HCA/240 Disease Trends and the Delivery of Health Care Services This research project will discuss how demographics disease trends affect the delivery of health care. We will begin with the current age of the United States Population and how changes will and our occurring within the next 10-20 years. Second‚ we will identify factors that support our environment and the demographic trends that are changing. We will provide examples of relevant disease and how the aging trend will increase
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Lyme Disease Lyme Disease An emerging public health concern in the New River Valley is the increase in reported cases of Lyme disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)‚ “Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vectorborne illness in the United States‚” although it is concentrated primarily in only thirteen states. The New River Valley reported a record number of cases in 2012‚ and is considered endemic to Lyme disease per the Virginia Department of Health
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Research paper Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It causes inflammation of the lining of your digestive tract‚ which can lead to abdominal pain‚ severe diarrhea and even malnutrition. Inflammation caused by Crohn’s disease can involve different areas of the digestive tract in different people. The inflammation caused by Crohn’s disease often spreads deep into the layers of affected bowel tissue. Like ulcerative colitis‚ another common IBD‚ Crohn’s disease can be both painful and
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Heart Disease Amber Brooks HCS-245 November 26‚ 2012 Tynan Weed‚ Facilitator Heart Disease Heart disease is what is known as the silent killer; to me I believe this whole heartedly. I hold this particular disease close to my heart because I had a lost due to the disease in my family. I had to realize that it must be really serious for the simple fact that it works so silently and could kill off so easily. I did my research on it and I now know the severity of it. Everyone
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Hashimoto’s Disease vs. Graves Disease Anna Grochowski Salter College Anatomy and Physiology II September 18‚ 2013 Dr. P. Wong Hashimoto’s disease can also be called chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis or autoimmune thyroiditis. An autoimmune disease happens when the body’s immune system attacks it’s own cells and organs instead of its normal job of protecting the body from infection. Hashimoto’s disease specifically attacks the thyroid gland‚ causing inflammation
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Crohn’s Disease Shauna Griffin Immunology Spring 2016 April 23‚ 2016 Dr. Turner Crohn’s disease‚ also known as Ileitis‚ is a chronic‚ inflammatory disease involving the gastrointestinal tract (GI tract). The main purpose of the GI tract is to break down food in order to allow the nutrients to be absorbed effectively. This is extremely important to the body’s functioning and overall performance. The GI tract is essential for energy‚ growth and repair and it is because of these reasons that Crohn’s
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Communicable Disease HCS 457 September 24‚ 2012 Heather Steiner Communicable Disease Tuberculosis is a communicable disease that affects a person’s lungs. Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium. Untreated TB can be fatal‚ in the past TB was the leading cause of death in the United States. There are two TB related conditions that exit: latent TB infection and Active TB infection. TB can be transmitted to others when an infected person coughs or sneezes
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Lazaro Castillo 04/16/2012 Infectious Diseases One infectious disease I will be discussing is called Diphtheria. Diphtheria is a highly contagious bacterial infection‚ which mainly affects the nose‚ throat and occasionally the skin‚ but in more serious cases‚ it can attack the heart and nerves. Diphtheria is caused by a bacterium known as C. diphtheiae. The bacteria produce a toxin (poison) that is carried in the bloodstream and causes tissue damage in the area of infection‚ usually the nose
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the Measles‚ Mumps‚ and Rubella vaccine‚ the World Health Organization has plans for worldwide eradication of the diseases. The World Health Organization has come up with a strategic plan to eradicate measles and rubella by implementing a plan to use the forced immunizations like the US has done. The lack of education‚ and more importantly‚ financing has slowed the process of eradicating these completely preventable diseases.(World Health Organization‚2012)Retrieved from: http://www.who.int/immuni
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Literature Review Aida Vega El Paso Community College March 8‚ 2013 Aida Vega Professor Kathleen Bombach English 1302 March 8‚ 2013 Everyone that has phenylketonuria or celiac disease knows that this is something serious and it will affect them. Emily Meyers is a mother of a child with phenylketonuria; she says it was the hardest thing. Because not only does she have to give her baby a diet. She knew that if she didn’t take her of her health‚ her daughter could be affected with
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