Communicable Disease: Influenza Description of the Disease Influenza or "the flu" is a common illness in the winter months, all throughout the United States and many other countries. Both birds and all mammals can contract influenza (Brankston, et Continue Reading...
Communicable Diseases I Christiew handle order Identify a communicable disease research. (i.e HIV, Herpes) Communicable diseases rely fluid exchange, contaminated substances, close contact travel infected carrier a healthy individual. Communicable Continue Reading...
Communicable Disease/Community Nursing 2003 SARS Outbreak In November 2002, the first case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was reported in the Guangdong Province in China (Lau and Peiris, 2005). Over the next few months, SARS cases were Continue Reading...
Communicable Disease - HIV Since its discovery as a wasting disease, "gay-related immune deficiency" and "slim" in the mid-1980's, HIV has posed a significant health problem for the United States and the World. Initially considered mysteriously deva Continue Reading...
Communicable disease outbreak (SARS) by doing the following: Describe the communicable disease outbreak. A community wide outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) within the greater metropolitan area of Los Angeles County would represen Continue Reading...
Using condoms is also an excellent prevention activity that can also be used (Primary and Secondary HIV Prevention, 2008). Potential obstacles to HIV prevention activities taking place in clinical settings often include: narrow formations of medic Continue Reading...
Communicable Diseases The MMR vaccine is an immunization against measles, mumps and Rubella. Recently there has been increased media coverage that there is a link between the combined MMR immunization and autism (NHS choices, 2012).This MMR vaccine Continue Reading...
Communicable Disease: Measles Although measles has been almost completely eradicated from the Americas, dozens of cases still occur each year in the United States due in large part to transmissions of the disease from travelers returning from abroa Continue Reading...
epidemiology nursing research a communicable disease. Communicable Disease Selection Choose communicable disease list: 1. Chickenpox 2. Tuberculosis 3. Influenza 4. Communicable diseases according to (Copstead & Banasik, 2010) is a condition or Continue Reading...
Tuberculosis Communicable disease: Tuberculosis Tuberculosis is a widespread, lethal, and infectious/transmittable disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This bacterial infection usually begins in the form of innumerable strains of mycobacte Continue Reading...
Epidemiology and Breaking Communicable Diseases at a Link Within the Communicable Disease Chain The objective of this study is to answer as to how demographic factors affect health status, health-related behavior, or the use of health care services. Continue Reading...
individual with a communicable disease that is a disability is other wise qualified for the job? Individuals with disease can be judged for qualifications in the same way as any other individual applying for a job. Communicable or infectious diseas Continue Reading...
Intra-Health International One of the tope 10 global health issues identified by Intra-Health International in 2013 is: Helping even more children to live longer. According to the 2012 UNICEF report, Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed, Continue Reading...
Response to Carmen T.Considering Haiti\\\'s susceptibility to natural disasters, the focus should shift towards public health education in all aspects of healthcare. Nurses and government should not wait until a natural disaster happens for them to b Continue Reading...
One in six patients in intensive care units are colonized or infected with MRSA, which signifies not only the prevalence of this health risk, but the impact on the nurses' workload. Antibiotic resistant MRSA increases mortality and postoperative st Continue Reading...
Some of these illnesses have unique features which make them particularly difficult to track as subjects of surveillance. For example, Lyme tests are often unreliable. Also, "many viruses and bacteria cause nonspecific syndromes or symptom complexes Continue Reading...
diseases West Nile virus, malaria, plague, and yellow fever. Specifically, it will discuss the history and distribution of the diseases in the United States or worldwide, and compare each of the diseases based on the categories above, as to which is Continue Reading...
Disease Control and Prevention From its headquarters in Greater Atlanta, Georgia, the Department of Health and Human Services operates its nationwide agency known as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This agency was officially formed Continue Reading...
ResponsesFrom #Response 1My colleague indicates that according to her interpretation of the data presented, middle school problems are on the rise. She further observes that in her school, the most prevalent concerns have been physical fights/confron Continue Reading...
The Interplay Between Millennium Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals, and Communicable DiseasesThe transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) marked a significant evolution in the Continue Reading...
Health Map The risk of a pandemic disease spreading throughout the globe is higher than it has ever been in the history of the world. The massive population boom and rapid travel methods have combined to demonstrate that germs and diseases are poten Continue Reading...
Currently, the limitations of the current system include the fact that "they do not capture all cases in most countries. Cases may be missed by & #8230;systems because people…are diagnosed by public and private providers that do not report Continue Reading...
This could include symptoms such as, Coughing Throat irritation Pain, burning, or discomfort in the chest when taking a deep breath Chest tightness, wheezing, or shortness of breath (Health Effects of Ozone in the General Population) Reference Continue Reading...
Disease Control and Prevention CDC, in basic terms, "is one of the major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services" (CDC, 2014). The agency's mission, as it points out on its website is to serve "as the national focus for Continue Reading...
Applying Epidemiology The case study centers mainly on analyzing the symptoms of an unknown disease experienced by students at one of the universities in Central South Texas. The students were suffering from nausea, diarrhea and vomiting. The two st Continue Reading...
From the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act (Section 27), venereal diseases refer to ailments like gonorrhoea, granuloma, chlamydia, chancroid, syphilis, lymphopathia venereum and inguinale (Public Health Law Research, 2014). Established Continue Reading...
Epidemiology This report will discuss the recent growth of the infectious/communicable disease of paratyphoid and typhoid fever in underprivileged regions across India, together with its contributing factors, pathophysiology, signs, symptoms, and ma Continue Reading...
Garrett and FarmerLaurie Garrett argues for continued global budgetary allocations for communicable disease programs and surveillance, emphasizing that investing in addressing non-communicable diseases at the expense of infectious disease control wil Continue Reading...
Epidemiology-Descriptive Method DESCRIPTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY IN NURSING PRACTICE Descriptive Epidemiology in Nursing Science The genesis for the disease control involves summarizing the different conditions using the variables such as place, time, and Continue Reading...
Culture among Immigrant Women from Sub-Saharan Africa Diagnosed with Chronic Diseases, Living in Grande Prairie, Alberta The concept culture is defined as learned beliefs revealing the method people interact with their physical and social environme Continue Reading...
Global Burden of DiseaseThe Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study was pioneered by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation to give data about health trends worldwide (Dunachie et al., 2020). This data includes information about mortality, morb Continue Reading...
Environmental and Global Health Issues Environmental & Global Health Issues Communicable disease outbreak: Measles Until recently, it was thought that measles had been entirely eradicated in the United States, thanks to the success of the nati Continue Reading...
Cholera The following is a response to a major disaster in the Asian coastal country of Bangladesh. A major and destructive typhoon has recently hit the country and there are significant problems. The result of this typhoon has seem massive death, d Continue Reading...
communicable disease for discussion is HIV. HIV is the precursor to AIDS and is a virus with possible origins within the monkeys and chimp population of Africa. Some humans in certain areas of Africa ate these animals and may have been exposed to th Continue Reading...
Epidemiology of Communicable Disease - HIV Epidemiology of Communicable Disease Description of the communicable disease (causes, symptoms, mode of transmission, complications, treatment) and the demographic of interest (mortality, morbidity, incide Continue Reading...
HIV Nursing The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus (actually a lentivirus) that eventually causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS; World Health Organization [WHO], 2014). There are two subtypes of the HIV virus: HIV -- 1 Continue Reading...
Hispanics Living in Alabama The United States has a large number of minority groups and the largest among them are the Hispanic population. According to the latest census, the Hispanic population in Alabama now number 75,830. The census authorities Continue Reading...
