Questions posed by Paul Basch are very thought provoking. Some of these questions require a lot of consideration and research. Taking this course has helped me answer them to the best of my knowledge and provided me with a different perspective of global health. I would have responded to these questions the same before taking this course but my concepts have become stronger. Following are my responses to 5 questions. 3. When are we justified in conducting drug or vaccine trials in developing countries
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#LetThemStay: Thousands gather in cities all over Australia to rally against asylum seekers deported back to Nauru Thousands of protesters gather in cities all over Australia on Wednesday calling on to the Federal Government not to deport 267 asylum seekers back to Nauru. The protest was in response to the High Court ruling allowing almost 300 asylum seekers‚ including 72 children to be sent back to offshore detention at Nauru. ABC reported the demonstrators gathered in Melbourne‚ Adelaide‚ Sydney
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There were four different ads for the flu vaccine‚ they all used common advertising techniques. I felt that the two ads that used association didn’t do a good job of persuading me towards getting the flu vaccine. The other two ads did a good job of promoting the flu vaccine. I didn’t like the two ads that used association. The one ad used the slogan "Share Music‚ Not the Flu" The target audience was young adults. I felt this was patronizing‚ because instead of telling it in a factual straightforward
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Tay-Sachs The disease Tay-Sachs was discovered by two men‚ the first one was a British ophthalmologist named Warren Tay who described the disease in 1881. The second one was a New York neurologist named Bernard Sachs who described the cellular changes and the genetic nature of the disease in 1887. Tay-Sachs is a rare disorder where a child who inherits the gene from both parents Specialists claim that Tay-Sachs disease is developed by children who lack a protein that is necessary to dissolve a fatty
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It’s the final day of registration before the start of the new school year at Miami Senior High and Maria and her mom are desperate to get this over with. They turned in all the required documents: Maria’s mom’s ID‚ two house bills‚ Maria’s transcripts and her birth certificate; however she can’t be enrolled. The process of enrolling Maria has been stopped because she doesn’t have her immunizations. Miami Senior High requires students to enter with the DTaP‚ IPV‚ MMR‚ Varicella‚ Hib‚ and PCV vaccines
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Yes‚ I do believe mandatory vaccine programs should be instituted as a public health initiative. Those who are not immunized put other people at risk to these dangerous diseases. Vaccines are meant to help prevent and stop the spread of these viruses to others. It is not fair to those who are medically sensitive and have a suppressed immune system be exposed to these unvaccinated individuals because of their personal beliefs. Many parents do not want to vaccinate their children because they think
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Based on the need to assure the safety of their milk supply and protecting the health of adults and children who drink milk‚ the State of Iowa recently adopted new and strong milk safety standards. In fact‚ these new standards are among the toughest in the country‚ and have been reliably proven to make the milk supply safer than the safety standards utilized by other states. These new standards are designed to prevent people drinking the milk to suffer adverse health effects; however‚ the tough standards
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The first polio epidemic in the United States broke out into the public in June of 1894. However‚ a wall carving in Egypt assumes Polio has been around since the Egyptian empire. Finally‚ in the early 1900s‚ with the rise of living standards and the decline of other diseases such as diphtheria‚ typhoid and tuberculosis‚ Polio reached epidemic potential. This epidemic became one of the most devastating in the world. Poliovirus is a viral infection that attacks the nerves in the spinal cord which
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Patient is a 5 year old with a sore throat‚ nasal congestion‚ and has diagnosis of cold. Parents are concerned that the child is not on an antibiotic. Priority NANDA: Deficit Knowledge r/t sore throat and nasal congestion aeb parents requesting ABX for treatment. (note: I am kind of unsure of this dx or if I did the r/t and aeb for it right if someone has insight and could help explain it better on how to word it) Outcome is to educate the parents /parent on the signs and symptoms of a cold and
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Hawra Almasoud EAP 220 Essay1 Dr. Jonas Edward Salk Dr. Jonas Edward Salk has many accomplishments as a great medical researcher and virologist‚ but he is also worthy of the title hero because he discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine‚ and he insisted on his faith in his abilities to create something to help people live healthily without polio. Even though scientists believe it was impossible to find treatment works very well with Poliovirus‚ but Dr.Salk found it. Because
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