NR 503 Week 7 Discussion

NR 503 Week 7 Discussion

Summary of the Article

On September 7, 2022, Morgan Coates published an article “Wildfires, floods, typhoons: 24 hours of photos show climate change threat” in The Washington Post. The purpose of this article was to reflect on recent disasters that occurred in different countries, including Pakistan, South Korea, Thailand, Yemen, and the United States, and their subsequent adverse effects. The major disasters covered in the article are a prolonged heat wave in California, flash floods in Yemen and Thailand, a cyclonic storm in South Korea, and floors in Pakistan. According to Coates (2022), these disasters emanate from threats of climate change, presenting a wake-up call to world leaders and environmental experts. Equally, the adverse consequences of these disasters call for comprehensive, system-based, and interdisciplinary actions, including all-concerted efforts to alleviate the effects of climate change.

Significance of the Topic

Natural disasters are inevitable and highly destructive, considering their threats and impacts on people’s health and wellness. According to Coates (2022), “apocalyptic” floods in Pakistan resulted in 1,300 deaths, while flash floods in Yemen affected approximately 300,000 people. The common themes represented in the article include the destruction of property, displacement of people, and destruction of infrastructure, including transport systems. From a global perspective, natural disasters inflict a massive economic burden on countries. Jones et al. (2022) contend that comprehensive datasets for the effects of catastrophic events are lacking. However, natural hazards, including floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, and forest fires affected over 100 million people, leading to over 15,000 deaths and an estimated $190 billion of global economic losses in 2020 (Jones et al., 2022). It is essential to note that natural disasters result in multiple Healthcare issues, including exposure to diseases and mental disorders. These issues exacerbate the impacts of these catastrophic events.

Concepts Related to the Topic

Although natural disasters are inevitable and highly destructive, people’s propensity to these impacts depends massively upon social determinants of health (SDOH) and contextual factors of susceptibility. Social determinants of health are non-medical conditions that determine and influence health outcomes, including education level, unemployment, food insecurity, housing, income, and access to affordable health services (World Health Organization, 2022). Amidst a disaster, these factors can contribute to social vulnerability and affect interventions for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. For example, people of low income and those lacking access to quality and affordable health services are at-risk groups for the subsequent consequences of a disaster, including health issues, including injuries.

Healthcare professionals have an overarching role of assisting policymakers in addressing the social determinants of health that contribute to social vulnerability to disasters. They can influence policies and disaster recovery plans through advocacy. According to Abbasinia et al. (2020), advocacy in nursing entails multiple elements, including empowering clients, ensuring care continuity, whistle-blowing, and valuing diversity. Healthcare professionals can advocate for at-risk groups by influencing policies, assuming leadership and management roles in disaster recovery plans, and encouraging interprofessional collaboration with community members and institutions.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 13 is consistent with all-concerted efforts to alleviate the impacts of natural disasters since it focuses on climate action and the determination to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. According to the United Nations (n.d.), the primary targets for climate action include strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards, integrating climate change interventions into national policies and strategies, providing education and awareness of human and institutional capacity to mitigate, adapt to, and reduce the effects of climate change, and providing economic support to developing countries to enhance the capacity to prevent, respond to, and recover from natural disasters. These approaches are consistent with the determination to alleviate the consequences of disasters, including deaths, destruction of property, and economic losses.

References

Abbasinia, M., Ahmadi, F., & Kazemnejad, A. (2019). Patient advocacy in nursing: A concept analysis. Nursing Ethics, 27(1), 141–151. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733019832950

Coates, M. (2022, September 7). Wildfires, floods, typhoons: 24 hours of photos show climate change threat. Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/07/photos-wildfires-floods-typhoons-climate/

Jones, R. L., Guha-Sapir, D., & Tubeuf, S. (2022). Human and economic impacts of natural disasters: Can we trust the global data? Scientific Data, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01667-x

United Nations. (n.d.). #Envision2030 goal 13: Climate action. Un.org. https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/envision2030-goal13.html

World Health Organisation. (2022). Social determinants of health. https://www.who.int/health-topics/social-determinants-of-health#tab=tab_1

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Week 7: Discussion-Global and Environmental Health
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This discussion board content is intended to facilitate learning for students through engaging dialogues as they achieve the desired learning outcomes/competencies associated with their course in a manner that empowers them to organize, integrate, apply and critically appraise their knowledge to their selected field of practice.

The use of discussions provides students with opportunities to contribute graduate level-appropriate knowledge and experience to the topic in a safe, caring, and fluid environment that models professional and social interaction. The ebb and flow of a discussion is based upon the composition of student and faculty interaction in the quest for relevant scholarship.

Participation in the discussion generates opportunities for students to actively engage in the written ideas of others by carefully reading, researching, reflecting, and responding to the contributions of their peers and course faculty. Discussions foster the development of members into a community of learners as they share ideas and inquiries, consider perspectives that may be different from their own, and integrate knowledge from other disciplines.

Activity Learning Outcomes

Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to:

Inspect the relationship between environment and global health (CO7).
Appraise global health problems considering WHO SDG’s as well as related epidemiological data (CO7).
Due Date: 

Initial prompt due by Wednesday, 11:59 PM MT of week 7
One peer and one faculty or two peer posts due by Sunday 11:59 PM MT of week 7
A 10% late penalty will be imposed for initial discussions posted after the weekly deadline regardless of the number of days late. No postings will be accepted after 11:59pm MT on Sunday (i.e. student will receive an automatic 0). Week 8 discussion closes on Saturday at 11:59pm MT.

Points: 60 points

Assignment Requirements

1. Locate a lay press article from a national newspaper, for example, from The New York Times, The Washington Post, or other national publication. The article should be no more than three (3) years old.

Locate an article on one of the following topics:

Sex trafficking
Environmental global health issue: For example, but not limited to: Safe water, sanitation, disasters, or oral health.
2. Read over your chosen article and respond to the following:

Provide a summary of your article. Include the name of the newspaper and author, as well as date of publication.
Include data that supports the significance of the topic. For example, related deaths, health care costs, demographic information.
During NR503, we have discussed the determinants of health, at-risk groups, social justice theory, outcomes, inter-professional collaboration, advocacy, and other concepts related to epidemiology and population health. How do the concepts addressed in NR503 relate to your article’s topic? Provide definitions and examples in your writing.
Integrate information from the World Health Organization and the SDG’s.
Your initial post should be a minimum of two (2) paragraphs with 4-5 sentences per paragraph.
Your initial post should speak about your chosen article and use supporting scholarly evidence that supports your analysis. You may use your textbook to support your writing.
Reply posts should include a minimum of one scholarly reference and be a minimum of one (1) paragraph, 4-5 sentences. The reply post should build upon the post to which you are responding.
A scholarly tone should be maintained throughout all posts. For reply posts, this includes the name of the person to whom you are responding as well as closure with your name.
A link to the article should be included as well as a reference list using current APA.
Resources: (If links do not work, please search using related terms/names below).

U.S. Office on Trafficking in Persons: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip

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Partners for Vulnerable Youth: Founded by National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners: https://www.napnappartners.org/content/provider-education

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WHO and SDG: https://www.who.int/health-topics/sustainable-development-goals#tab=tab_1

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Kaiser Global Health Policy: https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/

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CDC and Global Health: https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/index.html

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List of Newspapers in the US: https://www.infoplease.com/culture-entertainment/journalism-literature/top-100-newspapers-united-states