1. How to care for the child with a chronic condition or special needs. Give child choices, some sort of control/independence. Treat them like a normal kid. Mainstreaming: In school in a regular classroom. Do not separate these kids and make them feel different. Don’t focus on things they cannot do but rather focus on what they could do. . Use a more positive approach. Don’t focus on their chronological age because two six year olds will be different. Overall integration into society without stigmas
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Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can cause major damage to any organ or tissue in your body. Lupus causes your immune system to become unbalanced and is of unknown etiology. In Lupus the immune system is unable to differentiate between foreign and its own systems cells and tissues. It then produces antibodies that fight the body’s own tissues. Lupus is diagnosed in 90% of women between the ages of 14-44, this is more than the men, but it can affect children and younger teens. It
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addiction and other diet related diseases. Sugar has become one of the longterm health disasters to consumers. For instance, Robert Lustig, Pediatric Endocrinologist at UC San Francisco, offers his analysis in the Public Health article “The Toxic Truth About Sugar” that for the first time in human history, chronic noncommunicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, obesity and heart diseases pose a greater health burden worldwide than do infectious diseases, resulting in 35 million deaths annually
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Multiple Sclerosis we need to understand what exactly is Multiple Sclerosis and what does it do to the human body. According to Wikipedia, Multiple Sclerosis also knows as disseminated sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminate is an inflammatory disease in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged. This damage disrupts the ability of parts of the nervous system to communicate, resulting in a wide range of signs and symptoms, including physical, mental, and
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The food borne illness I have chosen is salmonella. Question 1: What is the infectious agent (pathogen) that causes this infectious disease? The infectious agent (pathogen) that causes salmonella is called salmonella enteriditis. The bacteria is larger than a virus; but, is visible to the eye with the microscope. It is rod-shaped, gram negative, non-motile bacteria that does not form spores. Interestingly enough it communicates to its fellow bacteria via AHL. It infects the cell, multiplies within
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Introduction Sjogorens syndrome can be considered as a very typical example of dry-eye related syndromes. It is a chronic
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MRS. DEPARTMENT OF FACULTY OF UNIVERSITY OF UYO, UYO AKWA IBOM STATE, NIGERIA. FEBRUARY, 2012 1. INTRODUCTION All human societies have medical beliefs that provide explanations for birth, death, and disease. Throughout history, illness has been attributed to witchcraft, demons, astral influence, or the will of the gods. These ideas still retain some power, with faith healing and shrines still used in some places, although the rise of scientific medicine
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03/31/2013 Table of Contents Abstract 3 Problem Statement 4 Globalization and Poverty 5 Globalization and Climate Change 7 Globalization and Immigration / Emigration 8 Globalization and Communicable / Non-Communicable Diseases 9 Conclusion 12 References 13 Globalization impact on healthcare Globalization is the process of promotion of economic integration, communication exchange, cultural diffusion and travel, which facilitate the exchange and
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brought many opportunities and challenges in the provision of information services in the health sector worldwide. The current health situation of many developing countries is a dire one, with many facing double and triple burden of disease (ie infectious and chronic) one contributor to this condition is the HIV/AIDS epidemic. HIV/AIDS has the highest prevalence in developing countries, about 68% (22.5 million) of the approximately 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) reside in sub-Saharan
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change the environment—from housing to food safety—moved from public health to other governmental agencies. The limitations of our medicalized public health system, with its focus on individual behavior, have become clear when we review the lack of progress over recent decades in reducing rates of diabetes, asthma, and obesity, or in creating equitable health status across racial and ethnic lines. Today’s public health challenges require that the public health workforce travel well upstream
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