Yearly Archives: 2022

This 16-year-old male was tackled during a football game three weeks ago and received fracture care with a cast for a displaced, comminuted right fibula fracture. He is coming in today for a walking cast, which was applied after a 2-view x-ray in the clinic. This converted an existing cast to one that did not […]

Instructions: Read through the questions first. Then watch the video, Value Based Health Care  Delivery (URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3fKyWydweo ). Think about the following  questions during the video and take notes so that you can answer them. After the video,  report that shows answers to all of these questions.  1. What does Michael Porter say is the […]

Review the posts made by this classmate. Identify any problems you think could arise from providing patients with access to the information they proposed making available online. Include suggestions for guarding against the problems you identified. The provider or facility owns the health record; however, any personal health information belongs to the patient. For this […]

Matching the following clinical syndromes with their characteristics: Brown-Sequard syndrome Cauda equina syndrome Central cord syndrome Posterior cord syndrome Anterior cord lesion ______Results from compression by tumor or infarction of the posterior spinal artery _____Causes bleeding into the central gray matter of the spinal cord; results in more impairment of function in the upper extremities […]

Review the posts made by this classmate. Identify any problems you think could arise from providing patients with access to the information they proposed making available online. Include suggestions for guarding against the problems you identified.  In my opinion both the patient and the health provider has ownership, you as a patient have your personal […]

What would someone or a teacher do if they suspect someone in their physical education (or adapted PE) classroom might have developmental coordination disorder.  1)Why do you suspect they have DCD? 2)How are their interacting with their peers in PE or recess? 3)What type of assessments have you conducted? 4)What is your action plan for […]

Activity 1: Read the articles       1. Williams D.R. & Collins C. (2001) ‘Racial residential segregation: a fundamental cause of racial disparities in health.’ Public Health Reports 116(5), 404-416. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1497358/pdf/12042604.pdf        Read the text in this reading that is highlighted in yellow and discuss the similarities with Aboriginal and […]

Deliver a presentation on a specific health education topic  

GE2002 Locate an article that is presented as scientific, but you determine through analysis is based on pseudoscience.  Provide specific points in Science Versus Pseudoscience to support your conclusion that the article is a work of pseudoscience and not actual science. Describe how the article’s authors/researchers could develop a more scientific way to test their […]

Distinguish between person confounds, environmental confounds, and operational confounds. Provide a specific example of each kind of confound and point out how it could threaten the validity of a research study.   Consider the kind of archival studies conducted by Phillips and colleagues (who studied emulative suicide). Relative to a typical cross-sectional survey study, were […]