Question

1- Describe Health Disparities between men and women, provide examples.

2- What are common health related issues for men and women and how can the community nurse help eliminate the disparities.

3- What are new born and infant recommendations regarding safety and what level of prevention will the nurse be implementing?

4- Describe and explain the Affordable Care Act of 2010.

5- What are some of the Adolescents health issues and how can they be prevented?

Answer 1

1- Describe Health Disparities between men and women, provide examples.

• There are many health disparities between men and women
• For example talking about mental health female are more likely to get frequent mental distress and depression.
• On the other hand men are more in number to commit suicide compared to statistics of women.
• While talking about unhealthy behavior males are higher in number of smoking and drinking alcohol as compared to women.
• While considering the nature of job and other activities women are less active that men in their physical activity.
• Being physically active can prevent you from getting many chronic illness.

2- What are common health related issues for men and women and how can the community nurse help eliminate the disparities.

Common health related issues - men

• Heart disease
• Respiratory problems
• Depression and suicide.
• Drinking and smoking
• Accidents
• Diabetes.
• Liver disease

Common health related issues - women

• Heart Disease.
• Cancer (Breast cancer , Ovarian and Cervical Cancer etc)
• Gynecological issues
• Pregnancy realted problems
• Autoimmune disoreders
• Depression and Anxiety.  

How can community nurse help to eliminate disparities

• Proper health education
• Awareness programme conduction
• Identification of affected community
• Raise public awareness
• Expand health insurance coverage
• Quality education to all age group

3- What are new born and infant recommendations regarding safety and what level of prevention will the nurse be implementing?

- Prevention of accidents requires three things that is forethought , time and discipline.Parents play a major role in prevention of accidents and safety precautions

Safety precautions are

• Never leave an infant alone in an unprotected place where there is chance for fall
• Never give very small things to child
• Never feed solids which are difficult to chew
• Electrical appliance should be kept out of reach
• Give proper direction for action
• provide constant supervision
• Toys should not have removable small parts
• Coins , buttons , beads must not be left within child's reach
• Keep hot things far away from child

Primodial level of prevention must be implemented by the nurse.

4- Describe and explain the Affordable Care Act of 2010.

- The Affordable Care Act, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a United States federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010

- The comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010

- It is commonly known as Obamacare

- Obamacare's main goals were to make health insurance more affordable, more accessible, and overall more fair for consumers.

- Many health insurance changes came out of the ACA.

- A set of 10 categories of services health insurance plans must cover under the Affordable Care Act

- The law has 3 primary goals:

• Make affordable health insurance available to more people.
• Expand the Medicaid program to cover all adults with income below 138% of the federal poverty level.
• Support innovative medical care delivery methods designed to lower the costs of health care generally.

5- What are some of the Adolescents health issues and how can they be prevented?

Adolescents health issues

Mental health

• Violence, poverty, humiliation and feeling of uvalued can increase the risk of developing mental health problems in adolescence
• Depression , lonliness , suicide etc are the end results of these mental health issues

Infectious disease

• Measles , diarrhoes , chicken pox , lower respiratory tract infection etc

Early pregnancy and childbirth

• The leading cause of death for 15-19 year-old girls globally is complications from pregnancy and childbirth.

Addiction to alcohol and other drugs

• Adolescence is the time where most of person are starting their habits of drinking and smoking
• Later they become a bad habit that cannot be stopped

Nutrition deficiencies

• adolescence is the peak time where a lot of nutrients is required by the body for growth and development
• Lack of proper nutrition can lead to diseases like anemia , protein energy malnutrition etc.

Prevention

• Provide adequate love , care and support
• Give neede health education
• Guide them in their need
• Encourage positive peer relationship
• Try to buid a healthy lifestyle that you can follow in later entire life
• Keep a goal in life
• Give them moral , physical and mental support
• Be with them in their problems