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PHC 312
Briefly discuss the importance of citizen engagement in health communication
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-Discuss impacts of environmental health and the relationship to risk.
-Provide examples of the social, cultural, political, and economic impacts of environmental health problems
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There are many obstacles to the development of an HIV vaccine, the complexity of the virus, its pathogenesis, and the human immune response also make it difficult to determine when any investigations vaccine satisfies ethical criteria for research use in human subjects . Describe or explain the ethical dilemmas of testing human candidate for HIV vaccines?
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How has the discovery of blood transfusion from 1667
by jean Baptiste denis has changed the united states health care
system?
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How is proteins digested and absorbed after eating a peanut and jelly sandwich on whole wheat including the constituents representing proteins and how and where they are digested and absorbed and how and where proteins are utilized or stored in the body. Include the chemical, hormonal, and enzyme changes that impact this meal.
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What role do Medicare and Medicaid play in this determination—are hospitals paid enough by these governmental payers?
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Health Assessment: Lungs and Thorax
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II. Cardiovascular System
Health Assessment: Heart and Neck Vessels
a. Anatomical landmarks for assessing the heart and neck vessels
b. Physical assessment techniques for assessing the heart and neck vessels
c. Normal and Abnormal Findings: Inspection, Palpation, Percussion, Auscultation
d. Heart Sounds and Murmurs: Normal and Abnormal findings and clinical significance
e. (application)Jugular Venous Pressure: Normal and Abnormal findings and clinical significance / CHF
f. Assessing Murmurs
g. Peripheral vascular pulses
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III. Skin, Hair, and Nails
a. Health Assessment: Skin, Hair, Nails
b. Techniques for assessing the skin, hair, and nails
c. Normal and Abnormal Findings: Clinical Significance
d. Skin Lesions: descriptions and assessment
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Mr. Evan Pravesh is 60-year-old man in the acute stage of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. He is admitted to a nursing home because he has no family to help care for him. He has had chemotherapy in the past but has decided against further treatment. You are assigned to his care today. You find him pale and weak, with no energy to get out of bed. He also reports pain in his chest.
Mr. Pravesh says he is too weak to get up for breakfast. What should you do?
How do you follow up with the pain in his chest?
Mr. Pravesh calls you “Susan” when you enter his room, but that’s not your name. How do you respond?
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Adjusting to Corporate Life
Jamal is a 36-year-old African American accountant. He is 6 feet tall and weighs 305 pounds. In high school Jamal was a three sports-a-year athlete. He was a trim 180 pounds. During college he was on the baseball team. His coach had the team in excellent condition, running sprints and drills. After college, Jamal stayed active with softballbut as the years progressed, he became more of a corporate man than an athlete, Jamal has been very upset with his weight and has tried Atkins and Weight watchers. Because of the stress of owning two businesses, Jamal finds himself eating at all hours of the night and not even watching what he is eating, he is also occasionally constipated. Jamal seeks out his doctor for some helpful advice. Jamal's doctor advises him to go on a high-fiber diet and drink
13 glasses of water each day.
Rate this plate Jamal has a hectic schedule, but that
shouldn't keep him from packing a cooler for those late-night snacks or meals.Jamal packed the following items in the cooler for one meal and snacks when he gets the munchies. Rate what has been packed for this evening and into the night.
Sandwich
Munchies
2 slices 100% whole wheat bread 1 bag pretzels
3 oz roasted turkey 1 large orange peeled and separated into sections
2 slices tomatoe
20 mini carrots
2 large leaves of leaf lettuce 2 celery sticks with peanut butter (2tbsp) 1 tsp low-fat mayonnaise
2 rice krispies squares
1 tsp tangy mustard cup diet applesauce
1 cup diet gelatine
1 bag baked potato chips
1 large apple
ASSESSMENT
1. What objective and subjective data do
you have about Jamal? 2 What other issues could be influencing
his weight?
3, What important information do you have regarding Jamal's eating habits?
4. What food consumption would be helpful to identify Jamal's present habits?
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