Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Childhood Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is increasing every year to the extent that it has become a global epidemic. Diabetes UK report that globally form 1975 to 2010 it was estimated to treble from 70 million to 220 million and in the UK it was estimated that from 1980 to 2010 it would almost quadruple from 800‚000 to 3 million (Diabetes UK 2004). A 2006 review by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated that if the present trends continue‚ by 2025 the global
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Assignment 008 Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people Task A 1. Identify a current a national piece of legislation relevant to safeguarding children and young people’s welfare. The current legislation‚ guidelines‚ policies and procedures. Legislations and guidelines Policies and procedures for safeguarding and child protection in settings for children and young people in England and Wales are the results of legislation passed in Parliament
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Food-Borne Illnesses: Hepatitis A January 8‚ 2012 University of Phoenix (Professor’s Name Here) ABSTRACT This research was performed to determine the factors of the food-borne illness Hepatitis‚ specifically the hepatitis A virus (HAV). It explained how HAV can be transmitted most commonly through person-to-person contact and provided examples of outbreaks that have occurred in the United States within the last 20 years. HAV is a preventable
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CRITICAL CARE Critical care: the eight vital signs of patient monitoring Malcolm Elliott and Alysia Coventry O ne of the traditional roles of nurses involves surveillance.This might include watching patients for changes in their condition‚ recognising early clinical deterioration and protection from harm or errors (Rogers et al‚ 2008). For over 100 years‚ nurses have performed this surveillance using the same vital signs: temperature‚ pulse‚ blood pressure‚ respiratory rate and
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Key Assignment 1: Childhood (A) Child centred society is a society that puts the welfare of children first in terms of priority. For example‚ America is a child centred society because the society on a whole will put the needs of a child first. (B) There are many ways in which the distinction between childhood and adulthood is “becoming blurred.” An example of how this is happening is ‘Television’. Television blurs the distinction between childhood and adulthood by destroying
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history when many new things were happening in the United States and medical marvels happened often. The south was a place specifically prominent where social standings were how people were judged and how one was were treated by people. While mental illnesses have been around forever‚ the treatment of them‚ medically and socially‚ has changed drastically over time. In a “Rose For Emily” William Faulkner tells how the community that Emily Grierson lives in did not speak of or act upon her mental illness
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as if they’d invented the habit of more‚ when in fact they’d only inherited it the way a fetus picks up an addiction in the womb. The craving was there in the national bloodstream‚ a remnant of the frontier‚ and the baby boomers‚ described in childhood as “the luckiest generation‚”13 found themselves‚ as young adults‚ in the melancholy position of wrestling with a two-hundred-year dependency on a drug that was now in short supply. True‚ the 1980s raised the clamor for more to new heights of
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Is Clozapine an effective treatment for schizophrenia? What is schizophrenia and what are the symptoms – Figure 1 Schizophrenia is a brain disorder which can affect a person’s mental well-being. Suffering from schizophrenia can terrify people and make them withdrawn from family and friends or make them extremely agitated. Some people with the disorder are known to hear voices‚ believe people are trying to harm them or are reading their minds. The exact cause is unknown‚ however many scientists
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These signs include‚ memory loss‚ challenges solving problems‚ difficulty completing a familiar task‚ problems speaking and writing‚ poor judgement‚ social withdrawal and changes in mood. Neurologists specialize in diseases of the brain and can determine if a person has Alzheimer’s with a series of steps. These steps include examining family history‚ mental status testing‚ neurological and physical exams and various tests. Blood tests and brain imaging are common tests performed by doctors
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Foodborne Illnesses Worksheet Eating unhealthy food is one thing. Eating food that has been contaminated with a pathogen‚ toxin‚ or other harmful substance is quite another. You may be surprised to know that more than 200 diseases are transmitted through food. Becoming knowledgeable about how food becomes contaminated and how it affects the human body may greatly increase your ability to improve your health and wellness while staying free from foodborne illnesses. With this worksheet‚ first choose
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