The normal occurrence of a disease or condition common to persons within a localized area is known as a(n) ____.Answer | Selected Answer: | endemic | Correct Answer: | endemic | | Question 2 5 out of 5 points | | | The biological cause of a problem or disease is known as ____.Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | etiology | Correct Answer: | etiology | | | | | Question 3 5 out of 5 points | | | Reproductive health studies ____.Answer | | |
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Health and Diseases Appendicitis HCA/240 April 25, 2014 Appendicitis happens when your appendix gets inflamed and filled with puss. Your appendix is a finger shaped pouch that projects out from your colon on the lower right side of your abdomen (MayoClinic). Appendicitis can affect anyone, but is more popular to happen in people between the ages of 10 and 30. Appendicitis is typically a surgical removal situation to get relief. If your appendicitis were left untreated for a long enough period
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awareness and guidelines for infection prevention in different surgical settings. The benefit of providing information and acquiring knowledgeis to prevent patient mortality rate by following the national clinical guideline. Therefore the purpose of this paper is to discuss information from the the clinical practice guideline for preventing and reducing the risk of surgical site infection. Practice Setting Problem The Practice seting problem chosen for this assignment is reducing the risk of surgical
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Community Health Nursing Karandeep Kalkat WGU ST Task 3 September 1, 2014 SARS, communicable disease outbreak SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome) as described by the CDC is “is a viral respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2013). It was first reported in February 2003 in Asia and has noted to spread through international travel to 29 countries worldwideto North America, South America, and Europe (CDC, 2013). According
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A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism. It is often construed to be a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs.[1] It may be caused by external factors, such as infectious disease, or it may be caused by internal dysfunctions, such as autoimmune diseases. In humans, "disease" is often used more broadly to refer to any condition that causes pain, dysfunction, distress, social problems, or death to the person afflicted, or similar problems for those
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decline of mortality. Determinants of health can be sought in various health theories or models. One of these is ‘life course model’ which offers an interdisciplinary framework for guiding research on health, human development and aging. Life course epidemiology is defined as the study of long term effects on later health or disease risk of physical or social exposures during gestation, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood and later adult life (Kuh and Hardy 2002). The aim is to elucidate biological
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University of Phoenix Material Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing Identify a minimum of 3 major events (or influences) in the evolution of community and public health nursing and describe how each event led to advancement of the field. For each event, describe the following: Key health issues at the time Perspectives and goals of community and public health nursing Roles and functions of community and public health nursing Community and public health partnerships at the
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Running head: Practicum Evaluation Practicum Evaluation Practicum Evaluation I am lucky and proud to had a wonderful positive and successful practicum experience at Laurie Regional Hospital. I had the opportunity to work with infection control Director Dr Abdul and other team at Laurie Regional Hospital. The scope of my practicum experience have challenged me to applying and analyzing data. The scope of the work was reasonable but challenged me to apply my public health
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How can the PRECEDE-PROCEED model be used to design an educational program that addresses health promotion for families with school-aged children? The precede-proceed model can be used to design an educational program for school age children as it helps the health program planners analyze health needs for families with school age children. At this point a program can be designed for its target audience. The model allows health programs to be designed efficiently by providing a framework to reduce
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Declaration of Alma-Ata International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata, USSR, 6-12 September 1978 The International Conference on Primary Health Care, meeting in Alma-Ata this twelfth day of September in the year Nineteen hundred and seventy-eight, expressing the need for urgent action by all governments, all health and development workers, and the world community to protect and promote the health of all the people of the world, hereby makes the following Declaration: I The Conference
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