Epidemiology

Exploring Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD’s) have become an epidemic world-wide. There are more than twenty kinds of sexually transmitted diseases all of which can be passed through sexual intercourse (Kolesnikow 9). The most common STD’s in the United States are Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Genital Warts, Genital herpes, Syphilis, HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis B (Sexually Transmitted Diseases). Some sexually transmitted diseases can be cured easily, and are not as terrible…

in many parts of the world. It is likely that the 2009 H1N1 virus will continue to spread for years to come, like a regular seasonal influenza virus." (CDC, 2010). Transmission According to the CDC (2010), influenza is a highly contagious respiratory illness that is nubile when it comes to transmission and spread. "…each year in the United States, approximately 5-20% of the population gets the flu; more than 200,000 people are hospitalized with flu-related complications; and about 36,000…

The causes of cancer are observed as multifactorial. This is because there are several traits causing cancer such as genetic, environmental, medical and lifestyle factors. However the knowledge of cancer is rapidly improving, helping everyone to understand and be able to identify at risk individuals, tailoring treatment and developing new methods against cancer.(cancer.gov,2015) Genetic information includes information about an individual’s genes including the manifestation of a disease in the…

Body composition can have major effect on our health and bodies and we have access to so many things that can teach us preventive measures. When you dissect what obesity can do to your body you know it can cause heart disease and diabetes but what about long term affects it can have on your body. According to the article “How Fat Affects Arthritis,” Rheumatoid arthritis, RA, affecting 1.5 million Americans, is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks its own joint tissue…

Background The Institute of Medicine Committee on Public Health Strategies to Improve Health issued a report that distinguished the impacts public health in the United States. The committee determined that in order to improve health outcomes in the United States we will have to alter the way this nation invests in public health. Basically, put more resources toward population-based prevention efforts; population-based prevention requires stable funding for public health departments. Local health…

Epedimics & seasonal diseasis introduction In every country there are some time that country will face a huge problems one of these problems is natural disturbances , epidemics are one of them. Around the world there many countries faced some of them which lead it to losses their capacity of doing anything it cost the governments its money and more important their people . the epidemic is the better weapon in the past . in these days some of the epidemics are gone but also some of them are just…

According to a study, the general population is affected around 15 to 25 percent with acute or chronic urticaria in their life (30). The most common incidence of acute urticaria has been noted higher in people with atrophy and in teenagers and young adults (31), Few cases have been reported to develop both conditions of angioedema and urticaria, occurring simultaneously. A study has been noted that approximately half of subjects have both urticaria and angioedema, Whist 40% had been noted with…

Global Diseases Paper Global Health broadly includes cardiovascular, obesity, diabetes that are getting epidemic worldwide due to a variety of factors, some of which are connected to those that promote increased mortality from Global Infectious Disease (GID). Ischemic heart disease, stroke, lower respiratory infections and chronic obstructive lung disease have remained the highest killers throughout the past decade. Since the 1970’s new diseases have been identified at the unprecedented rate of…

In order to determine how a patient contracted cholera, steps need to be taken to determine where they contracted it. Cholera is a bacteria called Vibrio cholera (Harris et al. 2008), which is found in water and food that has been contaminated with feces from an infected individual. The disease can be found in municipal water supplies, foods and drinks sold by street vendors, raw or uncooked fish or vegetables frown in water containing human feces (O’Neal et al. 2005). It is typically found in…

Health is a broad term which is difficult to describe as it can mean different things to various people. Some consider being healthy as the ability to carry out daily functions without impediments whilst to others being free from illness is critical being healthy. According to World Health Organisation (1946) health is “a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity”This definition attempts to incorporate all aspects of human health…