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Alright, so here is part two,
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it's health education, resources and promotion.
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Health education and promotion,
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despite there being plenty
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of reliable information available on the web
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and then a lot of doctors offices,
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Mhm.
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There is a lack of promotion resources are available online,
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but not as much information as available in person
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besides that, like medical facilities like doctor's offices,
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um proper health education contributes to the
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HP the HPV prevalence that exists worldwide.
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I have never seen,
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I have never seen any type of HBV informational flyer
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or poster outside of any hospitals or doctor's office.
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Um
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Have you ever been to a health fair that discussed HBV? No.
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In school you learn about fatal diseases like liver cancer and disease,
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liver disease, but they never go in into depth about one of the leading causes of it.
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And I think that's where the public is taking,
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maybe this is not that important um because if it was they would have mentioned it,
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it's not talked about,
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it's not something that's promoted despite it being one of the leading causes for
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One of the top 10 leading causes of death in the us, which is cancer.
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So I think um
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we have to do better about
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our educational promotions,
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getting it out there and not just keeping it localized inside of
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medical facilities or localized inside of um
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Well that's really it,
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that's where you really see it localized inside medical facilities,
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I really couldn't think and
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when I did the research, it wasn't that many places that popped up that wasn't
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um medical related or healthcare related.
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So that's something you don't really see I I've never seen
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anything about HPV at at a fair it isn't despite it,
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like I said despite it being one of the top 10 causes of
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um
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of one of the leading causes of death which is cancer.
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And HPV lead can lead to liver cancer
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resources. The best resource that I felt comfortable sharing.
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Um That feels the most reliable and the most helpful
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came from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
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also known as the C.
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D. C.
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Uh They do have a website that offers uh
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a lot of detailed information on Hepatitis B, including fact sheets, Q. And A.
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Statistics and online uh HBV online website of what to look for,
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like the signs um and that is going to be inside the references,
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but in my opinion that's probably the best um
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resource that I feel comfortable sharing with people
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because there's actually a lot on that website,
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a lot of print out sheets, not just, oh it's interactive,
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but there's a lot of print out sheets.
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Um Let's see um conclusions and recommendations.
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So in conclusion,
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I think there needs to be more promotions surrounding HPV and this can include
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anything from posters on public transportation pamphlets
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at fairs and including it into the
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health education curriculum in schools,
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it appears that HPV is not enough of a priority for funds to go towards prevention.
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And I think that needs to change. Um
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Mhm.
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It's not the fact that HPV itself isn't fatal.
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The problem is what it can lead to that turns fatal.
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I also think that the HPV screening should be included
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as an essential benefit in all health insurance plans.
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I
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um I mentioned this in my first submission for the course and
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I still believe in that heavily because this will give providers a better
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idea if an individual has contracted HPV and it allows providers to
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collect data to help researchers track down what areas and maybe prevalent in
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um if the local public health departments could
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uh find expenses to expend towards HPV,
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they could focus on health promotion in the
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areas where the infection rates are the highest
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and I think that's a good start. Um
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Ultimately
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the hardest part of HPV is the fact that
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it's highly asymptomatic and it's so hard to catch,
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it's so hard to catch the actual
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infection because people aren't experiencing anything that would
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trigger a visit to the doctor's office.
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So, for me,
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I think that's something that needs to be
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put out there.
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Um a good reason I say that
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and there's also there seems to be some information,
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there seems to be a lot of this diagnosing that happens and
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I'm not saying that based off of the research that I did,
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I am saying that based off of
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experience, my stepdad was misdiagnosed for years.
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Um He had liver problems and they claimed Sacra doses and
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they claimed some other things that was happening for his disease and
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we didn't think anything of it.
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We were just like, okay,
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let's just treat it as what they diagnosed him as only
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to find out early last year that he actually had hepatitis.
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It's just that the signs and symptoms were that he was exhibiting was
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similar to another diagnosis and sacra doses. So
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we were treat they were treating him while he was slowly declining.
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They were treating him for something else
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only because the symptoms were um similar to Hepatitis B.
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And that sucked because nobody ran the test.
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Nobody did the Hepatitis B, but blood panel, they just went off of, okay,
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these are the two diagnosis.
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So I think the screenings
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need to really become
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um
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part of a health insurance plan.
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It should become part of people's regular
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primary benefits because it's unfair um to
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the public that they could run that risk like we did with the misdiagnosis.
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And in conclusion, that is my presentation. Thank you.
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And I had a great semester learned a lot.
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Mm hmm.