it is a key element in epidemiology. This term may be used in two ways. In broader sense‚ surveillance has been equated with the routine health information system which gives idea about the total health situation. in narrower sense‚ it is used to refer to specific information system pertaining to specific disease or any other health related event. Purpose 1. assessing magnitude of problem 2. monitoring implementation of health programs 3. understanding local epidemiology of the problem 4. assessing
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Epidemiology of Hepatitis B Sara Sarraf Grand Canyon University Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases NRS-427V Sandra White July 3‚ 2014 Epidemiology Hepatitis B We have come far in healthcare and everyday we get closer to solutions and can succeed in the understanding of disease processes unknown and foreign to us. We have been challenged many times by the illnesses that have taken so many lives but never in vain as when this unfortunate event has happened we have been able to get closer
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responsibilities in the USAF‚ ultimately reaching higher positions and upholding the integrity of the air force while providing selfless service to all‚ and achieving excellence by earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. First and foremost‚ everyone I spoke to about joining the Air Force have good things to say about the air force. I am passionate about public health. Promoting and maintaining the good health of the men and women in uniform‚ in particular‚ the
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My practicum site Department of Health‚ Vermont has an epidemiology nurse who actively takes part in biosurveillance. Biosurveillance is the process of gathering‚ integrating‚ interpreting‚ and communicating information related to disease activity. Health informatics refers to the resources and tools used to store‚ retrieve and use health related information. Health informatics makes biosurveillance possible in real time as public health agencies must respond to threats in a short time. Health informatics
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in the new and thriving industrial centers of America‚ where rapid urbanization had not provided for adequate sanitation or living conditions for the burgeoning middle class. Major epidemics were caused by such diseases as yellow fever‚ cholera‚ tuberculosis (TB)‚ influenza‚ measles‚ scarlet fever‚ malaria‚ and diphtheria. The average American city during the 19th century was a breeding ground for the frequent epidemics that occurred‚ killing thousands. Port cities were particularly susceptible to
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PREVALENCE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS FOR HIV AND TUBERCULOSIS CO INFECTION‚ DESSIE REFERRAL HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER‚ Getachew G/mariam‚ MSc‚ college of Dessie health sciences‚ Dessie‚ Fikre Enqusilasie ‚ PhD‚ school of public heath‚ Addis Ababa University‚ Addis Ababa‚ Ethiopia. Abstract Background: tuberculosis is the most serious opportunistic infection for people infected with HIV in developing countries. A majority of co infected cases are in sub Saharan Africa‚ where up
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Lecture 1: Introduction to Epidemiology Lecture 1: Introduction to Epidemiology Dankmar B¨hning o Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Reading‚ UK Summer School in Cesme‚ May/June 2011 Lecture 1: Introduction to Epidemiology Outline What is Epidemiology? Epidemiology is the study of the determinants‚ distribution‚ and frequency of disease (who gets the disease and why) epidemiologists study sick people epidemiologists study healthy people to determine the
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diabetic patients. The medical treatment of insulin was important because diabetes was one of the feared diseases which caused death. Additionally‚ vaccinations for pertussis‚ diphtheria‚ tuberculosis‚ and tetanus were all discovered in the 19th century. The vaccine for tuberculosis was major because tuberculosis is the spreading of an infectious disease‚ which affected the lungs and other parts of the body. Patients were able to be treated by the medical vaccinations‚ so they could produce immunity
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last few decades‚ Russia has experienced dramatic fluctuations in mortality. Life expectancy began to decrease in 1965‚ initially “regarded as a minor and transient fluctuation of little significance”(Schkolnikov and Leon‚ International Journal of Epidemiology‚ 2006). Russian govt restricted mortality data.. ceased publication In 1991 and article by Nick Eberstadt published in The New York Review “provided an
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Respiratory disease is a medical term that encompasses pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange possible in higher organisms‚ and includes conditions of the upper respiratory tract‚ trachea‚ bronchi‚ bronchioles‚ alveoli‚ pleura and pleural cavity‚ and the nerves and muscles of breathing. Respiratory diseases range from mild and self-limiting‚ such as the common cold‚ to life-threatening entities like bacterial pneumonia‚ pulmonary embolism‚ and lung cancer
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