While screening tests are tremendously vital and have proved life-saving on countless occasions to ensure that individuals do not unknowingly have a certain disease, they are not always necessary. For example, this is seen in the screening test for Prostate cancer, called the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) blood test. As of today, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) does not universally recommend that men get screened for Prostate cancer. The USPSTF is an important and relevant organization to follow for screening guidelines because it works to improve the health of all Americans through striving to make accurate, up-to-date, and relevant recommendations about preventative services in primary care.
Although, the procedure wasn’t proved to help their lives in the greatest way. Like in the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, they speak to Day about drawing his kids’ blood, but never told them actually for what. The whole time Deborah thought it was a test to see if they had cancer, which she was desperate to know her results; yet they drew their blood to check for the genetic marker (Skloot, page 185). The men got their prostates checked to see if they have prostate cancer, but they didn’t know what the side effects were (including rectal tears, impotence and even infections because of the biopsy), they didn’t know that they were going to experience
Introduction The article Cancer Alley: Big Industry, Big Problem written by Trymaine Lee discusses the connection between health risk and the environment in the south, particularly in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The article explains the connection between poverty, and the location of industrial plants that expose people to toxic pollutants. Studies conducted on the United States show that poor people, mostly poor African Americans, are more likely to live in neighborhood that is close to industrial plants, which causes them to be more at risk for health issues due to the environment. In general, the article explains that in the United States, particularly in the south, there is something called environmental racism. Environmental racism can be described as certain people in certain areas are exposed to contaminated air, soil and water.
Lastly, vitamin D deficiency has been linked to the recurrence of breast cancer in other parts of a woman 's body. Advancements in prostate cancer include new research in gene changes that will help understand how the cancer develops. Some hereditary genes that have specific components of the DNA have been found to actually increase the risk of cancer in men. Many scientists have discovered that substances in some foods aid in lowering the risk of contracting the cancer. Lastly, a new treatment made is high intensity focused ultrasound or HIFU, which is used to kill cancer cells in early stages by using high focus ultrasonic
In heart disease, it was found that 169.9 NHW were affected and 116.0 Latinos were affected. The cancer death rate in NHW was 166.2 and the death rate in Latinos was 112.4. Lastly the death rate of NHW for CLRD was found to be 45.4 and in Latinos it was found to be 17.5. These statistics challenge the health models formed by scientific theories and practices and connects to the idea of science always changing and the prevalence of paradoxes continuously shifting. The Latino epidemiological paradox is a direct example of Kuhn’s description of a scientific
Real men are another matter.” Leonard Pitts ended the article with a powerful statement about men. He leaves the reader hanging, which influences the audience to come to his beliefs using the evidence provided. It impacts their view on the authors
This is the system that when it comes to treating the underprivileged puts them at risk since they are the ones that suffer from the mistakes of medical students. On chapter 9 we are introduced to Mr. Rose, a man who “was clearly sick, but wasn't actively dying.” Mr. Rose was under the care of medical student Pearson, who worked in the clinic that helped the underprivileged, yet the help was not enough and full of mistakes. Mr. Rose died because Pearson couldn't detect what was wrong with his urine sample soon enough to get him help. Guilty, Pearson wished for Mr. Rose to have been insured and have had a primary care doctor that would’ve caught the cancer in its early stages and provided him with the necessary
By social class men aged 25-64 from routine or manual backgrounds are twice as likely to die as those from managerial or professional backgrounds. For all major causes, death rates for men aged 25 to 64 are much higher among those from manual backgrounds than those from non-manual backgrounds (managerial and professional background) and by social class men aged 25-64 from routine or manual backgrounds are twice as likely to die as those from managerial or professional backgrounds. This shows that health inequalities in social class does exists, and that people in the
First of all, the investigators should have respected the people they were going to conduct by obtaining an informed consent, letting the men decide if they want to be a participant after all. Second of all, medical researchers should not have lied to the people about how long this study was going to last. Third of all, both the risks and the benefits of it should have been stated to them so that the men could decide if this experiment is any beneficial to them or not. Lastly, the participants should have been randomly assigned to the control or experimental group without considering their race, class, and gender. Also, the medical researchers should not have the right to give the favored participants the helpful treatment rather than the riskier
Point 1: In the 1960s, health care was an important necessity to have for reassurance because of the widespread of chronic diseases and injuries which led to most deaths, and the introduction to new diseases like HIV-AIDS. Proof: This period also presented new challenges; however, as people were living longer and chronic diseases and injuries increasingly became the more common cause of disability and death.68 Other trends emerged, such as widespread smoking, increased social drinking, the recreational use of drugs, a resurgence of STIs and the introduction of new infections like HIV-AIDS. (http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/cphorsphc-respcacsp/2008/fr-rc/cphorsphc-respcacsp05b-eng.php)
Many African American men are hesitant to work alongside social workers in this area, because of the cost of treatment (Ahaghotu, 2015). The cost of treatment is extremely expensive, and can be life altering for African American males with prostate cancer (Ahaghotu, 2015). This is a large issue that is impacting direct practice with this population. These clients are aware of how much each visit is to see the healthcare team. The rising costs are constantly on their mind with each visit.
African-Americans faced a tremendous amount of discrimination between 1950 and 1970. Even to this day, discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender is still a continuation of a problem that was prominent in the 50’s and 60’s. A problem in the 50’s and 60’s was the segregation applied to schools, where African-Americans were not permitted to go to a White-only school. Thankfully, in July of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender and gave all citizens the right to enter public establishments. To this day, this act gives young African-Americans all across America the chance at a normal school life without being hassled by
Annotated Bibliography Marmot, M. (2005). Social determinants of health inequalities. The Lancet, 365, 1099 1104. This journal article illustrates that many countries have enormous disparities in health.
I am currently caring for a man with stage 4 prostate
As risk-taking health behaviors are linked with masculinity, male tend to perform those activities in order to show their masculinity. As a result, this contributes to the health disparity between men and
