Essays on Health Care

I. Public Health Problem Numerous infections become an epidemic in society, affecting citizens daily. Scientists are ceaselessly making ground breaking discoveries on how to cure infections or contain the spread of them. Herpes is an example of an infection that can affect various parts of the body, infecting the skin or nervous system. According to...

“Sleep is for the weak”, a phrase often heard in today’s tech world and on any teenager’s chat groups. We find it cool pulling all-nighters and roaming around with dark circles shadowing under our eyes. Oftentimes, whilst binge-watching our favourite web series, studying for next day’s test or when cramming up assignments at the very...

Research question Does completing 30-60min of aerobic exercise 3 times per week reduce the effects of depression and anxiety? Rational The claim is “exercise improves brain function.” Exercises such as aerobic exercises are jogging, swimming and cycling such exercises increase lung capacity letting more oxygen into the blood and the brain. Brain function is reduced...

Case Study 1 In December 1963, two boys decided that it would be a good idea to stay awake for as long as possible for a school project. 17-year-old Randy Gardner managed to stay awake for 11 days and 25 minutes. They had planned to observe their cognitive abilities themselves but failed to do so...

Universal healthcare can be defined as striving for accessible, sufficient, and effective health services with a particular emphasis on the provision to all. This approach has become increasingly eminent worldwide as it is identifiable as a world health goal in pursuit of attaining collective health reform. Essentially, the objective of universal health care embodies three...

Abstract Australia has one of the most comprehensive fully funded vaccination programmes in the world. Most Australian parents keep their children’s vaccination up to date. Up to 48% of Australian parents are in favour of immunising their children. Vaccine hesitance is a public health concern. An intervention education programme which will investigate the parents who...

Exercise is a specific type of physical activity that is planned, repetitive, and done for a specific purpose. Exercise requires an extreme amount of discipline, determination, dedication, devotion, consistency, sacrifices, trust, and loyalty. In regard to these characteristics, exercise appears to be very similar to religion and faith and can even be considered a pseudo-religion...

Starting from very early on in our history, illnesses have been commonly associated with lack of sanitation and “too much” human interaction. Parting from the fear of getting sick, people in the twenty-first century, especially new parents, have drastically limited their families’ and own selves’ exposure to unknown and presumably dirty conditions. This is no...

Irrefutably, through the common lens of basic necessities, clean water is required to achieve proper sanitation and when both the components are ensured, it will lead to hygiene and hygiene is key to health[endnoteRef:1]. As hygiene is a broader term of vicious cycle of health and any compromise with hygiene may give detrimental results related...

Is there systemic discrimination practiced by the health care members in the Canadian health care system? Medicare, since its inception is widely used as an exemplary model for healthcare around the globe due to its ground principles of universality, accessibility, and comprehensiveness. The issue of discrimination arises when these core principles are disregarded by any...