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Special populations in health care Review your classmates posts.
Provide a substantive response (minimum of 100 words) to at least two of your peers.
What risk factors did you select in the segments that your classmate did not? What alternative health needs could you propose in addition to those suggested by your classmate?
What alternative health needs could you propose in addition to those suggested by your classmate? Arron Premature Babies: Risks and Costs (2008)" (Vulnerable Mothers and Children group) Three factors from this video that are present would be age, gender, and education. The majority of the individuals shown in this clip are young females that have not graduated high school by the time they became mothers. The textbook states that this group of mothers is at the greatest risk for adverse outcomes of a pregnancy (Burkholder & Nash, 2013, sect 1.4).
This is mainly due to their inexperience and the fear of how their parents might react when they find out that they are pregnant, so they hide it as long as they can. In doing so, they increase the risk to themselves and the baby due to lack of pre-natal health care. Assess the health care needs that can be inferred Preventative care would be the most critical care given to these mothers. Pre-natal vitamins and healthcare is the most important item that an expectant mother could use.
Preventative services such as WIC (Women, infants and children), Planned Parenthood, or Head Start can help the mothers and their unborn children (Burkholder & Nash, 2013, sect 4.2). These services would help with the infant being able to mature inside mother, and not be pre-term babies. Also, educational services to women and men, prior to getting pregnant, would help to prevent such pregnancies.
The preventative steps to help stop pre-term deliveries would go further than treatment or long-term care for this vulnerable group. "Social Cost of Alcohol Abuse (2010)" (People Affected by Alcohol and Substance Abuse group) The factors present in alcohol abuse are all of them, it does not discriminate for any of the various demographics, and everyone is susceptible to this dangerous disease. Knowing that it can affect anyone, and the ones around them, makes it difficult for narrowing down a target population to assist with preventive measures, as everyone could gain from knowledge about alcoholism.
When comparing rates of use among the different factors listed (age, sex, culture, ethnicity and such) there are trends to be found. College age drinkers tend to binge drink more, possibly due to the situation and peer pressure to drink. According to the textbook, Caucasians use alcohol more and have a higher rate of heavy use than other ethnicities (Burkholder & Nash, 2013, sect 2.4).
Where education is concerned, alcohol is an outlier. The higher the education, the higher the use: although having a full-time job decreases the amount of binge drinking that may occur (Burkholder & Nash, 2013, sect 2.5). Assess the health care needs that can be inferred Depending on the situation, all three of the approaches would be needed for alcohol and substance abuse. The best would be if we, as a country, could prevent the abuse before it started through educational programs. Through programs for education and media campaigns ((Burkholder & Nash, 2013, sect 4.2), the prevention would curb the costs of the disease. If someone has already begin the cycle of abuse/use, then treatment programs would be needed to help them on the road to recovery.
If they were already in recovery, sustained long-term programs, such as AA, would help the person to maintain sobriety. This issue needs to be addressed upon the needs of the sufferer, and would need to be maintained for life. Both of these groups have very different needs for assistance and recovery from the issue they are facing, but both groups are vulnerable, and can even cross paths, making recovery and maintaining health a difficulty.