of problems for those seeking treatment and help with handling chronic disease. Common chronic diseases that become more and more prevalent each year are diseases like multiple sclerosis and diabetes. Diabetes is a notoriously expensive chronic illness to manage. Patients often experience complications from the disease like vision loss, high blood pressure, heart disease, and amputation (Institute of Medicine (U.S.), 2012). That is why diabetes must be managed and prevented.
Type II diabetes for example is often acquired through poor diet choices and leading a sedentary life (Institute of Medicine (U.S.), 2012). If people manage to identify and self-regulate these decisions and choose… Continue Reading...
of Health Education
The modern public health sector is characterized by emergence of health problems, particularly chronic diseases that have become common. Chronic diseases, disabling condition, and financial burdens are documented in existing literature on modern health problems. Given the increased burdens associated with chronic diseases and disabling conditions, health education and educators are expected to play a critical in addressing these conditions (Derryberry, 2004). Health education is expected to play a new and unique role in addressing these conditions and promoting the health and wellbeing of populations. The significant role of health education in this process is attributable to the fact that it’s the basis… Continue Reading...
to exist despite the significant development in the diagnosis and treatment of numerous chronic diseases. The main focus of this editorial was to highlight the disparities in health care delivery due to racial, ethnic, and cultural factors. In this regard, the publisher focused on examining why patients from minorities experience greater mortality and morbidity from several chronic diseases unlike non-minorities despite the significant medical advances. The editorial focused on three studies that were published on the issue of race, ethnicity, and disparities in the delivery of health care services to various patient populations.
The first study by Trivedi and Ayanian focused on examining… Continue Reading...
they are believed to have a large potential in curing chronic diseases.Conservatives believe that human life begins at conception and this process terminates human life. Adult stem cells have been proved efficient as they have been used to treat diseases like Leukemia, Parkinson's diseases and spinal cord injuries unlike embryonic stem cells. (Lakoff, 1997)
The view of the conservatives is more convincing to me because: On death penalty,the government should not pity anyone for taking away an innocent life and for the embryonic stem cells research, it is inhuman to terminate life with the aim of doing research because an… Continue Reading...
ever older. In this regard, Olson (2018) advises that, “The frail elderly often suffer from a combination of multiple chronic diseases that produce disability and predispose them to vulnerability [to] acute illness. The proportion of those who are limited in their ability to care for themselves has been rising” (p. 548). In fact, an unfortunate and undesirable concomitant outcome of innovations in health care and medical device technologies has been the extension of life for many elderly people who experience profound suffering due to their age-related disabilities and infirmities. Moreover, it is reasonable to posit that these issues will become even more pronounced as people grow even older in… Continue Reading...
child, or are afflicted with chronic diseases that impede them from properly living their lives and meeting the goals they have set. Some of them have witnessed the death of family members in terrible car accidents, and others have lost limbs or suffered awful, disfiguring diseases. Life can hurl unexpected challenges, tragedies, hardships, and loss at an individual at any time. Sometimes the pressure and pain can feel like it is too much to bear. Nurses can be a light in this darkness, and offer priceless support, comfort and illumination (nurse.com, 2009). For patients who… Continue Reading...
order to fulfill the needs of their chronic diseases or conditions. Generic drugs are essentially the ones that are comparable to their brand-name twins. “They are comparable in terms of the dosage, effectiveness, and intended use. Generics are important because they are essentially a less-expensive alternative to their brand-name counterparts. This, of course, is expected to be important to those who are ultimately picking up the tab, governments, who are the biggest purchasers of health care, insurance companies, and individuals”(VanEck, 2016). It’s thus important for consumers and for leaders within the government to have options when it… Continue Reading...
the country’s elderly citizens. It is important to note that the incidence of chronic diseases, as it has been demonstrated in various research studies, rises with advancement in age. These diseases and conditions could have a serious impact on not only the health of those affected, but also on their overall wellbeing. South Korea, as Rhee, Done, Anderson (2015) observe, “is an example of a rapidly aging country that is currently experiencing the demographic transition that many middle-income countries will soon experience…” LTCI ensures that the livelihood of the country’s citizens is stabilized. This is particularly important so as to minimize the challenges… Continue Reading...
shows how higher rates of death may indeed be random variation along with potential area-specific chronic diseases. “Although death rates in targeted hospitals were 5.0 to 10.9 higher, 56% to 82% of the excess could result from purely random variation. Differences in quality of the process of care could not explain remaining statistically significant differences in mortality” (Park, 1990, p. 484). Therefore, if some of these deaths may be attributed to random variation, what then should determine quality of care? The article provides some past knowledge on this subject. Nevertheless, new research may either support or refute it.
For example, a 2016 article on patient… Continue Reading...
mean a range of services like robotic surgeries to complex processes like chronic diseases home monitoring devices, though this is not often the case. There are also the patient expectations such as remote access to the information, lab test results, amending the records, access to medication list, details on billing though this is rarely the case. There is need hence for the health care providers to know how to balance the expectations of the patients with what HIT can actually provide. The patient and the medication supporter need to be given the actual a realistic picture of what to expect in the… Continue Reading...
Institute, they found a significant knowledge gap in the population on the development of chronic diseases among Hispanic communities. There was a high prevalence of diabetes, low rates of awareness, control, and health insurance coverage ("Diabetes among Hispanics: All Are Not Equal", 2014). While these challenges already pose a health risk to the elderly, language barriers present an impediment to the delivery of health services.
Interaction with doctors one on one basis is essential to the patient’s articulation of their health challenge as well as the physician’s understanding of what the health challenge is. Additionally, the exchange between the provider and the patients is… Continue Reading...
