...climate change and the creation of human health hazards. But many times these facts are presented in a very generalized way, failing to allow humans to connect to these environmental issues, making many feel as though they are not issues occurring in the present. That is until humans are awoken by a horrific experience many times once it is too late. One example is what the EPA called “Americas Most Notorious Environmental Disaster,” Love Canal. This event that should have, and could have been prevented, became an event straight out of a nightmare for a community and got America's attention. This disaster paved the way to finally set regulations and attempt in preventing something like this to happen again. Love Canal proved that these real human-made health hazards have horrific effects and can hit close to home in the blink of an eye....
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...India and had not been vaccinated. By the 16th of April the state laboratory of Public Health was able to confirm the diagnosis, with the last known case being confirmed on May 7th. The investigation of this outbreak revealed 4 patients with a confirmed diagnosis that had received one of vaccination of the two part series. The other 19 cases had not ever been vaccinated. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services issued a letter informing the community of the outbreak, and offering recommendations for providers in the area. The suggestion was to consider anyone with fever and rash to be positive for measles. They were also directed to contact their health department immediately for suggestions on laboratory testing and control measures. In mid-May the state and county health officials declared the outbreak to be resolved. The spreading of the disease was simple and rapid. Measles is a highly contagious illness that is originated from a virus. The virus is so contagious that well before the rash develops, the patient is contagious and spreading the illness to susceptible people. It is spread via the airborne route. The virus lives inside the mucus of nose and throat of people that are infected. Coughing, sneezing and even talking resulting in infected droplets being released in air. For two hours after hitting a surface the droplets are contagious as well. Upon investigation of the outbreak, it was determined that the occurrence was linked to one family that...
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...United States. Among these people was a teenage refugee who was reported to have the measles on August 26th. Los Angeles is a major airport that brought many of the other passengers on that original flight to other states within America. After the investigation three other people from the plane were identified as having contracted the measles, and one customs officer from Los Angeles International Airport (“Measles Travels”, 2013). The first was in Maryland on September 1st which involved two positive cases, both were infant refugees from Malaysia. The second reported was on September 4th in North Carolina, which was a teenage refugee from Malaysia (“Notes”, 2011). Another article published by the Center for Disease Control the following year reported two more cases. The first on September 9th was a United Stated born infant traveling on the same flight back to her home in Los Angeles. The second was also reported on the 9th of September and was a toddler from Indonesia traveling to visit family in Los Angeles (“Measles Travels”, 2012). With the data collected there were a total of six people including the original source who had become infected with measles. The investigation of the passengers on the flight lead the investigation in several...
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...Public Health Timeline Before the American Public Health Association was founded people would often die from simple infections. These same infections are currently easily prevented or cure able. Poor sanitation and lack of education destroyed families and economically damaged communities. Simple education; like proper hand washing has saved countless people from untimely death. The American Public Health Association was founded by Dr. Stephen Smith in 1872. (The History of the world, 2012). Around this time science was making tremendous strides in identifying the causes of communicable disease. As science advanced; the need for public health was apparent. The foundation for public health was laid (The History of the world, 2012). Now days Americans have more access to education and public health resources than ever before. Public health is broken up into county, state, and national needs. The county public health system addresses issues within a community to assist members to become and stay healthy. A county public health is made up of educators, nurses, doctors, advocates, researchers, and volunteers (County of Ventura, 2012). Community health is a field of public health that focuses on the study of the health characteristics of a biological community. Community health mostly focuses on the geographic area not the people directly in that community (Wikipedia, 2012). State public health addresses the needs of the communities within the state. Some examples of state...
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...Report of findings to the Community Health Department CC: Principal Samantha Perez, Truman Middle School RE: Absences and Illnesses I have been notified that there may be an outbreak of illness throughout the middle schools of Independent School District 12 which has caused a spike in student absences. While conducting research on the recent absences, I’ve noticed that in two of the four middle schools, Truman and Jackson, there was an abnormal increase in the absences of band students on May 20th and 21st . I have noticed after reviewing the school calendars and that Truman and Jackson Middle School had a Battle of the Bands event on May 19th. Telephone interviews by the School Nurse were conducted with some of the parents whose children were absent from school on those days, and I discovered that in speaking with one of the parents, it was brought to the nurse’s attention that some of the band members went out to dinner after the battle of the bands. In an attempt to rule out food poisoning, I took the liberty of looking into the recent health inspection reports for the local restaurants, which I had access to through the health department. I discovered that there was an accounting of several health violations at two restaurants located in close proximity to the schools. According to your School Nurse, food poisoning symptoms can start within a day or two of eating contaminated food. Based on interviews conducted the symptoms, all of which were either the same...
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...University of Phoenix HUM/114 Week Four Individual Assignments April 30, 2011 Peter Ciccotelli Un-explained Illnesses Spreading Through Our Community Searching for answers to the cause of the mysterious sickness affecting our community. It has come to our attention that many families in our community are suffering from similar illnesses: seizures, learning problems, and hyperactivity. Some citizens in our community have shared concerns with the city council and others have expressed their concerns with the local health department. In researching these unusual events we have learned that a company in our local community is practicing unsafe chemical disposal, which is the cause of these unexplained illnesses. In an effort to correct this dilemma, we have researched for facts, and found this company negligent of its decision to build on recorded disposal sites. We reach out to all citizens of our community and stand together to express our concerns to the developers, city council and environmental health department that what has evolved is unacceptable. In review of our findings, we have to make a decision about what action should be taken to best solve this problem. We will adhere to the readers to decide what reasonable action measures should be taken and proceed accordingly. Strategies we would apply when investigation the problem: generating the necessary public pressure to bring attention to the site so that the company can begin the clean-up process; demanding...
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...viral disease that can be fatal. Although an uncommon disease in the United States of America, in 2008, measles killed 164,000 children worldwide ("Measles symptoms," 2012). The disease measles and the virus that causes it share the same name. The disease is also called rubeola. Measles virus normally grows in the cells that line the back of the throat and lungs ("Meales: Rubeola," 2012). In 2000, measles were declared eliminated from the United States. However with the increase in foreign travel, outbreaks are still reported to the CDC annually ("Meales: Rubeola," 2012). One such outbreak occurred on June 20, 2011. An emergency room physician reported five epidemiologically linked measles cases to the Indiana State Department of Health. The subsequent investigation identified a total of 14 confirmed cases in northeast Indiana (Brown, 2011). Of the 14 cases, 13 were unvaccinated people in the same extended family. The remaining patient was a 23 month old child who had received one dose of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine 4 months prior to illness onset (Brown, 2011). Four of the 14 patients were males; median age was 11.5 years (range 15 months-27 years). The remaining patient was 32 weeks pregnant and hospitalized for pneumonia (Brown, 2011). The source of the outbreak was traced back to a 24 year old unvaccinated U.S citizen. The traveler first noticed a rash during their return flight from Indonesia on...
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...Administrative Ethics Paper Health care organizations are responsible for the privacy and proper handling of people’s personal medical and financial information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has been set into place to set the standards to organizations on how to handle patient information and how to deal with any situation that may arise to the best interest of the patient and the organization. There are situations that will arise, and the organization must be prepared to handle it. An instance may arise when the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may have to get involved. The HHS is an organization designed to help enforce the HIPAA rules and regulations and make sure organizations are in compliance with HIPAA. Recently, a major health care organization in Massachusetts, The General Hospital Corporation and Massachusetts General Organization Inc. (Mass General), settled to pay the U.S. Government $1,000,000 because of a HIPAA violation. Documents containing protected health information (PHI) were lost and never recovered from an employee losing a folder containing 192 patient’s records. The employee took the records from the hospital and while riding the subway returning back to work, the employee left the records on the train. The investigation of the missing records was started from a patient discovering their record was lost and the patient called the HHS Office of Civil Rights. The HHS’s investigation led to the discovery of...
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...covers annual, sick and personal leave, nondiscrimination laws and procedures, open door policy, information about filing complaints, employee benefits, other available benefits, and employee responsibilities. The most important thing that will and should be addressed in the workplace is nondiscrimination. Nondiscrimination is one of the most important aspects in many organizations and is also the number one topic that must be followed through to eliminate law suits and co When dealing with non-discrimination laws in a health care segment or any other work place there are procedures that have to be followed. Some of the non-discrimination issues that must be addressed within the health care organization and other work places and other places would be race, sex, national origin, disability, age, religious or political opinions, etc. Employees should not at any time use filing a complaint as a form of retaliation against another employee. Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) have an unlawful Discrimination Complaint Procedure they use when processing unlawful discrimination or sexual harassment. The organizations position is to assure that the employees of the company has the option to seek a resolution for the problem by talking to their supervisor before filing a complaint. For example, Emily feels like Mike makes passes at her when they are on lunch together and she feels uncomfortable with the situation, at this time before filing a complaint Emily...
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...role of a hero. These people would get a thrill to be the reporting party or to be first on the scene. Another reason is a person might have a psychiatric problem that they have towards the fascination with fire. While others have a low self-esteem or self-confidence, and they want to feel like they belong to a group and are accepted by others. There are many effects of fire fighter arson, which all are very clear cut effects, they include the possibility of injury, loss of life, property and financial loss due to fire, and the increase of insurance premiums that we pay when arson occurs. This crime of arson will also make the community loose trust in their fire department. This loss of trust could affect fundraising and that would seriously affect the fire service. If the person is caught it will defiantly put a strain on the department with the community on whether or not there are more crooked fighters or not. Most arson investigators have a background...
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...role of a hero. These people would get a thrill to be the reporting party or to be first on the scene. Another reason is a person might have a psychiatric problem that they have towards the fascination with fire. While others have a low self-esteem or self-confidence, and they want to feel like they belong to a group and are accepted by others. There are many effects of fire fighter arson, which all are very clear cut effects, they include the possibility of injury, loss of life, property and financial loss due to fire, and the increase of insurance premiums that we pay when arson occurs. This crime of arson will also make the community loose trust in their fire department. This loss of trust could affect fundraising and that would seriously affect the fire service. If the person is caught it will defiantly put a strain on the department with the community on whether or not there are more crooked fighters or not. Most arson investigators have a background in law enforcement, either with police or fire...
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...Chandlers police department sex crime unit. The history will be mentioned as well as the people that made a difference within the department. Also, I will be talking about the sex crime unit itself and the responsibilities that the detectives have. The sex offender notification program that they are in charge of will also be mentioned as well as the crimes against adults and the crimes against children that the detectives are responsible for. This paper will also define what sex crimes are and give several examples of different types of sex crimes. The sex crimes that are assigned to Chandlers Sex Crime Unit will also be said. Chandlers Police has conducted some investigation in sex crime cases and a couple of these will be motioned in this paper. I will describe some charts and statistics that I have found like rate and of crime in Chandler for crimes like rape, murder, and violent crimes. Chandler Police Sex Crime Unit The Chandler Police Department in Arizona is known to be one of the best police stations in the state. In November of 1914, Charles M. Beckham was elected as one of the first Constables. In 1923, the first City Hall was built and it was the new home for the Police Force/Jail, the Mayor’s office, City Clerk’s office, City Council Chambers and the Magistrate and his courtroom, (Health, 2005). During the 1970s, the second Police/Court facility was built and the Police and Fire Department were combined and renamed the “Chandler Department of Public Safety”...
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...C228 Community Nursing Task 2 Jane A. Wildeman Western Governors University C228 Community Nursing Task 2 Introduction Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS-CoV, is still a relatively new virus first diagnosed in Saudi Arabia in 2012. Thorough investigation by international health officials traced the disease to the first-known human case in Jordan in April 2012, and it is believed this first case was transported from camels, possibly by drinking raw camel’s milk. ("About MERS," 2015) Much is still not known about the virus, but it is suspected to be spread by either direct contact or droplet form in human-to-human transport. It is believed the virus originated over forty years ago in bats and was passed to camels, and experts are still unsure how the virus passed from camels to humans. Yet, the virus in humans is identical to the virus in camels, causing concern that it doesn’t require mutation to be transmitted. As a result, WHO recommends pasteurization of camel milk and adequate cooking of camel meat before consumption. It is also recommended that anyone in contact with farm animals or camels in the effected countries use preventive hygiene measures, including good handwashing before and after exposure to animals. ("MERS-CoV," June 2015) Over 1600 cases of MERS-CoV have been reported to the WHO, with almost 600 deaths since September 2012. All cases that have occurred outside the Arabian Peninsula can be directly traced either to recent...
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...Public Health and Health Care Paper Health care focuses on the health of individuals whereas public health focuses on preventing disease and injury while promoting and protecting the health of populations. Public health is the science and art of promoting health, prolonging life, and preventing disease as a result of organized community efforts. Public health by way of systematic effort, identify the health needs of the community and then organize ample health service for the defined population (Association of Schools of Public Health, n.d.). The interdisciplinary approach of health services, biostatistics, and epidemiology are incorporated in public health. The purpose of this paper is to describe Center of disease control and prevention (CDC) as a public health agency and how it contributes to the core functions of public health. This paper will also examine the specific ways CDC influences the health care organizations and provider and will also discuss the roles of the agency workers including specific responsibilities, competencies, and skills. CDC as an agency and its contribution to the core functions of public health. CDC is the lead federal government public health agency and a key operational element of the Department of Health and Human Services. The CDC manages a variety of programs intended to control and prevent specific disability risks, injury, and disease on a national level through dissemination activities, program development, research, epidemiologic surveillance...
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...Provide the name, location, and description of the Superfund site nearest to your community. The central City Clear Creek site is a Superfund located in Near Town, Idaho Springs, Colorado 80452. The Clear Creek site is 400-mile watershed consisting of multiple mine waste piles, draining mine adits, tailings impoundments, and impacted groundwater resources. This site is also on the NPL. a. Why is this location a Superfund site? This is a Superfund site because it includes harmful waste and is a risk to human health due to the concentration of harmful chemicals, such as cadmium, arsenic, copper, lead, zinc, and manganese, which can be ingested through breathing in these chemicals in the air or drinking contaminated water from the groundwater supply in Idaho Springs. b. When did this pollution occur? How? In 1859, gold was discovered in Idaho Springs and surrounding areas. However, after the mines were shut down after being void of gold, extensive chemicals and waste from the mines began to seep into the groundwater, infecting the surrounding...
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