5. Why do you think college students living in dorms are often populations who see the meningitis outbreaks?…
Another concern of medical researchers, is the scare that the Zika virus may be able to be transferred from person to person, through bodily fluids, and maybe even sexual contact. It is not medically proven just yet (‘’Zika virus’’). With that it is crucial for researchers to find a vaccine, because people are sexually active every…
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) are conditions in the human body that cause failure in the immune system leading to life threatening infections and tumors. HIV was first discovered 30 years ago on June 5th, 1981 in a group of young gay men. HIV began to spread through the entire population of people. Since then over 60 million people have been infected with HIV and more than 25 million have died form an AIDS related causes (www.emedicinehealth.com). HIV/AIDS is a big issue, because it’s affecting a large portion of today’s population. Creating a public health plan will help people who have HIV/AIDS, and ones at risk of being infected.…
Overview: Foodborne illnesses are a burden on public health and contribute significantly to the cost of health care. A foodborne outbreak occurs when 2 or more cases of a similar illness result from eating the same food. In 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received reports of a total of 1,270 foodborne disease outbreaks, which resulted in 27,634 cases of illness and 11 deaths.…
As a result of later epidemics, the need for a World Health Organization was developed.…
The objective that I chose from the Healthy People 2020 Objectives was to increase the proportion of genetic testing. This is a new objective, having not been included in Healthy People 2010. The genomics discipline is a budding field and it concerns the study of an individual’s genome. Genomics uses knowledge of the molecular source of a disease in order to help predict, treat and quantify the likelihood of disease reoccurrence.…
I just had an opportunity to get a full briefing from Secretary Burwell, CDC Director Frieden, as well as Tony Fauci from NIH about the Zika situation, and I want to give the American people an update on where we are.…
Online communities, such as Facebook, Twitter, or WhatsApp, allows individuals to receive world news in a matter of seconds. Social networks have become micro-blogs that people use as tools for political and social revolutions. Henry Jenkins, a media scholar and Professor of Journalism and Cinematic Arts, argues in his essay "Convergence Cultures," that technology convergence is actually a cultural movement that ordinary people participate in (434). Jenkins claims that "when people take media into their own hands, the results can be wonderfully creative; they can also be bad news for everyone involved" (443). The 2014 Ebola virus outbreak on social media demonstrates the problematic side to user-generated platforms but also the benefits of social media.…
Medical phenomena are subject to questioning, leading to controversy based upon the adverse effects of medical treatments such as vaccinations that may lead to further ailment. Due to a study done in 1998 by The Lancet that published a correlation between the MMR vaccination and autism, a large debate has ensued. Based upon the principles of fear, parents have chosen to "protect" their children by not having them vaccinated. In an effort to make a stance on an issue that is based upon false principles, it is necessary to understand the study done by The Lancet, the purpose of the vaccination…
Although a lot of people believe that vaccinations aren’t always the best thing to turn to and also believe that they make patients prone to the specific sickness, vaccine-preventable diseases haven’t gone away. In a time when people can travel across the world, it’s not hard to see how easy it is to contract diseases from all over the world. Vaccines are just as important to your health then just healthy foods such as a diet and exercise, but they can also mean the difference between life and death.…
What if you were stuck in a situation and had no real good insurance? What if your daughter came down with cancer or you were in a car accident and was injured and your insurance couldn't cover it or possibly say they simply wouldn’t? Most people think obamacare should be repealed. Others on the other hand think it shouldn't. Ever since Obama was president, he came up with Obamacare to help those who cannot afford other types of insurance like Medicare or Medicaid or they just stopped helping the customer. Most people hate it. Obamacare can help others and shouldn’t be repealed.…
In conclusion vaccinations are for the greater good even though some people do not see it that way. They are meant to protect the population of the world. They are produced in order to help us survive in times when disease and illness break out. The ideas that vaccinations do not help get rid of diseases, herd immunity, and the fact that people would rather take their chances of contracting the disease instead of saving themselves a ton of money are all close minded ideas. In fact according to May “the problem faced by the public health community is one of convincing the public to accept vaccination”, this is due to their close mindedness of vaccines (410). These people are not looking at the bigger picture, they are not thinking about the…
I am writing to express my concerns about the number of people who are not being vaccinated in our state. In Pennsylvania, we have one of the worst vaccination/immunization rates in the United States with only 87% of the people being vaccinated correctly. Vaccines protect people from preventable, spreadable diseases by providing immunity to the disease the vaccination is for. However, we have read news about the outbreaks of diseases that we thought were gone in the United States, like recent measles outbreaks. Why do people choose to take a chance that their child might get a preventable disease? Why do parents take the chance of their own child spreading a preventable disease to other people who do not have immunity? It is scientifically proven that vaccines even save lives.…
Eighty seven percent of women and eighty one percent of men become parents at some point during their working lives (aaup.org). That is a pretty high percentage of people whose lives change when they find out they are expecting a child. You suddenly become responsible for another human being. A part of that responsibility is making extremely important decisions that will affect your child’s health and wellbeing, such as deciding whether or not you want to get your child vaccinated. This has been an ongoing debate for decades, but only in the last decade has it become at the forefront of American political discussion. Both sides of the debate have positives and negatives, but the real question is: which choice is ultimately better for your child?…
In our modern times we are fortunate enough to have numerous ways to protect ourselves form infections disease. However, mid 1300th Europe wasn’t as lucky. One might even say that they where defenseless. There seemed to be no stopping this infections disease know as the black death from invading Europe. This disease made a lasting impact on European culture because of the ruthless symptoms, the blaming of innocent people, and the effect it had on the citizens.…