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How Can Dietary Choice Impact the Risk of Obesity? Obesity is an increasingly common disease in adults and children which involves over eating and results in excess fat being stored in the body. Obesity is usually present in people who eat more than the body needs and who have an inactive lifestyle. Every year there are 200,000 deaths from cardiovascular disease and 156,000 deaths from cancer, which most likely are a result of being overweight or obese. This essay will discuss the impact of…

Workplace health and safety (WH&S) is one major area of concern for all the industrialists, public health and social activists. Almost every day there are many occurrences of work place injuries and fatalities which results in unfathomable pain and agony to employees and their families. These work place injuries and fatalities cost a large amount to a country’s economy . The safe work Australia in 2012-13 financial year estimated the economic cost of work related injuries to $61.8 billion…

Walker and Avants’s method of concept analysis as a framework to analyze person-centered care (PCC) in post-acute health care setting. A literature search was completed and data was collected using several search engines (CINAHL, Medline, PubMed, and Cochrane Review). The key words used were “person-centered care”. Attributes, antecedents, and consequences of PCC were identified. Empirical referents were provided to measure PCC from the perspective of the person receiving care. A model case…

Figure 1. 3 Convergence of Interest Model [Modified from Saxton et. al.] (Saxton, 2009). According to the educational experts from over 16 top pharmaceutical companies in Germany, the industry engagement in medical education can be grouped into four categories. a) Industry-provided product specific training b) Industry-provided professional development and medical disease education c) Collaborative partnerships d) Support to third party provided medical education a) Industry-provided…