Some people are able to cope better than others depending on the severity and type of illness, coping strategies, and most important of all, the person's network of support such as family and friends. ... Social support may consist of family, friends, and healthcare workers or caregivers. ... (Tsasis, 2000) On the other hand, patients with no effective social support or nonsupportiveness from family and friends may have poor health outcomes. Social support can help patients to cope with the harmful effects of stress that may be experienced from living with HIV/AIDS. Lack or loss of s...

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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...

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