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Claudia:

Immunizations and disease screening have been a clinical preventative intervention for decades. Immunizations have reduced, prevented, and importantly reduced the risk of illnesses, disability, early death, and medical costs (CDC, 2021). According to the World Health Organization, Healthy People 2030 there is a push in increasing preventative care for all ages. Although getting preventative care reduces the risk for diseases and possible early death millions of individuals go without do not obtain the recommended preventative care. Some of the reason’s individuals do not get the recommended care is due to cost, lack of a primary care physician, remote location, or lack of awareness about the positive outcomes of preventative care. It is important to educate people on the benefits of vaccinations, and disease screening.

Disease screening can start as early as childbirth. Children and adolescents should receive regular Well-Child examinations starting right after birth to young adulthood. The Well-Child examination checks on the individual’s physical, mental, and emotional development. Early detection to disease prevention is key. Child or adolescent overweight or obesity can be identified when conducting a well-child examination. The child’s body mass index, weight, and nutrition can determine if the child is overweight and heading towards the path of obesity (Healthy People 2030, 2021. This is where the healthcare providers can make a difference by educating the parents and child depending on the age and provide them with the tools to eliminate unnecessary weight that leads to obesity and other co-morbidities due to obesity. Healthcare providers need to understand as well that a repour must be built with their patients to build trust and be able to guide them through the process of change. Healthcare providers can provide their patients with interventions such as a physical activity plan, nutrition plan with recommendations, more frequent visits to the healthcare providers to see the patient’s progress. It is very important to obtain the parents and patients support through this process. Depending on the child’s age involving the child by finding out their interest to better set realistic goals with end goal dates that will not disappoint the patient or parents (Saguil et al., 2015)

References

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2021). Millions of children not getting recommended preventative care. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/p0910-preventive-care.html#:~:text=The%20CDC%20report%20focuses%20on%2011%20clinical%20preventive,cessation%20assistance%2C%20chlamydia%20screening%20and%20reproductive%20health%20services.

Healthy People 2030. (n.d.). Clinical preventive services (2021). https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/leading-health-…

Saguil, A., & Stephens, M. (2015). Interventions to prevent childhood obesity. American family physician, 86(1), 30–32.

Annette:

 Irritable Bowel Syndrome is one of the leading gastrointestinal disorders affecting approximately 14% of the population. Symptoms of IBS are common reasons that physicians will refer the patient to a specialist. IBS has great importance to be worthy in socioeconomic status on the healthcare system and significantly decreases patient’s quality of life. IBS cause remains unknown but includes multiple factors such as infection, inflammation, medication, and stress in genetically liable individuals.

          Treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome symptoms can be very challenging. The intervention and treatment’s center of attention is to improve the symptoms and quality of life. Many individuals stated that symptoms start when they eat food. Therefore, dietary interventions to improve the symptoms appear to be a reasonable treatment approach.

          The IBS symptoms need placebo-controlled dietary intervention to be more sophisticated than a drug or nutrient trial. Controlled diet research can be performed by developing sham diets that are similar in practicality and intricacy both for educating and instructing to lessen bias when compared to studied diet. The placebo and nocebo effects can not be influenced in these trials but can be influenced by numerous factors, including patient’s expectations, taste preference, cultural beliefs, previous response to the specific diet that impacts food in health. Therefore, there is a need for a control group in the trials. There are different diets are now being introduced to treat IBS symptoms, and these include regimen that does not have carbohydrates, fermentable foods, gluten, and substances that might create food-related antibodies.

The results of this research have been so far supporting the use of Low- Fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and Polyol Diet related to IBS symptoms, as 50% to 80% of patients stated some benefits in comparison to a regular diet. This is an inexpensive and effective treatment related to IBS symptoms.

Reference:

Werlang, M. E., Palmer, W. C., & Lacy, B. E. (2019, January). Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Dietary Interventions. Gastroenterology & hepatology. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6423692/.

Liane:

A clinical preventative intervention is the breast cancer screening. Breast cancer screening involves “checking a woman’s breasts for cancer before there are signs or symptoms of the disease” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2020). Guidelines from different organizations exist such as the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations. According to the USPSTF (2016), women “who are 50 to 74 years old and are at average risk for breast cancer get a mammogram every 2 years.” Women who are at higher risk for breast cancer may benefit from breast cancer screening in their 40s (USPSTF, 2016). Primary method of breast cancer screening is the mammogram which is an “X-ray of the breast” (CDC, 2020). A breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can also be done with the mammogram for women who are at high risk for breast cancer (CDC, 2020).

Early screening can lead to early detection of cancer which helps with treatment. Breast cancer is the “most commonly diagnosed cancer in women” and “82% of breast cancer diagnoses each year are among women aged 50 and older” (CDC, 2021). The intervention has been successful at reducing deaths, increasing life expectancy, and decreasing the number of women diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Breast cancer screening every 2 years “reduced breast cancer deaths by 26% for every 1000 women screened” (CDC, 2021). It has also led to “29% reduction in the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body” (CDC, 2021). Through screening, early detection of the disease can help with treatment and improving the prognosis of women.

References

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020). What is breast cancer screening?. https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/basic_info/screening.htm

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2021). Cost-effectiveness of breast cancer interventions. https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/programs-impact/pop/breast-cancer.htm#:~:text=Compared%20to%20no%20screening%2C%20screening,for%20every%201%2C000%20women%20screened.&text=INCREASE%20life%20expectancy.,women%20who%20are%20not%20screened.

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. (2016). Breast cancer: Screening. https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/breast-cancer-screening