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Participant Interviews and Focus Group As Forms of Qualitative Data Collection

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 […]

What is Public Health?

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, Tobacco Smoking and Precaution Adoption Process Model (PAPM)

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 […]

The Book Report on Transformation Leadership by James MacGregor Burns (2004)

The book I have chosen is from James MacGregor Burns (2004), titled Transformational Leadership. As the book described, leadership is a moral undertaking that is of greatest tasks and that responds to the wide varieties of people for freedom, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.                                                                                                                 Burns study of transforming leadership is […]

The Crisis and Risk Communication Strategies in Tackling Issues of Disasters

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. […]

Organizational Management in Public Health

My organization consisted of management in one side and the lower employees on the other side. That clearly brings about organizational problems that usually lead to underproduction and deficiencies on aspect of employee engagement.  Many top talent employees are leaving our organization and seeking employment in other organizations whereby employee of all levels are giving […]

The book of James MacGregor Burns—–Assessing Leadership Models

             The book of James MacGregor Burns (2004), titled Transformational Leadership talked about the idea that effective leaders don’t always call for good leadership— They are expected to be great leaders.  In many aspects, accomplishing some changes of the world that will change people and solve their needs is the best attribute of great leaders. […]

Obesity

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 […]

Organization for Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, or Positive Personal Regard

            The issue of top talent employees leaving an organization can be explained through an idea, proposed by Leigh Branham. In the article of Lawler, et al (2008), Leigh Branham, the CEO of human resources consultancy –Keeping the People (KP), proposed the only most effective approach in which employees of Sambian can feel free to […]

Obesity in United States

Obesity is a complex disease involving an excessive amount of body fat. There are underlying chronic diseases associated with obesity. Obesity can be connected to increased threat for factors such as, heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, arthritis-related disability, and some forms of cancers (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, n.d.). There is […]