"If I am cold‚ they are cold; if I am weary‚ they are distressed; if I am alone‚ they are abandoned." - Dorothea Dix Dorothea L. Dix and the Establishment of the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum Prior to the Industrial Revolution‚ traditional institutions like the family‚ church‚ and local communities were charged with the care of orphaned children‚ the elderly‚ the indigent‚ and the mentally ill. As the Revolution flourished it greatly evolved the economy‚ social structure‚ and political
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The Issue In the early 1970’s‚ a cancer cluster was found in the town of Rutherford‚ New Jersey. There had been 13 cases of leukemia and 9 cases of Hodgkin’s disease in between 1973 and 1978. This issue was first brought to light‚ when parents of students from one school district (Pierrepont School) realized that there had been several cases of leukemia and Hodgkins disease (Garfinkel). A mother found her self in a hospital in New York with her son who was being treated for leukemia. At this hospital
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with Heart Disease Epidemiology in the Elderly with Heart Disease Public health promotes healthy living for each community through epidemiology. Disease prevention and control is the common goal of epidemiology‚ nursing practice‚ and public health. “Epidemiology is the study of the population in order to monitor the health of the population‚ understand the determinants of health and disease in the community‚ and investigate and evaluate interventions to prevent disease and maintain
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Case Study Unit 1: Addison’s Disease and Adrenal Crisis PHGY 230 McGraw Dr. Thomas Addison first discovered the disease known as Addison’s disease‚ in London‚ 1855. At that particular time‚ the tuberculosis infection was the most common cause of adrenal insufficiency. It wasn’t until the middle of the twentieth century that tuberculosis was no longer the leading cause. Due to the discovery of effective antibiotics and vaccines developed in this century‚ Addison’s disease is now more commonly
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Named after Dr. Burrill B. Crohn‚ who first described the disease in 1932 along with colleagues Dr. Leon Ginzburg and Dr. Gordon D. Oppenheimer‚ Crohn’s disease belongs to a group of conditions known as Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD). Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract. When reading about inflammatory bowel diseases‚ it is important to know that Crohn’s disease is not the same thing as ulcerative colitis‚ another type of IBD. The symptoms of these
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Prevention Of Atheromatous Heart Disease By O.P. Agarwal‚ M.D.‚ F.I.C.A. Angiology‚ Vol 36‚ Number 8‚ August 1985 Presented at the 31st Annual Meeting‚ American College of Angiology and 26th Annual Meeting‚International College of Angiology‚ November 5‚ 1984. Abstract Five thousand patients of atheromatous heart disease‚ presented as angina pectoris‚ were studied over a period of five years. After adding the “Husk of Isabgol” and “Aloe vera” (an indigenous plant known as ghee-guar-ka-paththa)
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Health Issue: Cardiovascular disease Factors contributing to Loitja’s risk of cardiovascular disease include: Stress (Harvard Health Publications‚ Harvard Medical School‚ 2010-16) -Loitja’s can be due to: low income‚ being a carer; crowded living conditions; disability; language and cultural differences from the mainstream; being Indigenous given historical factors such as dispossession from land. Passive smoking could leave her at risk of: COAD; COPD; cardiovascular diseases; and lung cancer. Loitja’s
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Heart Disease Many of you guys know the leading causes of death in the United States. Heart disease remains the leading causes of death here in this country. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the Unites States in 1 every 4 deaths. Around 614‚348 die from this horrible disease. Ask yourself why this disease is so high in this nation? I believe it is due to the many fast food joints opening around our nation. People also lack physical activity and many don’t partake in the thirty min recommended
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Executive Summary: Education for Recovery Room Nurses on the Topic of Diverticular Disease Dina Gibson Grand Canyon University: NRS-415V November 10‚ 2013 Executive Summary: Education for Recovery Room Nurses on the Topic of Diverticular Disease We as nurses have a common goal of educating the people that we care for and teaching them in detail about disease management and prevention. Diverticular disease is characterized by small pouches in the colon. Most people do not exhibit symptoms
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Lyme Disease: Mechanisms of Disease – A Patient Conversation Lyme Disease: Mechanisms of Disease – A Patient Conversation Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that spreads throughout the body from the bite of a tick. Lyme disease is a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi (B. burgdorferi) and the body’s immune response to the infection (Meyerhoff‚ 2013). Ticks pick up B. burgdorferi from another host such as deer or mice; they then transfer it to humans (Lyme disease‚ n.d.). B burgdorferi
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