Executive Summary
This paper presents a report that focuses on the approaches and initiatives that aim to promote health and improve the wellness of individuals and society as a whole. This report comprises two main sections: a comprehensive report on the approaches to health promotion and improvement of well-being and a campaign report on the initiatives for health improvement and health promotion. Health promotion is enhancing people to improve and increase their control over their health. In contrast, wellness is aimed at disease prevention and health promotion. Social mobilization and motivation motivate people to change their attitudes concerning their health and adopt active health decisions. As such, health improvement and the promotion of well-being are the leading precursors to disease prevention for both communicable and non-communicable diseases. The best way for people to improve their health and achieve promotions in their well-being is to adopt a positive attitude, behavioral change, and overall lifestyle changes.
1.0 Introduction
Value in healthcare means that stakeholders in the healthcare service have improved the health outcomes for both individuals and families. Mead and Irish (2020) indicate that health promotion measures often target or focus on some priority diseases, both non-communicable and communicable. This paper presents a report that focuses on the approaches and initiatives that aim to promote health and improve the wellness of individuals and society as a whole. Health promotion enhances people’s improvement and increases their control over their health (Golden et al., 2017). In contrast, wellness is aimed at disease prevention and health promotion. Social mobilization and motivation motivate people to change their attitudes concerning their health and adopt active health decisions (De Toledo et al., 2019). The analysis of health improvement and promoting well-being approaches is that they focus on advancing the health system of a person, and the individual has to include these approaches in their daily routine and change their behaviors holistically to get the best on their health from these methods.
2.0 Task 1- A Comprehensive Report on Approaches for Health Improvement and Promotion of Well-being
Friedman, Rubin, and Sullivan (2017) state that the main health improvement and promotion approaches focus on five health dimensions: educational, medical, societal change, behavioral change, and client-centered activities. Adopting a positive lifestyle like diet changes and incorporating physical exercises into one routine are some of the basic methods of promoting and improving one’s health (Cardoso et al., 2019). These methods have an overall impact on advancing one’s health system. Health improvement and the promotion of well-being are the leading precursors to disease prevention for both communicable and non-communicable diseases.
The social change approach and other perspectives meant to promote health effectively focus on enhancing the health-promoting capacity of people and society as a whole (Turunen et al., 2017). Other strategies include creating supportive environments, developing personal skills, strengthening community action, building healthy public policy, and reorienting health services (Gourevitc et al., 2019). It is worth underscoring that the best way to achieve the goals of health improvement and promotion of well-being is to start with the intrinsic changes and move to extrinsic changes or modifications (Fry et al., 2018). This idea is necessary to have a wholesome achievement concerning the advancement of one healthcare needs and health system.
2.1 Evaluating the Concept of Health and Ill Health
The World Health Organization identifies health as achieving different interlinked factors and actions. Vasquez et al. (2017) state that health is a state of social, mental, and complete physical well-being and not just the absence of infirmity or disease. Therefore, the leading concepts of health include physical, capacity, psychosocial, and control as they continue to emerge following different evaluations of the health statuses of individuals (Mackenzie, Skivington, and Fergie, 2020). The concept of health articulates that health is achieved when a dynamic equilibrium exists between the environment and the people. According to their organism components, the disease is just a kind of maladjustment of humans to the environment (Chandan et al., 2019). To this end, health and well-being can be defined as the achievement and maintenance of mental stability and physical fitness, even though the ideas concerning well-being and health could change over time and continue to vary between different periods and cultures (Kabisch and Bosch, 2017). People, therefore, need to adopt environmental-friendly measures as these are key determinants of their health.
People’s health becomes stable when they maintain their environmental-friendly objectives and achieve other health outcomes. These positive outcomes indicate that the people are healthy. This outcome is characterized by their physiologic, anatomic, and psychological integrity to perform personal value improvements on their well-being or health (Crowe et al., 2019). The ability of the human body to function well means that a person is healthy, even though this concept has changed to indicate that the maintenance of a good lifestyle leads to better health that is incorporated or integrated into six other components.
These six other components of health include cultural health, cognitive, spiritual, emotional, physical, and social health. The people or health professionals who embrace all these components of health can overcome different forms of ill health and lead more complete lives (Jackman, Boyd, and Elrod, 2020). When one maintains good health, everything else comes into place.
On the other hand, ill-health is a condition whereby a person has a recurrent medical condition that bothers them for a long time as it is only manageable and not fully treatable (Crowe et al., 2019). Therefore, a person who keeps ill or has an illness suffers from ill-health. For instance, an individual working in a company is retrenched or forced to retire because they have recurrent disease or illnesses or simply ill health (Jackman et al., 2020). Also, children who suffer regular bouts are said to have ill health. Some main examples of ill health include asthma, diabetes, and cerebrovascular disease. And heart disease (Trunen et al., 2017). These diseases are not treatable but are only manageable.
2.2 Comparing and Contrasting Models of Health
Every human possesses the fundamental right to enjoy the highest attainable health standard. Grumbach et al. (2017) indicate that this attainment has to be without distinction or discrimination based on social and economic conditions, political beliefs, religion, and race. Ideally, the models of health include the social, medical, biopsychosocial, salutogenic, and ecosystem health models (World Health Organization, 2022). The comparison and contrasting of these health models are as follows;
- Comparisons
All the models of health are the social, medical, biopsychosocial, salutogenic, and ecosystem health models, underscore the fact that human health is achieved through a combination of a person’s lifestyle, attitude, and environmental influences (Murphy et al., 2021). When a person maintains good health, other positive things follow. Examples of such things include the prevention of disease and mostly non-communicable diseases and infectious diseases, but to some extent, peaceful coexistence in the society and increased economic growth and development.
Other positive outcomes include increased reproduction rates, low mortality rates, and burden reduction caused by disease, among other positive outcomes (Singh, Tiwari, and Singh, 2021). Again, the introduction or discovery of these health models is linked with the uprising of human rights movements in the 19th century and the great scientific inventions and innovations that happened during the enlightenment period or from the 18th century and beyond (Sharma, 2021). The focus of all these models of health is to advocate for human maintenance of good health and accrue the positive outcomes related to good health.
- Contrasting
Each one of these models of health has its foundations or basic arguments. The social model of health came about due to the social model of disability as it was advocated for by the disability rights movement (Murphy et al., 2021). This model then emerged as a reaction to the conventional medical model. Notably, this model advocates or examines all the factors that influence health like political, cultural, social, and environmental factors (Barry et al., 2019). For instance, the problem of poor housing causes stress and depression amongst the residents as the place is becoming inhabitable day by day. Also, low self-esteem harms health.
On the other hand, the medical model believes that science alone can cure all diseases and illnesses and remains a core factor of modern medicine (O’Reilly et al., 2019). According to this model, disease means that a person is unhealthy. In contrast, the absence of disease indicates that a person is healthy. This model ignores the power of other health influences other than science and medicine.
On the hand, the biopsychosocial model of health indicates that health results from many other factors. This model mostly focuses on humanness, thereby viewing health as a scientific outcome or construct given the social phenomena (Nutbeam, 2019). This framework considers the biological and psychological factors affecting health (Edelman and KUdzma, 2021). Examples of these factors include age, illness, gender, perceptions, and other cognitive influences on health. The social component of this model is that the presence or absence of relationships determines a person’s health.
Another model of health that is critically significant is the salutogenic model. Fleming and Parke (2020) indicate that this model focuses on increasing the understanding between coping, health, and other stressors. Understanding the influence of these factors is crucially important when undertaking actions that will influence positive health outcomes of a person.
The fifth model, which happens to be the ecosystem model of health, argues that the more there is increased climate change, population growth, land use, resource depletion, urbanization, pollution, and the loss of biodiversity, amongst other factors, disrupt the natural self-regulation mechanism of the biosphere thereby affecting health negatively (Leitch et al., 2021). In the long run, these changes will become crucial and consistently harm people and other components of the ecosystem, such as the forests and the water bodies.
2.3 Analyzing Factors Affecting Health and Well-being
Several factors influence health. Haber (2019) indicates that these factors may generally be categorized into five broad categories called the influencers or the determinants of health. These factors include physical influences, genetics, environmental, behavior, social, and medical care factors (Corbin, Jones, and Barry, 2018). There is an interconnection between these factors.
Therefore, the specifics of these influencers include health care, heredity, random events, quality of the environment, person’s behaviors, the decisions that a person makes, and the quality of their relationships (Hubley and Copeman, 2018). Therefore, our health is also determined by the state of our environment, the place where we live, income and educational level, and our genetic composition or makeup. All these factors have considerable impacts on health (Schillinger, Chittamuru, and Ramírez, 2020). The other factors include access to health and the use of health care services often have less influence than these other factors (Corbin et al., 2018). All these factors determine our health, and the outcome is either positive or negative outcomes on our health statuses.
The influence of these factors on our health is the key factor that determines whether there will be health inequalities in a country or there will be fairness in healthcare promotions and services. Haber (2019) says that health inequalities are the inevitable, unfair, and unavoidable differences in the health status of individuals between groups of people or the society as a whole.
The well-being of an individual is incomplete if their health has deteriorated. Having physical well-being does not necessarily mean that a person has good health (Hubley and Copeman, 2018). Instead, a person’s well-being comes from the interconnection and interdependent function of the factors identified above. The person’s health will enhance their cognitive abilities and other areas of benefit and henceforth overcome diseases, including mental ailments and other psychological problems.
2.4 Analyzing the Connection Between Diet, Health, and Exercise
The components of a good lifestyle include exercise, health, and diet. Jones (2019) indicates that the combination or the connection of healthy eating and exercise will always result in fewer illnesses or diseases. Ideally, the people who exercise regularly and eat right enjoy having a stronger immune system and a higher likelihood of subduing diseases or illnesses. A stronger immune system means working consistently without any sick offs.
The world health organization points out that more than half of the adults in the USA have one or more diseases that are more preventable even though chronic. This negative health outcome is associated with poor dietary plans and patterns and physical inactivity (Laverack, 2017). This adverse impact will then disproportionately affect the underserved and the loc-income communities. Arguably, a good diet and regular exercises help people overcome premature deaths due to chronic diseases that could have been avoided by having a good diet and making exercise a regular schedule.
Good physical activity, good nutrition, and healthy body weight (no obese s per BMI) are the essential components of an individual’s overall well-being and health (Luquis and Pérez, 2021). Markedly, when these factors work together, there is a high chance of the individual overcoming or reducing their risks of developing further serious complications or health conditions like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and stroke, amongst other medical conditions.
2.5 Evaluating Media’s Role in Influencing Attitudes to Health
Verra et al. (2019) indicate that the media influences health from different dimensions, including public health and individual health. The mass media has a substantial potential for enhancing health behavior. Huang (2019) suggests that the mass media may be a significant and crucial source of information concerning a relevant socialization force and health in line with a person’s behavior and attitudes.
The media, therefore, needs to promote health behavior change by influencing health behaviors and behavior change amongst individuals and groups of people. Holden and Valdez (2019) say that the type and the amount of information that the media presents, like in their documentaries or classified commercials, may include methods of shaping the peoples’ beliefs, perceived norms, and attitudes that, in turn, will lead to total behavior change.
Also, the media can indirectly influence people’s behavior by facilitating other trainers and presenters to train society on the need to change their attitude and make lifestyle changes, including their diet and exercise plans and drug use, including alcohol and smoking cigarettes.
Further, the media has a crucial role in today’s world by providing a platform to unify all public health communications, robust social relationship strategies, and comprehensive healthcare education guidelines (Fortune et al., 2018). It is expected that the knowledge that the media instills upon people will then be included in their new insights and trends and used to enhance their lifestyles and also share the experiences with their cohorts so that behavioral change takes place throughout the entire community (Kim and Kim, 2018). The result will be total social change and improvement of the health of a society.
2.6 Explain the Terms
2.6.1 Health Education
Health education focuses on promoting people’s understanding of maintaining personal health. The World Health Organization (2022) says that this type of education concerns familiarizing or communicating with people about the underlying environmental, economic, and social conditions that impact their health and individual risk behaviors and risk factors. Health education aims to show people how to utilize the health system to enhance their health, overcome unnecessary ailments, and improve health literacy, life skills, and knowledge conducive to personal and community health.
2.6.2 Health Protection
Health protection encompasses activities that lie or fall within public health. The World Health Organization (2022) defines health protection as protecting people from individual cases of contagious disease, outbreaks, and incidents. This plan also focuses on protecting people against environmental hazards such as radiation and chemicals that are non-infectious. Huang (2019) says that another form of health protection includes emergency preparedness, resilience and response (EPRR), and environmental health.
2.6.3 Disease Prevention
The World Health Organization (2022) indicates that disease prevention is the procedure by which people with risk factors for particular diseases are treated and prevented from the occurrence of the disease. The treatment usually begins either before or shortly after the first signs and symptoms of the disease. The interventions used in disease prevention are either individual-based, population-based, or specific to ensure the early detection of disease and apply primary, secondary, or tertiary methods to prevent the disease from occurring.
2.7 Explaining the Approaches to Health Promotion
According to Turunen et al. (2017), there are five different approaches to health promotion as identified by Ewles and Simnett. These approaches apply different activities, including behavioral, medical, educational, societal change, and client-centered perspectives. The health practitioner works with the clients to facilitate their health and behavioral changes with the client-centered approach. Cardoso et al. (2019) indicate that the medical approach focuses on overcoming infectious and non-infectious diseases by using medical sciences to treat and prevent diseases.
On the other hand, the behavioral change approach focuses on changing the attitudes and behaviors of people so that they can adopt a healthy lifestyle and minimize the chances of having lifestyle diseases and enhance their immunity. On the other hand, the education approach focuses on changing people’s knowledge levels by using information and communication to sensitize them to new methods of promoting their health (Golden et al., 2017). On the other hand, the societal change approach focuses on changing the physical and social environment so that society lives in a conducive environment with fewer risks for diseases.
2.8 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Different Models of Behaviour Change
Friedman et al. (2017) indicate three main models of behavior change: the social cognitive theory, the transtheoretical model, and the theory of planned behavior. Fry et al. (2018) say that the TBP (theory of planned behavior) has been applied effectively to different dietary and physical interventions. The effectiveness of these models is as follows;
- The transtheoretical model prevents different stages of change, including pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and termination (Crowe et al., 2019). This framework seems to be the least effective model of behavior change
- The social cognitive theory focuses on the role of observing and learning from other people and getting behavioral reinforcements that are positive (Jackman et al., 2020). This theory seems to be the second most effective model of behavior change.
- The theory of planned behavior (TBP) assumes that people’s behavior is influenced by their intention as predicated by their subjective norms, attitudes, and perceived behavioral control (Sharma, 2021). TBP seems to be the most effective model of behavior change.
3.0 Task 2- Campaign Report and Support Materials Relating to a Health Promotion Initiative Selected
This health promotion campaign targets overcoming obesity as this has increasingly become a major health challenge in our country, especially amongst the youth. It will be a rigorous campaign. The focus is on promoting the well-being of our youths so that they can adopt healthy lifestyles like diet, exercise, or physical fitness, and reduce uptake of alcoholic beverages for those who imbibe alcohol of any kind, be it beer or wines. The main strategies to apply in the facilitation of this campaign program for overcoming obesity include preventative, lifestyle, and public health approaches.
3.1 Defining the Rationale of a Health Promotion Project
This health promotion campaign will significantly impact reducing the rates of obesity in our country amongst the youths. The World Health Organization (2022) indicates that health promotion measures often target or focus on several priority diseases, both non-communicable and communicable.
This campaign will use approaches and initiatives that aim to promote health and improve the wellness of individuals and society as a whole. Health promotion is enhancing people to improve and increase their control over their health.
This campaign also focuses on the wellness of the youths in our country. This idea is aimed at disease prevention and health promotion through social mobilization and motivation for people to change their attitudes concerning their health and adopt active health decisions.
This health promotion report will be of much significance in that it will adopt a holistic approach aimed at health improvement and promoting well-being, and advancing the health system of the youths by showing the need to change their daily routine and behaviors and ultimately improve their health by avoiding obesity.
The main approaches to health improvement and promotion to be included in this campaign report will utilize the five main dimensions of health: educational, medical, societal change, behavioral change, and client-centered activities.
Adopting a positive lifestyle like diet changes and incorporating physical exercises into one routine are some of the basic methods of promoting and improving one’s health (Golden et al., 2019). These methods will have an overall impact on advancing the health system of our youths as they are the leading precursors to disease prevention, mostly for obesity and the rest of the communicable and non-communicable diseases.
3.2 Seeking Approval or Permission to Proceed with the Project
This Project touches on public health matters since obesity amongst the youth is a nationwide problem and is an issue of public health. Therefore, the facilitators will seek the approval from the government’s departments of public health, from the world health organization, if possible, from the authority for disease prevention and control in our country, and also from the associations of medical professionals since some of the facilitators to run this campaign will be medical professionals serving in various hospitals in our country.
3.3 Designing Materials for the Project
The materials for this campaign project will include visualizations or pictorials, food items, cooking items, and gym equipment just to illustrate to the affected youths and the nob-affected how to adopt good lifestyles and change their eating and exercise habits to burn calories, lower cholesterol levels, and ultimately shed weight. The focus is to have a BMI of between 20 and 25 amongst most of the targeted youths, which is a safe one and indicates good and non-obese weight levels.
3.4 Carrying out A Health Promotion Project
This Project will be a year-long activity done in three phases of four months each. The theme will be adopting a total lifestyle change to overcome obesity and being able to shed weight up to acceptable and healthy levels. The main approaches to health improvement and promotion to be included in this campaign report will utilize the five main dimensions of health: educational, medical, societal change, behavioral change, and client-centered activities. Other health promotion methods to apply in this campaign include communication, social mobilization, lobbying, mediation, and advocacy.
3.5 Evaluating the Effectiveness and Impact of the Project
This campaign will be relevant and effective in that it uses the appropriate approaches to health promotion (educational, medical, societal change, behavioral change, and client-centered activities) and also that its facilitation is done in a way that will mobilize the youths to change their behaviors and change their lifestyles to overcome obesity and to enhance both health, social, and economic development in our country. Besides, this campaign program for overcoming obesity is effective in that it includes preventative, lifestyle, and public health approaches. Also, this campaign project is effective because there are three main models of behavior change to be applied in the facilitation: the social cognitive theory, the transtheoretical model, and the theory of planned behavior. These models will be applied effectively to different dietary and physical interventions
4.0 Conclusion/Summary
In summation, the analysis of health improvement and promoting well-being approaches is that they focus on advancing the health system of a person, and the individual has to include these approaches in their daily routine and change their behaviors holistically to get the best in their health from these methods. Health promotion is enhancing people to improve and increase their control over their health. In comparison, wellness is aimed at disease prevention and health promotion. Social mobilization and motivation motivate people to change their attitudes concerning their health and adopt active health decisions. The best way for people to improve their health and achieve promotions in their well-being is to adopt a positive attitude, behavioral change, and overall lifestyle changes. These ideas are the basics or foundations for achieving the targets concerning advancing one’s health system. Health promotion measures often target or focus on some priority diseases, both non-communicable and communicable. It is appropriate to use the approaches and initiatives that aim to promote health and improve the wellness of individuals and society as a whole. Health promotion enhances people’s improvement and increases their control over their health
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Health Information Data Exchange Free Essay
A healthcare organization that participates in the health information data exchange may be provided with a means to standardize data from other organizations. Because of this, the company could keep better track of and manage patient data. In addition, the exchange may result in the availability of large amounts of data, which may be used to enhance the quality of care provided to patients. For instance, the data gathered through the exchange might be used to strengthen the general population’s health by determining patterns in illness.
Emerging as a subject of discussion within health care systems is the Health Information Data Exchange, abbreviated as hiding. It can provide a health care organization with data from other organizations that have been standardized (Rajamäki, 2020). Because of this, the organization would get a deeper understanding of the requirements of its patients and modify the treatment they provide accordingly. Additionally, it might assist the organization in better communicating with the many other health care providers and more successfully coordinating patient care with them.
There are a variety of factors that might pique the attention of a significant company in the process of integrating its systems with the HIDE. It would make it possible for the organization to access standardized data held by other organizations, which is one of the reasons. Because of this, the organization would get a deeper understanding of the requirements of its patients and modify the treatment they provide accordingly. Additionally, it might assist the organization in better communicating with the many other health care providers and more successfully coordinating patient care with them. Integrating with hiding is beneficial for the company for several reasons, one of which is that it would enable the business to exchange data with other organizations. It would make it possible for the organization to enhance the level of service that they deliver and make more efficient use of the resources at their disposal.
When an organization integrates its systems with the HIDE, one of the challenges it will encounter is ensuring that the data it shares with other organizations is correct and up to date. An organization will face one of the challenges (Miningwa, 2021). For the company to be able to keep track of the data and ensure that it is kept current at all times, it will need to implement the appropriate tracking and updating systems. Another barrier the business would need to overcome is the need to protect the safety and privacy of the data that it distributes. It would require the establishment of safety protocols inside the company, which are intended to safeguard the data.
Through collecting and storing data from a wide range of sources, the HIDE may pave the way for the availability of big data. A healthcare organization may then use this data to enhance the quality of treatment they deliver to its patients. The information may be used in several ways, including the detection of trends and patterns, the creation and evaluation of potential new medicines, and the oversight of the care that patients get.
In conclusion, the HIDE can provide a healthcare organization with standardized data from other organizations. It may be accomplished via the use of other organizations. Because of this, the organization would get a deeper understanding of the requirements of its patients and modify the treatment they provide accordingly. Additionally, it might assist the organization in better communicating with the many other health care providers and more successfully coordinating patient care with them.
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Health Policy: State Of New Jersey Essay Sample For College
Both local, state and federal legislators are responsible for enacting crucial health policies that create efficiencies in the provision of healthcare services (World Health Organization, 2018). Laurell & Giovanella (2018) discuss that understanding these legislators’ roles in various committee assignments is, therefore, of significant importance to the general public to ensure that all legislators deliver and contribute to a healthy nation.
This work aims to discuss New Jersey legislators’ assigned committees and legislative commitments and explore their contribution to health policies, focusing on the use of marijuana for medical purposes. It proceeds to investigate other legislative initiatives either passed or pending approval by the senate, house, or governor’s office that these legislators sponsored. Finally, the work addresses the specific initiative to the legislator, highlighting a constructive argument against the specific legislation, in this case, the use of marijuana as a medication in the state of New Jersey.
Legislation type and scope of practice
The New Jersey legislator is composed of two bodies, namely, the general assembly and the state senate (Cadmus et al., 2020). Whereas there are 80 members in New Jersey’s general assembly, the state senate is composed of 40 members. Members of the general assembly and the senate alike are elected after every four years, and they assume office at midnight of the day they are elected. The sole responsibility of New Jersey’s legislators is to create and amend laws governing the state.
Similarly, different members of the legislator have different committee assignments in which they play an oversight role to ensure that those tasked with the provision of services to the population take responsibility. Flanagan & Zheng (2018) discuss that it is the responsibility of these committees to reject or approve Bills before they move to the Congress, which is the next stage. In terms of standing committees, the New Jersey legislative organ is made up of 16 standing committees in the state senate, while the general assembly has 23 standing committees. Further, the New Jersey legislature has additional five permanent joint committees: joint budget oversight joint committee, housing affordability joint committee, public schools joint committee, ethical standards joint committee, and the leasing and space utilization joint committee (Pozgar, 2020).
Current Policy and its Impact on Healthcare
This section examines current healthcare policy and how it impacts nursing in general. The health policy selected for this paper is the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes. There have been ongoing debates on whether or not marijuana should be legalized for its therapeutic value, eliciting mixed reactions from New Jersey members. The legalization of marijuana is spreading throughout the United States, with a total of 16 states and Washington DC legalizing its use for citizens above the age of 21 years. In medication, 37 states have currently legalized its controlled use in providing treatment in the healthcare sector (Hall & Lynskey, 2020). This implies that most Americans have access to marijuana, whether it is for medical purposes or recreation.
Different states passed the medical legalization of marijuana at different times. Even though the state of Oregon was the first to liberalize cannabis law in 1973 through decriminalization, the state of California was the first state in the U.S. to legalize marijuana for medical purposes in 1996. Through the bold action of the then legislators, many states followed this trend, with a majority of them legalizing medicinal marijuana in the year 2016. In the year 2010, the state of New Jersey passed its Compassionate Use of Medical Marijuana Act. The Bill received public support, especially from patients who had conditions that needed interventions using marijuana in controlled quantities. Since then, there has been one amendment in this Bill back in the year 2013. This work applauds the contributions made by researchers on the medical use of cannabis Sativa to inform the revision of laws governing access to the substance while improving access to medical care for the betterment of the health of New Jersey’s citizens.
Senator Joseph Vitale was one of the senate members who sponsored the amendment Bill to the existing Compassionate Use of Medical Marijuana Act of 2010. The letter below is addressed to the Senator, indicating concerns over the Bill’s amendments and how it affects nursing and Healthcare in general.
A Letter to the Senator
Senator Joseph Vitale,
Dear Senator, I am a New Jersey citizen who doubles as a medical student in one of the nursing institutions. I have undertaken extensive research on the medical use of marijuana and gained vast knowledge of its positive and negative impacts on our citizens. I have also gained a keen interest in your campaign ideology on the medical legalization of marijuana for the constituents of New Jersey. I would like to congratulate you on the relentless efforts you made to ensure that the Bill you primarily sponsored is passed into an Act for use on medical grounds.
I would like to take this opportunity and share my concerns over the Act through a constructive argument that I feel would be fundamental in shaping the future amendments on the use of marijuana for medical purposes. First, I support this Act because it provides relief to patients with chronic pain. With a majority of your constituents walking into health facilities with chronic pain, this Bill would be essential in ensuring adequate pain relief for such patients. I am also conscious of the FDA approval of the use of marijuana in treating rare forms of epilepsy, namely, the Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. However, I plead with your office to conduct expedited research on other medicinal values of marijuana to help in the treatment of various ailments.
One of the reasons why there is limited research on the drug is the directive given by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), considering marijuana as a schedule I drug in the same category as heroin, LSD, and ecstasy. These are considered to be highly abused and have limited or no medicinal value. I would also like to reiterate the positive impacts of using marijuana in medication as it helps in improving lung capacity, helps in the reduction of weight and subsequently reduces cases of overweight and obesity-related problems, is crucial in fighting cancer, helps in the treatment of depression, and regulating seizures as well as delivering promising results in the treatment of autism.
Even though there are negative impacts resulting from the abuse of marijuana, I believe that your office is competent in enforcing restrictions to ensure that it is used only by patients with genuine concerns as prescribed by qualified physicians.
How Stakeholders Benefit from these Legislative Changes
The stakeholders include policy drafters, patients, healthcare providers, and state and federal representatives in the healthcare sector. Primarily, this piece of legislation benefits patients with chronic pain that requires effective relief interventions. Due to the chemical components of marijuana, it is used as a pain reliever in medication. With controlled use, the adoption of marijuana for its medicinal value will positively impact the healthcare sector. Positive patient outcomes due to effective treatment protocols concern all the stakeholders mentioned above, resulting in a healthy population.
Conclusion
The legalization of marijuana in medical treatment is a sensitive debate that has been ongoing in the United States for many years. The state of New Jersey is one of the 37 states that has legalized medical marijuana to be used for patients with various conditions as advised by a qualified physician. This paper also addresses Bill’s primary sponsor through a letter in which his relentless efforts in passing the Bill into law are acknowledged. Further, it points out the benefits of using marijuana for medical purposes while maintaining that there is a need to enforce restrictions to avoid its abuse.
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