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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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Assignment Procedure THEORY: Epidemiology is the study of the causes‚ occurrence‚ transmission‚ distribution‚ and prevention of diseases in a population. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta‚ GA‚ is the national clearinghouse for epidemiological data. The CDC receives reports related to the occurrence of 35 notifiable diseases (Table 7-5) from the United States and its territories‚ and compiles the data into tabular form‚ available
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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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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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holds a Masters degree in Psychiatric Epidemiology from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Since 1992‚ Lee has conducted research on numerous National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) funded research projects that have focused on understanding the political‚ social and cultural dimensions of HIV risk behaviors of out-of-treatment drug users. From 1997-1999 he was Colorado’s representative to NIDA’s‚ Community Epidemiology Workgroup‚ assembling data and reporting
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is an apt study for two reasons. First it details the process of identifying a disease which was new and mysterious; second in doing so it gives us insight on how epidemiology plays an important role. This gives us an understanding of epidemiology and its basic concepts in force while executing this role. The objectives of epidemiology of identifying the cause of disease‚ in this case AIDS‚ extent to which it has penetrated. Finding records for similar cases for further investigation which would
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John Snow is widely considered to be the father of epidemiology. He was best known for his work on the cholera outbreak and for organizing the removal of a pump handle. He proved his theory that cholera was water-borne‚ and debunked the airborne Miasma theory. His epidemiological methods helped identify the risks of certain diseases and has helped established preventive measures in response to an disease outbreak. His studies have changed the way we confront public health problems today. John Snow’s
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Outcome 1 Understand how to maintain a clean environment to prevent the spread of infection The learner can: 1. state the general principles for environmental cleaning a) cleaning materials as defined in our company’s procedure( Policy No 412‚ Policy No 413 and Policy No 414) will be as follows: • Detergent-any proprietary detergent for washing/wiping surfaces and items; • Phenolic + detergent-e.g. Stericol-for bacterial infections; • Hypochlorite+detergent- for incidents of viral infection;
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1 Gap Analysis of Research Needs in Environmental Health‚ Malawi Report to the National Commission of Science and Technology Dr. T. D. Morse‚ Dr. S. Taulo‚ Mr. K. Lungu Department of Environmental Health University of Malawi - Polytechnic June 2010 2 3 Table of Contents List of Abbreviations ............................................................................................................................... 8 Acknowledgments ..................................................
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