Public health is defined as the Science and art of preventing disease‚ prolonging life‚ and promoting health through organized community efforts. These include sanitation‚ control of contagious infections‚ hygiene education‚ early diagnosis and preventive treatment‚ and adequate living standards. It requires understanding not only of epidemiology‚ nutrition‚ and antiseptic practices but also of social science. Historical public health measures included quarantine of leprosy victims in the Middle
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BARIATRIC SURGERY ! What new patients need to know about weight reduction surgery at the University of Virginia. Presented by Anna D. Miller‚ R.N.‚ B.S.N. Normal anatomy of abdomen ! Food normally goes from your stomach into the small intestine‚ then into the large intestine. Laparoscopic surgery ! ! ! Surgeons use air to inflate your belly so they can see the stomach and intestines. Special staplers make the connections internally. 98% of gastric bypass surgeries are
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challenges and where we are now with Health Information Exchange. What is a HIE? A health information exchange (HIE) is a safe computer network that links the electronic health information systems of different health care providers‚ permitting those providers to share clinical and demographic data of patients they have in common. HIE provides the ability to electronically move health care information between various systems while maintaining the meaning of the information being exchanged. In other words
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Use Information Systems 1 Can Information Systems Help Prevent a Public Health Crisis? CASE STUDY I f you turn on the television‚ read a newspaper‚ or surf the Web‚ you’re bound to find many dire predictions about large-scale loss of life from biological or chemical attacks or an avian influenza pandemic. Computer models estimate that between 2 and 100 million people could die in the event of a flu pandemic‚ depending on the characteristics of the virus. Fears of a major public health
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Public Safety vs. Privacy How can we increase public safety without giving up our civil liberties? This has become a common question among the American public in the light of recent events. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks‚ it has become evident that Americans will lean towards a "safety first" approach‚ allowing the government to do whatever they deem necessary to secure our safety. Although a majority of the public would draw the line when the government intrudes on their private life‚ today’s
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Articles from General Knowledge Today Conflict between Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles of State Policy 2013-03-10 17:03:43 GKToday The important question is where there is a conflict between the fundamental rights and directive principles‚ which should prevail? The Fundamental Rights are the rights of the individual citizens guaranteed by the Constitution. The directive principles lay down various tenets of a welfare state. The conflict arises when the State needs to implement a
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Animal Rights vs. Medical Research As far back as the days of the Roman Empire (752 B.C. to 1476 A.D.)‚ humanitarians have argued over the issue of animal rights (Treanor 28). The debate continues today with ever growing intensity with no end in sight. On one side‚ those who believe that animals have a right to a free and happy life just as humans; on the other side‚ those who believe that “the benefits of animal experimentation… far outweigh whatever harm is done to animals through the experiments”
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origins of public health (P1‚P2‚M1) P1 There are different types of key aspects to public health strategies; monitoring health status‚ indentifying health needs‚ developing programs‚ controlling communicable disease and promoting health of the population. Monitoring health status involves monitoring any health changes in the population and letting people know of any problems that can arise. There are a lot of different people involved in health work‚ these people help with monitoring health status;
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The majority of people have noticed that a lot of diseases are associated with different types of lifestyle. Recently‚ people begin to be aware from these types of lifestyle because it can cause a lot of diseases‚ such as heart diseases which are very common in US. There are several causes for this problem‚ such as eating fast food‚ smoking and deficiency of exercise. Consuming fast food is very common in US because the majority of people are very busy and they do not want to
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used to drain an area and open a narrowed area. • Sphincterotomy — abnormalities found during an ERCP study can sometimes be treated at the same time with an endoscopic retrograde sphincterotomy (ERS)‚ a procedure to cut the sphincter muscle between the common bile duct and the pancreatic duct. Instruments are inserted through the endoscope to cut or stretch the sphincter. • EUS (endoscopic ultrasound) — an ultrasound of the pancreas‚ transgastric or transduodenal‚ which helps define the
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