Health Essays

Landmark Discoveries in Healthcare: An Overview
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Mar 2018
Introduction: Cynthia Lane   Newborn cured of HIV: A woman from Mississippi gave birth to a child that contacted HIV from its mother. The woman was not aware she had HIV and doctors did not take precautions t...

Literature Review: Medical Research on Schizophrenia
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Mar 2018
Introduction: Research is a way of developing a better understanding of a specific chosen area which can help improve further studies within the chosen subject. An interesting subject to research is a mental healt...

Factors that Influence Health and Well-being
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Mar 2018
Introduction: DOINA BORSAN UNIT 11 LO3 Relevant factors that influence health and wellbeing Organization is an social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a need or to pursue collective goals. All...

Impact of Health Inequality in the UK
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Mar 2018
Introduction: According to the NHS (2013) the UK is perceived as healthier that it has ever been in its history. This is mainly due to the enhancement of life expectancy, the eradication of diseases, and the advan...

Health Promotion Strategies for Smoking Cessation
Example essay. Last modified: 25th Jan 2018
Introduction: Drawing on appropriate literature, provide a critical analysis of the application of health promotion philosophies, principles and approaches underpinning public health practice in relation to a rele...

Leadership and Management in Changing Context of Healthcare
Example essay. Last modified: 25th Jan 2018
Introduction: INTRODUCTION The National Health Service (NHS) Trusts face a range of challenges arising from a national approach to the modernisation of services as laid out in the NHS Plan. (DOH, 2000) The NHS Pla...

Health Promotion and Education for HIV
Example essay. Last modified: 25th Jan 2018
Introduction: Introduction The prevalence of HIV infections has increased rapidly in recent years in the UK. In 2006, it was estimated that a total of 73,000 people were infected with HIV, with a further new 6,393...

Role of Traditional Medicine in Third World Countries
Example essay. Last modified: 25th Jan 2018
Introduction: Overview According to the National Aboriginal Health Organisation (NAHO, 2003), the term ‘traditional’ was introduced by the British during the colonial era and often rejected by many ind...

Person-centred and Non-person-centred Approaches to Dementia
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jan 2018
Introduction: Quality care is very important especially to the people who suffer from diseases like the elderly. There are several geriatric health conditions that affect the lifestyle, day-to-day living, social a...

Nursing Care Plan for Elderly Woman with Shortness of Breath
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jan 2018
Introduction: Fortis College Nursing Care Plan Patient Demographics Student: _Brenda Davis_____ Clinical Site: __JVH_______ Date: ___08/06/2014_______________ Client Initials: __E.D.__ Age: __65_______ Weight: _75...

Management, Leadership and Public Health Planning
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jan 2018
Introduction: Student Name: Aphrodis Ndayisaba 0. Introduction The complexity and dynamism of healthcare systems around the world make them require strong, knowledgeable and skilful managers and leaders. The need ...

Operating Theatre Practice Reflective Assessment
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jan 2018
Introduction: Activity 1 Register nurses who work in the operation theatre where they are trained to care patient before, during and after surgery. There they gain both classroom learning and hands on experience. ...

Comparison of Nursing Theories
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jan 2018
Introduction: Jessica N. Baker The grand nursing theories are too abstract to effectively guide practice, but they can provide a world view. Middle range theories, on the other hand, are less abstract, but are mor...

Importance of Culturally Appropriate Health Policies
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jan 2018
Introduction: Bernard F. Richards Explain the importance of culturally appropriate health policies. Lederach (1995) defines culture as “the shared knowledge and schemes created by a set of people for perceivin...

Saliva: Functions, Composition and Chemistry
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jan 2018
Introduction: 1-3 Saliva 1-3-1 Secretion and function; The components of saliva essentialy are produced by acinar cells. Saliva is the main product of the salivary glands. It is an acidic, clear, slightly mucosero...

Mentoring in Practice
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Jan 2018
Introduction: Thembelani Dube Mentoring is described by Kinnell and Hughes(2010) as the transferring of knowledge ,skills and attitudes from health professionals to the students that they are working with. The r...

Pneumonia: Causes and Treatments
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Dec 2017
Introduction: Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung which can result from infection with particular bacteria, viruses or other organisms. It is characterised by lung parenchyma inflammation and the fil...

The Role of a Midwife in Domestic Violence Cases
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Dec 2017
Introduction: Domestic violence and public health – The role of the midwife. Why is domestic violence a public health issue for midwives?The latest triennial maternal mortality report (CEMACH, 2004) reveals t...

Analysis of Healthcare Models
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Dec 2017
Introduction: The biomedical and social model for health The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion VicHealth and VicHealth funded projects Many models of health exist thorough out the world. When a government or o...

Clinical Reasoning Case Study: Knee Osteoarthritis
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Dec 2017
Introduction: Abstract Clinical reasoning is the thinking process that escorts clinical practice, it is a multifaceted skill. The aim of this report is to use clinical reasoning to comment on a case of medial comp...

Evidence Based Care: Hand Hygiene
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Dec 2017
Introduction: Utilising Evidence Based Care This essay endeavours to investigate hand hygiene, and feel I need to gain more knowledge in this field by utilising the available evidence effectively. I also intend to ...

Comparison of Social and Medical Models of Health
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Dec 2017
Introduction: The ways in which health, illness and disease are defined depends on different factors and models, For instance the way the practitioner defines health is different from the way other people in the so...

Global Health Issue Analysis: HIV/AIDS
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Dec 2017
Introduction: GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES Global issue is a broad description that is often used to explain matters of great social concern that affect human populations locally and that are shared among diverse human soc...

Definitions of Health and Illness
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Dec 2017
Introduction: This paper seeks to offer critical analysis on the definitions of health and illness in respect of prominent academics in the field. Furthermore an......

Socio-economic Status and Health Inequalities Relationship
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Dec 2017
Introduction: In this essay I will discuss the relationship between underlying social structures and health outcomes. the debates about the casual pathways between socio-economic status and health inequalities. Ine...