determined. No. Intervention is a procedure that happens with extremely unsurprising strides. Understanding these means to the procedure can help you oversee through the procedure.
Introduction A middle-aged female client has came in with the need of help with reducing the amount of profanity she uses while upset. She has made this intervention because she feels she is lacking professionalism and intelligence when she speaks. She has maintained this behavior for over fifteen years and swears in about ⅖ sentences she speaks. To change this, one could punish her for swearing and reward her for refraining.
An intervention program includes multiple strategies for improving the health status and behavior changes typically which bring permanent changes. Interventions may be implemented in different settings including communities, worksites, schools, health care organizations, faith-based organizations or in the home. Intervention programs create change by: • influencing individuals’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and skills; • increasing social support; and • Creating supportive environments, policies and resources.
Encouragement of active lifestyles by implementing walking and biking trails can aid families to prevent diabetes risk. Free diabetes screening at grocery stores and public locations such as libraries can help detect diabetes early. More importantly, these residents need to be provided of these healthcare screenings so that they may attend. Another idea would be incorporating health screening buses that comes to community weekly. A way to announce these screening whether in person or on buses would be through post card mailings, the news, and even social media.
I. Introduction A. Thesis statement: A child’s early development is greatly impacted by living in poverty which leads to poor cognitive outcomes, school achievement, and severe emotional, and behavioral problems. II. Body Paragraph 1. Claim: According to (Short, 2016) poverty consists of two parts: a measure of need and resources available to meet those needs.
