Essays on Blas

Abstract

There is currently a shift to the social determinants of health (SDH) framework in public health and the larger health system. The framework demonstrates that larger social systems impact individual socioeconomic position which predicts material, biological, and psychosocial circumstances. The resulting disparity directly impacts health. Disparity can be noted in diabetes and heart disease. Healthy People 2010 and 2020 have raised the issue of disparity at a national level which stimulated research and program and policy development to eliminate SDH. Advanced practice nurses have important roles to play as leaders, researchers, advocates, and care providers in the achievement of ...

Contrary to the perceptions of non city dwellers of the city dwellers blasé attitude, city dwellers are in fact extremely helpful and supportive of each other especially in times of calamities and disasters.

In the article Let’s not forget Superstorm Sandy’s victims Steph Goralnick, highlights the assistance activities of which he was a part of that the city dwellers have been involved with in the after math of the devastating hurricane.

Goralnick’s home in Brooklyn was never affected but he took some time off with friends and headed to lower Manhattan where together with other ...

PART 1: Dark Leadership

Introduction Dark leadership is defined as the “systemic and sustained behavior by an organizational leader that violates the organizational interests by denting and /or sabotaging the organizations tasks, resources, goals and effectiveness and/or the motivation , wellbeing or job satisfaction” (Sankar,2003, p.112). In recent years, organizational leaders have gained much recognition as agents of entrepreneurship and change. As much as many tend to focus on the positive elements associated with leaders certain liabilities or risks are also entailed (Herbst, 2014). These very behaviors have the power to produce problematic or devastating outcomes for their organizations. This usually takes ...

Population health is indeed an integral part of research for any medical practitioner. Not to be confused for individual health which mainly focuses on the health conditions of an individual population health takes a rather wider scope. This means that population health is concerned with the health of the entire population in a given geographical area since these people are exposed to the same conditions be they environmental or otherwise that may greatly affect their health either as protagonists or antagonists. Initial beliefs about population health include the belief that the environmental conditions in a given area play a large part in determining ...

Antitrust investigation is the process of controlling monopolies in the market situation. The practice of monopoly by firms in most cases causes inefficiencies in the market the reason as to why it has to be checked. The monopolists take advantage of being the few suppliers in the market and set their own higher prices above the competitive market price set by the market forces of demand and supply. In the recent time two oil companies have been at the center of investigation. The Statoil as well as Royal Dutch Shell, BP companies been probed into the setting of ...

Exercise 1

Emile Durkheim is remembered for many ideas that he brought in the field of Sociology. Among the ideas that he came up with are the ideas about time and ritual. This quotation falls under his ideas of time and ritual. Therefore, after reading the quotation, it is apparent that we comprehend what he essentially meant. In this quotation, what Durkheim is meaning is that a religious group is essentially not a ritual precautions simple group that a human being is held to take in given circumstances at given periods of time. He in fact means that it is a system of varied ...

Introduction

The article, The Impact of Overcrowding on Health and Education, presents evidence on a research commissioned by the office of the deputy prime minister in London in 2003. The review of the literature was done by the Health Policy Research Unit and the Center for Comparative Housing Research. The article provides comprehensive information on the effect overcrowding has on the health and education of children. However, since it is not a primary research, the article dwells on reviewing literature from other studies on the same subject. Where the data and literature was scarce, the article also reviewed other reviews by other ...

Rodrigo de Bastidas is believed to have been the first Spanish to discover Panama while on an expedition in search of gold. He was then followed by Christopher Columbus who proclaimed Panama’s sovereignty, one year after de Bastidas arrival. The Republic of Panama, initially inhabited by the Spanish, split with Spain to join Republic of Gran Colombia. However, in November 1903, Panama officially declared its independence from Colombia with a backing by the United States of America (Hassig, and Quek 21). The overarching reason behind U.S.s support for an independent Panama was that U. S. wanted to construct a canal ...