The 1840s saw a shift in attitudes. Parliament invited Edwin Chadwick, a government servant working for the Poor Law Commission, to look into the living circumstances in Britain. His 1842 observations on the sanitary conditions of the laboring population concluded that many cases of poverty and illness were brought on...
Social support services are among the most important healthcare indicators in an area. According to the RWJ RAND 2018 survey, 36.5 percent of adults identified to have a “strong to very strong attitude that social and physical factors had a significant influence on health (Carman et al., 2019). This statement...
Case One Despite being an elderly citizen aged 78 years, Raymond should not have died in the hands of medical practitioners. Several inefficiencies are notable in the first case study that can result in poor care delivery. The first one is the absence of proper mechanisms for responding to emergencies...
The health care system is crucial for every country’s proper functioning and development. However, the United States of America’s health care is not perfect and has much space for improvement. One of the factors that affected it in recent years is the COVID-19 pandemic. It has discovered the key moments...
Introduction The United States is known as a country with the best and most properly developed healthcare system. The relationship between private and public agencies and non-profit and for-profit organizations defines the quality of the progress of healthcare services. Much attention is currently paid to the role of government and...
Introduction With the outbreak of Covid-19, many people have been forced to confront the reality of the healthcare system. One of the most important questions the society has to ask itself is how to protect the most vulnerable members of society – the elderly. This paper will focus on identifying...
Public health is a crucial aspect of sustainability for the entire society on a national scale. However, several aspects hinder the coherent and entirely satisfactory cooperation of public health authorities and authorities. However, the coronavirus pandemic has brought the US government to the issue of social and environmental responsibility, which...
The outcomes management method is based on four principles initially formulated by the original movement of medical professionals that promoted this approach to providing quality and effective therapy and care in the mainstream healthcare discourse. The first one is “greater reliance on standards and guidelines” (Quality of care and the...
Introduction A professional nursing organization is a group that clarifies, researches, educates, and promotes the continued development of nurses and the entire nursing field. These organizations create opportunities for enhancing nursing practice, education, health policy, and upholding healthcare standards (Cho & Han, 2018). Professional associations in nursing are essential for...
Introduction Nursing practitioner (NP) is an important personnel in healthcare because they act as a primary care provider to their patients. This shows that nurse practitioners can provide care to their patients even when they are not being directly supervised by a physician. When it is necessary, they can write...
The 5 constructs of Campinha-Bacote’s model of the process of cultural competence comprise cultural desire, cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural skill, and cultural encounters. Cultural desire is understood as motivation of healthcare workers to provide culturally competent healthcare for different ethnic groups (Campinha-Bacote, 2022). Cultural awareness is the process of...
Enhancing the patient experience needs partnerships amongst inter-professional groups. Clinical reasoning is a methodical and cyclical framework that drives medical decision-making, especially in unanticipated, unexpected, and non-routine circumstances, and results in precise and well-informed clinical assessments (Gummesson et al., 2018). The Ten Caritas Processes allow practitioners to exercise the craft...
A definition that includes fundamental views about the facts of primary concern to a discipline, epistemic statements concerning how those facts come to be recognized, and ethical statements about nursing values is considered a nursing philosophy. It is beneficial to investigate different methods for nursing practice and education. The impact...
Introduction Nursing has a distinct history that presented a foundation for its evolution. The discipline first emerged in the mid-19th century, as Florence Nightingale founded the earliest official nursing school in England (Wang et al., 2021). Her impact facilitated a nursing transition from homecare to hospitals as nursing became more...
Finding its roots in medicinal, recreational and spiritual practices of ancient peoples, marijuana is widely known by most people. In today’s world, the stigma around cannabis use, as well as drug use in general, is being challenged. The growing recognition of the drug’s benefits, coupled with a changing view on...
Summary Speech Title: The Dangers of Obesity. General Purpose: To emphasize the dangers of obesity in decreasing the quality of life. Specific Purpose: To highlight the importance of a healthy lifestyle. Thesis Statement: Promoting a healthy lifestyle is the primary way to combat obesity, reducing overall life expectancy due to...
Due to the cooperation between the size of the technological components, scientific advances, and expert training, every process is carried out to the greatest possible standard. As a result of the promotion of interpersonal skills, doctor-patient relationship is valued by all stakeholders in the health sector. It considers employee-management interaction...
Article Summary The article under consideration examines the challenges encountered by nursing homes and home care facilities staff in safety and quality of services. Johannessen et al. (2020) focus on investigating perceived contextual factors that impact the performance of both managers and employees and prevent them from performing their duties...
The best approach to move through life is one informed by principles and values. This is because they provide us with the way forward when met by different situations and problems by ensuring we stay on the side of what is right and true. The personal values and beliefs that...
Evidence-based practice is seen as a critical component in raising the standard of medical care and patient outcomes. EBP in nursing improves the capacity for decision-making and the ability to create personalized treatment plans that result in successful care delivery. Despite the expanding field, a rising amount of research about...
Introduction A concept analysis is involved in defining notions in the nursing sector to bring clarity by defining and simplifying them. The following concept analysis of pain will define pain, the performance of a literature review, and attributes definition. Consequently, the paper will determine the consequences and antecedents of pain...
The COVID-19 pandemic presents one of the most impactful historical events that significantly affected the nursing workforce. Nurses were faced with a high workload and had to take care of a much bigger number of patients. Nurse burnouts were common before the pandemic and often entailed nurses’ layoffs and further...
Introduction Medication errors are a common issue even in well-developed and technologically advanced national healthcare systems. For instance, Elliot et al. (2018) reviewed 36 studies on medication errors in the UK and concluded that error rates were comparable to those in other European Union countries and the USA. In the...
Introduction A normal distribution is a crucial concept in statistics as it can be applied in different contexts to solve various problems. For instance, this method can be utilized to evaluate a medicine’s effect on a patient’s health. In the given scenario, the use of contraceptive drugs in women is...
Introduction The quality of health services must be guaranteed for universal health coverage to have the intended health results. Quality issues have long been a top priority in Tanzania, especially the issue of insufficient and poor regular supporting monitoring of healthcare professionals by council health executive teams. The government’s responsibility...
Introduction The student believes that a lack of insurance coverage is one of the most significant current policy problems in the American healthcare system context. As practice shows, uninsured persons are more likely to risk exposing themselves to the worst difficulties and dangers due to the program’s high cost, refusal...
Hematology postgraduate studies should specialize in such areas of health as the treatment of bleeding disorders, thrombosis, as well as oncological diseases. Education in this field requires a fair amount of laboratory practice, which I hope to get when entering the directorate program. These programs rarely exist online, and the...
Introduction Healthcare discussions usually touch on such personnel as doctors, nurses and pharmacists. However, one group of people is not commonly acknowledged in them. It is important to note the crucial role care managers play in hospitals, clinics, hospices and other medical facilities. They are in charge of creating an...
Article “Effects of Multidisciplinary Interventions on Weight Loss and Health Outcomes in Children and Adolescents with Morbid Obesity” The article “Effects of multidisciplinary interventions on weight loss and health outcomes in children and adolescents with morbid obesity” discusses treatment strategies aimed at reducing morbid obesity in children. Morbid obesity in...
The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has become an extraordinary and shocking event for the world community and the global economy. No one might have imagined that the virus could close borders, break international economic ties and divide states and people. In fact, society has entered a new era of socio-medical...
The growth of healthcare reforms calls for change management as medical facilities establish systems that increase the quality of care. One of the major moves that can contribute toward quality of care is preventing avoidable readmissions among ethnically diverse patients to hospitals for chronic conditions. Reducing readmission is important because...
Football playing The skin’s structure is multilayered and different parts are responsible for their specific functions. For instance, the epidermis is one of the layers that is located closer to the outer part, and it helps in the production of homeostasis. Homeostasis is crucial for the human body as it...
After taking my time to follow an RN in a hospital setting, I was able to better understand the role of these professionals. They can help patients to receive direct care and be more aware of the healthcare delivery process. RNs work as cohesive agents capable of connecting doctors to...
Abstract Nursing shortage is the significant problem that negatively affects patient care quality. Nurses overwork and cannot cope with their daily tasks, which causes severe problems in healthcare. The number of people needing medical help increases, and nursing becomes more complicated due to the spread of technology in hospitals. It...
Social media equips medical practitioners with tools for coordinating treatment, collaborating on research, disseminating information to the public, and fostering healthy lifestyle habits. In a professional setting, nurses may experience a wide range of ethical issues when using social media. Reduced patient confidentiality and loss of trust in the patients...
Nursing is a profession that requires one to spend every working day communicating with people and helping them live healthy lives. However, nurses also make many decisions and perform procedures that may make patients uncomfortable or confused. In some environments, the line between care and the lack of autonomy may...
Introduction Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) are healthcare professionals with a large scope of duties defined by such organizations as American Nursing Association and State Boards of Nursing. Nowadays, with a shortage of medical personnel, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses have become the major actors of medical profession in nursing practice...
Nursing is a profession of making a difference through selfless practices, compassion, and self-motivation. All these competencies align with the leadership skills expected in nursing practice. This rationale depicts a personal perspective of what the nursing profession entails (Haddad & Geiger, 2021). The reason is that some of the competencies...
Importance of Data Collection for the CDC about Covid-19 Vaccination Rollout Vaccination is one of the most effective methods of controlling a pandemic. History has demonstrated that the end of a pandemic majorly depends on the number of vaccinated people. Covid-19 pandemic is no different. However, efficient control of the...
Ayaz, M., Pasha, M. F., Alzahrani, M. Y., Budiarto, R., & Stiawan, D. (2021). The fast health interoperability resources (FHIR) standard: Systematic literature review of implementations, applications, challenges and opportunities. JMIR Medical Informatics, 9(7), 1-44. Web. To start with the background the paper states that the global healthcare system is...
Nurses and health professionals engage in health promotion, providing the population with learning opportunities to improve health literacy and engage in behaviors beneficial to individual and community health. The process of improving the health literacy of a patient, community, or nation is called health education. Health education plays vital role...
Medicare History Medicare insurance is a United States national government program that started in 1965 and is currently under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This program mainly focuses on people ages 65 and above and specific younger individuals with disabilities (Berchick et al., 2019). It also provides coverage...
Assessment of the Problem Patient readmission to hospitals negatively affects the healthcare system. They drain facility resources and destructively influence government budgets. On the extreme, these readmissions reduce the quality of life for those involved patients. Nonetheless, readmission of patients with chronic conditions is expected in the contemporary world. In...
Introduction: Statement of the Project The current project is intended to help the researcher investigate some of the quality measures related to healthcare. The database is going to include information on patient satisfaction (rated from 1 to 10), patient admission-discharge (timestamps), and nurse rotation schedule (timestamps). This information is crucial...
State the Issue Overdose prevention in the rural areas of Arizona is a social welfare policy that requires a solution. It is well known that overdose has been on the rise each year, and though the state has taken decisive steps to combat this opioid crisis, it seems as though...
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a condition that destroys CD4 cells of the body and leads the count to be less than 200, which causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. A weak immune system hampers the body’s capacity to fight against sickness. Nearly 1.2 million adults in the United States...
Introduction Public health means the science of protecting or improving people’s health in their community, which can be reached by promoting healthy lifestyles, research, and injury prevention. Public health is concerned with providing direct and indirect coverage for helping populations address their health concerns. In the US, public health is...
Total knee replacement (TKR), also named total knee arthroplasty (TKA), is a common surgical procedure often performed for osteoarthritis patients or after trauma. People may suffer from severe pain during the postoperative period. Moreover, two trajectories of long-term outcomes are possible: good – people feel gradual improvement, and poor –...
Learning is not complete without self-assessment, which is easily achieved through reflection. Dr. Jean Watson developed a theory of human caring that leads to self-awareness. Connecting to oneself entails having an in-depth analysis of feelings, emotions, encounters, and ideologies throughout the whole period of learning. Each student has goals and...
Introduction The issue of growing obesity rates worries the scientific society. Gong et al. seek to explore the link between generations of immigrants and obesity among Californians (2019). Immigrant Americans were defined as those born outside the United States (Gong et al., 2019). Second-generation Asian Americans are individuals whose parents...
The highly contagious bacterial illness known as pertussis affects the respiratory tract. A bacterium that may be discovered in an infected person’s mouth, nose, and throat is what causes it. The primary method of transmission for pertussis is inhaling droplets from an infected person’s nose or throat. Even those who...
Introduction The research article, “Comparison of Education versus Behavioral Skills Training Interventions in Lowering Sexual HIV-Risk Behavior of Substance-Dependent Adolescents” by St. Lawrence et al. (1995), is correlational research because it uses statistical analysis to investigate the connection between two variables (Rezigalla, 2020). Discussion In the case of this article,...
Introduction Meeus et al. (2010) investigate the standard pain thresholds for patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Chronic Low Back Pain (CLPB) in a controlled experiment. The switch in the baseline ache following regular exercise and the association with an exercise-prompted increment of nitric acid is also examined in...
It is important to note that healthcare is an integral part of social wellbeing, which has implications not only on public health but also on the economy, taxation, and governmental involvement. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 and the global pandemic revealed the criticality and vulnerabilities of healthcare infrastructures across the...
Introduction Enhancement of the health status of indigenous people is considered a long-term challenge for the Australian government. A huge health inequality gap exists between the indigenous population and the rest of Australian citizens, raising concerns to human rights groups such as the United Nations Committees. Health inequalities are largely...
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the closure of specialist athlete training and significantly impacted the sports industry. The lockdown, implemented during the pandemic challenged sports teams by preventing physical interactions. As a result, most high-performance athletes had to adopt home-based solutions to remain physically fit, competent for Judo exercises,...
Purpose Statement Polypharmacy use in long-term care facilities is a major problem that requires immediate attention to prevent it from escalating; further, the study aims to state the value of precise sensitivity tests in care settings to lower polypharmacy (Gabauer, 2020). Using multiple drugs to cure illnesses is not reducing...
Introduction The development of American society and the level of science has led to several changes in the social behavior of society. How people live, work and spend their leisure time has changed globally. Modern man, pushed by the cult of careerism and ideas of productivity, spends more and more...
The paper discusses the main events in the book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. It examines the conflict over Lia Lee’s treatment between the Merced Community Medical Center in California and a Laotian refugee family. Doctors have determined that Young Lee has severe, recurrent...
Introduction The following essay reflects on the competencies of the course “Population Management (DNP-825A)”. This course focused on concepts that lead to a better understanding of health’s overall, sociological, environmental, and economic components. Data analysis was covered throughout the course as it related to the formulation, implementation, and assessment of...
Nola Pender’s health promotion model is a mid-range theory based on social cognitive theory. According to the model, people are affected by multiple beliefs, motivations, and situations that contribute to present and future attitudes and behaviors (Frenn, 2020). The primary endpoint of the model is health-promoting behaviors (Sevinc & Argon,...
The article by Rachael Goodman exposes many crucial facts regarding professional assistance with mental health issues. After reading the article, I had to rethink my personal experience, as well as my knowledge regarding interventions for traumas. There are critical implications for future research in this field that can be drawn...
Often the existence of a phenomenon denoted by a specific concept has been proven, and that the definition corresponds to the object being defined. However, this is often not the case in practice. In nursing, there is a concept of a norm that changes over the years. Moreover, there are...
Hi Rita, thank you for the elaborate discussion on the role of nurses in population health promotion. Having read the essay, it is true that nurses have crucial roles in healthcare and provide several services to their communities. Nurses advocate for patients, promote healthy lifestyles, spread health awareness, and offer...
Nursing is one of the most critical professions for contemporary and future societies. Covid-19 illustrated the fundamental nature of good nursing staff to mitigate disasters and maintain patient healthcare. The nursing need has proliferated recently, particularly in developed countries, as people seek to boost healthcare provision. However, despite this increase...
Introduction During the interview conducted in week 3, I acquired beneficial information that enhanced my knowledge about cultural awareness and sensitivity. It involved a discussion with a male nurse leader of Filipino descent who was working in a hospital where 30-35% of nurses were from his cultural background. There was...
Stakeholders and Agents of Change The people affected by the proposed program will include: Registered nurses: improved quality of provided healthcare services, improved relationships with patients, enhanced cross-functional collaboration, empowerment. Advanced nurse practitioners: less workload, improved quality of provided care, enhanced job satisfaction. Patients: patient-centered care, improved quality of healthcare...
Introduction Quality implementation and nursing practices in the twenty-first century are challenged by various factors, including an increase in the number of elderly and critically ill patients, rising healthcare costs, a shortage of nursing staff and nurse educators, and a shift in the nursing workforce’s age. Other current concerns affecting...
Purpose of the Study In order to enhance regular exercise during school recess, testing a pedometer-based approach that included public sharing involving teams of kids along with other self-monitoring, action planning, and rewarding aspects took place. The interventions were created to be doable for a class educator to conduct during...
Purpose of the Study The article under analysis was entitled “Girlhood Betrayals of Women Childhood Trauma Survivors in Treatment for Addiction” and written by Grabbe et al. (2016). The study aimed at examining the perspectives of females who faced neglect and abuse in their childhood and their perspective regarding their...
An executive summary Change is inevitable in any organization. In nursing, teamwork is key as it allows nurses to collaborate to develop care plans with doctors. Teamwork always proves to be a success in many organizations. Teamwork helps in reducing errors in the healthcare field. Improving patient care and establishing...
Health care innovation is a common word on the other hand, quality care can only be maintained and improved if new ideas are brought into the mix. As the backbone of high-quality health care, nurses are an essential part of any system that relies on them to function. Nurses play...
The scope of practice for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) is a subject of debate in the legal medical community. In particular, the level of education and experience of these specialists allows them to work in a variety of settings and have a certain degree of autonomy in the performance...
Introduction The specific nature of nursing work differs significantly from other types of human activity and consists of constant, daily, hourly communication with the patient. Therefore, the approach must consist of high professionalism and the manifestation of decency, honesty, kindness, mercy, sensitivity, and responsiveness. Since ancient times, the moral and...
Introduction Due to the crisis resulting from COVID-19, many nurses leave the profession or stay in it under constant stress, which is extremely dangerous for the health of nurses and patients (Kelly et al., 2021). This paper provides a detailed discussion of the reasons and consequences of nurses’ staff shortage...
A trauma-informed approach is a comprehensive medical and organizational approach to patient care, within which lies not the mechanical treatment of injuries but the recognition and explanation of what happened to the person. This approach makes treatment more transparent for patients and increases their level of involvement. Patients who tell...
Continuous professional development is crucial for practitioners to provide quality services to their clients. In this regard, evaluation forms are helpful tools that can be used to monitor one’s progress, assess one’s work, and get feedback from peers (Uğur & Turan, 2019). As a result, an individual can set goals...
Ultrasound is widely used in the metalworking industry, mechanical engineering, and metallurgy. The applied ultrasound frequency is from 20 kHz to 1 MHz, and the power is up to several kilowatts (Moyano et al., 2022). Ultrasound has a harmful effect on the human body. Workers with ultrasonic devices often experience...
The American healthcare system is subject to fraud and record-setting amounts charged for normally affordable care. To combat this issue, the United States government implemented a number of statutes, regulations, programs, and compliance obligations on pharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers. For example, the Federal False Claims Act, the Stark Law,...
Introduction The Departments for Illness Management and Prevention discovered numerous aspects of teenage tobacco abuse. The community and the environmental setting are the aspects that significantly influence teenagers. For instance, the way social networks portray cigarette usage as a typical activity, cigarette marketing in retail stores and online platforms, and...
Gholizadegan Rayat, S., Nasseri, N., Fariborzi, E., & Saffariantoosi, M. R. (2022). The effectiveness of psycho-religious based sexuality education training protocol on reducing the tendency toward premarital sexual relationships. The American Journal of Family Therapy, 1-18. The given source primarily focuses on the use of psycho-religious based sexuality education to...
It is important to note that the given essay will focus on the pandemic experience. The provided evidence and supporting literature will only come from Sydney Goins’s “Surviving Coronavirus as a Broke College Student” and Meilan Solly’s “What We Can Learn from 1918 Influenza Diaries.” One of the unique aspects...
Urbanization is one of the biggest reasons why COVID-19 has become a pandemic by getting outside of China. It should be clarified that not only urbanization itself is to blame, but the population density in large metropolitan cities. Since ancient times, cities have been the primary medium for the spread...
Nursing theories form the foundation of nursing philosophy that guides nurses in the provision of quality patient care. Moreover, nurses have the professional obligation to systematically search scientific information as a basis for evidence on care delivery. Individual patient characteristics determine the course of care consistent with the nursing profession...
Summary Counseling is the process of talking therapy, allowing individuals to discourse their problems with experts in a serene and safe environment (YALÇIN, 2022). Experts or counselors support their clients in speaking out about their problems in detail to pinpoint the primary trigger behind them. Moreover, they assist clients in...
Introduction The nursing leader is placed in the center of interaction and must communicate with patients, employees, administrators, and providers to deliver the best experience and healthcare services. For this reason, a leader must have advanced communication skills to lead, guide, and persuade all parties and stakeholders to improve the...
Quality and Safety Measures Quality and safety indicators are standards for the delivery of healthcare services, according to which it is possible to determine how well healthcare providers are doing their job. Among the measures of quality are structural, process, and outcome measures. The first category includes the ability of...
It is easy for psychiatrists and nurse practitioners who are culturally competent to offer patients evidence-based care. Transcultural Nursing Theory by Madeleine Leininger gives powerful insights that guarantee culturally competent therapy is offered to more patients with psychological needs. A nursing theory’s tenets comprise the four elements that comprise the...
Introduction The adequate provision of care, the quality of patients’ lives, and their satisfaction depend on numerous factors that should be considered when selecting the cooperation model. However, the problem becomes more complex speaking about critical or end-of-life care. Spirituality can be viewed as one of the factors relevant to...
Purpose The Relationship between Essentials and Baccalaureate Nursing Education The essentials of baccalaureate education for professional nursing practice connect ideas about undergraduate nursing work and expectations. Essentials contain nine elements that indicate the framework within which one should be trained. For example, Essential IV points to information management in nursing...
Introduction A routine physical examination is an obligatory step for every patient who takes care of his or her health. A primary care provider (PCP) performs all the necessary checks to understand the peculiarities of the condition and share recommendations if necessary. In this case study, R.P. is a 43-year-old...
Introduction The profession of nursing encompasses various domains, going beyond the limits of pure medical knowledge. In particular, nursing requires having a solid personal philosophy, inner beliefs, and ethical values that guide a nurse in day-to-day practice. In my opinion, one can draw a parallel between the personal philosophy of...
The people’s culture affects their perception of the world, habits, and values. Galanti (2000) argues that due to the importance of such influence, respect from health care providers to patients is not enough for quality care, and knowledge of culture is required. I agree with this statement as beliefs, customs,...
Introduction The philosophy of nursing is a system of ideas and views of the world from the position of a nurse. It reflects the nurse’s worldview concerning his/her activities, social environment, development, and improvement of personality and professional competence. The main link of this philosophy is undoubtedly the patient with...
Background The country’s seniors have commendable aims in wanting to be engaged, healthy, and energetic. However, how people really experience “old age” in the United States is not always consistent with how society views the term. Numerous contemporary assumptions about aging were founded on data that, in light of recent...
One of the main trends in the improvement of healthcare in recent years is the growing importance of nursing staff in ensuring the effectiveness of public health protection using evidence-based practice. Nurses are no longer seen as passive physician assistants. In modern conditions, this model is being replaced by a...
Sports medicine focuses on the treatment of athletes according to their performance. According to specialists, it is commonly characterized as the medical field that concentrates on preventive, diagnostic, and treatment measures to influence or improve athletes’ health (Hart, 2022). In contrast, nursing homes provide care for patients with various health...
The healthcare system is rapidly changing with the appearance of new research findings and theories. Modern practices in nursing have also shifted from the previous century, although the most influential ideas have remained as a foundation of nursing practice. One such theory that underlies clinical practice in both the Eastern...
Nursing Informatics and the Nurse Informaticist Nursing informatics is a specialization that integrates nursing science and information and analytical sciences that allows for identifying, managing, and exchanging information in nursing practice. Electronic medical records (EMRs) and other digitalized measures in healthcare are commonly enabled by nursing informatics (HIMSS, 2022). Professionals...
Introduction Quality patient care and a sense of fulfillment at work are both dependent on newly hired individuals being part of our team. Improvements in patient and staff well-being can be made above the minimum requirements of The Joint Commission and the Hospital Consumer Rating of Health Care Providers and...
Introduction The obesity problem is growing and requires continuing research to determine its causes and consequences. The authors of the article “The Influence of Immigrant Generation on Obesity among Asian Americans in California from 2013 to 2014” examined obesity in Asian Americans and California adults. The findings of this study...
It is common for healthcare facilities to put an emphasis on a patient’s characteristics over social determinants of their well-being. In the United States, this bias stems from a long-lasting period of segregation and dehumanization of people based on their race and gender (Todic´ et al., 2022). One’s race, class,...