Communicable Disease Paper Kayla Lysak HCS 457 July 7‚ 2014 Lindsay Cogan Communicable Disease Paper This paper will be discussing what MRSA is and the efforts that are being made to control it. It will also be discussing the environmental factors that are related to this disease. Other factors that will be discussed will be to explain the influence that lifestyles‚ socioeconomic status and disease management play and what the public health department is doing to reduce the threat this disease poses
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1 Community Health Nursing Task 3 Dawn DeSantos Western Governors University HAT TASK 3 2 A. Analysis of the 2003 SARS outbreak Describe the communicable disease outbreak. Scientists believe that the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) originated from an animal to a human in Guangdong Province in China. It is not known what animal‚ for sure carried the zoonotic virus‚ but the civet
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Epidemiology & Communicable Diseases HIV or the Human Deficiency virus is like other viruses including the flu‚ but the one thing that makes this virus so different than any other is that the body is unable to clear this one out completely. Once someone is infected‚ there is no cure. Over time‚ HIV can also hide or mask itself in the body’s cells. The cells within a person’s body that fight off infection are called CD4 cells or T cells. HIV attacks these cells and copies or replicates itself inside
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The causes of three non-communicable diseases in developing countries and recommendations for preventions Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are gradually becoming the leading cause of deaths in developing nations as they have been in the developed world for several decades‚ threatening an increasing amount of people in many low and middle income countries. A prediction from the National Center of Biotechnology Information (2005) suggests that if this trend continues‚ NCDs will result in 80 percent
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Non-Infectious Diseases Basics * Non-infectious diseases (NIDs) are diseases NOT caused by a pathogen. They are also referred to as non-communicable diseases (NIDs). * Ex. include cancer‚ Parkinson’s and asthma. * A variety of causes contribute to NIDs including genetics‚ lifestyle choices‚ and nutrition. Two types of NIDs * NIDs are divided into 2 main groups: * Genetic diseases are caused by mutations in DNA or conditions affecting chromosomes. * Environmental
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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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Communicable Disease Paper Jennifer K. Rhodes University of Phoenix Public and Community Health HCS 457 Heather Steiner March 14‚ 2011 Communicable Disease Paper Chickenpox is a communicable disease and “one of the classic childhood diseases” (National Institute of Health [NIH]‚ para. 1). In the past‚ when parents heard a child had come down with chickenpox‚ parents would form chickenpox parties so other children would contact chickenpox and acquire lifelong immunity. Today another
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Running head: FATTY LIVER DISEASE Fatty Liver Disease Evetta Brown June 08‚ 2011 MA111 Instructor Leila L. Hamka The liver has over 200 functions that it plays. There are over 100 types of liver diseases. Many of these diseases can be life threating if they are not treated correctly. This paper will focus on the fatty liver disease. It will describe the liver‚ discuss the disease known as fatty liver disease‚ alcoholic and non alcoholic‚ give the
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access to health care and immunization programs in developed countries have resulted in dramatic decreases in undernutrition-related diseases. Unfortunately‚ many of these factors have also led to unhealthy behaviors‚ inappropriate diets‚ and lack of physical activity‚ which has exacerbated the development of chronic diseases‚ also known as noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). These NCDs are now the main contributors to the health burden in developed countries (these are countries with established
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Role of a nurse in infection control In order for infection and disease to occur in an individual‚ a process involving 6 related components must occur. This process has been referred to as the chain of infection. The six steps or links in the chain are etiologic agent‚ reservoir‚ portal of exit‚ mode of transmission‚ portal of entry and susceptible host. To stop the spread of disease‚ one or more of these links must be broken. 1. Etiologic agent a. Metazoan – multicellular animals many
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