A newborn baby; perfect in every way. All 10 fingers and toes‚ beautiful pink‚ soft skin‚ perfect tiny lips and nose. A strong heart beat and a strong set of lungs. Becoming the parents of a new life; a responsibility of protection is important to the health and safety of the little‚ defenseless person. Infants are very susceptible to many diseases and illnesses. The best place to start providing protection is before leaving the hospital after the child is born. Immunizations are the most important
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Physical assessment is one of the process to assess and obtaining information about a patient’s health history and family medical history which can help in planning a patient’s care. A nurse uses subjective and objective data gathered to assess patient and the five nursing process to conduct patient’s health care. Interviewing patients is the first step. This paper discusses the health history of a lady I interviewed known as Mrs. E‚ family medical history‚ and overall reflection of the interview
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Immunisation protects people against harmful disease. It uses the body’s natural defence to build resistance to specific infections (Australia Government Department of Health‚ 2013). It was Edward Jenner who developed the first vaccine in 1976 against small pox. Centuries later the next vaccine was developed by Louis Pasteur. This was the anti-rabies vaccine (Lombard‚ Pastoret‚ & Moulin‚ 2007). It was these two men who gave hope to other scientist for the development and prevention of other infectious
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TDA 2.2 Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people Different agencies involved in safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and their roles: • Local safeguarding children board- they look into the death of children who have been abused or neglected. And how different professionals/agencies have dealt with it. • General practitioner- Can refer to necessary agencies i.e. social services/police and they provide a report for child protection conference. • National society for
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The Columbian Exchange considerably changed nearly every society in the world from flowing an abundance of new livestock and crops that increased the world human population‚ but also carried deadly diseases that demolished many civilizations. So‚ how did disease impact the New World? There are many reasons as to how disease impacted the New World and brought many people into serious danger; for example: lack of sanitization‚ weak immunity‚ and lack of vaccination. Diseases that expanded throughout
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The Invisible Enemy – How Old World diseases destroyed Indian America and created Colonial America. In the years prior to the Pilgrims establishing Plymouth colony in 1620‚ the area had been ravaged by an epidemic of disease which had wiped out the original Indian inhabitants. The Pilgrims believed that God had sent the disease among the Indians to clear the site for his ‘chosen people’. This is but one example of how the introduction of disease would forever change the existing Indian America into
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impaired social interaction and communication abilities. The article led to many parents choosing not to have their children vaccinated. Not soon after Wakefield’s publication‚ there were dramatic increases in the outbreaks of the illnesses‚ such as Pertussis (Whooping Cough) and Measles‚ that the boycotted vaccines were created to prevent. These outbreaks led to over 25 studies exploring the potential link between vaccines and autism‚ none
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Community Health Status Assessment (CHSA) is crucial component of MAPP’s assessments phase. It concentrates on the identification of community health problems and prioritizes the health status of the communities and the quality of life issues of their residents ((National Association of County & City Health Officials‚ 2014). The community Health Status Assessment provides and collects a list of the following data which represent the core indicators of health of Chicago residents and it is including
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Nishigandha Sambrani MYP 4 14 March‚ 13 Essay: Use of vaccine against any one microbial disease- Tetanus Vaccines are biological preparation that improves immunity towards a particular disease. It contains an agent that corresponds a disease-causing microorganism and attenuated or killed forms of microbes. This agent stimulates the human body’s immune system to recognize the agent as new or foreign particle and destroy the agent. The immune system of a human is capable to
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Pierre Roux was born in the province of Charente‚ France in 1853. Roux was a French physician and bacteriologist with various areas of study. His major studies included investigating cholera‚ chicken cholera‚ rabies‚ tuberculosis‚ and diphtheria. Roux was not alone in studying diphtheria. He met fellow bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin at the Pasteur institute of Paris. Yersin was born in Lavaux near Aubonne‚ Switzerland in 1863. Yersin studied much more that diphtheria in his time. He discovered Yersinia
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