Analysis Of The Fault In Our Stars

Case Study 2: What Race Has to Do with Breast Cancer Health disparities among difference race groups continue to be a public health concern. Some races have higher chances of being diagnosed to certain types of serious health conditions as opposed to others. In the United States, African-American women continue to have the highest rates of breast cancer, and at higher risk of being diagnosed at a more advance stage of breast cancer. Although, research has demonstrated that biology and genes can put an individual at a higher risk of cancer, researchers are now identifying outside factors that are affecting many more women. For example, an article released by Time “What Race Has to Do with Breast Cancer” social and culture factors, such as social economic status, can greatly determine the health risk outcome.

The lecture, led by Dr. Christian Dimaano, discussed a variety of health disparities and then went into an in depth look at Henrietta Lacks, and the use of her cells in scientific research. He described health disparities as the differences of health problems between races, lifestyles, and mental processes. This was a very interesting topic for me, as a nursing major, I hadn’t really thought about health disparities before, so it was interesting to think about all of the potentially higher health risks that can occur simply because a patients race, or mental state. He also discussed the social determinants of heath and how things like your physical environment, economic stability, social community, and education can all influence your health. Dr. Dimaano also talked about how social determinants of health are health problems that you had no choice in, they are developed by factors such as sex, age, genes, medical care, and individual behaviors such as work and home life.

Most parents are working long hours to pay for the treatments given at Sea Pines and can’t find the time to come and see them. Callie was disappointed that her father couldn't come and see her and, throughout the book, thinks about him a lot. When the patients don’t receive the support they need, this can lead to a longer and slower recovery. Callie believes she has

Kallen Brunson In the article, “How Race becomes Biology: Embodiment of Social Inequality” by Clarence C. Gravlee, Gravlee argues that race, and the assumption of race in everyday life, makes the difference in biology much more clear and affects the life cycles of people due to their perceived race (Gravlee, 51). The author provides, using both his research and others’, an argument against the complete notion that race is only a social construct (Gravlee, 53). Through a series of statements, Gravlee states that race shouldn’t simply be excluded from anthropological discussion, but incorporated into present views regarding healthcare and impacts on society.

The reader does not learn if she is able to pull herself up and get out of the sad state she was in. The author does hint she is able to. We have no insight to weather she lives a long life on Phalanxifor or if she dies once the fluid builds up in her lungs. "I do," the only time first person is used in the book. These words not only make us think that Hazel is speaking to Gus at that moment, but it also reminds us of marriage.

Social Determinants of Health Shelly Clavis Rutgers University School of Nursing  Social Determinants of Health Defined Health concerns is an issue that most organizations have formed a pact to safely deal with the challenge. The main agenda focuses on the eradication of health inequalities that may exist in most countries. It is best suited that social determinants are accorded the much-needed attention since they affect a number of people. In assessing the factors that affect one’s health, genetic disposition, personal behaviors, ability to obtain healthcare and the overall environment in which an individual resides are to be considered. Social determinants of Health are issues that deals with the conditions that people have found constructed in a society and acts as a parcel in their lives, such as; growth, age and some of the more complex systems that construct a society which include economic policies and their systems that include social norms, development goals and the basic political system that they are indulged under (World Health Organization, 2008).

The term social determinants of health, can be defined as a ‘set of conditions in which people are born, grow up, live and work.’ These conditions include housing, education, financial security and the environment along with the healthcare service. (http://www.rcn.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/438838/01.12_Health_inequalities_and_the_social_determinants_of_health.pdf) These factors are affected by the amount of money, power and resources that are available at a global, national and local level. Social determinants of health are linked to health inequalities according to the World Health Organisation, health inequalities are ‘the unfair and avoidable differences in health status seen within and between countries.’

This essay aims to identify and evaluate the inequalities in health care in different areas of society, namely disability and gender. Firstly, it is important to understand what we mean by health inequalities. It is commonly understood that health inequality refers to unjust differences in the health status, usually preventable, between different groups, populations or individuals. The existence of such inequalities is attributed to the unequal distributions of social, environmental and economic conditions within societies. Such conditions determine the risk of individuals getting ill, their ability to prevent sickness, as well as opportunities to access to the right treatments.

Annotated Bibliography Marmot, M. (2005). Social determinants of health inequalities. The Lancet, 365, 1099 1104. This journal article illustrates that many countries have enormous disparities in health.

Hazel Grace is one of the main characters in the story and the narrator of the story. She is a 17 year old girl with thyroid cancer, which has spread to her lungs and causes them to fill up with water . She was diagnosed with cancer at 13. At the age of 17 her mom thought that she was going into a state of depression and so she made her join a support group. Hazel really did not want to attend this group until one day she met a 17 year old boy name Augustus Waters.

During her support group, Hazel meets Augustus and they fall in love, knowing that their relationship might not last because they both have cancer. Despite that fact, Hazel and Augustus begin to become really close showing us what true love and friendship is, allowing us to feel sad, happy, and wanting to take one of their

In the fourth section of the novel, The Fault in Our Stars, there are four major points including the dynamic change in Van Houten’s character, a dynamic change in Augustus, and examples of irony and a major theme. Firstly, it is the resolution of the novel since Augustus now has cancer and that he dies which changes Hazel’s perspective on cancer that earlier was very playful, however now she realizes the true reality behind cnacer. In addition, there is an example of situational irony when in the beginning of the novel Hazel calls herself a grenade, and Augustus supports her throughout and helps her fulfill her dreams. However, unexpectedly, Augustus finds out that he is the grenade since the cancer now spread all over his body and that it

“I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.” “Someone should tell Jesus,” I said. “I mean, it’s gotta be dangerous, storing children with cancer in your heart.” (John Green 16) This quote expresses how Hazel has a very closed and fixed mindset.

Hazel Grace Lancaster, the essential character throughout the course of the novel had explain the story of her life through her own perspective and depicted herself as a dynamic character. Throughout the exposition, Hazel isolated herself from any forms of social activities and cease to believe in the future while giving her cancer the consent to relieve her of the grief the world has bestowed upon her. By miracle she had met Augustus Waters who in his best effort wants Hazel to recognize his affection, but Hazel who is precocious for her age denies his efforts and tries to eliminate all sorts of relationship beyond friendship to save Augustus for he had loved a grenade. Both individuals have the aspiration to discover the end of the story

Hazel tells him about her cancer of lungs category 4 to his not cigarette smoking taken as a metaphor. They started to hang out, but in one night Hazel couldn’t breath, she thought to the flashback of her mom saying she wouldn’t be a mother anymore. She survived the operation the next day getting out of the hospital, she checked her page on the computer to find out about a girl named Caroline. Through her pictures she can see Augustus plus the comments about all the people who missed her. Learning herself, she is a grenade that if people get too close to her they will feel more pain throughout time, she begins to only stay in her room to read books for the rest of her life.