Maria is 15 years old and 74 pounds overweight. Her father is an uber driver who was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Her mother works for a cleaning company. She is overweight with lipid disorder (high blood levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and triglycerides). She is taking two antihypertensive medications at present time. At a recent health science fair at Maria’s school, a student-led screening clinic documented Maria’s blood pressure at 141/92 mm Hg. The family immigrated from Nicaragua 3 years ago and they do not have health insurance.
During health science fair, the following data was recorded: 56% of the students with BMI 25.0 to <30 and 18% of the students with BMI 30.0 or higher.
Consider yourself a community health nurse.
Is obesity a major health issue in the United States?
According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NCHS, CDC; BRFSS, 2012), how is obesity defined?
What is your role as a community nurse?
What risk factors should be explored for Maria’s family for cardiovascular disease? Mention social determinants of health in this case. Incorporate the concepts of health promotion and risk reduction.
Would you apply any of the behavioral change models to address health promotion and risk reduction in this case (theoretical frameworks of behavioral change / models discussed on Chapter 5 of textbook). Describe your selection.
Public health nurses use statistics to demonstrate the need for obesity program development and community interventions. According to the most recent CDC data: What data were identified about obesity in children and adults?
Is there a necessity of planning a community nursing intervention? How will you do that? Will you work alone or in collaboration / teamwork? Will you look for funding? How?
If you decide to do a community intervention. How would you evaluate the community-level intervention(s)?
Will you use social marketing to change health behaviors or beliefs, social or cultural norms, or community standards to improve health or benefit society. Which resources will you use?
Picked Country: United States of America
Essential consideration assumes a focal job in a human services conveyance arrangement of the United States. Contrasted with essential consideration benefits that incorporate avoidance, symptomatic and restorative administrations, auxiliary consideration administrations (hospitalization, interview and routine medical procedure) and tertiary consideration administrations (injury and consume treatment) are progressively mind boggling and concentrated, and the sorts of consideration are additionally recognized by span, recurrence, and level of power. Essential consideration in United States are conveyed by three strengths family prescription, general drug and general pediatric. In 2008, United States had among 954,224 complete specialists of medication, 784,199 were effectively rehearsing and 305,264 were rehearsing in essential consideration strengths (32% of the aggregate and 39% of effectively rehearsing doctors). The extent of masters was over 60% of all patient consideration doctors. Be that as it may, United States still lingers behind other created nations in both populace wellbeing and wellbeing framework execution. The historical backdrop of essential consideration can be followed back a century in the United States which has extended through the information of physiology that prompted biomedical model of ailment. Changes in restorative instruction in 1910 arrangement a phase for making a specialization inside educating medical clinics. During 1990, the United States care associations adopted UK NHS strategy for utilizing essential consideration doctors as watchmen however because of statistic contrasts, United States patients were not acquainted with getting an authorization of an essential consideration doctor before observing a master. The explanation behind utilizing doctor as guards was to improve the nature of consideration and abatement the expense of administrations. There was increment in the interest for US essential doctor in 1990, notwithstanding, increment in desk work exceeded the advantages. According to ongoing productions, the a large portion of individuals in United States are wary about essential
medicinal services suppliers guarantee to convey far reaching essential consideration including their capacity to utilize innovation for better treatment and care. Essential consideration specialists (generalists) as a rule need regard in scholarly circles because of their operational difficulties, for example, authoritative weights, unbendable arrangement calendars and brief visits block their presentation which prompts absence of fulfillment from both the patient and the supplier. To share some remaining burden from essential consideration doctors, hospitalists and illness the executives projects were come in United States social insurance framework to make a high-volume specialty out of zone of training and supplant comprehensively based exercises of essential consideration doctors. Hospitalists development depends on the possibility that essential consideration doctors should hand over the consideration of their patients when admitted to emergency clinic to group of specialists situated in medical clinic instead of attempt to go to them themselves which is budgetary worthwhile in light of the fact that the greater part of the essential consideration specialists work in emergency clinics are paid well. The quick advance of restorative innovation added to the interest for claim to fame administrations than essential consideration focuses.
When all is said in done, medicinal services inclusion in United States is given through mix of private medical coverage and general medical coverage however it merits seeing that health care coverage suppliers give higher protection repayment to masters in respect to essential consideration doctors which adds to the present irregularity. Numerous insurance agencies pay more for emergency clinic based complex demonstrative and obtrusive methodology however not for routine preventive visits and conferences which makes hard for essential consideration focuses to pull in patients. Arrangement creators and overall population likewise has next to no information of the adequacy of essential consideration and its effect on populace wellbeing which regularly prompts pointless political responsibility and withdrawal of related segments. Difficulties looked in essential consideration that has ruined its advancement are disappointment, extended periods of time, high pressure, poor repayment, and disintegration of
extent of training. Essential consideration specialists in United States are paid lower pay rates than medical clinic experts. A large portion of the ongoing alumni specialists in United States who take training credit like to go for masters (generalist doctor and radiologist) professions than work in an essential consideration. Essential consideration specialists are paid through charges for administration model which powers specialists to draw in and increment persistent volume as opposed to coherence, completeness, or joining of consideration. Low money related edges for essential consideration specialists make it hard for them to convey excellent consideration. To give, Effective group based consideration in essential consideration, specialists in United States requires electronic wellbeing record which is costly to actualize with no administration support.
To reinforce the essential consideration framework and make it fruitful in United States, political heads and strategy producers have actualized different estimates, for example, changes in Medicare charge plan which had past favored experts in repayment rates, empowered help for Title VII wellbeing callings preparing programs, and the most discussed Affordable Care Act (ACA), investigating growing the job that Nurse professionals, and Physician partners to decrease the weight on essential consideration doctors. The accomplishment of essential consideration in United States are expressed in different research ponders which reasoned that nearness of more noteworthy essential consideration accessibility in a network is associated with both better wellbeing results and a decline in usage of progressively costly sorts of wellbeing administrations, for example, hospitalizations and crisis office visits.
Key components of family drug and essential consideration in essential consideration framework are characterized by WHO in 1978 through Alma-Ata Declaration which goes about as gauge in surveying the broadness of essential consideration administrations and checking of essential consideration quality. These six components are straightforward entry, the clinical nature of the consideration, relational parts of consideration, coherence, and coordination. Level of
access to essential consideration is subject to different subfactors which can ruin or encourage the nature of consideration. Sub-factors that can obstruct the straightforward entry can be the accessibility of night-time care, the length of office hold up time, travel time to an arrangement, absence of a particular Primary consideration doctor at the site of essential consideration, and lower apparent adaptability in choosing an essential consideration doctor. While sub-factors that can encourage straightforward entry are improved access to essential consideration may likewise improve the progression of consideration for patients with misery. It is worth to make reference to that in United States depending the protection type patients may encounter distinctive degree of nature of essential consideration. The coherence key factor in essential consideration quality can be influenced by arrangement hold up time length, the protection status of patient, and twilight consideration accessibility.
Generally, the United States approach producers are attempting to reinforce the essential consideration framework through different changes, be that as it may, because of deficiency of essential consideration doctors, low wages, absence of acknowledgment by American individuals it has been extremely testing to support previous restorative understudies to pick vocations as essential consideration doctors over pros.
A large portion of the articles and papers used to gather information for this contextual investigation has been distributed in world class diaries and composed by research colleagues from John Hopkins School of Public Health and other surely understood establishments. These articles are as often as possible refered to by different writers doing research in the comparative field which approves its legitimacy. Be that as it may, as expressed in each exploration paper, the majority of the reference work grandstand the creators’ own work and there is constantly an extent of extending the collection of information and trying things out for future research.