University of Phoenix Material Website Review HCS 457 Sherri Fergusson June 15‚ 2015 Instructor: Ebony Wardlaw Find national‚ state‚ and local governmental health agency websites that address the issue you selected in your Week One assignment. Follow the example to document your findings in the table. Health issue: Infant Mortality Website Website Information Type Type of Surveillance: survey‚ self report‚ statistics‚ case report‚ and so forth Data changes over time: Has the incidence increased
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Community Health Care Issue Article Review Carrie "Shellie" Cobbs Public and Community Health HCS 457 Dee Martinez‚ RN‚ MSN March 23‚ 2014 Community Health Care Issue Article Review A growing concern in community health care is the need of people to be able to buy food to feed themselves and their families. Food insecurity is described by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as “the food intake of one or more household members was reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at
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Article Review Kameasha Slaughter HCS/212 December 16‚ 2013 Ms. Lisa A. Williams Article Review While reviewing the article Health Care Technology Today by Authors Hargrove L‚ Simon AM‚ Young AJ.‚ Martinez-Perez B‚ De Le Torre-Diez I‚ and Lopez-Coronado M. The writer was able to gain knowledge on advances and proposals in health care technology. The advances in prosthetic limbs‚ blood pressure and heart-rate monitoring‚ Health sensors and the applications. Being that the writer has been
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Week 3 PP Speaker Notes Carrie "Shellie" Cobbs Public and Community Health HCS 457 Dee Martinez April 08‚ 2014 Week 3 PP Speaker Notes • What additional suggestions for treatment or resolution did you find? There are no additional suggestions for the treatment of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA). There are no alternative treatments. Antibiotic treatment is the only way to treat MRSA. A surgical procedure called an incision and drainage (I&D) is when a surgeon cleans out a lesion
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Public Health Michelle Payden-Wright HCS/457 January 5‚ 2015 Christine Tredway Public Health How has the approach to public health changed over the last 200 years? Which events or movements in public health and epidemiology were most influential? Why? There has been an enormous change in the way public health approaches health care over the past 200 years. There is an article in Philly.com that discusses how 222 years ago in 1798 approximately “ten percent of the Philadelphia population was succumbed
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Communicable Disease Paper Charlotte Hall HCS457 Sarah Dunn 3/4/2013 Communicable Disease Paper Communicable disease is a notifiable disease; this is any disease that is required to be reported (HEALTH‚ 2005). Communicable disease includes sexually transmitted diseases (STD) like Chlamydia. Chlamydia is a bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis and is a commonly reported STD (Services‚ 2012). This disease may not have any symptoms to indicate a problem within the person. Chlamydia affects
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Disease Michael E Aponte Professor Steiner University of Phoenix HCS 457 Chickenpox is a highly communicable virus named the varicella-zoster virus and closely resembles the herpes virus. The virus can be released into the air by coughing or sneezing‚ spreading the virus from person to person. The virus also can be spread by touching the fluids from a chickenpox blister. Chickenpox is so contagious that an individual who has never had exposure to chickenpox has an 80% chance of obtaining
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Positive Public Health Carrie "Shellie" Cobbs Public and Community Health HCS 457 Dee Martinez‚ RN‚ MSN April 20‚ 2014 Positive Public Health Doctors advise their patients to be healthy and work towards wellness. This advice affects more than the patient and their immediate actions to make corrections to their own wellbeing. Making changes to yourself can inspire other family members‚ friends‚ and co-workers to get up and start making changes for themselves. In theory the Health Impact Assessment
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What is epidemiology? Why is this important to community health? Provide an example of its importance from your community. According to "An Encyclopedia Britannica Company: Merriam-Webster Dictionary" (2013)‚ "Epidemiology is a branch of medical science that deals with the incidence‚ distribution‚ and control of disease in a population." It is also considered "the sum of the factors controlling the presence or absence of a disease or pathogen." Epidemiology is important to community health because
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What are some communicable diseases or threats currently affecting public and community health in your area? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)‚ the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)‚ and state and local health departments were investigating an outbreak of acute hepatitis A virus (HAV) infections that may be associated with the consumption of frozen berries sold at Costco stores. Additionally‚ a voluntary recall of the Woodstock Frozen Organic Pomegranate Kernels brand
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