" Gollust (2013) analysis the consequences of childhood obesity through several studies in his article "Framing the Consequences of Childhood Obesity to Increase Public Support for Obesity Prevention Policy.... Children that are obese are at risk for behavioral problems, depression, low self-esteem, emotional problems and they commonly have medical problems like high blood pressure (Papalia & Feldman, 2012). ... These problems go beyond just the medical conditions to issues like missing school or stress. Obese children are twice as likely to be affected by mental, medical, and develo...

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Rationale for the Research Work-related stress is a growing problem around the world that affects not only the health and well-being of employees, but also the productivity of organizations. ... A more cost-effective way would be to identify employees with high health problems and poor quality of life. ... The high stress employees were reported as having the most health problems with minimal confidence or support for change. ... It will identify the people at high risk for health problems and poor health habits. ... Therefore, this article will examine the relationship between the use of a w...

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This correlated with the prevalence of an increase of women smoking during pregnancy in the same time-frame in the area, illustrated the links between different factors. ... Children living in cold homes are more than twice as likely to suffer from a variety of respiratory problems than children living in warm homes. ... For example if a patient came to a holistic practitioner suffering from migraine headaches, "instead of walking out solely with medications, the holistic doctor would look at all the potential factors that may be causing the person's headaches, such as other health...

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The scope of knowledge within the relatively short frame of human evolution has and continues to be staggering. The results found from the study of past civilizations, past lives and struggles illustrate vast solutions to contemporary struggles and problems that plague humanity. ... Therefore, just imagining this problem was even more catastrophic as Egyptians had no hard scientific framework on which to base discoveries on, even though they were physicians. ... This emphasis on ritual, along with their incantations, would prove extraordinarily destructive in trying to find effective cures and...

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In order to frame a solution, the essay takes into account three main diseases-coronary heart disease, diabetes and obesity with a viewpoint of assessing the financial costs of NHS and UK tax payers. ... It is illustrated that the diagnosis of obesity (in adults, children and elderly) and diabetes together with the associated problems would cost the government of United Kingdom, a total of 5.8 billion pounds (House of Commons, 2012). ...

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The Scope of the Problem The relationship between health care and health. ... Health problems are correlated with other life stresses. ... (Whitehead 1999, Ross and Mirowsky 2000, Gunning-Schepers, and Stronks 1999, Brown 1999, Fuchs 1998) The problem extends beyond the usual boundaries of health services. ...

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Included in the EHR are patient demographics, progress and problem notes, medications, laboratory orders and results, vital signs, past medical history, family history of disease, immunizations, and radiology reports (Jacques, 2011). ... Besides implementation costs, EHRs require a lengthy time frame for proper operation. ...

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Bichat's analytic method provided a classificatory system to displace the old nosological order: "By giving life, and pathological life, so fundamental a status, Bichat freed medicine from the vitalist and other related problems. "[19] Foucault argued that the marriage of pathological anatomy and clinical medicine brought about a new way of thinking about disease "as embodied in the living patient "and death "as a slow process of degeneration: "It is not that man falls ill that he dies; it is that man may die that he is susceptible to disease. " [20] Chapter 10 provided an...

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Software that uses two-digit year fields (that is, almost all of it) will understand the year 2000 as "00- if the problem is not corrected in time- (pg. 1). The medical industry as a whole will approach year 2000 with months of new system implementations and developing contingency plans to deal with problems associated with Y2K. ... The Year 2000 computer problem is sometimes referred to as Y2K or "the bug-. Regardless of the name most sources use similar definitions to define the problem. ... It continued by saying that the "Senate staff researchers had found that 80 percent of hospitals ...

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