Essays on Battersby

Abstract

There are limited or no effective interventions for recurrence of coronary heart diseases among the patients who smoke. Smoking cessation interventions has been suggested to have little benefit; however, there is little evidence on its cost- effectiveness and efficacy of such programs for cardiac inpatients. This study describes the efficacy and cost- effectiveness of intensive smoking cessation methods for cardiac patients admitted in the hospital cardiac unit. The experimental design assesses the efficacy and cost- effectiveness of the intervention that includes face- to- face counselling in combination with the nicotine replacement therapy using 8 cardiac wards of hospitals in ...

Question 1

Geographic perspective is a way of acquiring an understanding of the world (Battersby, 2006). It involves knowing various details in the world including distribution, processes, place, location, relationships, clusters, movement, patterns, accessibility, change, and connections. This perspective is particularly employed in analyzing any topic with spatial distribution, which means that it can analyze anything that can be mapped. It helps in the understanding of anything, whose distribution is across the earth’s space. Thereby, through geographic perspective, it is possible to understand the ever changing relationship between the human beings and their environment. Geographic perspective approach is utilized in ...

Paradigm Shift: An Auto-ethnography

As the time goes by, one has to sit and ponder about the past. The present is always there, like a setting influenced by our long gone past but a doubt mingled with hopefulness about the future, lingers at the horizon. As I contemplate about the days gone by, a sincere reflection of my past enlightens me with an insight about myself, explaining why I am what I am today. I moved to the US in 2010 from Yemen, and took a leap from a middle-eastern conservative society to the modern world as we say it. Presently living in an open-cultured society like the ...

Introduction.

Food production and consumption in the UK has changed the trend. This has mainly been contributed by the economy, society and the environment. Diet and attitudes to food have changed markedly in the recent years and it will continue to do so (Guides, 2011). Demand for quality food has risen and people aspire to eat both more healthy and buy food that has a reduced impact on the environment. Food culture in Britain is changing and people are turning on the new kinds of food. (Jackson,2009).

What a literature review is.

Literature review is an account of the things which has been published on a ...

Management of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

Argumentative essay Management of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

Introduction

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common chronic conditions, affecting about 7% of the Australian population (Lamoureux et al., 2012). Many of the lifestyle habits and choices of people today – obesity, sedentary lifestyle, cigarette smoking, and hyperlipidemia, and low-fiber diet – are modifiable risk factors for diabetes (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2013). Environmental and social determinants for diabetes include family history, ethnic background, highly stressful lifestyle, low socio-economic conditions, adverse childhood experiences, and malnutrition in early childhood (Raphael et al., 2010). The management of diabetes includes, apart ...