Chronic & Communicable Diseases Objectives Discuss & give examples of chronic diseases. Define communicable diseases & explain their significance. Discuss disease transmission. Explain how communicable disease is transmitted by: a. intestinal discharges. b. nose & throat discharges. c. zoonoses (animals) Discuss the disease spread by vectors and their control measures. Environmental Impacts Paradigm: Exposure-Response (EIA : EHIA) Exposure - def: any condition
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germs that are so small they can float in the air and travel long distances. Airborne precautions help keep staff‚ visitors‚ and other patients from breathing in these germs and getting sick. These germs include chicken pox‚ measles‚ and active tuberculosis (TB). Patients who have these germs should be in a special room where the air is gently sucked out. This is called a negative pressure room. Everyone who goes into the room should put on a respirator mask that fits well before they enter the room
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and Development Doctors without boarders This case analysis is about the work Doctors Without Borders do for the people with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in the Sub-Saharan country of Swaziland and the story of a boy named Senzo that are in the middle of such a treatment. With a weak immune system because of the HIV virus‚ tuberculosis and similar diseases could kill him. With the help of this organization and many other similar initiatives‚ the Millennium Development Goal of decreasing
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living with HIV in 2005.An estimated 4.1 million became newly infected with HIV‚ and estimated 2.8 million lost their lives to AIDS (UNAIDS‚ 2006). HIV/AIDS now causes more deaths than any other infectious diseases‚ having overtaken malaria and tuberculosis. It is the fourth biggest killer in the world (after heart disease‚ stroke and respiratory diseases) and has become the single largest cause of death in Africa (Matlin & Spence‚ 2000). It has become a social catastrophe in Africa‚ especially
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Communicable diseases include malaria‚ HIV/AIDS‚ tuberculosis‚ infant’s diarrhoea‚ measles and poliomyelitis diseases are passed on to people who are not already affected by it. To collect this data we use mortality rates‚ morbidity rates‚ disease incidence‚ disease prevalence and disability adjusted life years. They are spreading from person to person or from animals to people. It spreads by viruses or bacteria‚ but can also pass through blood or other body fluid. Disease Incidence: The incidence
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A few weeks ago‚ I introduced Huffington Post readers to a group of important diseases that most had never heard of -- neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). In that piece‚ I mentioned one disease that has a particularly devastating impact on girls and women in developing countries -- female genital schistosomiasis (FGS). Schistosomiasis‚ also known as bilharzia or "snail fever‚" is a parasitic disease carried by fresh water snails. It is transmitted by contact with contaminated fresh water‚ so swimming
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QUIZ NO. 2 : RESPIRATORY DISORDERS DIRECTION: Select the best answer by encircling the corresponding letter. 1. The patient is recovering from a left partial lobectomy. Which of the following nursing actions is most likely to result in the positive re-expansion of the affected left lung? a. Positioning the patient in a right side-lying position b. Encouraging the patient to deep breathe and coughing every hour c. Regularly assessing the patient’s ability to inhale and exhale comfortably d.
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[Silicosis and Silicate Disease Committee 1988]. This fibrotic condition of the lung is called silicosis. If the nodules grow too large‚ breathing becomes difficult and death may result. Silicosis victims are also at high risk of developing active tuberculosis [Myers et al. 1973; Sherson and Lander 1990; Bailey et al. 1974]. A worker’s lungs may react more severely to silica sand that has been freshly fractured (sawed‚ hammered‚ or treated in a way that produces airborne dust) [Vallyathan et al. 1988]
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State of the Art All the related literature and studies reviewed in the research is useful and relevant to the present study. Lisa Kennedy Sheldon (2005) and Nurses Quick Check (DISEASE) have similar views in their literature wherein they stated that PTB occurs twice as often in men and is four times more common in non-whites than whites and increase incidence in blacks and Hispanics between the age of 24-44 years old. They also stated that people who live crowded places tend to acquire the disease
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A review of the contemporary knowledge of bovine tuberculosis and government policy in Iran Keyvan Tadayon a‚b‚ Ken Forbes b‚ Davoud Soleimani c‚ Reza Aref Pajoohi a‚ Bahman Marhmati c‚ Jamaloddin Javidi c‚ Rouholah Keshavarz a‚ Kioomars Soleimani a‚ Ali Shakibamehr a‚ Mohammad Mohammad Taheri a‚ Shojaat Dashti Pour a‚ Nader Mosavari a‚* a Razi Vaccine & Serum Research Institute‚ Karaj‚ Iran b Medical Microbiology Department‚ Medical School‚ Aberdeen University‚ Aberdeen‚ Scotland‚ UK c Iranian
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