Community Health Nursing Task 1 Jeanne MacDonald Western Governors University Student ID 000287537 I chose as my community El Dorado County in the foothills of Northern California. I live in this community. We are a very healthy and active community with a large
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provide adequate sleeping accommodations or food for those employees who remained on site. In order to better defend the company‚ George Baker the director of human resource management for Winston Hotels was advised by lawyers to have a disaster preparedness plan because up to this point the company has had no disaster plan and managers ‘‘played it by ear’’ when the hurricanes struck. The only policy that existed was a general policy that each employee had to either report to work during his or her
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Biology Assessment: Influenza Structure: Viruses are non-cellular obligate intracellular parasites‚ requiring a living host cell in order to reproduce. A developed viral particle (virion) lacks the metabolic machinery of cells‚ containing just a single type of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) encased in a protein coat or capsid. Viruses can be distinguished by their structure and by the nature of their genetic material (single or double stranded DNA or RNA). Viruses that affect humans are more difficult
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Policy Priority Issue: The Childhood Obesity Pandemic Marla C. Khalikov Chamberlain College of Nursing NR506 – 10999: Health Care Policy Winter 2014 Policy Priority Issue: The Childhood Obesity Pandemic Childhood obesity is a global pandemic requiring prioritization in policy and health care reform. It has many effects on acute and long term health‚ including increasing the risk for cardiovascular disease‚ diabetes‚ osteoarthritis‚ and certain types of cancer. This paper addresses
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biggest threat on national security‚ a controversial issue is that nuclear bombs/ warfare is a bigger threat on national warfare. On one hand biological war can be more dangerous due to the terrorist attack could be hidden as a normal disease or a pandemic. On the other hand nuclear bombs could be a lot more dangerous because a bomb could wipe out an entire continent with one explosion. Or the radiation that comes off from the explosion. In summary‚ bio terrorism is the biggest threat on national security
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Disaster Planning Disaster Planning prevention‚ preparedness‚ response‚ recovery PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF DISASTERS .................................................................................................. 2 – NATURAL DISASTERS........................................................................................................................... 2 – MAN-MADE DISASTERS ...................................................................................................................
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(Morillon and Garnotel 2004). This bacterium had caused seven serious global pandemic. The longest period of pandemic and the most widespread of cholera geographically is the seventh pandemic (Claire et al. 2004). It lasted from year 1961 to 1991 affecting countries like America‚ Indonesia and Africa (Claire et al. 2004). Underdeveloped countries like Africa‚ Bangladesh and India have higher possibility of having pandemic of cholera due to the lack of sanitary problem and health education (Claire
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Robert Neville is the apparent sole survivor of a pandemic whose symptoms resemble vampirism. It is implied that the pandemic was caused by a war‚ and that it was spread by dust storms in the cities and an explosion in the mosquito population. The narrative details Neville’s daily life in Los Angeles as he attempts to comprehend‚ research‚ and possibly cure the disease‚ to which he is immune. Neville’s past is revealed through flashbacks: The disease claimed his wife and daughter‚ and he was forced
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prevention‚ preparedness‚ response and recovery. Not all catastrophes can be prevented‚ but many types can be avoided‚ and the effects of others can be mitigated. Firstly‚ prevention is first step to deal with disaster occur because Pre-disaster activities are taken to reduce human and property losses caused by a potential hazard. For example‚ building the dam or levee to control flood water‚ so it less effect to people‚ building or livestock and so on. Secondly‚ during the preparedness phase‚ governments
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The first part of the 21st century was punctuated by a series of natural disasters‚ most notably the Indian tsunami‚ the earth quakes in Gujarat‚ India and Kashmir‚ Pakistan‚ the September 11 2004 terrorist attacks on the United States and Hurricane Katarina‚ Cyclone Nargis in Burma‚ and the Sichuan earth earthquake in China (Coppola & Maloney 2009). Reports indicate that individuals and communities struggled to cope in the aftermath of these and many other emergencies and endured a high risk of
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