Essays on Physiological Effects

Childhood Obesity: An Overview

The rate of childhood obesity remains to be high in the past years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015b), 17 percent of children and teenagers or 12.7 million young individuals in the United States are affected by obesity during the past decades. Childhood obesity in children is determined by the child’s body mass index (BMI). Compared to children of the same weight and gender, a child is considered obese if his or her BMI is in the 95th percentile (Anderson & Butler, 2006). This is a serious condition. Obesity increases mortality and morbidity and presents ...

Abstract

This research paper sought to explain the issue of depression in the elderly population in the modern context and to give the grounds that multifactorial depression is primarily a psychological issue. The analysis included a brief summary of the concept of depression among senior citizens as seen by the World Health Organization and researchers. Moreover, the major theoretical perspective to clarify the onset of depression was based on the necessity to consider the risk factors in terms of psychological, biological, social, cultural, economic and family. The observations allowed centering on the major risks of depression in older adults as ...

Operating room noise: How noise affects patients during induction and/or emergence from anesthesia

Abstract The presence of noise is an inevitable occurrence for any Operation Room (OR). Noise in the OR emanates from diverse sources including equipment movements, music, beeping pages, conversations, surgical instruments, lasers, machines and phones. With these noise comes its effects to both the OR operators and also the patients. However, the most susceptible persons to noise are pre and or post-operative patients owing to the fact that they have a contracted capability to cope with stressful conditions such as noise. According to the World Health Organization OR noise levels need to be capped at 30 dB (WHO, 2010). ...