IHP 525 Final Project Part I

My article selection was the third option, which was the articles pertaining to depressive symptoms and coronary heart disease, and gender specific relating to the female population. The primary reason I chose this option is that I feel it hits close to home for me, with that I have a aging mother who smokes and has COPD, suffers from depression, along with the beginnings of Alzheimer’s disease. She has been widowed for several years, and her heath issues, both physical and mental, has been declining since losing my stepfather to cancer.

The secondary reason that I selected this topic and the corresponding articles is that heart disease is still one of the major health issues that causes death and other long-term, serious illnesses not just in the United States, but globally. There is plenty of information that can be found to conduct research and create statistical data to prove one’s finding on this subject, and so it should be interesting to work on this topic. I am not currently any sort of experienced healthcare professional, but I am sure that making myself more knowledgeable in this field, especially with depression, will one day influence my actions in my professional role as some sort of an administrator or manager in a medical facility setting.