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    Avian Influenza Essay

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    Avian Influenza (AI) commonly known as "bird flu" is an infectious viral disease of birds, especially wild waterfowl. Wild birds can be asymptomatic carriers spreading the virus, while domestic birds usually sicken and die in just a few days after contracting the virus. AI has been identified in over 100 different species of wild birds worldwide, with the majority of these being waterfowl (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). OVERVIEW I was unable to find a clear date for the imminence of…

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    number of U.S. adults has been increased from 5.5 million to 19.6 million and additional 7 million adults had undiagnosed disease in 2011 (Brokaw et al, 2015). According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention…

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    focused on control strategies that aimed to stop HIV from entering the country by enacting laws that banned the import of blood into the country and required foreigners and Chinese returning from overseas to have an HIV test. China also attempted to stop the spread of HIV in the country by strengthening drug and prostitution laws and authorizing authorities to isolate HIV-positive individuals. After these control strategies proved to be a failure the Chinese government shifted to more prevention…

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    Global Change Paper

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    Global Change A pandemic is an example of global change that can greatly impact a local healthcare organization in multiple ways. According to Flu.gov, a pandemic is a global outbreak of a disease, and is based on how the disease is spread, rather than how many people die from it (Flu.gov, 2014). This paper will outline one of the most recent pandemic outbreaks, some of the ways they can affect a hospital, and how the hospital leadership and management might react in this scenario. Over the…

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    Varicella Research Paper

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    Varicella, which is also known as chickenpox is a contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus. The virus spreads mainly from touching or breathing in the virus particles that come from varicella blisters and possibly through tiny droplets from infected people that get into the air after they breathe or talk. People who are at risk of developing varicella are infants, children, adolescents and adults. However, varicella is usually contracted in children. Even if someone has received…

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    In 2013 the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that half of all new sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) were among youth ages 15 to 24. According to the CDC, “1 in 4 sexually active adolescent females have an STD.” HIV rates among adolescents have decreased over the years, but males ages 13 to 19 still account for approximately 80% of new HIV cases in 2010. Even though cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea have also decreased, these two STDs are still the highest among…

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    not afford health care, because of this people were at risk of developing diseases such as syphilis. The lack of treatment and knowledge about syphilis…

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    Pedestrians, Bicycle Riders, and Motorists Due to Distracted Driving Motor Vehicle Crashes in the U.S., 2005–2010.” Public Health Reports 128.6 (2013): 436–442. Print. Jim Stimpson, PhD, is the founding director of the Center for Health Policy at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), will begin his role at the CUNY School of Public Health on July 1. Fernando A. Wilson, PhD, is an Associate Professor, at the Department of Health Services Research & Administration in University of…

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    Spread Of Disease

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    Preventing the Spread of Infectious Disease: The spread of infectious diseases in hospitals and health care organizations has been one of the major factors contributing to the loss of lives in the health care industry. As a result, there have been numerous efforts by the health care facilities and workers towards the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases within the facilities. Most of these health care organizations have developed and implemented comprehensive policies and…

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    HIV and AIDS With the use of descriptive epidemiology we can explore public health problems that affect individuals and communities. Observational studies focus on assessing the health status of communities and evaluating the outbreak of a new disease or occurrence (Chamberlain University, 2018). One public health problem that has been since the 1980s is HIV/AIDS. This virus is said to have crossed from chimps to humans in the 1920s and is now affecting millions of people all over the world. …

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