Provider obesity bias

Provider obesity bias and stigma refers to the negative attitudes, beliefs, stereotyping, and discrimination meted against people who are overweight. Obesity bias causes people who are overweight and obese to avoid preventive health care and screenings. Most of the providers engage in verbal harassment, unfair treatment, and social discrimination towards obese patients. Also, some patients […]
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Healthy People 2030

Healthy People 2030 sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade. Healthy People 2030 includes 359 core or measurable objectives as well as developmental and research objectives. Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that […]
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Care Coordination Models

Care Coordination Models are frameworks that are designed to facilitate collaboration and communication between healthcare providers involved in a patient’s care. The models play a pivotal role in enhancing the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of healthcare delivery. Care coordination models also help to ensure that patients receive the right care within the right time, and […]
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Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) is a type of a RN who has earned a graduate-level degree such as a Master’s of Science in Nursing (MSN) or a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and has been trained in one of the four recognized APRN roles. APRN can hold four major roles, including certified nurse-midwife (CNM), […]
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Precaution Adoption Process Model

Precaution Adoption Process Model a psychologically model that explains how people comes to decisions to take actions to prevent illness, injury, or other types of harm. It explain precautious behaviors to avoid external hazards or health threats. This model assumes that people must pass through a series of six qualitatively different stages on the path […]
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Health Belief Model Constructs

Health Belief Model Constructs are perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, cue to action The Health Belief Model (HBM) argues that a person’s willingness to change their health behaviors primarily comes from their health perceptions.  The HBM model was developed in the 1950s by social psychologists Godfrey Hochbaum, Irwin Rosenstock, and Rosenstock and […]
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Emancipatory Theory of Compassion

The emancipatory theory of compassion was created by Dr Jane Georges, it assumes the universality of suffering and the means by which suffering can be alleviated through compassion. Emancipatory is used to emphasize the centrality power relations have on suffering, and the ability to render compassion impossible. The emancipatory theory define compassion as the wish […]
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Mishel’s Uncertainty in Illness Theory

Mishel’s Uncertainty in Illness Theory was developed by Merle Mishel late 1980s. The theory focuses on the strain and struggle when one gets an acute and chronic illness. It define uncertainty as the inability of individuals to accurately predict or control their health condition and its trajectory. The author noted that uncertainty occurs when a […]
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Ventricular fibrillation

Ventricular fibrillation (v-fib) is an arrhythmia or a malfunction of the heart’s normal pumping sequence. It is characterized by contraction of the lower heart chambers in a very rapid and uncoordinated manner. Other symptoms include loss of consciousness and collapsing. Before the V-fic occurs, people may experience  The condition causes the heart not to pump […]
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Cerebral palsy

Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that affecting movement and muscle posture. These conditions are caused by damage that occurs to the immature, developing brain, most often before birth. Common symptoms of cerebral palsy include exaggerated reflexes, stiff muscles with normal reflexes, lack of balance and muscle coordination, jerky involuntary movements, and writhing movements. […]
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