Abstract This research paper highlights the importance of healtheducation in academic establishments. The paper describes the alarming increase in health problems in school-going children, and presents extensive research carried out by some of the best experts in the related field, that suggests urgent need for the enhancement, improvement and amendment of healtheducation in both public and private educational institutions.
From the Paper "Extensive research, collective data and information in the field of education all suggest the importance of health education in schools. The increase in health problems worldwide also provides sufficient eye-opening evidence regarding the need to spread awareness among the masses regarding learning and choosing health education as their professional as well as academic career."
Abstract This paper describes different healtheducation philosophies as well as the author's own healtheducation philosophy and how and why she arrived at such a philosophy. The author emphasizes that her own philosophy on teaching healtheducation is derived from a combination of several teaching philosophies which she believes will promote the knowledge and skills necessary for her students, their families and the community to achieve a better quality of life.
From the Paper "Our profession is at a critical stage of self-evaluation, of which philosophical inquiry is a key element. Answers to the questions of what health education is and how one accomplishes this will determine the place of health education now and in the future. (Welle, Russell, & Kittleson, 1995) My initial reaction while reading the Welle et al article, was that there seems to be a need to define a single philosophy for the credibility and effectiveness of health education in general. After some thought, however, my focus shifted. Since such a wide variety of settings, audiences and issues exist; a single philosophy of health education would not be beneficial or even possible. It makes sense that there were significant oppositional views when it came to the study participants' philosophical choices, given their differences in educational settings."
Abstract This paper examines programs for healtheducation and health promotion in the United States today. It identifies the importance of health promotion and theoretical models of health promotion. It also focuses on appeals to diverse groups within American society.15 pgs, bibliography lists 14 sources.
Abstract This paper analyses the needs of the Lok family who have a family member who needs health care. The paper explains how an integral part of quality care is that all care professionals who interact with the patient and family members share the responsibility of providing patient and family education. In this case the author establishes that as the family are immigrants it is necessary to understand and respect their religious and cultural background in order to be able to provide the best healtheducation.
From the Paper "Patient and family education is an integral part of quality care. Providing it is a responsibility shared by all care professionals who interact with a patient and with family members. Teaching patients can be the most challenging as well as the most rewarding aspect of care. Understanding the patient's religious and cultural background is an important consideration when providing health education to the Lok family. In order to determine the family's cultural status and understand its forced migration, I must be open-minded, show respect for beliefs that differ from my own, and avoid making assumptions or stereotyping. In educating the Lok family, it is essential to understand Chinese culture. China is a country of multiple faiths, with a large segment of the pop..."
Abstract This paper presents an objective overview of a student's critique regarding her standing as a competent healtheducator. An objective overview of the different competencies obtained, relative strengths and opportunities for improvement are presented. An outline of the student's strategic plan over the next three years is also presented.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Competencies, Strengths, Weaknesses and Professional Development
Strategic Plan
Overall Goal 1
Sub-objective #1
Date
Action Plan
Resources needed
Sub-objective #2
Date
Action Plan
Resources needed
Overall Goal 2
Date
Sub-objective #1
Date to be accomplished
Action Plan
Resources needed
Sub-objective #2
Date to be accomplished Action Plan
Resources needed
From the Paper "The comprehension of concepts is key in health education, especially in an evidence-based field such as health. However, opportunities for this type of professional development are demanding on time and resources, particularly busy academic institutions. Banning (2005), in a qualitative study, found that different levels of evidence were utilized according to one's appreciation of them, suggesting that prior training in the use of these resources for continuing education can influence users' perceptions and appreciation of evidence-based practice."
Abstract This paper will discuss the importance of healtheducation and why it is important with the educational system. By using examples, through statistics and information about AIDS within the framework of the classroom, this paper will seek to present a way to educateeducators on health awareness and increase the learning process of the student.
A research paper examining the effects of educating adolescent African- American and Hispanic females about sexually transmitted infections in small groups.
Abstract This paper aims to to identify an effective sex educational model for the adolescent African-American and Hispanic female population. It then aims to measure the outcome of knowledge retained and behavior modification changes by the cohorts as compared to the knowledge retained and behavior modifications by the control group who were exposed to Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) education by traditional large group educational methods, such as the school sex healtheducation (SHE) format. It compares the intervention group's knowledge with the control group, exposed to an interactive small group educational approach.
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Chapter 1: Introduction
Statement of the Problem
The Purpose of the Study
Research Questions
Hypotheses
Variables
Definition of Terms
Assumptions
Limitations
Scope
Delimitations
Chapter 2: Review of Literature
Chapter 3: Methodology
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
From the Paper "Because resources are by definition scarce, identifying what source of sex education adolescents prefer represents a good first step in developing timely interventions. This was the focus of a recent study, "Adolescents' Preferences for Source of Sex Education," by Somers and Surmann (2004), wherein the researchers examined adolescents' preferred sources of sexual education (e.g., peers, family, school, media, professionals, etc.) concerning a variety of topics, and whether patterns varied for each gender, race, grade, and economic group. The study group used by Somers and Surmann consisted of 672 adolescents of both genders, three race/ ethnicities, and varied economics and geography. These researchers determined that overall, parents were clearly the preferred source of sex education by this diverse sample of adolescents; the next preferred sources for adolescent sexual education were school and peers, but the media, siblings, and self were not generally endorsed as preferred sources of sex education (Somers & Surmann, 2004). These researchers also identified some variations by demographic groups in their findings (Somers & Surmann, 2004)."
Tags: HPV, Human Papilloma Virus, behavior education SHE
Abstract This paper presents an e-Health alternative for a general practice family health clinic. The paper first presents a vision and mission by providing information about the target audience, core beliefs of the practice (relative to e-Health), how e-Health fits with the clinic's care delivery model, practices that might need to be changed, and the target goal. The paper also describes e-Health applications for the health clinic website and discusses the benefits of each application to the consumer and organization. In addition, the paper describes access issues that might limit use of the applications and solutions to these issues, as well as addresses policies and procedures to protect the confidentiality of the e-Health clinic's patients. Further, the paper states the ethical positions of the clinic and develops methods for measuring the positive and negative outcomes and the impact of e-Health on the consumer, provider, and organization. Lastly, the paper also drafts a Patient Bill of Rights for the clinic.
Table of Contents:
Case Introduction
Vision and Mission
Target Audience
Core Beliefs of the Organization
Negative Aspect of e-Health Fit with Current Care Delivery Model
Potential Changes
Target Goal
E-Health Applications
Self Scheduling
Online Medical Records Review
E-Health Patient Education Desired Educational Outcome
Confidentiality Policy and Procedure
Ethical Positions
Outcome Measures for e-HealthEducation Consumer Outcome Results
Provider and Organizational Measures
Provider and Organizational Outcome Results
E-Health Benefits
Benefits to the Consumer
Benefits to the Provider
Benefits to the Organization
Benefits to the Community
Access Issues
Patient Bill of Rights
Conclusion
From the Paper "To be successful with e-Health at the Your Health clinic, the staff will need to assess the technical knowledge level of their patients, determine the willingness of the patients to embrace new technology, and give guidance on the physical equipment they will need.
"Team B suggests introducing the patient to the new technology with a step by step computer assisted tutor. Team B will produce a PowerPoint presentation with voice overlay that can be downloaded at home for review, or accessed from a computer at the Your Health clinic."
Abstract This paper presents a case study about Dr. Humphrey's clinic and the benefits to it of e-health. The paper discusses the vision and mission of the clinic by providing information about the target audience, core beliefs of the practice (relative to e-health) and how e-health fits with the clinic's care delivery model. The paper then looks at the practices that might need to be changed and the target goal for this medical office.
Table of Contents:
Vision and Mission
Target Audience
Core Beliefs of the Organization
Negative Aspect of e-Health Fit with Current Care Delivery Model
Potential Changes
Target Goal
E-Health Applications
Self Scheduling
Online Medical Records Review
E-Health Patient Education Desired Educational Outcome
Confidentiality Policy and Procedure
Ethical Positions
Outcome Measures for e-HealthEducation Measures
Consumer Measures
Consumer Outcome Results
Provider and Organizational Measures
Provider and Organizational Outcome Results
E-Health Benefits
Benefits to the Consumer
Benefits to the Provider
Benefits to the Organization
Benefits to the Community
Access Issues
Patient Bill of Rights
Conclusion
From the Paper "Dr. Manzanita Humphrey opened a general family practice clinic 15 years ago in Phoenix, Arizona. Over the course of time, she has added another physician and two nurse practitioners to her clinic. Dr. Humphrey has followed the evolution of e-Health closely determining that the Your Health clinic would benefit if she were to add an electronic patient system. Team B has been hired to propose an e-Health alternative for Dr. Humphrey and her clinic. The intention of this paper is to advance a vision and mission by providing information about the target audience, core beliefs of the practice (relative to e-Health), how e-Health fits with the clinics care delivery model, practices that might need to be changed, and the target goal. E-Health applications for the Your Health clinic website include: self scheduling, online medical records review, and links to reviewed professional health information. Each application's benefits to both the consumer and organization will be discussed. Access issues that might limit use of the applications will also be described. Policies and procedures to protect the confidentiality of the Your Health clinic's patients will be addressed. Ethical positions of the Your Health clinic will be stated. How Team B will measure the positive and negative outcomes and the impact of e-Health on the consumer, provider, and organization will be developed. Benefits of the e-Health proposal will be established for the consumer, provider, organization, and community at large. Access issues for the patients, with possible solutions will be presented. Finally, a Patient Bill of Rights will be drafted for Dr. Humphrey and the Your Health clinic."
An examination of the shortcomings of traditional drug education programs, the role of government and teachers, statistics,and the arguement for mandatory drug education week in U.S. schools.
2,250 words (approx. 9 pages), 12 sources, 2000, $ 79.95
Abstract Why Schools Must Play a Significant Role in Youth Drug Education As the primary social institution for most developing children, schools can have a significant impact on adolescent health behavior and can play an essential role in adolescent health promotion. Schools serve all children regardless of socioeconomic status, ethnicity, or health insurance status; thus, they are a logical place to provide coordinated healtheducation and health services to a nation's children
From the Paper Mandatory Drug Education Week in The United States--
Why Schools Must Play a Significant Role in Youth Drug Education
As the primary social institution for most developing children, schools can have a significant impact on adolescent health behavior and can play an essential role in adolescent health promotion. Schools serve all children regardless of socioeconomic status, ethnicity, or health insurance status; thus, they are a logical place to provide coordinated health education and health services to a nation's children (DHHS, 1991, p. 434). A successful drug education program requires intense, interactive skills training to provide students with the long-term ability to resist using drugs. A mandatory drug education week with curriculum-specified follow-up throughout the school year is ..."
An evaluation of the lack of state and local policy regarding mental health services for seriously emotionally disturbed (SED) students in public schools.
Abstract The paper provides background information that supports the need for mental health services. The paper also offers a comprehensive overview of methods state, local and federal agents can adopt to help the collaborative effort to support the health and well being of this unique population of students. The paper notes that people classify SED as an educational issue or a mental health issue, but contends that addressing the needs of SED is a community issue that requires attention from educational and health authorities. The paper concludes that multiple agencies must pool their resources to provide mental health assistance to students to ensure the greatest possible chances for their success and well being.
From the Paper "From an educational standpoint a gap currently exists between SED students and mental health support. This is due to many reasons including lack of funding and appropriate access to resources within the school system for these students. As Sowers (1998) notes there is a "disproportionate share of problem second graders" at the school she used to work at; but she has also noticed the same problems at every "elementary and secondary school in the country" in a society that suffers from various problems including "mental illness" and educational under funding. The school districts according to Sowers (1998) are at best, "overburdened and under funded" hence unprepared to take on the challenges of students with some form of mental illness; only a fraction of secondary and elementary school currently receive mental health support for students whether in public or in private."
Abstract Canadians have seen a constant deterioration in the existing health care system and current wait times have exceeded accepted limits and medical manpower has significantly decreased. This paper examines how in reaction to these growing problems Canada's health care officials have began implementing a relatively new role for nurses into the health care system. It looks at how the nurse practitioner has a master's degree in nursing and additional education in medical care and how, by employing the nurse practitioner in many areas of health care there has been an increase in access to existing recourses, decreased wait times, improved health outcomes by early diagnosis and overall healtheducation.
Outline
Abstract
The Nurse Practitioner Advantage
Nurse Practitioners Are Crucial
General Practitioners and Nurse Practitioners Working Together
Conclusion
From the Paper "Nevertheless, implementing NPs into the current health care system is facing some difficulties. The biggest sets backs have been from the opposition of general practitioners (physicians). General practitioners are nervous that nurse practitioners will be taking employment opportunities away that were previously dedicated to only doctors. And some doctors are even going to the extreme as of saying that nurse practitioners are so under qualified that they are dangerous. One doctor, Dr. Scott Stern, was reported saying, "in most situations, patients are compromising their care and settling for less when they see someone other then a doctor.... To assume that somebody who has much less training is going to do as good a job just doesn't make any sense" (Perez, 2006). But, the role of the NP is not designed to replace any other member of the health care system, but rather is intended to work in relationships to improve timely access to care with a slightly different approach to care. "
Abstract This paper studies the social issues for the Circumpolar North, with its thin population and great wealth of natural resources. The paper explains how there are growing social and economic dislocations, coupled with scientific concern over anthropogenic stresses, on the environment and resources. This paper therefore studies the complex series of shared problems related to: (1) climate change, (2) economic globalization, (3) international scrutiny of the peoples of Arctic North, (4) conflicts over the use of natural resources and (5) health,education and environmental concerns for the indigenous communities.
Outline
Introduction
Background
An Overview of Social Issues
Social Issues in the International Context
Sustainable Development and Self-Determination
Health Issues: General Overview
Indigenous Health Issues
Education as a Social Issue
The Environment-Health Nexus
Conclusion: The Impacts of Change
Challenges Facing Arctic Communities
From the Paper "The interaction of climate, landscape, human migration and cultures has been fundamental to the development of the circumstances local communities now find themselves in. Indigenous northern peoples developed many similar methods and techniques for coping with the extremes of environment in which they lived and the effects of contact on northern Indigenous peoples, in the long run, were somewhat similar across the Circumpolar North. National governments, understanding it was their role and duty to integrate northern Indigenous peoples into the nation, to define national borders and assume responsibility for the people inside those borders, applied thinking rooted in cultures vastly different from those of the northern Indigenous peoples. A form of what we would now recognize as cultural imperialism, colonialism, or ethnocentrism often underlaid the relations between government representatives and northern peoples. The results of often well intentioned programs were the decline in the use and health of Indigenous languages, the erosion of cultural elements that no longer served to make sense of the changing northern world, and the undermining of national and individual identity."
Abstract The purpose of this research is to determine the level of usage of computers by high school physical education departments as well as the level of knowledge that physical education teachers have regarding the use of this technology. It gives insight as to the attitudes of physical education teachers towards the use of computers in the physical education setting. The research aims to develop a solution to get more physical education departments to use computers for the maximum benefit of their student population. The paper makes extensive use of tables.
Paper Outline:
General Introduction
Introduction
Rationale for Study
Scope of Study
Thesis
Literature Review
Current State of Technology and Usage
Critical Issues in Implementing the Use of computers in Physical Education How Computers Can Help Achieve National Standards for Physical Development and Health Current Software for Physical Education Methodology
Sample Population
Survey Instrument
Data Analysis and Interpretation
Assumptions and Limitations of Study
Findings
Works Cited
From the Paper "Computer technology is an integral part of other subjects such as math and science, but has been seldom used as a learning tool in physical education. Other than for record keeping, the computer has been used very little. Children need to know the basics of physical conditioning and other topics that are not covered in health class. In health class, they learn the basics, but physical education could be so much more than it is today. Children need to learn how to stay fit. We know the health benefits and the advantages that exercise have on the brain's ability to learn. Physical education could use computer technology to give students a broader understanding of these topics."
Abstract This paper identifies some of the key health inequalities that currently exist in Australia by examining the structured social inequalities (class, gender, policy, ethnicity, education) that create them. It looks at how social inequalities in Australia have a major impact on health and health care and how strategies aimed at reducing health inequalities need to acknowledge the political, economic, and social factors that determine citizens? opportunities, capacity, and ability to improve their health outcomes.
From the Paper "Health is a complex subject that includes physical, mental, social, ecological, cultural and spiritual aspects (Bingemann, 2000). The explanations as to the causes of inequalities in health are difficult to explain. A combination of factors; including peoples living and working conditions, their economic and personal histories, their social relationships and lifestyles all contribute. Much health related behavior is socially determined. The cumulative effect over a lifetime, of health damaging or health promoting physical and social environments may be the main cause of the differences."
