Communicable Disease Svetlana Brooks HCS/457 April 22‚ 2013 Deborah Ayers Communicable Disease A communicable disease is an infectious disease transmitted from one person to another directly or indirectly. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1.1 million Americans are living with HIV and nearly one in five of those are not aware that they are infected (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the virus that causes AIDS
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Epidemiology of Diabetes Mellitus Global Scenario Diabetes and other chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are significant public health challenges in the 21st century. It is estimated that 3.8 million deaths were attributable to diabetes in 2007‚ equivalent to 6% of all deaths globally. India‚ which has the largest population of diabetes patients of any country‚ diabetes accounts for 9.7% of these deaths. The prevalence of diabetes is rapidly rising all over the globe at an alarming rate
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P6 Communicable and non communicable diseases Communicable disease definition: this is a disease that you can catch from another individual or from a contaminated surface. Some people may se the words contagious or infectious to describe communicable disease. Diseases can be spread/become communicable as cough droplets from a common cold or flu can be spread into the atmosphere as a person sneezes or coughs. The bacteria from the droplets can be spread from person to person (making the disease
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Epidemiology Rationale for Topic The purpose of personal protective equipment is to protect the person from contracting possible pathogens and spreading them among others. The prevention of the spread of the disease is of the utmost importance to this particular population because we do not when to give another patient an illness a different patient has. According to the CDC‚ when healthcare facilities‚ care teams‚ and individual doctors and nurses‚ are aware of infection problems and follow the
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at age 15‚ she lives in a council flat with her parents in Devon‚ and currently works 16 hours a week in a supermarket. This paper will look at the issue of smoking and smoking during pregnancy‚ in terms of its epidemiology. The main focus will then be on Health Promotion‚ and certain models and approaches will be addressed
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Medical Surgical I Disease Process of Hypertension By Ms. Margarita Minor‚ LPN Pathophysiology The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines hypertension as an abnormally high arterial blood pressure that is indicated by an adult systolic blood pressure of 140mm Hg or greater or a diastolic blood pressure of 90mm Hg or greater. The cause is unknown but may be attributable to a preexisting condition that result in thickening and inelasticity of the arterial walls of the left ventricle
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Communicable Disease HCS/457 August 30‚ 2010 Rachaline Napier Communicable Disease What is a communicable disease? A communicable disease is an infectious disease that can be transmitted from one person to another either directly by contact or circuitously by fomites and vectors. HIV/AIDS is one of the many communicable diseases in the world. Throughout this presentation‚ a detailed analysis will be given on HIV/AIDS. I will also recommend different ways a community can educate
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COMMUNICABLE DISEASES Communicable diseases are those that are spread from one person to another person‚ from animal to animal‚ or from animal to person‚ or vice versa. It is likely that everyone will come down with a communicable disease at some point in their lives. It is important to learn about the causes of communicable diseases and ways to prevent their spread. For example‚ some may say that HIV is caused by sexual contact. This is not true. It is simply the way it is spread. Causes of communicable
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Furthermore‚ the 2010 flu season surpassed the epidemic threshold for a longer duration than the 2009 season. One reason that the 2010 flu season occurred sooner in the season than the 2009 season could possibly be due to environmental factors. For example‚ it’s possible that unseasonably cooler temperatures occurred sooner in 2010 than in 2009‚ which causes people to stay indoors more and spread the influenza virus more often. A reason the % deaths due to the flu was higher in 2010 could be because
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Running head: Descriptive and Analytic Epidemiology TUI University Lea Glover MPH 504 Descriptive and Analytic Epidemiology Case Assignment #3 Dr. Sharon Nazarchuk Abstract Descriptive epidemiology is defined as the study of the amount and distribution of disease within a population by person‚ place‚ and time. Descriptive epidemiology answers the following questions: Who is affected? Where and when do cases occur? It describes cases by person‚ place‚ and time (TUI University 2008).
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