Running title: HAT TASK 3 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
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Microbiology‚ Test 3 Study Guide Chapters 14‚ 15‚ 16 and 17 Chapter 14 This chapter is about the principles of disease and epidemiology. Epidemiology – the science that studies when and where diseases occur and how they are transmitted. CDC‚ Atlanta‚ tracks and traces diseases. ONE World (the idea that it’s all in one place‚ it could happen anywhere; locally‚ states‚ large counties track the incidences and occurrences of disease)
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Americans each year. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease‚ Tuberculosis‚ Lung cancer‚ Asthma‚ emphysema‚ and bronchitis are just a few of the common respiratory infections that disrupt the functions of organs and tissues responsible for providing oxygen to the body. In this paper I will discuss Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease also referred to as COPD as my primary theme of respiratory disease. I will describe the severity of COPD‚ its epidemiology‚ as well as how it is diagnosed and treated. I will
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Disease is any condition that adversely affects the function of any part of a living thing. Health is the wellbeing of the organism. All our body functions‚ which are under the control of our genes‚ work together to maintain health. Difficulties in determining health and disease: Disease can cover a wide range of conditions including minor conditions‚ such as a cut finger or an ant bite‚ as well as the more obvious diseases like cancers. Health varies on a daily basis and is not just the absence
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Especially in the border areas malaria‚ tuberculosis and HIV are significant problems of public health. Continuing high mortality rates due to for example poor accessing to health services and persisting problems with poverty and nutrition. The child mortality rates have decreased recently. (Grundy
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popular and respected for their unconventional logic and accurate observations on life and nature” (Hallowell & Levy‚ 2005). Furthermore‚ while David Thoreau wrote his last form of literature‚ walking‚ he was diagnosed with the bed-written disease‚ tuberculosis. Walking was the last writing Thoreau wrote in his life when he lived in the cabin he build by himself at Walden Pond (Hallowell & Levy‚ 2005). In walking‚ Thoreau intended to advocate naturalism and preserve nature by Walking‚ thus‚ the people
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Chapter 1: The Main Themes of Microbiology What is Microbiology? • micron = small and biologia = study of living things • Microbiology = study of small living things • How small is “small”? • What do we really mean by living? • Working definition: Study of entities too small to be seen with the unaided human eye. • (< 0.2 mm = 200 µm = 200‚000 nm) Types of Microbes Prokaryotes include Bacteria and Archaea Eukaryotes include Protista (Algae and Protozoa)‚ Fungi‚ and Animalia
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Chapter 1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Introduction Nowadays‚ sicknesses transported by mosquitoes are very dangerous on this planet. Even when most of these diseases threaten populations in other countries where there’s a much larger density of mosquito population‚ you still have to end up being watchful. There are still mosquitoes in your neighbourhood and they could very well be holding fatal diseases. Insect bites can be bothersome. They can be very itchy which leads to constant scratching
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decomposing matter found in (contaminated water‚ swamps‚ grave sites‚ etc) oPrevention: sanitation improvements‚ fragrances John Snow and Modern Epidemiology •John Snow: British physician‚ believes that cholera is spread through contaminated drinking water oChallenges miasma theory paradigm oAt first‚ theories are ignored •Maps pattern of disease (epidemiology) •Removes broad street pump handle (*foundation of public health) New Ideas: Occupations •Percival Pott: English Surgeon‚ studied the dire
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street-recruited injection drug users in Oakland‚ California‚ 1992 to 1995. Phoenix‚ AZ: Oryx Press‚ 1996: 15-23. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report‚ 10(2)‚ Year-end Report‚ 1998. CDC. Surveillance of tuberculosis and AIDS co-morbidity – Florida‚ 1981-1993. MMWR
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