Epidemiology Research Paper

Epidemiology Paper
Betsy Rangel
NUR/408
April 11, 2012
Professor Karen Harriman

Epidemiology Paper Epidemiology is important to communities because it studies health and diseases to determine where they come from, educate on ways to stop epidemics from taking place or the spread of certain diseases. Epidemiology has also taken on the study of health in such things as heart disease, cancer, HIV/AIDs, etc and has formed education materials to be able to educate the community, cities, states, etc on ways to prevent certain illnesses. Without epidemiology we would all be blind to the health issues and illnesses etc, how they are spread or contracted and our mortality rates would be higher than what they are today. Epidemiology
This step focuses on patients who have serious complications related to their diabetes and patients who have had the disease for a long time ("Ehow", 1999-2012). Some of these complications can include heart disease, lower limb amputations, neuropathy, kidney disease, kidney failure, eye trouble such as glaucoma, etc. These patients need to continue to monitor feet daily for any types of injuries or infections, need to monitor blood sugar levels closely and after every meal, take medications or insulin as ordered, continue to have regular eye and dental exams, continue to go to all appointments as instructed or set up by physicians, and continue to have all lab test drawn as ordered and monitored by a physician ("Ehow",
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