Chronic and Infectious Diseases Chronic and infectious diseases are diseases life threatening. A chronic diseases are non-communicable illnesses prolonged in duration‚ do not resolve spontaneously‚ and are rarely cured completely such as heart disease‚ cancer‚ stroke‚ diabetes‚ and arthritis (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ 2009). However‚ an infectious disease or communicable disease is contagious and caused by a biological agent‚ such as a virus‚ bacterium‚ or parasite also known
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Addiction a Symptom Or a Primary Disease? The problem with the question of whether addiction is a disease or not is that it requires us to try to fit a loosely defined term into a vaguely defined category. Critics of the addictive disease model‚ also called the medical model‚ say that labeling drug addiction as a disease detracts addicts from assuming responsibility and taking control of their lives. Yet the very nature of addiction is similar to many other diseases that are widely recognized as legitimate
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Short essay on The Bhopal Gas Tragedy JAYAPRAKASH KAKADA By all accounts the Bhopal Gas leak on the night of 2-3 December 1984 is the worst chemical disaster in history. It took a heavy toll of human lives. People started dying within hours and more than 2000 lives were lost in the first few days. According to Dureja and Saxena one of the earliest of the ’Rescue Teams’ to reach Bhopal when panic was at its peak at major hospitals of the city‚ the patients could be graded symptomatically into four
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Headline: Crohn’s Disease: Is It Hereditary? Keywords: Crohn’s Disease‚ colon‚ genetic disorder‚ chromosome Page Description: Crohn’s disease is a disease in which inflammation‚ thickening and swelling of gastrointestinal occur. It also increases the risk of colon cancer in patients. It is also known as a complex genetic disorder. Chromosome 5 and 10 has been identified to be linked with this genetic disorder. Text: { Crohn’s Disease Crohn’s disease is a disease in which one or more parts
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instantly. B. Anybody can get a brain Aneurysm. Her Family was devastated and could not believe that daughter had died from one day to the next. C. Brain Aneurysm is when abnormal dilated segment of a blood vessel surrounding to the brain. They occur in 3-5% of the general population and they usually occur in people over the age of 30‚ and they also occur twice more in women than men. D. I will speak about the causes‚ symptoms‚ and treatment for brain aneurysm. II. Causes A. 1.Their are different types
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Chronic Disease Paper A chronic disease is one that has symptoms that recur over and over‚ and can become better or worse over time. These types of diseases‚ “…cannot generally be cured‚ but an individual can often minimize the negative effects of a chronic disease through sane‚ healthy living and medical treatment.” (MSUcares.com‚ 2005) Diabetes is just one chronic disease that affects many people in this country. To begin‚ a brief discussion will follow describing what diabetes is‚ what risk
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Priorities In Australia Part 1 Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) as a preventable chronic disease Yr 12 Term 4 2012 Table Of Contents Page 1: 5 recent measures of epidemiology related to CVD Page 2-3 : Justify the inclusion of Cardiovascular Disease as a priority health issues Page 4-8: Cardiovascular Disease Report Page 9: Glossary Page:12 Bibliography Page: References Abbreviations/Key: CVD – Cardio-vascular Disease ATSI- Australian and Torres Strait Islanders
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States (US) is heart disease; it is also the leading cause of disability among women. Currently‚ “8 million women in the US are living with heart disease; 35‚000 are under the age of 65” (Women’s Heart Foundation‚ 2011). Among American women in 2005 over 36 million were age 55 or older increasing their risk of coronary heart disease (Garvin‚ Moser‚ Riegel‚ McKinley‚ Doering‚ & An‚ 2003). . Coronary heart disease claims the lives of over 200‚000 females yearly. The disease more significantly impacts
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cure or lengthen the course of disease‚ although often at increased cost or increased utilization of medical practitioners needed to prescribe and monitor the effects of the medications. Over the past decade‚ both public and private organizations have made great strides in identifying causes of disease and disability‚ discovering treatments and cures‚ and working with practitioners to educate the public about how to reduce the incidence and prevalence of major diseases and the functional limitations
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introduction Non-infectious diseases (also called Non-communicable diseases) are those diseases that are not caused by a pathogen and cannot be shared from one person to another. Disease caused by these organisms are infectious diseases. There are many kinds of non-infectious diseases. Non-infectious diseases may be caused by either the environment‚ nutritional deficiencies‚ lifestyle choices‚ or genetic inheritances. Unlike infectious diseases‚ non-infectious diseases are not communicable or contagious
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