Culture and Disease Paper: Pulmonary Tuberculosis Introduction to Health and Disease/HCS 245 July 28‚ 2013 Professor Culture and Disease Paper: Pulmonary Tuberculosis Tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial disease that usually attacks the lungs. It is considered a challenging disease to diagnose‚ treat‚ and control. Tuberculosis is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is usually referred to as TB. If it is not
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Reflective account’s for health and social care level 3 Health and Social care (adults). Health and safety. On this training course I have learnt about the health and safety risks of my work place. (Health and safety manager) taught me the difference between a hazard and a risk also the steps 1-5 on how to identify both then handle them. I learnt how to identify whether it’s a high or low risk and the actions that are required. In this training I got taught and showed how to appropriately use
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Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is the condition in which the alveolar wall is thickened by scarring‚ causes the patients to have shortness of breath‚ fatigue and lower the oxygen saturation. PF may have definable causes but in many cases‚ the causes remain unknown. Those cases with unknown causes called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Air is drawn in by the nose and mouth‚ passes through the bronchi to the bronchioles and finally reaches millions of alveoli. Around the alveolar is a group of many capillaries
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process of reflection and reflective writing Assignment 3 in IPLU1 week B requires you to be both analytical and reflective. The Oxford Dictionary says that reflection refers to calm‚ lengthy and intent consideration‚ contemplation or musing. Essentially reflection is focused thinking of an evaluative type. Reflection involves being honest with yourself about your previous ignorance and your new learning‚ however enlightening or hard it was to face. Much reflective thinking takes place in your
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Cardio vascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in Australian. Cardio vascular Disease is a range of diseases of the heart and blood vessels including coronary heart disease‚ cardiomyopathy‚ peripheral disease‚ congenital heart disease‚ stroke and heart failure. In 2012‚the deaths recorded as a result of CVD were 43‚946 this is approximately 30% of all deaths in Australia for that year (Health.gov.au‚ 2015). There are many risk factors that contribute to CVD these include being overweight
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COPD which is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is known as a condition that progressively makes it harder to breathe because the airflow into and out of the lungs is reduced. This usually occurs because the airways and air sacs lose their elastic quality‚ the walls between the air sacs are destroyed‚ the walls of the airways become swollen‚ or if the airways are clogged because they made more mucus than usual. Three main conditions of this disease are emphysema‚ chronic obstructive bronchitis
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would help you to access your goal. Let’s find out which training method would be best for you‚ cardio or weight training: • There is always a raging debate in the fitness world about the resistance training‚ such as weight lifting is not so effective like cardio‚ bringing down the fat. •
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Cardiovascular System: The Heart Laszlo Vass‚ Ed.D. Version 42-0006-05-01 Lab Report Assistant This document is not meant to be a substitute for a formal laboratory report. The Lab Report Assistant is simply a summary of the experiment’s questions‚ diagrams if needed‚ and data tables that should be addressed in a formal lab report. The intent is to facilitate students’ writing of lab reports by
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Reflective statement is our own words that reflect our own thought about something. It explains the journey of our learning in the class and what we learn in our everyday lives. Sharing our reflection with another can help us for learning. We can get new ideas from them. Reflection is like a “learning portfolio” where we can document what‚ why and how we learned. Below I am going to explain my reflective statement regarding our team work assignment which we accomplished. Leadership and development
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Lung cancer‚ emphysema and bronchitis also known as Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are three of the most common diseases directly linked with smoking. Furthermore‚ cigarette smoke is the cause of 80 percent of lung cancer deaths and 80% of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Researches have estimated about 5.000 people deaths each year in New Zealand because of smoking or second-hand smoke exposure. Tobacco smoke globally is responsible for one in ten adult deaths which estimates
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