Category: Healthcare

Discussion (Consumers & Providers as Stakeholders) The primary goal of any healthcare organization should always be to ensure high quality of care for patients. However, some healthcare organizations and practitioners are focused on making more profit rather than improving the quality of care. Typically, the profit motive in any healthcare organization tends to affect the…

Health care. The different demographic factors present different linear regressive results concerning Hypertension. Demography holds several variables, which have many other relationships. For example, from the article, age as the first focus in demography is not linearly correlated. This is because the percentage of Hypertension patients is more significant at the center of the graph,…

Prediabetes The incidence of diabetes continues to rise annually in the country and the globe. The costs incurred by people diagnosed with this condition also continue to increase (Cowie, 2019). Patients incur expensive treatment regimens that they have to take throughout their lives to control risk factors like glycemia, visits to the health units, and…

Diabetes education plays a critical role in diabetes management and helps patients achieve good glycemic control. This paper provides an overview of the study, “patients’ and healthcare professionals’ perspectives towards technology-assisted diabetes self-management education” (Jain et al., 2020). The study analyzes empirical evidence on patient and healthcare professional (HCP) perspectives on technology-assisted diabetes self-management education…

Although pre-diabetes remains a serious health issue contributing to high blood sugar levels, its sugar levels are still low for it to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. As a result, it case means pre-diabetes remains a high-risk state for diabetes. In most cases, it is characterized by higher than normal blood glucose levels but…

Correlation. In experimental psychology, there are two main tests, correlation and causation. Correlation is a test used to check for a significant relationship between two or more variables. A correlation coefficient shows the strength, direction, and nature of the relationship between the variables. The coefficient ranges from one to a negative one, zero showing no…

The research and evidence-based practice use statistics to determine if their prediction about a population is true. The first step of this process is to generate a hypothesis; a hypothesis is an inference made about a population. A hypothesis can either be null or alternative. A null hypothesis suggests that your prediction is caused by chance, but an alternative hypothesis…

Descriptive statistics. Summarize your interpretation of the frequency data provided in the output for respondent’s age, highest school grade completed, and family income from prior month. Respondent’s age. The first table in part one helps us visualize descriptive statistics for the age of the participants. From the table, we can tell data on age is…

Introduction The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is mainly a virus. In most case this virus tends to attack a patient’s immune system. HIV cannot be treated, and in most cases, it results in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Currently, no cure has been developed for HIV. This case means that once an individual is infected, they…

For the objectives of this research, healthcare inequalities are imbalances in the achievement of maximum health capacity that can be assessed by variations in frequency, occurrence, death, illness severity, and other unfavorable medical problems among distinct demographic populations in the United States. While the phrase inequalities are frequently utilized or construed to refer to inequalities…