Community Health Advocacy Shannon Jensen NUR/544 August 25‚ 2014 Dr. Louama Driscoll Community Health Advocacy The levels of prevention in epidemiology help provide a framework for health professionals to intervene and prevent disease‚ injury‚ or disability. What is epidemiology? The World Health Organization (2014) states “epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events and the application of the study to the control of disease and other health
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Diseases was a big killer in World War 1 because of the little medicine and medical knowledge. The Anzacs would have experienced many diseases such as influenza‚ typhoid‚ trench foot and trench fever. Trench foot is a disease which makes your foot turn blue or red and makes your foot very numb. It often involves blisters and open sores which allows fungal infections to enter. If the foot is untreated it can result into gangrene. Trench foot is caused by exposure to damp and wet conditions. In this
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worse in their backs and legs. It can be difficult to distinguish between the common cold and influenza in the early stages of these infections‚ but a flu can be identified by a high fever with a sudden onset and extreme fatigue. Influenza is a mixture of symptoms of common cold and pneumonia‚ body ache‚ headache‚ and fatigue. Diarrhea is not normally a symptom of influenza in adults. Symptoms of influenza may include fever and extreme coldness chills shivering‚ shaking‚ cough nasal congestion‚ runny
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Tuberculosis‚ Influenza‚ and SARS. One of the disease that started in the 20th century was HIV in the 1980s. HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. HIV was discovered by Luc Antoine Montagnier‚ a French virologist and joint recipient. HIV infected about 60 million people and has caused about 30 million deaths around the world.( bahar Gholipour‚ 2013). It is caused by sexual contact through blood‚ or maybe the mother to child when on pregnancy‚ childbirth or even breast-feeding.
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2013 Last month‚ the Star-Advertiser reported a sudden increase in demand for flu vaccines after documented widespread of illness and recent deaths from the influenza virus. Flu season typically begins in October and continues through mid-May of the following year. Currently‚ many suppliers are running low on the strain of influenza for the 2012 – 2013 Season. Economics is very useful in analyzing and defining typical human behavior. This part of the social sciences studies how individuals
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What is epidemiology? Why is this important to community health? Provide an example of its importance from your community. According to "An Encyclopedia Britannica Company: Merriam-Webster Dictionary" (2013)‚ "Epidemiology is a branch of medical science that deals with the incidence‚ distribution‚ and control of disease in a population." It is also considered "the sum of the factors controlling the presence or absence of a disease or pathogen." Epidemiology is important to community health because
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Influenza Pandemic and its implications to Indonesia’s defense system and national security 1. Background Traditionally for many years‚ the concept of security has been narrowly defined and interpreted as the preservation of the state from physical threats‚ mainly from external ones. Such narrative remains valid in many nations up until today. Following the cold-war era‚ the rise of more non-traditional threats‚ such as terrorism‚ ethnic cleansing‚ diseases and illegal drugs pose a new challenge
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Why is epidemiology important in the study of health and disease in communities? Provide an example from current literature or a news article noting an epidemiologic study. Epidemiology is a health activity that is aimed at protecting and improving the health of a population or community. Epidemiological gather information for studies that can help community decision makers utilize community‚ local‚ state‚ and national level resources to prevent‚ control disease outbreaks‚ and analyze prevention
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Epidemiologists are people that go to school and study science and graduate with a bachelor’s degree. They then go on to complete there degree or PhD in epidemiology. With this degree they study the patterns of diseases or health risk within a population group‚ society‚ and or a culture. Their goal is to reduce public risk so they look at how a certain disease affects a certain population or how a virus is only in a certain geographical location. They may only track one kind of disease or virus or
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THE SEARCH FOR BETTER HEALTH 1.What is a healthy organism? Discuss the difficulties in defining the terms ‘health’ and ‘disease’ * Health – state of physical‚ mental and social wellbeing. It is not just absence of disease * disease – any condition which effects the functioning of any part of a living organism * difficulties in defining health and disease; * health 1) the definition of health varies with age eg stiffness in the joints is probably more common in a 90yo
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