"Training Traditional Birth Attendants wastes time and resources."" ... Traditional Birth Attendants are often selected by their local communities. ... Family planning A small scale training program for birth attendants in the Sahel was evaluated two years after it had begun. ... Traditionally the attitudes of professional staff to birth attendants has often been negative, which can have the undesirable effect of deterring birth attendants from making referrals early, if at all. ... A biomedical understanding of birth is introduced by focusing on a physiological realm divorced from soci...

• Word Count: 2050
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Information displayed in the lobby consisted of brochures pertaining information about STD's and different types of birth control, and other community resources that were available to the public for various causes and reasons. ... Some of the services provided are as listed: Abortion Referral, Birth Control, General Health Care, HIV Testing, LGBT Services, Men's Health Care, Morning-After Pill (Emergency Contraception), Pregnancy Testing & Services, STD Testing, Treatment & Vaccines, and Women's Health Care. ...

• Word Count: 1100
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sheridan in 1970); many of his other books began to appear in translation following the success of The Order of Things, making his work accessible to an international audience.[3] In 1970, he was given the opportunity to join faculty at the CollÃge de France, and named his chair "History and Systems of Thought. "[4] By the 1980s, historians began dealing with the implications of Foucault's work.[5] The Birth of the Clinic, his second major book-length work, was published in 1963. ... Foucault practiced a kind of history of ideas, which some have described as a shift toward history of me...

• Word Count: 2204
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

My cousin, having endured a difficult and strenuous pregnancy leading up to my goddaughter's birth, bestowed this name upon her to symbolize their struggle to have a child and her fight for survive. At that moment, I came to fully understand and appreciate the miracle of birth. ... Approximately twenty-seven and a half weeks into her pregnancy, my cousin gave birth to a premature infant. ...

• Word Count: 1090
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 233
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 281
• Approx Pages: 1
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Now physical therapy is used for all kinds of things like helping young children overcome crippling birth defects, help stroke victims restore movement in their limbs or it can help post operative patients to a speedy recovery. ...

• Word Count: 319
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

 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...

• Word Count: 450
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 546
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

As a Biology major, my career options are plentiful. I have always known that I wanted to help people, and I have always been interested in the medical field. I could never become a doctor or a nurse, because of my fear of blood and needles; therefore, I am seriously considering occupational thera...

• Word Count: 392
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 996
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Who has ever heard of Hirschprung Disease? Probably not too many of us have an idea what kind of illness it is since it is not a disease frequently mentioned such as Cancer, HIV, Leukemia or many others. Nevertheless, only the ones suffering from Hirschprung syndrome are able to know and feel the ch...

• Word Count: 1640
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" bioethics is confronted with an extraordinarily difficult quandary: how to reconcile the clearly immense differences in the social and personal realities of moral life with the need to apply a universal standard to those fragments of experience that can foster not only comparison and evaluation bu...

• Word Count: 870
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

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...

• Word Count: 810
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Henrietta not telling any of her family members about her cancer, and then making the decision that she was too sick and tired to be able to take care of her mentally retarded daughter, and sent her to the mental hospital (I could not imagine keeping something with this much importance away from my ...

• Word Count: 748
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If a doctor or any health care professional just stood by during the birth of a child and both the child and the mother were dying, how could that doctor stand there and watch both the mother and the infant die without taking some method of action. ...

• Word Count: 2725
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When the Civil War began, neither the Union nor the Confederacy was prepared for the level of destruction that warfare would bring. Neither side could have predicted that 600,000 men would die as a result of this conflict. After the first Battle of Bull Run in July 1861, both sides realized that t...

• Word Count: 2474
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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,...

• Word Count: 964
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Health is about the overall physical, social, spiritual and mental well being of a person. In the 1980s the World Health Organisation (WHO) defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity' There can be no absolute fixed...

• Word Count: 1261
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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). ...

• Word Count: 1293
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In cases where a baby has been born with both Down's Syndrome and some other easily treatable condition, he argues, doctors and parents often refuse to treat the secondary condition so that the baby will die and not grow up with a serious birth defect "an alternative not available to other Down's Syndrome children who are born without accompanying physical ailments. ...

• Word Count: 952
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

The prehistoric acceleration of population growth after the adoption of sedentism and farming, if it is not an artifact of archaeological reconstruction, could be explained by an increase in fertility or altered birth control decisions that appear to accompany sedentism and agriculture. ...

• Word Count: 1151
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

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...

• Word Count: 2682
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 3462
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Euthanasia: B-There is a new interest that literature has developed on death in the direction of the concern with the conditions of death, including the related matters of euthanasia and the right to death with dignity.(239) A-"the issues of birth control, suicide and euthanasia [...are] the strongest proponents [which ] Roman Catholics [have] the greatest opposition.(89) A-"Although religious and nonreligious person exhibit strong emotional involvement with death and assign "bad" and "potent" values to death words, the more religious apparently view their deaths more positively and have a ...

• Word Count: 1565
• Approx Pages: 6