Prevention Strategies of Communicable diseases Methods of Control Communicable diseases occur only when the causative agent comes into contact with a susceptible host in a suitable environment. Prevention and control efforts for communicable diseases may be directed to any of these three elements. Communicable diseases affect both individuals and communities‚ so control efforts may be directed at both. Treatment of persons with communicable diseases with antibiotics typically kills the agent and
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Diabetes is an example of a non communicable disease. I chose diabetes because it is a very common disease that a lot of people live with so I would like to learn more about it. I want to learn about the disease itself and the symptoms that are associated with the disease. Then I want to learn about treatments to help with diabetes. And since I don’t have diabetes I want to learn what health practices I need to work on to prevent getting diabetes. These are all things this assignment will help me
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HIV/AIDS a Communicable Disease Jennifer Hudson August 20‚ 2010 A communicable disease is an illness that is spread through contact of germs and bacteria. Humans‚ animals and foods are all transporters of germs and bacteria that can deliver a contagious illness from one host to another. An effortless touch or swapping of fluids is all that germs and bacteria need to spread. There are several pertinent communicable diseases in the World today. For the purposes of this paper‚ we will focus on
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Communicable diseases include malaria‚ HIV/AIDS‚ tuberculosis‚ infant’s diarrhoea‚ measles and poliomyelitis diseases are passed on to people who are not already affected by it. To collect this data we use mortality rates‚ morbidity rates‚ disease incidence‚ disease prevalence and disability adjusted life years. They are spreading from person to person or from animals to people. It spreads by viruses or bacteria‚ but can also pass through blood or other body fluid. Disease Incidence: The incidence
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Communicable Disease: Chickenpox/Shingles Communicable diseases are the results from the contributing factor(s) of spreading a bacterium or virus that clings onto one person whereby passing to another. The chickenpox virus is not a respecter of persons‚ and children are the most vulnerable because of exposure to environmental situations that cause spreading of the virus. Communicable diseases are preventable‚ however; prevention focuses on how the disease spreads. Health care professionals play
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Communicable Disease Paper Kayla Lysak HCS 457 July 7‚ 2014 Lindsay Cogan Communicable Disease Paper This paper will be discussing what MRSA is and the efforts that are being made to control it. It will also be discussing the environmental factors that are related to this disease. Other factors that will be discussed will be to explain the influence that lifestyles‚ socioeconomic status and disease management play and what the public health department is doing to reduce the threat this disease poses
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1 Community Health Nursing Task 3 Dawn DeSantos Western Governors University HAT TASK 3 2 A. Analysis of the 2003 SARS outbreak Describe the communicable disease outbreak. Scientists believe that the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) originated from an animal to a human in Guangdong Province in China. It is not known what animal‚ for sure carried the zoonotic virus‚ but the civet
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Epidemiology & Communicable Diseases HIV or the Human Deficiency virus is like other viruses including the flu‚ but the one thing that makes this virus so different than any other is that the body is unable to clear this one out completely. Once someone is infected‚ there is no cure. Over time‚ HIV can also hide or mask itself in the body’s cells. The cells within a person’s body that fight off infection are called CD4 cells or T cells. HIV attacks these cells and copies or replicates itself inside
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Today‚ noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)‚ mainly cardiovascular diseases‚ cancers‚ chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes represent a leading threat to human health and development. These four diseases are the world’s biggest killers‚ causing an estimated 35 million deaths each year - 60% of all deaths globally - with 80% in low- and middle-income countries. These diseases are preventable. Up to 80% of heart disease‚ stroke‚ and type 2 diabetes and over a third of cancers could be prevented
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Communicable Disease Paper Jennifer K. Rhodes University of Phoenix Public and Community Health HCS 457 Heather Steiner March 14‚ 2011 Communicable Disease Paper Chickenpox is a communicable disease and “one of the classic childhood diseases” (National Institute of Health [NIH]‚ para. 1). In the past‚ when parents heard a child had come down with chickenpox‚ parents would form chickenpox parties so other children would contact chickenpox and acquire lifelong immunity. Today another
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