Assessment of Prevalent Community Health Issues in the UAE

This report provides an in-depth analysis of prevalent community health issues in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It examines the challenges faced by the healthcare sector, including the impact of transnational population growth and the need for innovative public health programs. The report highl...Read More

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Prevalent Community Health Issues in UAE
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Prevalent Community Health Issues in UAE
Introduction
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is among the developing countries in Asia that is
characterized of transnational population growth that has diverse educational systems, religious
practices and artistic heritage, which frequently poses a major challenge in delivery of quality
population-based health services. There is quite a big number of public health related issues,
which largely pitch into mortality rate in the United Arab Emirates. The innovative public health
programs are one among the key-health related issues that is significantly affecting the aggregate
population in the UAE.
Healthcare sector in the United Arab Emirates has experienced an extensive period of
high and rapid growth, which is forecast to continue, driven by the gap between quality, supply,
and high demand levels. The increased number of patients visiting the health facilities has
increased in the recent years due to the increased in population growth and patients coming from
overseas for better treatment. This has put the government of United Arab Emirates under
pressure to maintain the quality of healthcare provided in its facilities by embracing technology
in service provision without compromising any factor that will lead to poor delivery of services.
However, achieving this had been a challenge that is yet to be solved. The health sector has of
late had issues to do with innovative public health programs in what has been seen as setting up
workable programs to mitigate the increasing health related diseases. To combat this menace in
the sector, the UAE government and the ministry of health through the nurses-stakeholders
association will have to look at these issues as separate entities that are life threatening and then
solve each independently. (Blair, 2011)

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Cancer infection is the second most common disease causing death worldwide. United
Arabs Emirates is among the countries that are heavily affected with this menace with statistics
indicating that it is expected to increase by great percentage with women being the most victims
of cervical cancer. In 2011, 62 cases of newly women diagnosed of cervical cancer were
manifested in Abu Dhabi, with the national figure indication 30% of infection cases. Cancer is
said to be most prevalent in many regions around the globe apart from sub-Saharan Africa.
Traditionally, the Asian countries most notably in Emirates union, there have been much lower
incidences of cancer-related cases than the rest of the Western nations. This is so because over
the last four decades, it has evolved gradual in that period mainly because of the relative
economic fluctuations, political stability, social changes, and demographic make over that has
resulted into an increased life expectancy. Following this positive epidemiological transition, the
process has led to saving more lives and even upgrading communal health status.
The UAE government performance goal has in the recent past dedicated many of its
resources in upgrading overall health care though institutionalized programs, which assist in
eradication and prevention of key leading health issues (Sharif, 2012). Therefore, healthcare
ministry has a responsibility for licensing of doctors and nurses and market regulation within its
control in order to play the pivotal role in establishing, delegating, and delivery of quality
healthcare services to all the citizens. However, United Arab Emirates have for a long time faced
shortage of nurses because they highly depend on foreign nurses, which can become detrimental
to maintain due to the exodus of nurses who leave for these countries in search of better wages
and better living standards.
The political scenario currently at UAE has invested more to healthcare technological-
innovations rather than to new drugs and instruments. This kind of organizational aspect in

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healthcare is a vital source of some of the most huge opportunity to transform the healthcare
sector in way that increases efficiency as well as quality of services but it is also very risky and
dangerous at the same time since most patient will end up lacking essential drugs to cure their
ailment or reduce effects of the disease hence you will find the mortality rate still high compared
to birth rate. Globocan data findings from 2008 clearly depicts that the age-standardized rates for
most health occurrence and mortality diseases in the UAE is lower in comparison to Western
countries, such as the USA (El Haddad, 2006).
Leadership is a main source of opportunity in the healthcare sector in the UAE. It is the
main resource of health care system currently devoted in eradicating health issues (such as
inadequate medical personnel and equipment) which has been the main cause in raging behind in
establishing innovative public health programs. Leadership in UAE has a visionary and
supportive government, whose major goal, objectives and concerns coincide. High levels of
Innovation are clearly defined as objectives, and the government through its institutions is
striving to set objectivity that is common across different health divisions. This thereby creates
further chances for alignment and also for capitalizing on the already existing efforts between
different entities.
The legal framework and ethical issues relating to less effective-innovative public health
programs in UAE is another key area that if correctly addressed it would help ease emerging
health related problems in the sector (El-Obaid, 2013). Health regulations and several standards
for deference to public health procedures should be revised, evaluated, amended and then
reviewed frequently. Some of the key aspects in the legal framework such as health scrutiny for
new health workers according to UAE and labor laws may assist if only they are reviewed to
ensure that they coincide with international current.

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Lastly, a bipartite approach surrounding educational efforts should coalesce with UAE
national legislation and implementation ought to be embraced for particular public health issues,
to minimize the mortality attributable thus reducing morbidity and meliorate on survival. (Kubal,
2006)
The professional nursing roles and interventions that are relevant and vital to the
community health nurse must be followed and adhered to in order to capture maximum service
delivery output in UAE’s health sector. The major duty of all nurses therefore stagnates at
integrate health-promotional and learning activities into their designed duties. "A significant part
of the endeavors around this medical issue links up with the particular part of community based
nursing practitioners in the essential health service group," and brings up their unique abilities
and unwavering quality for instigating acknowledgment and initiating appropriate steps that will
improve the healthcare service in United Arabs Emirates.

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Assignment No. 2
Community Health Assessment Assignment
A well-designed and accurate portrait of a community’s health model is very necessary
and can always help residents of a given locality, community groups, and even health
practitioners to prioritize vital prevention activities and further build a faction to realize a change
in addressing the already existing problems. There are some unique reasons as to why a
community should access some of its well-being, such as severe economic environment that
result in cost-effective medical care.
We conducted a community health research of Dakota residents. According to our
demographic survey, Dakota being the second largest populated county in Minnesota, a 2010
census result depicted the population to be 398,552. The population then rose steadily to 414,686
in 2015. Located on an area of 1,520 km², the main mode of transport is on land through roads.
We were also able to observe other modes of transport for example we visited Grand folks
airport and later on the Williston train terminus. There is a large network in the overall transport
system of Dakota mainly contributed by the gradually increasing population. Physical
environment of this particular city is more noticeable for its rolling prairies with lakes, small
pond and a serene nature covered by extensive farming land (Shea, 2007).
The people of Dakota, a Native American tribe compose of two of the three main
subcultures that is Eastern and Western Dakota people. According to the Demographic data
carried out in 2017-2018, the median age in this county is 35 for men and 38 for women. This
study further showed that both formal groups (those created as per official authority) and the
informal groups (formed by the employees) had different health environment because of

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difference in the mode of lifestyle common in each. From the Healthy People / Communities
2010 documents, we noted that different people with different health styles had diverse health
conditions.
The Dakota health assessment report published in 2014 updates area residents on matters
regarding health problems that affect the quality of life and regarded as life threatening. This
health assessment gives some of the most disturbing health concerns reported by the community
residents, and audits some of the health threatening issues affecting the community. After
analyzing the report, we did a quantitative and comparative analysis of the data and found that
the most prevalent disease that resulted to high morbidity and mortality rate were cancer and
communicable diseases in that order. The major health risk profile was largely contributed by the
fact that most health institutions were heavily investing in research and technological
advancements rather than providing the necessary drugs to patients (Kotecki, 2011). Therefore, it
is important for scientists to first research for better components that are used in the manufacture
of drugs in order to have strong medicine that gives no room for the human body system to
mutate on such drugs after which technology advancements can be enhanced. This was then
marked by a 2.7% decrease in functional ability levels in patients compared to the previous
years. We gathered this particular information through informant interviews from patients who
severed an ailment and received treatment in a durational span of two years. Throughout our
interview process which we conducted with over 250 people, there were two health needs that
were repeatedly identified. When asked, community of the health needs they thought should be
the top priority, almost all participants unanimously identified access to health care as their
major concern.

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It is only through reviewing of evidence-based and factual indicators endorsed by
practitioners in chronic disease prevention, that the whole health of a community will be
perfected. Due to health -care structure and the resource constraints from the demand created to
preserve and enhance the local economy, and of such have made inevitability the mother of
invention in North Dakota. Therefore, the key health care providers and legislators are busy
trying to invent new methods of care and to implement better practices in a bid to save the ailing
world (Bradford, 2013). Without working with a better strategic plan that can be used to solve
the challenges experienced in the healthcare sector, the community will continue suffering from
these life-threatening diseases. Moreover, joint campaigns to lobby for primary health care and
the concept of a medical home are being realized since the government in support with other
organization. This strategy can be achieved through cooperative networks of volunteers to co
establish technology that coincides with the patients’ needs and makes healthcare access
affordable without compromising the quality of health care. This move will greatly help the
nation and its citizens to access quality and affordable healthcare without digging deep into their
pockets or travelling overseas to seek for better health care services due to the misconception
that theirs is far much better than ours is. Embracing of technology are some of the examples of
how North Dakota can be able to provide its people with quality, efficient, and reliable
healthcare regardless of the challenges in its rural setting.
Top medical officials at MeritCare are ruminating on how incentives can be transformed
from the commercial level to advance team cooperation among other healthcare providers and
physicians.This however will greatly be propelled by the willingness and commitment of all
stakeholders who have in the past created self-awareness and clarity through voluntary medical
care in the community. Such articulate levels of participation, are frequently achieved through

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effective communication in all major departments (Osborn, 2012). Nationally, such programs as
the CDM collaboration has been acknowledged as a model by the Blue Cross Blue Shield
Association that facilitates participation through interaction and decision making hence aiding in
conflict containment and accommodation of the overall health sector (ElHaddad, 2006)
(McKenzie, Pinger, & Kotecki, 2011).
It should be recognized that health care is the cornerstone of any socialist country. It can
be matched to a crown jewel that enables a country economy to continue growing because of the
dependence on human capital. If more people in are ailing without proper healthcare services, it
means that the country is losing almost half of its potential and this means that there is a huge
lose in the economic growth.

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