allowing healthcare workers to use marijuana at work For this paper you will identify a current health policy issue to explore. You can choose a policy topic that you are already interested in, or you can search health news websites (e.g. Kaiser Health News, Health Affairs Blog, or Commonwealth Fund). Your paper should include five primary pieces: * Problem statement * A background summary of the issue. This background summary should include the historical, social, political, and economic context of the issue. * What is the landscape of the problem? At what level of policy will you address the problem (i.e. is it a community or local, county, state, or national policy? or Is it specific to the organization where you work?)? * Who are the key stakeholders? * [unique_solution]What current policies are particularly relevant to your proposal. What is the current state of the issue you are addressing in terms of existing policies? Are there policies in place now that would change or be altered under your proposal? If so, what are they and why should they be changed?…
MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENTAL GOALS IN KENYA Question 1 The UN nations developed the Millennium Developmental Goals to eradicate poverty, preventing diseases, reduce neonatal and maternal mortality, and promote gender equality and equity by 2015 (MDG Gap Task Force, 2011). I will discuss improving maternal health, which is MDG5. Maternal health indicators in Kenya include maternal mortality ratio and antenatal care coverage. Tremendous effort has been made over the past decade to promote optimum maternal and neonatal health. The country has established several facilities that deal with women’s reproductive health issues. Services offered in the hospitals and the community include antenatal and post-natal services, family planning, health education, PMTCT and ARV therapy, and counseling and testing services. The antenatal coverage is reported to have increased and is attributed to the elimination of in 2013 through the Linda mama initiative. This has lowered pregnancy-related deaths resulting from the use of unskilled birth attendants. Since 2013, maternal and neonatal mortality rates have reduced due to increased use of health facility services, although they still encounter several challenges. Maternal mortality rates lowered from 741 in…
Influenza Introduction Influenza is a viral illness that affects the respiratory system. Similarly, the occurrence of the disease is a result of different types of viruses. The sickness is infectious and is spread among humans as well as other species. The transmission of the virus is a result of the exchange of infected droplets between different organisms. The disease is spread through coughing, sneezing, as well as communicating while close to an infected person. Further, the virus has the capability of surviving on non-living organisms. As such, the disease can also be spread through coming into contact with the illness carrying objects and transferring through contact with the eye or nose. Further, the disease can be spread to other individuals after a period of up to 1 week (Principal et al., 2019). Additionally, after infection, the recovery process takes several days. However, for individuals with underlying medical conditions, the infection may result in death. The primary indicators of the virus include fever, coughing, running nose as well as throat complications. Further, the disease is prevalent among infants, pregnant women, as…
Healthcare change initiative One of the primary critical concepts in health organization is the act of managing change. Thus the healthcare providers are obligated to get and make sure they maintain the needed expertise to perform and in initiating their professional tasks. In this case, there are required to complete and undertake the entire needed task which falls under within their area of competence by following up all the changes in technology and other vital areas. Moreover, in health care professional, the evidence of new strains of diseases and other alarming epidemics makes the area much vulnerable for change and thus a need for professions to adhere and able to adjust to changes around their expertise. Considerably, there is a need for the professionals to keep the pace of the changes which in many cases seems to increase dramatically. In this case, the health practitioners and other expertise’s should always involve in managing change and able to handle the complexity of the whole process (Parkin, 2009). Through evaluating, managing, planning and the act of implementing the medical operations and tactics,…
Nutrition cluster Nutrition cluster: Conducted initial meetings with the nutrition cluster to discuss feasible costing approaches and costing models for the assignment. The criteria considered were the Bottom-up approach and top-down approach, while the costing models discussed where ingredient, expenditures method, and mixed-method (combining ingredient and expenditure method). The consensus was made to focus on an approach that is feasible based on the availability of data and time constraints without losing sight of the utility of the end product in S. Sudan nutrition Landscape. A discussion of the draft data collection tools was held with the production of 3 data collection tools, as follows (i) Implementing partners tool; (ii), Donor tool; and (iii) UN agencies tool. Nutrition cluster and technical task force: Further consultation was done with Nutrition Cluster, and Cost Analysis Technical Task Force on draft tools to build consensus on the data collecting tools and possible sources of data. Inputs from consultation with the task force were used to improve data collection tools in readiness to further discussion and sharing with the other key stakeholders. Besides, the consultation…
Brussels, the European Union. Introduction The European Union is a collection of former European states and began as a customs union and free trade area. Currently, the EU exists as a supranational entity with legal, trade, border, and security entities. The association does not manifest characteristic of either a federal state since the management relies on a byzantine bureaucracy in Brussels. Positive attributes of the association are strengthening the prosperity and stability in Europe following the fall of the Second World War and berlin wall. The union, however, is suffering from slowing economic growth, falling behind emergent financial and manufacturing giant’s china. The EU model is reliant on the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 structure, which sought to entrench trade-in the form of a stock market without increasing human capital costs that limit the success of democracies. The paper focuses on historical elements of the European Union, assessing free trade benefits, border and security implications by immigration, and the future of the union following the centralization of political power and customs bureaucracy in the association. The Union The…
Walker Percy’s “The loss of a creature” Walker Percy’s “The loss of a creature” is an essay that explores how the perception of the world seems to have changed over time. The writer explores how the experiences of Garcia López de Cárdenas in the Grand Canyon no longer seem to be the same for people who visit the place in the current days. Percy argues that the only person who got to experience the Grand Canyon for what it really is was the one who discovered it. However, once the government turned it into a national park, it became government property and commercial land, thus losing its essence of sovereignty that people could go and enjoy at will. Besides, this change in the status of the Grand Canyon also made it lose its symbolism as it is now viewed as a criterion for the preformed symbolic complex. Notably, this has been occasioned by the fact that people seem to be only going for the memories and take photographs that impact the perception of visitors through the pictures, postcards, and travel…
Student’s Initial Post-Ethics and Standards in Interpersonal Psychotherapy Response to Amanda Hill’s posting Counselors face challenges such as conflict of interest that are problematic to countertransference when working with diverse populations. However, they must establish actions and behaviors ethical for their professional practice when using the Interpersonal Psychotherapy approach (American Psychological Association, 2017). Countertransference is effective when used appropriately, but it can become unhealthy if the counselor his unresolved emotions onto the clients .if the therapist’s boundaries are not clear, he has a high chance of not remaining objective. As a result, he might react to the clients’ transference with bias. Countertransference happens when therapists lose their objectivity; thus, they become angry, overwhelmed, or bereft when listening to the client. (Loewenthal, 2018). In such cases, the counselors push their clients to deal with the trauma they may have experienced even if the clients are not ready to do so. Due to the same reason, counselors may discourage clients from expressing themselves, arguing it is not yet time. For example, when a counselor is recovering from being abused as a child…
The Men Went To Drink Music is part of us and our society. Bagpipe music is famous in Scotland, where it is used as an icon of their culture. The instruments are employed nationwide and are made of a bag filled with air, reeds, drones, and blow stick. The bagpipes are also used in the Irish culture as national instruments, which means that they are not limited to specific users. They can be played in the pub, streets and any other place. There are costumes worn by bagpipers, which are traditional and symbolic. The music “The Men Went to Drink” is a perfect example of a Scottish bagpipe whose artist is Andrew Wright. Wright is one of the best players in pipe music and has won significant prizes. The music by Andrew brought about nostalgic emotions. The music evoked some sadness, and I had the imagination of persons who were grieving or going through a difficult time. The tune, therefore, serves to provide consolation as sad songs are said to activate hormones in our bodies, which helps to curb the…
Potential Granter for UNDO UR REDONE Name of organization Name of the grant Location Scope of service Website Why I selected it 1 Grant.GOV Sex risk avoidance education program USA (government grant) Empower the young people to make a healthy decision through abstaining from sexual behaviors that can lead to early pregnancy or STI https://youth.gov/funding-search/grants-search As per the objective of your organization, you are playing a big role in the primary prevention of sexual violence and immoralities against the young generation. The dangers of pornographic include sexual violence and addiction, which leads to early pregnancies. This is a government fund project under the ministry of health. You have a higher chance of securing the grant if you present your value proportion well. 2 The United States Department of justice Discretionary grant: Culturally specific service grant Grants to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking Program USA ( The objective of the grant is to enforce help to victims of GBV and sexual violence by taking the cultural approach. Creating awareness and support at the cultural level. https://www.justice.gov/ovw/grant-programs Your…