Comparison Paper Laura Nelli NUR 408 Epidemiology: Global and Public Health March 25‚ 2012 Bonnie Copland‚ RN‚ PHN‚ MSN The purpose of this paper is to describe the history of public health‚ including pertinent dates and significant events and the different aspects of public and community-based health. Public health is the science and art of preventing disease‚ prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society‚ organizations‚ public
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Definition and Description of Epidemiology The word epidemiology was derived from the Greek words where “epi” means upon‚ “demos” means people‚ and “logos” means study. Epidemiology can be defined in detail as the study of distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations‚ and the application of this study to the prevention and control of health problems. (Last‚ 2001) Here‚ in the definition the distribution refers to analysis of persons‚ classes of people
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TUBERCULOSIS DISEASE Tuberculosis is a common‚ and in many cases lethal‚ infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria‚ usually Mycobacteria tuberculosis. One third of the world’s population is thought to have been infected with M. tuberculosis with new infections occurring at a rate of about one per second. In 2007‚ there were an estimated 13.7 million chronic active cases globally‚ while in 2010‚ there were an estimated 8.8 million new cases and 1.5 million associated
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Major Assessment Brenda Gould-Johnson Walden University Epidemiology and Population Health NURS 8310 Dr. Toby Turner May 14‚ 2014 Major Assessment In the United States healthcare system‚ there is a significant quality and cost challenges surrounding chronic care diseases. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) states more than seventy-five percent of our nation-state’s health care expenditure is chronic care conditions. The major chronic care population affecting the astonishing expense
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think Uncle Lou was a bit crazy the other day‚ but I want to clarify and educate you on what Tuberculosis really is. First‚ let us start off by defining tuberculosis and what it does to the body. Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease that mostly affects the lungs but can also attack other parts of the body; there are however two types of tuberculosis: latent tuberculosis infection and regular tuberculosis disease (CDC‚ 2014). People with latent TB are people who are infected but show no symptoms
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Diabetes- current epidemiology and measuring variables at a local level Introduction Diabetes mellitus (DM) is not classed as single disorder as it represents a series of conditions associated with high blood sugar which are cased in turn by defects in insulin secretion or the effectiveness of insulin or both. It is usually diagnosed by evidence of hyperglycaemia in a fasting state (>7.1 mmol/l plasma glucose) or threw an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)( >11.1mmol/l plasma glucose)
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HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY AND OMEGA TRIANGLES Hyperbolic geometry was first discovered and explored by Omar Khayyam in the 9th century and Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri in the 15th century. Both were attempting to prove Euclid’s parallel postulate by proving the concept of hyperbolic geometry to be inconsistent‚ and ironically they discovered it to be a new type of geometry. It wasn’t until the 19th century that it became fully developed with help from Karl Friedrich Gauss‚ Janos Bolyai‚ and Nikolai
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Epidemiology in Healthcare Quality Improvement Quality improvement is a system by which better health outcomes are achieved through analysing and improving service delivery processes. Is the combined and unceasing efforts of everyone—healthcare professionals‚ patients and their families‚ researchers‚ payers‚ planners and educator to make the changes that will lead to better patient outcomes (health)‚ better system performance (care) and better professional development (learning) This definition
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Right Triangle Trigonometry Trigonometry is a branch of mathematics involving the study of triangles‚ and has applications in fields such as engineering‚ surveying‚ navigation‚ optics‚ and electronics. Also the ability to use and manipulate trigonometric functions is necessary in other branches of mathematics‚ including calculus‚ vectors and complex numbers. Right-angled Triangles In a right-angled triangle the three sides are given special names. The side opposite the right angle is called the
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BERMUDA TRIANGLE The Bermuda Triangle‚ also known as the Devil’s Triangle‚ is an undefined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. For decades‚ the Atlantic Ocean’s famous Bermuda Triangle has captured the human imagination with unexplained disappearances of ships‚ planes‚ and people. More than 1000 ships and planes have disappeared in the triangle area over the past five centuries and
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