The article titled “Teaching Responsibility” deals with the issue of student preparedness after high school. The article brings up the recent case of Jonathan Govias who is suing his private high school stating that the school did not prepare him for university. The article goes on to give two examples‚ one in Virginia and one in Ontario of how these types of problems are being dealt with. The editor agrees s that the school system should be held more responsible for its graduates
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Earthquake Preparedness | Public Administration | | Lorena Hedges | 9/18/2012 | I will be discussing the needs of a budget and what supplies will be in the budget plan. Then you will read some about the shelter provided‚ population of the community‚ and damages caused by earthquakes. There will be information about the policy and procedures to follow for an earthquake and what challenges we have to face. The conclusion will be completed in the next phase. | Earthquake Preparedness Budget
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Lessons learned from global communication developments for the improvement of veterinary public health issues related to "One World One Health" D. Tabbaa Department of Public Health‚ Faculty of veterinary medicine‚ Al Baath University‚ Hama‚ Syria Abstract Humanity faces many challenges that require global solutions. One of these challenges is the spread of infectious diseases that emerge (or re-emerge) from the interfaces between animals and humans and the ecosystems in which they live. This is
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to practice as a registered nurse. A nurse should have a desire to care for the ill with compassion. Nurses at either level should have a desire to improve patient outcomes and to improve the quality of patient care. The level of educational preparedness differs between the associate degree level and the baccalaureate degree level. Associate Degree Level Nursing Competencies The associate degree is usually obtained from a community college or a hospital based nursing school. It is usually obtained
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DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DURING TYPHOONS Typhoon is a word composed only of seven letters and two syllables yet it attracts attention when heard from news or read from a newspaper article. It creates worries and uneasiness to the receiver’s mind. There are a number of definitions of what typhoon is. According to the website Merriam-Webster.com (2013)‚” Typhoon is a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or China Sea.” Typhoon is the term for a natural phenomenon that can
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Panic Goes Viral: Why the social response to a pandemic is as important as the medical effort Reaction Paper: A pandemic could cause too many lives at stake and lost just as how past outbreaks had taught all of us. And in response‚ we had learned to cope by finding out how to cure the disease and counteract the outbreak from spreading further into a greater population. However‚ it is not only the medical effort that is needed in working against a pandemic‚ mass communication also plays a role in this
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Health Organization The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It was first officially made and put into constitution on the 7th of April 1948. It is said they do good and never bad. In 2009 when the influenza pandemic (H1N1) hit the world‚ the world health organization was accused of spreading "fear and confusion" rather than "immediate information". This resulted in a huge collaboration with other world health authorities and foundations. How did they find the
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Pigeons 2. Can dogs and cats get Cryptococcus? Yes 3. What is the infectious agent for Bubonic Plague? Bacterium Yersinia Pestis 4. By how much was the world population reduced during the Plague pandemic? Estimate of 450 million 5. What year (within the past 100 years) did the world experience a flu pandemic? 1918 6. What are 3 symptoms of chikungunya fever? Fever‚ Vomiting‚ nausea‚ head ache and joint pain 7. What bacterium causes Lyme’s disease? Borrelia 8. What is ‘erythema migrans?’ A rash
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7 Worst Killer Plagues in history Smallpox (430 BC? - 1979): Killed more than 300 million people worldwide in the 20th century alone‚ and most of the native inhabitants of the Americas Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a contagious disease unique to humans. Smallpox is caused by either of two virus variants named Variola major and Variola minor. The deadlier form‚ V. major‚ has a mortality rate of 30–35%‚ while V. minor causes a milder form of disease called
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authorities lost track of the casualties; the numbers were overwhelming. By the time the disease burned out‚ the estimated death toll rose around fifty-million people. This 1918 influenza outbreak was by far the most deadly pandemic in human history. The normal death curve of a pandemic‚ is a U shape‚ targeting the young and the elderly and completely passing over all in between. This one however‚ is a W shape‚ striking children under age
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