...The swine flu virus is a new virus strain that caused a worldwide pandemic in humans from June 2009 to August 2010. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now call the virus 2009 H1N1. Earlier forms of the H1N1 virus were found in pigs. Over time, the virus changed and can now infect humans. Because H1N1 is a new virus in humans, a persons immune system cannot fight the virus very well. As a result, it has spread quickly around the world. (http://www.righthealth.com) The largest number of H1N1 flu cases have occurred in people ages 5 - 24. Few cases have been reported in people older than age 64. The H1N1 flu virus can spread from person to person when: Someone with the flu coughs or sneezes into air that others breathe in. (http://www.righthealth.com) The symptoms of swine flu are a lot like the regular seasonal flu. They can include: • Fever or shaking chills. • Cough. • Sore throat. • Body aches. • Headache. • Extreme tiredness (fatigue). (http://www.stedwardmercy.com) You cannot get H1N1 swine flu virus from eating pork or any other food, drinking water, swimming in pools, or using a hot tubs or saunas. (http://www.righthealth.com) It is called Swine Flu because it originates from a transfer of an influenza virus from a pig to a human being. There are different strains that can jump from pig to human. In 1918 a version of the Swine Flu became pandemic. In 1976 there was another outbreak. In 2009 it reared its head...
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...The Fall of the Roman Empire There are adherents to single factors, but more people think Rome fell because of a combination of such factors as Christianity, and economy, and military problems. Even the rise of Islam is proposed as the reason for Rome's fall, by some who think the Fall of Rome happened at Constantinople in the 15th Century. Most people think it occurred during the fifth century, after the western division of the empire. There were several reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire. Many often blame the initiation of Christianity for the decline. Christianity made many Roman citizens into pacifists, making it more difficult to defend against the barbarian attackers. Some say the money used to build churches could have been used to maintain the Roman Empire. Maintaining an army to defend the border of the Empire from barbarian attacks was a constant drain on the government. Military spending left few resources for other vital activities, such as providing public housing and maintaining quality roads and aqueducts. Frustrated Romans lost their desire to defend the Empire. The empire had to begin hiring soldiers recruited from the unemployed city mobs or worse from foreign counties. Such an army was not only unreliable, but very expensive. The emperors were forced to raise taxes frequently which, in turn, led to increased inflation. The Roman economy suffered from inflation (an increase in prices) beginning after the reign of Marcus Aurelius. Once the Romans...
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...Healthcare Support Services- Public Health/ Medicare With today’s social, cultural, political and economic shifts, public health has become a huge topic of concern. More and more communities are depending on public health organizations for information, education and assistance in maintaining a healthy society. In The Untilled Fields of Public Health, Charles-Edward Amory Winslow defines public health as “the science and art of preventing diseases, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals” (Charles-Edward Amory). Public health is a non-exclusive entity. In public health, the “community” in which an issue is concerned with includes all people affected by a specific concern, illness, affliction, policy or law. Public health considers the community, not an individual, as the patient in which a proactive stance is taken, rather than a reactive one. Public health uses demographics and statistics to predict health issues and acts in accordance with those predictions to try and prevent illness or disease that a community might be at a high risk for. Public health accomplishes this by promoting awareness through providing education and information, as well as providing services that might be needed for the prevention of said illness or disease. The demographics of public health, as a whole, are non-existent. Public health is an all-inclusive organization...
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...Epidemiology and Public Health Soledad Blanco West Coast University Most people when asked about Public Health automatically associate it with Public Clinics, or providing hands-on health care to the community. Not until recently I was one of those people; however, after exploring my local health department, State of Florida Health Department, Center for Disease Control and many other websites, I discovered that Public Health is involved in every aspect of our daily lives. Public Health is first and foremost all about prevention. They have developed many vaccinations and have required all children to receive certain immunizations prior to starting school, they also investigate disease outbreaks to prevent further contamination and have implemented many prevention procedures. Public Health is involved in our daily living activities from making sure our waters are safe for when we brush our teeth, to monitoring the ocean waters for when we go to the beach. It is also accredited with the development of policy and procedures that prevent disease and promote good health, they promote healthy lifestyles through education, and they conduct research for diseases. They provide the community with healthy living conditions. During the 20th century, Public Health accomplished many great things. They have able to control the spread of many infectious diseases, they are responsible for adding fluoride to drinking water, and they also developed motor-vehicle safety policies and many other...
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...lands and the gift of offices remained important, but the service was given in support of a faction rather than as part of a strict hierarchical system in which all ultimately owed their loyalty to the monarch. The Wars were fought with the new invention of gunpowder, cannons, and bombs, instead of crossbows, bows, and catapults. During what many historians call a civil war in England, the sovereignty of England was largely contested by the entire population of England at that time. The Lords of both houses commissioned as many of their subjects to be enlisted in their military to fight for the crown. While most young men were being sent to fight their Lords’ wars, many of the countries’ productions fell into disuse. Farms were left fallow (untilled), cattle slowly became scarce, and natural resources, such as iron, and wood slowly became depleted from the need for weapons, and armor. During the Medieval Warm Period, Europe enjoyed bountiful harvests and beneficial weather. However, the period ended in the mid-thirteenth century leading to cooler, wetter weather, and poor crop yields. The agricultural problems culminated in 1315 with the Great Famine. Crop failures continued for two years leading to mass starvation and the beginning of a change in European culture away from the church. Throughout the fourteenth century, Europe experienced a number of famines leading to mass starvation. Plus added climate change which wiped out crops leaving people with less to eat. Europe’s population...
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...Introduction Conditions in the Caribbean territories controlled by the British Colony in the 1930’s were not of public health standard especially after the labour unrest. To understand the public health crisis that existed at that time it is important to have an idea of what public health means. Public health as defined by Winslow (1920) “is the science and art of preventing, prolonging life and organized community efforts for sanitation of the environment, control of communicable infections, education of the individual in personal hygiene, organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease, and the development of social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health, so organizing these benefits as to enable every citizen to realize his birth right of health and longevity”(p.5). Considering this definition and the conditions of the British Caribbean territories one could conclude that there were very little to no public health existence in the time of the 1930’s. Consequently, the British Government appointed the Moyne Commission on August 3rd 1938 to investigate and make recommendations on the social and economic conditions of its territories and to file a report. The Moyne Report ended on February 20th 1939 and published fully in 1945 (Green, 2014). This project, therefore, will give a brief biography of Lord Moyne, discuss the factors that led to the establishment of the Commission...
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...WHAT'S WRONG WITH PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURE? Economics Department did a survey of rice farmers around the country, and found that many of them had seen declining yields per hectare over time. The only logical explanation seemed to be that the quality of the land they were planting to rice year after year was deteriorating through time. Many were getting less than 50 cavans of palay per hectare, or less than half of what had been commonly achieved in the 1960s with the Masagana 99 program. Farmers commonly described the situation to us as "napapagod ang lupa" (the soil is tired or exhausted). It's an interesting way of putting it, and I defer to the wisdom of people who have spent the good part of their lives eking out a living from tilling the land. They must know what they are talking about. Magsaysay's DOFS Two weekends ago, I found myself in the town of Magsaysay in Davao del Sur, witnessing a unique project of the municipal government under Mayor Arthur Davin called the Diversified Organic Farming System or DOFS. I say it's unique as I've heard of numerous NGOs pushing and practicing organic farming and sustainable agriculture. But this was the first time I was seeing a local government unit (LGU) actually embracing and propagating the concept. What was particularly heartening here was that the municipal government's NGO partner, the Don Bosco Center, attested that it was the LGU that sought them out, not the other way around, which was the more normal experience. I know...
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...GLOBALIZATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH Although, recently there is a growing literature on the importance of globalization for health, the term globalization has for long been used in academic discourse, particularly within the social and political science but relatively new in the discussion within public health. While the processes of globalization are far from straight forward, the concept of health is as well a complex one, which result into no consensus either on the pathways and mechanism through which globalization affects the health of population or on the appropriate policy responses (woodward et al 2001). However, there has been a significant increase interest on the issue of globalization within public health, although a contested one, since authors on public health are still undecided not only on the exact conclusion on the impact of globalization on public health, whether bad or good, but also as to whether globalization has actually cemented its place in the public health lexicon. Nevertheless, it is know that a broad-based public health should take note of significant economic, political and social changes that determine and shape people’s health, and this definitely will call for a proper theoretical approach to globalization in understanding the nature of these contemporary economic, political and social changes (Stuart McClean in Orme et. al. 2007). This essay will describe the relationship between globalization and public health. It will first begin, by exploring...
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...Made By Jason & Franklin. This Document Is Strictly Prohibited For Commercial Purposes Without Authorization. List 1 GRE Verbal 750 Quantitative 800, AW 5.5 2008 10 Princeton, MIT, M. Fin Unit 1 ABANDON A B D I C AT E ABASE ABERRANT ABASH ABET A B AT E A B E YA N C E A B B R E V I AT E ABHOR abandon [ 1 n. ] carefree, freedom from constraint added spices to the stew with complete abandon unconstraint, uninhibitedness, unrestraint 2 v. to give (oneself) over unrestrainedly abandon herself to a life of complete idleness abandon oneself to emotion indulge, surrender, give up 3 v. to withdraw from often in the face of danger or encroachment abandon the ship/homes salvage 4 v. to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to) NASA the bad weather forced NASA to abandon the launch abort, drop, repeal, rescind, revoke, call off keep, continue, maintain, carry on abase [ 1 v. ] to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem was unwilling to abase himself by pleading guilty to a crime that he did not commit debauch, degrade, profane, vitiate, discredit, foul, smirch, take down elevate, ennoble, uplift, aggrandize, canonize, deify, exalt abash [ 1 vt. ] to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of ,disconcert, embarrass Nothing could abash him. discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, faze, fluster, nonplus, mortify embolden abate [ 1 v. ] to reduce in degree or intensity / abate his rage/pain taper off intensify 2 v. ...
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...THE EARLY SOCIOLOGY OF MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS THE EARLY SOCIOLOGY OF MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS VOLUME I Scientific Management Frederick Winslow Taylor Comprising: Shop Management The Principles of Scientific Management Testimony Before the Special House Committee VOLUME II The Philosophy of Management Oliver Sheldon VOLUME III Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett Edited by Henry C.Metcalf and L.Urwick VOLUME IV Papers on the Science of Administration Edited by Luther Gulick and L.Urwick VOLUME V Management and the Worker F.J.Roethlisberger and William J.Dickson VOLUME VI The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization Elton Mayo VOLUME VII Organization and Management: Selected Papers Chester I.Barnard VOLUME VIII On the Shop Floor: Two Studies of Workshop Organization and Output T.Lupton THE EARLY SOCIOLOGY OF MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS Edited by Kenneth Thompson VOLUME II The Philosophy of Management Oliver Sheldon LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 1924 by Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd, London This edition published 2003 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore...
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...1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI Chapter XVIII CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXXI The Art of Public Speaking BY 2 The Art of Public Speaking BY J. BERG ESENWEIN AUTHOR OF "HOW TO ATTRACT AND HOLD AN AUDIENCE," "WRITING THE SHORT-STORY," "WRITING THE PHOTOPLAY," ETC., ETC., AND DALE CARNAGEY PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC SPEAKING, BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE AND FINANCE; INSTRUCTOR IN PUBLIC SPEAKING, Y.M.C.A. SCHOOLS, NEW YORK, BROOKLYN, BALTIMORE, AND PHILADELPHIA, AND THE NEW YORK CITY CHAPTER, AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BANKING THE WRITER'S LIBRARY EDITED BY J. BERG ESENWEIN THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL SPRINGFIELD, MASS. PUBLISHERS Copyright 1915 THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO F. ARTHUR METCALF FELLOW-WORKER AND FRIEND Table of Contents THINGS TO THINK OF FIRST--A FOREWORD * CHAPTER I--ACQUIRING CONFIDENCE BEFORE AN AUDIENCE * CHAPTER II--THE SIN OF MONOTONY DALE CARNAGEY * CHAPTER III--EFFICIENCY THROUGH EMPHASIS AND SUBORDINATION * CHAPTER IV--EFFICIENCY THROUGH CHANGE OF PITCH * CHAPTER V--EFFICIENCY THROUGH CHANGE OF PACE * CHAPTER VI--PAUSE AND POWER * CHAPTER VII--EFFICIENCY THROUGH INFLECTION * CHAPTER VIII--CONCENTRATION IN DELIVERY...
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