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COVID-19 TIPS AND SYMPTOMS

The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to this virus. Learn how COVID-19 spreads and practice these actions to help prevent the spread of this illness. To help prevent the spread of COVID-19, everyone should:Clean your hands often, either with soap and water for 20 seconds or a hand sanitizer that […]

Potential Challenges a public health professional may face when collecting qualitative data for community health assessment

The collection of primary and secondary qualitative data can only be in the form of words, images, texts, et cetera, not in the manner of numbers and/or specific measurement.  If community data may not be collected in a form of numbers, using formula or specific measurement, then the resulted data (i.e. qualitative data) may not […]

Qualitative and Quantitative Research

Qualitative research process allows researchers to gain a holistic overview of the research’s context and capture data on the knowledge of various participants. In Creswell (2009), qualitative research method deals with research strategies, such as ethnography, grounded theory, case studies, phenomenological research, and narrative research.  The best of my favorites is the case studies: a […]

Affordable Care Act (ACA)

One of the preventive benefits that ACA covers is the idea of controlling weight—obesity. Some insurance companies have helped obese patients fight fat for years. They’ve offered weight-loss and wellness programs at businesses, schools and in communities. Some have paid for prescription obesity medications and even covered expensive bariatric surgeries, including gastric bypass. But now, […]

Public-Private Health Partnership

Introduction: I prefer to write on public-private partnership in healthcare because of its enormous benefits in the healthcare communities. Healthcare partnership allows multiple or diverse groups of healthcare communities to work together, in a common prospect and ideology (Sasenick ,1994). Accordingly, Sasenick(1994) further mentioned that both the state and the private healthcare communities could partners […]

Theory in Research and Literature Reviews

Theory is very important in analyzing research approach, be it maybe qualitative, quantitative and/or mixed research methods. Without the application of theory, research quality maybe undercut. There is a long tradition within qualitative research of theory being central and of critical importance. Qualitative research theory often equates with the methodologies used, but this is a complex relationship, plagued by lack of consensus among scholars […]

The Power of Health and Science

The philosophy of science can be compared and exemplified with an innovation toward the science of healthcare. This is particularly important in many science-researched articles that explore the innovation and industry competition. For example, there has been a vital historical debate about and on the role and impact of competition on healthcare innovative activities in […]

Malawi and Ghana—Healthcare Review

Ghana (World Health Organization, n.d.): Total population (2013) 25,905,000 Gross national income per capita (PPP international $, 2013) 3 Life expectancy at birth m/f (years, 2013) 62/64 Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births, 0) not available Probability of dying between 15 and 60 years m/f (per 1 000 population, 2013) 261/222 […]

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