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Identify the major cultural and socio-economic factors that influence health and health chances of individuals and the implications for nursing practice. The health chances of any individual are the accumulative factors which determine the overall morbidity profile of that person. They begin at the moment of conception with the determination of the genetic make-up of[…]
Summary: Childhood obesity has emerged as global public health problem. Evidence for this growing health hazard has been reported in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Previous investigations have suggested the importance of nutrition education in the early years to tackle this public health concern. The aim of this project was to develop a nutritional education[…]
The neuropsychology of human memory has evolved steadily over the last fifty years, and dramatically within the last decade. This essay focuses on the structures of the medial temporal lobes and how they contribute to memory processing. In 1957, the profound effects of bilateral medial temporal lobe resection on memory were described in a patient[…]
INTRODUCTION Organisational routines as a concept were introduced in 1940 by Stene and have come to be regarded as the major measure organisations apply to accomplish what they do (Feldman and Pentland, 2003). This essay examines the study of work-place routines and how this can be used to help ensure the adoption and sustaining of[…]
The word health comes from the Old English word hael meaning ‘whole’, a term suggesting that health refers to a whole person (Naidoo and Wills, 2000). In a definition by the World Health Organisation (WHO), health has been defined as the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of[…]
Beattie’s model of health promotion is a complex analytical model that acknowledges that health promotion is ‘embedded in wider social and cultural practices’ (Wills and Earle 2007, Chapter 5) This model not only gives us the ability to analyse current and previous health promotion strategies and our own roles within that, but also gives us[…]