Chronic Disease Outline SCI/162 January 8‚ 2012 Adriana Batista Outline I. Introduction II. Causes and Risk Factors A. Environmental/Chemical B. Food C. Hereditary III. Diagnosis Information A. Fecal Occult‚ Blood Test B. X-Ray‚ Mammogram‚ Colonoscopy C. Pap Smear IV. Treatment A. Surgery B. Radiation C. Chemotherapy V. Prevention
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Strengths Implications 1. Highly Skilled Managers The operation of the company will run smoothly. The performance of the company will improve and would lead the company to be successful. 2. Provide global customer support It would serve the customers better and it would be very convenient to those customers in other countries to ask for help. This would help the company to gain a better image due to the provided services to help the customers. 3. Outsourcing It can save time for the company to
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CHAPTER I Introduction Background and Rationale of the Study Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that primarily affects the lung parenchyma caused by slow-growing bacteria that resembles a fungus. It is usually spread from person to person by droplet nuclei through the air. The lung is the usual infection site but may also be transmitted to other parts of the body‚ including the meninges‚ kidneys‚ bones‚ and lymph nodes. The primary infectious agent‚ Mycobacterium tuberculosis‚is an
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recently diagnosed with Crohn ’s disease. Sarah lives with both parents and two younger brothers in suburban Maryland. It is noted that Sarah ’s maternal grandmother had irritable bowel syndrome. Sarah is planning on going to college in the fall and will need a large amount of education on nutrition‚ medications‚ and symptoms of the disease so that she can manage the disease independently. Sarah states that she learns best by reading. Crohn ’s disease is a chronic disorder that causes inflammation
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HOW DOES DISEASE AFFECT THE LEVEL OF ORGANIZATION? * THE KIDNEY There are two kidneys‚ each about the size of a fist‚ located on either side of the spine at the lowest level of the rib cage. Each kidney contains up to a million functioning units called nephrons. A nephron consists of a filtering unit of tiny blood vessels called a glomerulus attached to a tubule. When blood enters the glomerulus‚ it is filtered and the remaining fluid then passes along the tubule. In the tubule‚ chemicals and
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Practices and Beliefs Different inhabitants in Mindanao result in big differences of practices and beliefs. Discrimination is common and this happens everywhere. Despite this‚ Lumads‚ Catholic Christians‚ and Muslims are free to express their beliefs and practices. Lumads have not succumbed to the modern ways of living. Up to this day‚ they prefer to live in the mountainsides of Mindanao‚ living the traditional life. Their beliefs can be seen through the ornaments of every woman and the woven dresses
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AbstractBackground pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) are fatal‚ no curable‚ but treatable diseases that strongly affect the patients. Objective. To decribe patient’s experience of information relating to PAH or CTEPH. Methods. A qualitative method using content analysis was applied. Seventeen patients (thirteen women an four men) aged 28-73 years from a regional PAH center were individually interviewed. Results. Three categories that
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Cases of obesity and diabetes are exploding‚ especially amongst our younger generation. Cancer‚ heart disease and stroke are the county’s three leading causes of death‚ yet billions of money are spent to cure these diseases. One in three of us suffer from chronic diseases. Could there be a solution to this epidemic? Forks over Knives takes us through a health-related research about chronic diseases by two researchers‚ Dr. T. Colin Campbell‚ a nutritional scientist from Cornell university‚ and Dr. Caldwell
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ETHNIC mINORTIY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE b00237004 SPORT & EXERCISE SCIENCE YEAR 3 Exercise & Chronic Disease School of Engineering and Science University of the West of Scotland Month Year Table of Contents Table of Contents……………………………………………………………………….……ii List of Tables and Figures…………………………………………………………...………iii 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………….…………..1
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Primary Sources from the 17th Century: Weakness and Strengths Not very many accounts have survived from the early Northern Colonies; thus‚ the accounts that have survived are held with great esteem. However‚ primary sources are not always the best things for an historian and students to study if they are wishing to receive a completely accurate and unbiased outline of history. In many cases primary sources‚ such as Words of the Bewitched‚ and Observations of New England Indians‚ are riddled with
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