Public health plays a significant role in protecting and improving the health of the general population. Cameron Page’s article “They Paved Paradise And Put Up A Parking Lot” emphasizes the role the general public plays in defining public health in the United States. The title of the article addresses the importance of city parks and open spaces. The title highlights a need to protect urban green space, a so called “paradise”, from being paved into parking lots and constructed into city buildings. Page reflects on his public health role when a patient loses a place to exercise and their health sharply deteriorates. He proves that narrative matters through the story of his patient P, a forty- year old Hispanic man living in the South Bronx. …show more content…
Page’s patient, P, suffers from back pain and he is determined to find the cause of the pain. To rule of the most lethal causes of back pain, some of the questions Page asks include “Did the pain wake him up at night? Was it worse when he was lying down? Had he recently lost weight?” (Page). P hasn’t experienced any of the following symptoms and has in fact gained forty pounds. Page becomes interested when he discovers that the cause of the back pain is the Yankees. The article explores the story of the deteriorating health of P as a result of the construction of the Yankee stadium. As a doctor, Page feels helpless because the cause of his patient’s problem is out of his control. The article introduces the concept of the “biopsychosocial model” which Page has learned but rarely applies in the clinic. He explains that “we don’t apply it because we don’t know how” (Page). Readers question whether doctors like Page should actively pursue social factors that influence health care delivery and …show more content…
Construction of the new Yankee stadium leaves P without a place to play soccer which is ultimately his source of exercise and cause of his weight gain and back pain. P is the explained to be the classic case of “social medicine”. His medical problem is caused by his environment not by some physical ailment. Page explains that medication may temporarily relieve P’s problem but the main problem, “the conditions in which he lives” (Page), is not a factor Page can change. The article emphasizes the fact that the biopsychosocial model of medicine isn’t strictly biological, psychological, or social, but rather “a result of the interaction of these three factors” (Page). New York City pledged to replace every acre of parkland that was lost and after years of construction, there was still no place for P to play soccer. He’s still forty pounds overweight and has developed hypertension and increased LDL cholesterol levels. The “replacement parkland” that emerges a year later features a new parking garage, an artificial turf field built on top of the parking garage, tennis courts, and no green space. Page ponders, Could the decline in urban park space be a cause of the decrease in physical activity? The United States is facing an obesity epidemic and Page proves that social environment is one of many causes of the epidemic. Although dropping more green pace into cities is unlikely to solve the
DOI: 08/29/2006. Patient is a 57-year-old male bookbinding operator/route salesman who sustained injury when he was startled by a cat while making a delivery and fell. Per OMNI, he was initially diagnosed with lumbar herniated disk. The patient is currently temporary totally disabled due to knee surgery in April 2013. Based on the progress report dated 03/21/16, the patient reports that his low back pain tweaked again, after making the bed.
In K.C. Johnson’s article, “Criticism Doesn’t Deter Rose,” Johnson uses the testimony of Derrick Rose to discuss his opinion on whether the public is holding professional athletes to unrealistic standards, specifically when it comes to dealing with injuries. Derrick Rose, a point guard for the Chicago Bulls, has been dealing with public scrutiny ever since tearing his anterior cruciate ligament in 2012 and refusing to play the following season (par. 5). Rose reasons that the fan base did not understand the long term health implications associated with playing injured and that by sitting out, he was protecting himself from a potential career-ending injury (par. 3). His testimonial relies on the support of team doctors and other star player to support his claims. These experts as well as the testimonies of star players, like Lebron James and Carmelo Anthony, establish the author’s credibility.
The Devil’s Highway is a creative non-fiction novel by Luis Alberto Urrea and published in April 1, 2004. This resentful Novel tells the true story of 26 men who in May 2001 attempted to cross the mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadly region known as the Devil’s Highway, a desert so harsh and desolate that even the border patrol is afraid to travel through it. Only twelve of those men made it out. The outcome of this was 14 people died and the person to blame were the coyotes that lead them to their death. Mendez was fully responsible for the walker's demise on May 23.
According to " The Case Against High-School Sports" (2013), sports could create some study, health, and time management problems for schools and students. In this post, Amanda Ripley initially shows the benefits when involving in the high-school sports: exercise, sportsmanship lessons, some positive personalities, more fun and staying away from vices. She also writes some tales to inform readers that in the US, students are interested and enjoy in sports more than other peers in other countries. However, she claims that the high-school sports have negative effects on schools and students. Next, she gave some schools ' examples to show the problems when schools and students spent too much time and money in high-school sports.
Disease is the disruption of bodily functioning with known pathogenic agent. Disease is context dependent on the medical model. For example, sleep disorder is identified as a disease that is inhibiting you from resting that can have serious implications on one’s health. Obesity can also be viewed as a disease according to the medical model because it deviates from a normal weight or BMI. The medical model defines obesity as an abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health (WHO).
In the book “Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City” written by Dr. Elijah Anderson, the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University, brings to light the different issues that are regular in the city today. The street codes have a huge influence on the activities and conduct of numerous young people in the inner city or “hood”. In the hood, Anderson demonstrates that there are numerous social disasters like high rates of unemployment, and teen pregnancy. The principle power contributing to these street codes, according to Anderson, is racism; though that kind of behavior is accelerated by the existing economic and political commands in the city (Anderson 34). The “Code of the Street”
The Unnatural Causes: Place Matters video, explains how environmental factors impact the health and lifespan of an individual. Additionally, the video also gives some history on how disadvantaged neighborhoods were created through government policies that favored Caucasian families. Also, the video focuses on Richmond, a disadvantaged city in California, and the detrimental health of its community members. Lastly, the video focuses on an improved and former disadvantaged neighborhood called High Point located in Seattle, Washington.
Football, the sport of America. So why do some parents not let their kids play it? Well, there are some downsides to playing the game, but the advantages outweigh the disadvantages by far. Kids should be allowed to play football because it helps them stay active, it helps them learn essential life lessons, and the equipment is evolving and getting safer. Football is one of the many sports that help one stay active and fit.
Neoliberalization’s propagation of health inequity in urban rebuilding processes and social movements against them: Baltimore’s story This essay will discuss how neoliberal processes during redevelopment sustain and increase health inequities. It will highlight key neoliberal processes in urban redevelopment and examples of their impact on economic, political, and institutional social capital and subsequent public health effects. Examples of social movements challenging several neoliberal processes will be provided as one path toward changing the roots of health inequities. Introduction Too often neighborhoods which have been historically disinvested and demonized become prime real estate targets for development with the expectation
Thesis Statement Kids are literally just dying to play football. This project is intended to dissect the reason why children playing football can sustain a traumatic brain injury. Youth football can cause traumatic brain injuries. This exposes why football is damaging to kids. Methodology The first step I took toward researching my project was, choosing a topic.
On a normal scale, measuring the association between two subjects, one would assume gentrification and school segregation are not related in any sense. In fact, most would argue that school segregation ended in 1954 with the Brown v. Board of Education. This assumption would be incorrect. Deep within the American society lies a new kind of segregation that is neither talked about nor dealt with. Segregation is a result of gentrification—the buying and renovation of houses in deteriorated neighborhoods by upper-income families or individuals—thus, improving property values but often displacing low-income families.
“The Obesity Epidemic in the United States”, is a scholarly journal published in 2004 by Allison C. Morrill and Christopher D. Chinn used to address the causes and consequences of the emerging epidemic, obesity, which has only recently been recognized. Emphasizing the severe effects of being obese and how rapidly this prevailing issue is spreading, the authors urge their audience to take action in preventing obesity in themselves and their family. The two authors of this scholarly journal use several statistics, factual information, and in-depth tables to thoroughly inform the reader of the causes and effects of the obesity epidemic throughout the United States, however, the lack of ethos takes away from the effectiveness of the article.
In short, the biological model of health is mainly defined from the absence of disease, from the model that is well-matched with positive meanings in relation to balance of normal functioning. The social model health is actually a positive state of well-being and wholeness linked with however this is not mainly explained from the non-existence of disease, physical, mental impairment and illness (Gross, 2010). Overall the concepts of ill health and health are not balanced. Non-existences of disease might be part of health, however health is considered more than the “absence of disease”.
As a hole there should be more restaurants that promote healthy food choices. Obesity in the United States is out of proportion and something need to be don , not necessarily at the point of government intersection but this needs to be fix some way somehow. ”public health experts say that an unhealthy diet and the lack of exercise are still the two biggest culprits. ”-Felix gusson.
A community garden is a local garden that is shared by neighbors and the local community. Community gardens have been proven to help reduce crime and enlighten the environment. Not only crime and emotional benefits, but economic benefits are another outcome caused by community gardens. The only thing that stands in the way of more community gardens are the people’s work ethics. Starting the process of constructing a community garden is the most difficult section, but the benefits definitely outweigh the first month’s work.