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– Health Behavior Project (Start doing sports Re -fitness and going to the gym to lose weight in a healthy way and also build muscles ) 1. Choose one health behavior to improve upon 10 weeks . (( 5 Pages )) 2. Write a one page introduction on why you have chosen this health behavior to change. 3. Write one paragraph or ”bullet” statements each week about your actions and progress. 4. At the end of the project time write a one page summary of your success/challenges and how you feel about this project. This project is due on the date sited on the course outline. This project must be double – spaced with font no larger than 12. Extra info… Why Behavior Change Is Often Difficult : • Several factors influence a person’s desire to change a health behavior — the person must 1. Know the behavior is associated with a health problem 2. Accept that the behavior increases personal risk for the health problem 3. Recognize that risk -reduction intervention programs exist and can be effective 4. Believe the benefits of the new beh avior justify the change in behavior 5. Feel that significant others will be accepting of such changes Stages of Change : • Prochaska et al. (1994) identified the following six stages people go through in changing health behaviors:  Precontemplation  Contemplation  Preparation  Action  Maintenance  Termination
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Running head: Childhood Obesity 1 Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity fall s under the maternal, infant and child health. In this light, statistics show that most of the children in developed countries suffer from obesity among other lifestyle conditions. In this aspect, an evaluation of the causes of obesity describes that child obesity is caused by generic factors. Importantly, genetically inherited conditions could attribute to children obesity. Also , lack of physical activity and unhealthy eating could also attribute to obesity and overweight conditions. Importantly, obesity ac t as a risk factor for high cholesterol conditions, high blood pressure, heart conditions and diseases, diabetes and bone problems at an early age. The MIC act as important guidelines and indicators for disease prevention and management in the society. In this light, control of diseases and conditions such as obesity. Importantly, the family being the basic unit of growth for infants and children, the nutritional therapy should be conducted to prevent children obesity. In this light, the condition of childr en obesity should be diagnosed early to rule out the conditions and possibility of health problems related to children obesity. Additionally, the infant and children health streams down from the mother’s health during and immediately after pregnancy, the mothers’ levels of prenatal care, the status of immunization, the environment in which the infant finds after birth as well as the medical services the infant receives. Research has shown that the federal governments have laid initiatives that are aimed at improving children care. In this aspect, the elimination of the health challenges would help reduce the conditions for children obesity to zero cases. In this light, child obesity is one of the health risk conditions that children and adolescent face. Luc kily, the implementation of the health programs and nutritional therapy is a clear way to solve the condition.
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Access to Health Care Access to health care in the United States encompasses a system of service providers that make a complete system. In this light, the access to health care has been a subject of discussion since the early 1870s. Importantly, the access to health care has gr own over time from home health care provision to the hospitals in large cities (Gulliford & Morgan , 2013) . Notably, the history of the health care in the United States has been motivated by the series of endless scientific innovations over the years. In this way, the innovations have seen the system grow from the constraints of health care access to the decli ne of mortality rates due to increased access to health care. Clearly, in the early 1990s, the chronic diseases rose to be the leading causes of deaths (Gulliford & Morgan , 2013) . In this light, the developed systems that constituted of the new procedures such as the x -rays and chemotherapy improved the health care access to the society. Some of the factors that improved the health care access increments include the improved expenditures on health care programs. The governments increase the expenditures on health care that caused a rise in the GDP to approximately 4% (Gulliford & Morgan , 2013) . Importantly, the health care access and maintenance organization act formed and enacted in 1973 has laid strategies such as; improve and increased health system agen cies, clarification of the role of competition among the health organization and inclusion of innovative technology in health care (Gulliford & Morgan , 2013) . Importantly, the access to health care has been improved due to the presence of different agencie s such as; independent providers, nurses, allied healthcare professionals as well as the Nonallopathic providers. Access to health care is a social amenity that contributes to the wellbeing of the community.
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Domestic Violence The purpose of this analysis is to provide a wide introduction to the problem of injury in the U.S. , and help in the development of an innov ative way of thinking about commencing a plan for injury prevention. Although injur ies are a major problem in the United States, they can as easily be prevented. There are a lot of mode ls that work in prevention of b oth i ntentional and unintentional injuries. Creation of a warm and welcoming environment is an effective strategy in pre venting incidences of violence at the community level. This strategy aims at addressing problems at a community level, concentrating on the development of structured and supervised opportunities for community members and addressing various kinds of violence through multiple types of solutions . An entire community should be treated like a patient instead of individual -based treatment strategies. Taking a social environment prevention strategy means that there is focus on prevention of violence. This illustrates that apart from attaching importance in developing formal laws to punish violence perpetrators, prevention of violence is a ke y element. Therefore, approaches should be aimed at averting the incidence of both violence and injury cases in the first place. Regulation is also an effective element in preventing unintentional injuries. Th is involves passing policies related to servin g alcohol, policies for legal driving age, worker safe ty policies and concealed weaponr y laws. These efforts res ult in a reduction of incidents on injuries. The most important concept is that there are numerous ways in which a community and people , at an individual level , can intervene to prevent injuries and violence in communities. The social environment is very important and issues of violence should be displayed on mass media to discourage such behaviors , while also sensitizing people on the same .