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...
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...
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...
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...
healthy individual is infected with a bacteria or virus, the body identifies the virus as an invader, and therefore produces the antibodies, which is the human body's immune system, to destroy the virus to assist the person to recover and become hea Continue Reading...
Current Issues with Communicable Diseases Part 1 Whooping Cough is a disease that doctors may no longer recognize because it has become so rare. Alarms went off in California in the autumn of 2011 when nine infants died from the disease. There have b Continue Reading...
In 2002, "President Bush signed into law the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, which, among other things, eliminated the need to convene an advisory committee to amend the list of diseases" listed as quar Continue Reading...
6). What doctors do know is that the young, the elderly and those with compromised immune systems are far more likely to suffer adverse effects or become contaminated should an epidemic break out. These populations are also far more likely to develop 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 understan Continue Reading...
Ethics of Public Health Policies Public health concerns necessarily introduce a tension between the individual and the greater good, which may have different resolutions depending on the ethical perspective that one uses to assess them. As a society Continue Reading...
Without a public health system in place these elements were left in the street to be breathed in and walked through daily. In addition there engineering advances that built large high rise slums that were quickly filled to capacity even though they Continue Reading...
Outbreak Management: The SARS Outbreak in Epiville D. Background of the Epiville SARS Simulation outbreak The case definition is a list of specific criteria used to decide whether or not one has the disease under investigation. The case definition of Continue Reading...
Measles, Sars, Air Quality Global Health Issues Global Health Issues: Measles, SARS, and Air Quality Global Health Issues: Measles, SARS, and Air Quality Global Health Issues: Measles Measles is caused by a single-stranded negative-sense RNA vir Continue Reading...
