2500.) The local and State health offices are mandated by law to carry out infectious disease examinations and interventions. When a disease report is received, the community health officer then has to take whatever measures are necessary to investigate and control the reported condition, disease or outbreak (Cal. Code Regulations, title 17, § 2501.) In the same vein, community health officers have to develop outbreak and case reports on the individual and submit… Continue Reading...
Introduction
Digital Disease Detection, commonly referred to as digital epidemiology provided strategies and methods for allowing digital-technology users to monitor infectious disease and conduct surveillance. These strategies help in the understanding of concerns and attitudes regarding infectious diseases. The process begins with the basics, such as the availability of internet access, online sharing platforms and other digital devices. These sources offer huge amounts of data. It is important to note that while these sources collect data, they do not, do so, with public health objectives in focus (Denecke, 2017).
The past few decades have seen tremendous changes in the world. There have been many and varied threats; from bioterrorism, influenza… Continue Reading...
a dramatic decrease in the number of various vaccine-preventable infectious diseases in the United States. However, some of the said infectious diseases continue to be common in other jurisdictions across the world. International travellers could easily bring such diseases to the U.S. As Guidolin and Meglei (107) point out, vaccines come in handy in seeking to curtail the spread of some infectious diseases that could potentially jeopardize efforts to promote the health and wellbeing of populations. In that regard, therefore, there is need to vaccinate all children against vaccine-preventable diseases so as to avoid infection. This would be the… Continue Reading...
be related to weaknesses in the healthcare services industry as well as to factors like pollution.
6.2. This exercise pertains to infectious disease. Some infectious diseases have incubation periods, making the development of accurate data difficult. Moreover, some infectious diseases like West Nile virus are seasonal, requiring the epidemiologist to track the data over time within the same community. The term “outbreak” can be used to describe population anomalies, a number of cases that significantly exceeds the norm for that same period of time in that same geographic area.
6.3. What constitutes an official “case” is one of the central questions in epidemiology, and the answer will vary depending on the… Continue Reading...
must address this issue of getting back to a healthy diet to combat the spread of obesity.
3. Infectious diseases. As the World Health Organization notes, travelers to Brazil should be away of infectious diseases. Riding Brazil of these diseases is already underway and should continue so that travelers and tourists can come to Brazil without fear of being infected by a local disease.
4. Zika. Zika is a virus transmitted by mosquitoes that swept up through South and Central America in recent years. It is a very serious virus especially for pregnant mothers. Developing a vaccination for this virus should… Continue Reading...
Aguirre, Alonso et al. “Infectious Disease Monitoring of the Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal.” Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 40.2 (2007): 229-241.
This article seeks to monitor infectious diseases afflicting endangered Hawaiian monk seals. It should be noted that a study of this nature is not only relevant from a conservation point of view, but also a valid tool for assessing some of the prominent threats to the long-term survival of endangered Hawaiian monk seals. Two of the most prominent causes of mortality in this case have been identified as mitotoxin and ciguatoxin. The authors are… Continue Reading...
to the prison population. Indeed, prisoners in these countries tend to be disproportionately affected by infectious diseases compared to the rest of the population, particularly tuberculosis and HIV (Health through Walls, 2014). This problem is created by factors such as prison overcrowding and lack of proper health care services, especially targeting disease identification, prevention, and management. Without measures to address this problem, there are increased health risks for not only the prisoners themselves, but also prison staff, visitors, as well as the communities where prisoners live upon release. The first step in addressing this problem is to have a more comprehensive understanding of the problem,… Continue Reading...
as it causes diseases. Notably, access to safe water leads to poor sanitation, which consequently adds to deteriorated health and increases the spread of infectious diseases. The inference of this is that it results in increased child and mortality rates. Statistics further indicate that every 2 minutes in the present day, a child does because of a water-related disease. There could be $18.5 billion in terms of economic benefits on an annual basis from evaded deaths if there was universal accessibility to clean water and sanitation (Water.Org). Imperatively, safe and easily accessible water is significant for public health, whether it is utilized for drinking, domestic use, food production or leisure purposes. Better-quality water supply… Continue Reading...
disease eradication or control. A perfect example is measles and other infectious diseases for which vaccines exist but have become irregularly used due to pseudoscience scares. The anti-vaccination movement that led to several measles outbreaks in areas that had ready access to the vaccine started with blatant fraud and overt “misconduct,” being called “perhaps, the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years,” (Flaherty, 2011, p. 1302). The APHA fights to inform the public about this and similar hoaxes that adversely impact public health.
The APHA also makes direct recommendations to key national policy institutes like the National Institutes of… Continue Reading...
2016, p. 1). Herd immunity refers to the critical mass of people required to prevent an infectious disease from posing a threat. In generating concern about autism, parents are exposing their child—and the entire society—to deadly diseases. A recent survey revealed that while vaccination rates have gone up twelve percent since 2013, refusal rates have also risen from 2.5% to an astonishing four percent in 2016 (Fox, 2018).
The counter-argument is rooted in religious freedom. Yet mandatory vaccination seems like a justifiable infringement on individual rights considering the far more pressing danger of exposing the entire populace to preventable and deadly illnesses. According to the World… Continue Reading...
for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States Public Health Service oversee knowledge-based healthcare service delivery related to infectious diseases and other public health concerns, whereas Medicare covers knowledge-based healthcare services for the senior population nationwide (Institute of Medicine Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century, 2005). Professional organizations like the American Medical Association and the American Dental Association are also dedicated to the provision of knowledge-based healthcare services under their practice rubrics.
Each organization that mandates knowledge-based healthcare delivery influences healthcare, mainly by changing the nature of service and the relationship between stakeholders. For example, local, state, and federal organizations have used… Continue Reading...
