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Community Health Issues
Read transcript Unnatural Causes write a page paper community health issues discussed transcript. Include insight address issues a community health nurse.
Community health issues are mainly affected by the social status of an individual. To improve a community's health one will need to prioritize the community's health issues so as to have a firm base for their plan. This plan will allow the community to utilize properly its limited resources. From the Unnatural Causes transcript, some of the community health issues that affect people are unhealthy diets, smoking, lack of exercises, stress, poverty, unemployment, and education.
It is clear that people who eat healthy meals lead a more healthy life, but due to poverty, majority of people are not able to afford healthy meals, which cause them to purchase fast foods, which are cheaper and can feed more people California Newsreel, 2008.
Educating the family members of the dangers of fast foods would be a nice start to changing the...
Though, healthy meals are more expensive compared to the fast foods showing them how the fast foods will affect them would enable them to change their diets. Exercising regularly could also be another way that the community can keep fit. Though they may not afford the healthy meals, taking a brisk walk or jogging in the evening or morning would enable them in maintaining their health and reduce some of the health issues California Newsreel, 2008()
Stress does affect everyone, and stress is good as it makes a person to be motivated, but when the pressures a person receives are increased, the person's systems begin to work overtime, and this causes the stress levels to be heightened California Newsreel, 2008.
A person should always try to maintain low stress levels. Educating the community on how to reduce their stress levels, would help them reduce the high rates of diseases and aging. The best way to relieve stress is exercising regularly and meditation. The work a person does would also contribute…
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http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/assets/uploads/file/UC_Transcript_1.pdfCalifornia Newsreel. (2008). UNNATURAL CAUSES: In Sickness and In Wealth, from
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