Epidemiology is the study of disease occurrence and transmission in a human population, epidemiological studies focus on the distribution and determinants of disease. Epidemiology may also be considered the method of public health—a scientific approach to studying disease and health problems. Epidemiology consists of research methods and specific strategies for counting and calculating the occurrence […]
Research: Implementing Packet Payment System in the Health Care facilities Of Missouri and Nationwide Prepared by: Abubakar Binji Figure 1: Percentage of Costs Represented by Bundled Conditions Baseline Spending (2012-2021) ($ in billions) Cumulative Potential Savings (2012-2021) ($ in billions) Cumulative Actionable Savings (2012-2021) ($ in billions) $ […]
Theoretical and conceptual frameworks provide evidence of academic standards and procedure. They also offer an explanation of why the study is pertinent and how the researcher expects to fill the gap in the literature. Grant and Osanloo (2014) described theoretical framework as a foundational framework of which all information and understanding is formed for a […]
Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) is very fascinating in its tenets for so many reasons and for beneficial factors. Its inception was very familiar from the beginning, since the model was initially focused on associating beliefs, behavior, actions and psychological reactions. Tremethick, Johnson & Carter (2011) explained quality end-of-life care, as subjective—was based on people’s […]
There are pros and cons to any method of utilizing data collection. For example, many researchers think individual interview takes a great deal of time and, even money (Brannen, 2005 ). Individual interviews help access the context of people’s behavior and thereby provide a route for researchers to comprehend the meaning of such behavior. In […]
Interviews are among the most familiar strategies for collecting qualitative data. The different qualitative interviewing approaches and in common usage, emerged from diverse disciplinary perspectives resulting in a wide variation among interviewing approaches (Dicicco-Bloom, B., & Crabtree, 2006). There is an important research article that seeks to compare two different qualitative methods to research. This […]
Public health is a social science (designed for social change) of keeping, promoting and improving the health issues of communities. Public health supports healthy standard of living, inquire about public health diseases and deterrence of infectious diseases (CDC Foundation, n.d.). For example, as a public health issue in Philippines and a social factor, limited education […]
Climate change is a global issue that affect environments and human health in surprising ways. There are other global health issues such as, disease pandemics, infectious diseases like malaria cholera, et cetera. Some public health issues attempt to create conditions that lead to potentially fatal malnutrition and diarrhea in large populations; and increase the likelihood […]
Throughout crises, information can be both vital and incomplete. Misplaced information could be vital, but because of the very flora of crises, it is often problematic to get and transmit information (Veil & Husted, 2012). Communication within and amongst establishments and communities, and between organizations and the public scopes can break down or become twisted. […]
In the United States there are over seventy million adults that are considered obese. Conditions that can be related to obesity include but are not limited to diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. On an annual basis, the medical costs of obesity are over one hundred billion dollars with each individual costing fifteen hundred dollars more […]
