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    people are even born into families that have unhealthy habits such as smoking. The most common causes of an unhealthy lifestyle are an unhealthy diet, substance abuse and sexual promiscuity. To improve life, those unhealthy ways should change to eat healthy, avoid substance abuse, and promiscuity. First, American people nowadays have unhealthy diets, especially teenagers, children and young adults. Some eat too much junk food, and there are so many fast food restaurants on every corner. Then later on

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    enable them to settle on healthy eating options in those settings. The task is to execute over a 6-month time period and incorporates a 3-month nutrition intervention. Experts will instruct 30 to hour long monthly lesson to each group. Moreover, researchers and after-school program staff will be on site week after week to survey lessons and give verbal fortifications to the youth. The main focus of the intervention will be on focusing on identifying and maintaining healthy dietary and physical activity

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    While America is screaming in terror from a handful of Ebola cases within the borders, few Americans have yet to bat an eye at the disease that has overtaken more than a third of the country. In 1980, roughly thirteen percent of the American population suffered from the malady, but by 2008, more than thirty-four percent of the country were found fighting for their lives against this disease(AMA). What is this frightening bug? It’s not a virus; it is obesity. In the simplest terms, obesity is a chronic

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    A windshield survey is an assessment and evaluation of a community performed by traveling throughout the community in a car or public transportation to make observations about a community. The data gathered will help identify health care strengths and weaknesses in the specified community. A community is a social group established by geographic boundaries or common values and interests. Its members know and interact with one another and function in a particular social structure and exhibit and

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    By simply taking a few small steps and trying to change health behaviours this could have crucial impact on mortality and enhance life. 50 per cent of mortality from the ten principal causes of death is because of behaviour. Therefore it is very important to understand how and what helps people change health behaviours, taking the right steps to change could be as simple as wearing a SPF when out in the sun to reduce risks of cancer (Mark P. Zanna, 2011). ‘A health behaviour can be categorised as

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    your community has is an important step that is necessary when developing programs for an organization. To learn what needs are within the community a human service professional can use the logic model to take the steps for development. The need is recognized and supported by the community which at this point enables the agency to create the program to address the need. Creating the goals and objectives will assist in the success of the program. Need That Was Determined In the Community, And

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    BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES ACROSS CULTURES: CREATING A CULTURE OF HEALTH. I assume that in today’s world, there is a lot of information and scholarly research available that shows factors such as economic status, income, social situations, education, ethnicity, employment, availability of affordable housing and geographical (place where one was born and lives) conditions have a tremendous impact on the health and well-being of individuals, countries and communities (Amaro, 2014). Inequalities

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    COMMUNITY HEALTH PROMOTION Introduction Community-Based Health Promotion is a comprehensive, systematic, coordinated approach to long-term health behavior change by influencing the community (cultural) norms through education and community organization. Studies show that most Americans want to lead healthy lives and are eager to improve their lifestyles. In fact, many continuously attempt to change unhealthy behaviors, only to fail. Most health promotion strategies assist individuals in changing

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    beauty of the YMCA lies with staff and volunteers working together to create all-inclusive opportunities for Youth Development, Healthy Living and Social Responsibility for all members of our community. THE Y’S mission statement is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. At the Y, strengthening community is our cause. We believe that positive, lasting personal and social change can only come about when we all work together to invest

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    A Texas mother named Andrea Yates was freed from prison for the violent murder of her five small children including an infant by reason of insanity. She suffered from severe postpartum psychosis. This form of psychosis can affect mothers after childbirth especially if they already are predisposed to mental illness or depression. During this time a mother can loose her ability to make rational reality based decisions. This is what happened to Andrea Yates and so many other mothers. How can one be

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