Pediatricians play a very important role in our community. They provide healthcare to children ranging in age from birth to the adolescent years. Typically a new patient comes in soon after brith and is cared for throushout the age of 18. The extensive education requirements and knowledge of your...
In our society, one's social class, race, ethnicity, gender and age all play a vital role in determining their health status. Social class is directly related to one's health. The lower classes tend to have higher rates of mortality and disability. The low-income families, suffer from crowded li...
Science and modern inventions- a blessing or a curse No one can deny that science and modern inventions have indeed been a blessing for mankind. We should be grateful to scientists and inventors like Thomas Edison, James Watt and hundreds of other pioneers who carried out innumerab...
Chronic pain is seen as physical burden in which many people suffer from. The results of chronic pain cause many physical disabilities. These disabilities can prevent people from working, having feeling in their limbs and can cause a lot of emotional problems. It is just recently that chro...
Many women experience psychosis after childbirth, due to the hormone imbalance often caused by giving birth. ... The woman behind the wallpaper is a representation of all of the women who have been locked away after giving birth due to the many mental conditions childbirth can cause. ...
In early American society medicine was far different from the way it is now. People were completely unaware of the correlation between unsanitary living conditions and disease. They were even oblivious to the fact that bacteria and viruses cause illnesses and disease. Along with this lack of knowled...
There are uninsured people at all income levels, although members of families earning less than 200 percent of FPL are twice as likely to be uninsured as are members of the general population under age 6 (National Academies Press 2001) Most uninsured people are U.S. citizens by birth (native-born residents comprise about 90 percent of the general population). ...
The term Euthanasia has become well known throughout the country. The word is derived from ancient Greek eu thantos, meaning "easy death." Today, euthanasia is referred to as mercy killing. There is much controversy over whether or not the practice is just. Euthanasia raises many religious, medical,...
CONTEMPORARY GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS DECONSTRUCTION Throughout history, women have been struggling for their rights and for their freedom. They have been marginalized and dehumanized by men in the society. Women had to fights for their rights such as voting, education, property, humanity and for...
This paper explores a SWOT analysis for the Village of Matteson IL. It evaluates the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of this community's health system in relation to the Healthy People 2020 Topics and Objective. The Community that Team DEAA chose to do our SWOT project on is the Village of Matteson IL. Matteson's geographically located 41 degree 30ft. 35 inch N 87 degree 44ft. 21 inches W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Area is 7.2 square miles, of which 7.1 square miles consist of land: 0.1 square miles consist of water. ...
Alternative Medicine Throughout recorded history, people of various cultures have relied on what Western medical practitioners today call alternative medicine. The term alternative medicine covers a broad range of healing philosophies, approaches, and therapies. It generally describes those trea...
In the eighth century, a new Muslim kingdom was established by the Umayyad in Spain. Cordoba, the capital city of the kingdom, became the centre of intellectual life. In this flourishing time, Muslims were known for their love of knowledge and books. Then during the Abbasid era, House of Wisdom was established in Baghdad, where scholars from different parts of the world translated books into Arabic, Greek, Persian and Indian languages. No one can deny that Muslims contributed to various fields of human knowledge. ...
