...Running head: CHICKENPOX: WHAT IS IT'S FUTURE Chickenpox: What is It's future Christine Hinman Grand Canyon University Chickenpox: What is It's future When one mentions chickenpox in this generation, the normal person tends to think that chickenpox is eradicated. The 20th Century generation tends to think that the chickenpox virus has been eradicated. The origins of the chickenpox virus can be dated back to Babylonian times. Progression of the virus was nonexistent many generations ago. In fact, there was no medical progression available to treat chickenpox. Many complications occurred due to the spreading all the disease very quickly due to the lack a medical treatment. 30 years ago, Technology, medical research and clinical advancements help to break the chain all this communicable disease. Prevention a medical treatment within the last 30 years has helped Society literally eradicate chickenpox. OVERVIEW The varicella -zoster virus is extremely contagious to the human population. Chickenpox attacks the human nervous system resulting in severe skin lesions, fever, headache itching, and malaise. The incubation period is usually 14 to 21 days following exposure. The host is usually contagious for up to five days prior to the appearance of the rash and remains contagious up until the rash has scabbed over. Varicella is transmitted via contact and droplets. The virus is usually passed on to individuals when they come into...
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...Epidemiology Chickenpox Class: NRS-427V Concepts in Community and Public Health May 11, 2015 (O500) Name: Gulshan Kaur Date: May 25, 2015 What is epidemiology? Epidemiology is the study of a disease that is in a large population. There are many diseases that exist today and existed in the past that health professionals have interfered with and had these diseases come to a halt. Epidemiology isn't fully about the study of the disease itself, but it mostly comes in relation with the processes of the disease. Also not only is it about processes but it also about the cure and the curing of patients of the disease. People that inherent the epidemiological approach, they study the frequency of occurrence of the disease in the population. The epidemiologist has a belief that studying the interactions of the disease it will be possible to change and manipulate some of the determinants involved and reduce the amount of times the disease occurs in the population. One the diseases that provide epidemiologists the opportunity to study the disease and provide intervention is chicken pox. Also known as varicella, chicken pox is a highly contagious disease caused by the initial infection with varicella zoster virus. The disease leaves patients with a characteristic skin rash that forms small, itchy blisters, which scab over. This disease usually starts at the face and then quickly develops to the chest and back and then spreads to the rest of the body. Chickenpox is usually...
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...provide an overview of the Chickenpox disease process and the effects it has on the population. The paper continues to review how the epidemiological triangle is used and will include the host factors, agent factors (presence or absence), and environmental factors. The writer will try to review the determinants of health and explain how those factors contribute to the development of this disease, and also will see the roles and responsibilities of the community health nurse. In the end the paper discusses the associations, organizations, and national agency that addresses the chicken pox and contributes to resolving or reducing the impact of chickenpox disease. Chickenpox It is studied that 95 % of Americans get chickenpox by adulthood. Chickenpox is highly contagious. According to CDC 4 million people are infected by chickenpox every year. About 120,624 people in the USA were infected in 1995; it decreased to a tremendous 46,016 cases in 1999 in USA [Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), 1999] Earlier before the chickenpox vaccine was discovered,each year about 11,000 people needed hospitalization for chickenpox in the U.S, and about 100 to 150 people died each year of chickenpox. With the vaccine, cases of chickenpox have dropped by about 90%. Cause Chickenpox is a transmittable illness induced by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV). Babies, adults and individual with weakened immune systems are more vulnerable to Chickenpox. Mode of transmission ...
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...What are Vaccines? A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease. What is the purpose of Vaccinations? To produce immunity. Immunity means the presence in a person's body of cells and substances known as antibodies that can produce a protective immune response. How does it work? Most vaccines contain a little bit of a disease germ that is weak or dead. Vaccines do NOT contain the type of germ that makes you sick. Some vaccines do not contain any germs. Having this little bit of the germ inside your body makes your body's defense system build antibodies to fight off this kind of germ. Antibodies help trap and kill germs that could lead to disease. Your body can make antibodies in two ways: by getting the disease or by getting the vaccine. Getting the vaccine is a much safer way to make antibodies without having the suffering of the disease itself and the risk of becoming disabled or even dying. Antibodies stay with you for a long time. They remember how to fight off the germ. If the real germ that causes this disease (not the vaccine) enters your body in the future, your defense system knows how to fight it off. Often, your defense system will remember how to fight a germ for the rest of your life. Sometimes, your defense system needs a booster shot...
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...HCS/212 Healthcare Support Services There are many different organizations around the world that are dedicated to helping individuals with specific needs or helping the public as a whole with problems they face or may face in their lives. Some people are fortunate enough to live their whole lives disease free and others that are not so fortunate. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, also known as the CDC, has a helping hand in assisting a healthy and unhealthy public with disease prevention and training or assistance. The CDC is one of the major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services. The center for Disease Control and Prevention is an organization that specializes in the detection and prevention of unknown or unfamiliar diseases and illnesses. It is an organization that I chose to research due to its priority, which is our nation’s health. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention helps save people and lives. According to cdc.gov, the mission of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is to collaborate to create the expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health; through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and preparedness for new health threats. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention monitors people’s health, which helps them detect and investigate new illnesses or diseases and research and monitor already known illnesses and diseases. Through...
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...Introduction With the countries budget problems, the federal government has built a reform that will alleviate the high medical cost. These medical costs have increased since February 2012 to an estimated 3.4% per capita. According to the Congressional Budget Office COB, and the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development. (EOCD) Employee assisted company medical coverage benefits are increasing in cost or being eliminated and our political leaders. One of the programs at the federal government is trying to eliminate Medic Care. According to the CBO Medicare has increased by 2.3% per year after per capita than the beneficiary growth since 1975. Should the United States (U.S) have a social medical program that is the same of the France or the Netherlands? PRO and CONs for social medical system in the US The following are arguments on the Pros or Cons in the implementation of the federal government to formulate and strategize a social medical system in the US to assure the citizens are cared for the same as the France and the Netherlands does today. PROs Prevent needless deaths due to no or limited health insurance Looking at the health care reform act that was built by the president of the United States Barack Obama, the health care Reform Act is being created so that all Americans have a better standard of living. This allows for the prevention of many diseases that can be avoided with minimal standard follow-up appointments, checkups, and screenings...
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...“Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It’s a simple message parents need to keep hearing.” Jeffrey Kluger. Many parents have asked themselves this question to what extent should I vaccinate my child knowing that most of these vaccines may contain thimerosal in them and may be harmful to their child in the long run. However, vaccines are known to have preventive measures in protecting your child from various diseases that may lead to death. As the quote above rightly states it, “Vaccines save lives.” This topic has been quite a controversial one for many years and even up to now there is growing controversy surrounding Vaccinations. Vaccinations are an effective means of inhibiting serious illnesses and fatalities; however, controversy remains over whether the risk of the side effects outweighs the risk of contracting the disease....
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...powerful. Once your child has got vaccinated against an infection, their body can battle it all the more effectively. In the event, that a child is not vaccinated, they will have an expanded danger of getting the illness. B. Immunization is as essential for adults as it is for children, but then numerous adults are not ideally vaccinated. Immunizations emulate the virus so as to anticipate disease by that same virus or bacteria. II. Body A. Vaccine preventable diseases haven't gone away a) Measles is an exceptionally irresistible viral illness that can result in fever, hacking and unique red-cocoa spots on the skin. The shingles antibody is a decent illustration. Shingles are brought on by a reactivation of the chickenpox virus. It can result in a serious and excruciating skin rash. The immunization is suggested for adults 60 and more seasoned (Shah, 1664). b) Measles is brought on by a virus that is exceptionally contagious, can live for up to two hours on surfaces and get transmitted through a tainted individual's hacks or sniffles. Measles is contagious to the point that "90% of the individuals near to that individual who are not insusceptible will likewise gotten to get tainted. c) Smallpox is additionally a disease that needs one to get immunized against it. Immunizations shield us from genuine diseases furthermore keep the spread of those diseases to others. Through the years, immunizations have provided protection against diseases, for...
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...Ethiopia, Africa around 2 million years ago for example: Lucy known as the oldest human found there. The most probable reason why the first human left Africa is because of the Ice Age. The cold made life so difficult to survive and somehow reduced in their population. They went through a land bridge, which existed to connect North America and Asia during the Ice Age. * What was the Columbian Exchange? How did the Columbian Exchange affect Europe? How did it affect North America? The Columbian Exchange is basically understand as the exchange in foods, animals, plants as well as diseases between the New World (North America) and the Old World (Europe) followed after the discovery of America by Columbus. The Columbian Exchange affected both world in many ways. For Europe, it brings avocado, potato, tomato, corn, beans, tobacco, turkeys as positive effects and the negative effect are diseases like tuberculosis and syphilis. For North America, positive effects: coffee beans, olive, banana, sugar cane, grape, sheep, pig, horse. And the negative effects impact North America are: smallpox, chickenpox, measles etc… * Name four groups of people who migrated to British North America in the 17th century. Why did each of those groups migrate? Virginia Settlement – these settlers known as the first English settlement to migrated in North America. They prefer to seek opportunities, own some land in this new world and make their own business. Later on tobacco was introduced...
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...DEVELOPMENT STORY Development story paper Perlita Citrus Community College 1 My development story 2 My development story My personal development journey across the lifespan from birth to my current age which is twenty years old, was a long journey I don’t think I would ever change. In this paper I will cover and analyze the various dimensions of development at each stage, which are physical, cognitive, personality and social. Physical development is the growth of my body and brain, sensory capacities, motor skills, and health. Cognitive development is Learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity. Psychosocial Development is my emotions, personality, and social relationship’s. That’s exactly what I am going to be talking about. As an infant to the age I am right now I have had my ups and downs, my bad moments etc. Child development takes over everything we do in life. “It focuses on the scientific study of systematic processes of change and stability in human child.” (Martorell 2013 pg4) When my mom was pregnant her prenatal stage was great for her. She did not have any difficult things happen to her. She had a pretty easy pregnancy and didn’t have trouble with anything. The OBGYN told my parents everything was perfect with her and I and it was true As I was born my parents got scared because I wasn’t breathing for a few seconds and then they heard my cry and they got relived and felt better to know I was okay. I weighed about...
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...| Syllabus College of Natural Sciences HCA/240 Version 4 Health and Diseases | Copyright © 2011, 2009, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course introduces the student to the basic principles of illness and disease commonly seen in the health care environment. Topics may include infectious and noninfectious diseases, environmental health, and the promotion of good health practices. In addition, students will be introduced to common disease and medical procedure terminology. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Zelman, M., Tompary, E., Raymond, J., Holdaway, P., & Mulvihill, M. (2010). Human diseases: A systemic approach (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. All electronic materials are available on the student website. Week One: Introduction to Human Health and Disease | | Details | Due | Points | ...
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...RAY DOUGLAS BRADBURY He was an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. Although the genre of many of Ray Bradbury’s stories is fiction, he rejected being categorized as a science fiction author, claiming that the only story he has ever written that is a science fiction story is Fahrenheit 451. BIOGRAPHY Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He enjoyed a relatively idyllic childhood in Waukegan, which he later incorporated into several semi-autobiographical novels and short stories. Bradbury's life revolved around magic, magicians, circuses, and other such fantasies. He decided to become a writer at about age 12 or 13. He later said that he made this decision to "live forever" through his fiction. His first official pay as a writer came for contributing a joke to George Burns's Burns & Allen Show. In 1937, he became a member of the Los Angeles Science Fiction League, whose help enabled him to publish four issues of his own science-fiction fan magazine, or "fanzine," Futuria Fantasia. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. His formal education ended there because they had no money to send him to college due to the Depression. However, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. street corners from 1938 to 1942. He published his first short story in a fan magazine in 1938. Bradbury says that he learned to write by recalling his own experiences. Many...
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...interview, reliable Reason for seeking care: Client presents with cough with sputum production, sharp chest pain on inspiration, shortness of breath, body aches and fever, “my fever was 103.2 before coming in” History of present illness: Thirty-six-year-old male presents to office complaining of cough pain in chest, body aches and fever, states pains and fever started 6 days ago. Rates pain as 6 to 10 out of 10, continuous. Patient states he took his own temperature with an oral thermometer with temps ranging from 101.9 to 103.2. Past medical history: • Fibromyalgia • Epilepsy • Pericarditis • Heart Burn Past surgical history: Denies any past surgeries Childhood illnesses: • Chickenpox Accidents or injuries: • Car accident, 1992 History of hospitalizations: • Full cardiac workup, 2004 • Monitored 1994, due to black outs Immunizations: Up-to-date, including PPD and influenza, Hep B series 2011 Examinations/screening/diagnostic tests: (a) client indicates seeing PCP, cardiologist every six months, neurologist, and rheumatologist on yearly...
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...William John Little, a British surgeon, began the first actual efforts to research what will eventually be known as cerebral palsy. He was disabled as a child, after he suffered from polio, and received spastic diplegia which was complicated by severe talipes . Little spent most of his medical career researching various disabling conditions, which when linked together became identified as a form of cerebral palsy . Even though it was seen since the 1800s, cerebral palsy has been observed since antiquity as a group of neuromuscular disabilities. Many ancient civilizations, such as the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, have described cerebral palsy, but did not know how to treat it or even what causes it. In the 19th Century is when medical...
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...has as much opportunity for mutation and selection in one day as humanity gets in a millennium. And our defenses, whether natural or artificial, make for potent selection forces. Pathogens either quickly evolve a counter defense or become extinct. Diseases such as AIDS, Ebola, Polio have shown their wrath and humans have sought to find cures and treatment options. By definition, disease is essentially “a disorder of structure or function that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affect a specific location (not just from a physical injury)” (WHO, 2007). The true boundaries and limitations of disease remain elusive. Healthcare specialists and researchers use “normal” conditions as their basis in order to understand what disease is. By understanding what disease is, one can target and identify the causes of the “abnormal” condition. The truth about diseases is that they are all relative. The question of how disease came to be remains unanswered though. Diseases are about as old as time—they have always plagued mankind. A vast majority of existing human infectious disease have their origin in other...
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