The average child spends six and a half hours a day at school, eight hours sleeping, a few hours of bus time, and an hour to get ready in the morning. This leaves children approximately four hours of time awake at home. So children are spending more time at school than home during the five day school week. With that in mind one would hope schools are providing a nutritionally, as well as educationally, sound environment for children to develop. Unfortunately, as long soft drinks are in schools
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diagnosis. The first diagnosis is the rise in cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, stroke , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and obesity. The second diagnosis is the lack of physical activity leading to obesity. The third is, fall in the elderly age group. The first diagnosis I would like to address is the rise in cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, stroke, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The rise in these deadly diseases is majorly due to the unhealthy lifestyles adopted by the community
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1.|A nurse has been working with Mrs. Griffin, a 71-year-old patient whose poorly controlled type 1 diabetes has led to numerous health problems. Over the past several years Mrs. Griffin has had several admissions to the hospital medical unit, and the nurse has often carried out health promotion interventions. Who is ultimately responsible for maintaining and promoting Mrs. Griffin's health?| A)|The medical nurse| B)|The community health nurse who has also worked with Mrs. Griffin| C)|Mrs. Griffin's
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decimate most of the African harvest, rice with increased iron and vitamins that may alleviate chronic malnutrition in Asian countries, and a variety of plants able to survive weather extremes. On the horizon are bananas that produce human vaccines against infectious diseases such as hepatitis B; fish that mature more quickly; cows that are resistant to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease); fruit and nut trees that yield years earlier, and plants that produce new plastics with unique
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lungs (American Lung Association, n.d.).” There are 3 main strains of the seasonal influenza virus that break off into further subcategories. This virus can affect people of all ages and demographics. According to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, the flu affects over 60 million people every year in the United States alone . While during “flu season” there are a number of illnesses that are prevalent, influenza has identifiable signs and symptoms. Signs and symptoms associated with
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fight infection and disease. This can be by inducing, enhancing, or suppressing an immune response. Immunotherapies designed to elicit or amplify an immune response are classified as activation immunotherapies, while those that reduce or suppress immune response are suppression immunotherapies. Active immunotherapy has been effective against agents that normally cause acute self-limiting infectious disease. However, a more effective immunotherapy for chronic infectious diseases or cancer requires
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Societies Control of communicable diseases 7 This measles 'jab' will help prevent this child from the consequences of measles such as pneumonia, malnutrition, blindness and brain disease. Photo:Marko Kokic,Canadian Red Cross Control of communicable diseases in emergencies Description This chapter gives an overview of common and emerging communicable disease threats among displaced populations because of natural and human-made disasters. General and disease-specific strategies for monitoring
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relationship an infant will encounter. The Need Breastfeeding is highly nutritional, protects from various infectious diseases, decreases rates of sudden infant death syndrome, reduction in insulin dependent (type 1) and non-insulin-dependent (type 2 diabetes mellitus), lymphoma, leukemia, and Hodgkin disease, overweight, and obesity. Contraindications According to the Center Disease Control and Prevention breastfeeding is not advisable if one or more of the following conditions are true:
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disorder that, along with Crohn’s disease, is referred to as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). IBD is characterized by diarrhea (up to 20 stools during acute exacerbation), crampy abdominal pain, and exacerbations (“flare-ups”)/remissions. B. Pathophysiology Ulcerative colitis usually starts in the rectum and moves in a continual fashion toward the cecum. Although there is sometimes mild inflammation in the terminal ileum, ulcerative colitis is a disease of the colon and the rectum.
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Consequences of Noma Noma disease, commonly referred to as cancrum oris, fusospirochetal gangrene, necrotizing ulcerative stomatitis, and stomatitis gangrenosa is a devastating disease that is famously quoted as “the face of poverty”. This rare disease with high prevalence in Sub-Saharan countries is lethal and has been linked to acute and rapid disease progression in persons that are immunocompromised. Evidence based research suggests a high prevalence of the disease is observed in populations
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