Week 8 Responses- Lusine Karakashyan
NURS 561 HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION
Prompt #1
Response to Melanie Pingel
Hello Melanie, I support you in your discussion. You have made an excellent point that Social stigma, money, politics, and a huge gap in knowledge all played a large role in inhibiting the war on AIDS. Scientists first thought that it was an infection associated with the gay community, and that is when the disease spread among many people. By the time it was realized that the infection was AIDS, it had infected many people and became difficult to control. I believe AIDS could have been stopped by then through attention from the political class and the government (Rensberger, 1993). If the government had provided adequate funding, it would allow for more research on the new infection.
Reference
Rensberger, B. (1993). Scientists Say HBO Movie Distorts History Of Fight Against Aids. The Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/10/03/scientists-say-hbo-movie-distorts-history-of-fight-against-aids/f389d028-25ff-4831-b3a0-ba2b4c8c9964/
Response to Nytasha Kurien
Hello Nytasha, I agree with you in your educative discussion. You have made an excellent point that the political class and those who had their own agenda in mind inhibited the early war on AIDS, and Don Francis conducted his research on AIDS without any support. Dr. Francis, who was the advocate, championed for the healthcare of the community by ordering bathhouses to be closed so as to halt the spread of the new infection (Rensberger, 1993). In modern times, HIV/AIDS receives less publicity as compared to many years back, and this is despite the fact that more patients are suffering from the disease as compared to some years back.
References
Rensberger, B. (1993). Scientists Say HBO Movie Distorts History Of Fight Against Aids. The Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/10/03/scientists-say-hbo-movie-distorts-history-of-fight-against-aids/f389d028-25ff-4831-b3a0-ba2b4c8c9964/
Prompt #2
Response to Melanie Pingel
Hello Melanie, I concur with you in your discussion that as pressure increase adults turn to poor lifestyle habits such as smoking, drinking, or overeating to cope. Middle-aged adults are among the population with the highest levels of stress, and they are bound to suffer both physical and emotional problems. Some of the causes of occupational stress among middle-aged individuals include noisy working environments like drilling machines, heavy machinery and noise from construction sites, and lack of protection when dealing with harmful chemicals or machines. Cummings & Cooper (2018), states that psychological stress in the work environment may have negative impacts on middle-aged adults that are likely to reduce performance in their workplaces.
Reference
Cummings, T. G., & Cooper, C. L. (2018). A cybernetic framework for studying occupational stress. In Managerial, Occupational and Organizational Stress Research (pp. 21-44). Routledge.
Response to Jodi Turco
Hello Jodi, thanks for sharing your educative discussion. Indeed culture may influence the choice of stress coping strategies that a middle-aged adult can incorporate and shapes the kind of stressors that an individual is likely to experience. Both cultural and psychological stress may have negative impacts on the middle-aged adults like depression, anxiety, lack of sleeping, and the middle-aged adults may develop thoughts of committing suicide (Cooper & Marshall, 2018). Being in the medical profession, nurses are bound to experience stress often. For instance, the outbreak of coronavirus has caused stress among many nurses worldwide because they have to attend to patients infected with the disease. They are, therefore risking being infected with the disease if not properly protected.
Reference
Cooper, C. L., & Marshall, J. (2018). Occupational sources of stress: A review of the literature relating to coronary heart disease and mental ill-health. In Managerial, Occupational and Organizational Stress Research (pp. 3-20). Routledge.