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Children and Vaccinations: National and Global Perspective Vaccinating children is an exceedingly important topic which has implications nationally and globally in reducing preventable diseases and deaths. According to the article, Vaccination Coverage Among Children Aged 19–35 Months, nationally less than one percent of children received no vaccinations and the Healthy People 2020 target of ninety percent coverage for vaccinations was achieved for four vaccines: poliovirus, HepB, MMR, and…

Infection control remains a major challenge in healthcare, but by following facility safety protocols, the spread of disease amongst healthcare workers and patients can be minimal. Healthcare workers are exposed to multiple risks, the most common being the spread of infection. Ongoing exposure to disease-causing microorganisms along with fatigue and stress, can increase the chances of healthcare workers becoming infected on the job. However, by following standard precautions, healthcare workers…

Over the last three years the number of youth concussions has increased rapidly and we need to put an end to it. Concussions are harmful for the brain and as you get older, things can happen to your brain that aren’t good such as nausea, confusion and other problems. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that can occur after an impact to your head or after a whiplash-type injury that causes your head and brain to shake quickly back and forth. Approximately 44 million boys and girls…

smoked and tobacco companies were being advertised publicly. Today’s landscape has greatly changed, as public awareness of the harms of smoking traditional cigarettes have been brought into light (The Pros 14). A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in 2014 the rates of smoking among adults in the United States was only at 16.8% (Tyler). While the use of traditional cigarettes has fallen drastically in the last decade, their electronic counterpart has been on the…

. Current prevention planning stresses the need to plan and implement programs at the community level. The idea is to address the multiplicity of factors in a coordinated fashion. However, United States of America drug and alcohol control issue has been approached primarily as law enforcement. Recent models were designed to influence and evaluate the effect of multiple environmental changes, which occurs within communities, and it includes: The Community Trail Project (CTP) and Communities…

technology during the last few centuries, have not only transformed it into the ‘science and art’ of restoring health but its scope has also been expanded to prevention& control of diseases and promotion of health. And over the years, unprecedented growth has also occurred in its specialties and super-specialties which now cover prevention, diagnosis, and treatments at cellular, organ, individual, family, community, society or public level. Historically Public Health, Social Medicine,…

families, and communities about how to prevent disease…with pertussis, we are counting on nurses to be front-line defenders” (Zimlich, 2014, para. 3). Registered nurses are effectively giving vaccines, refuting fears and misunderstandings, and providing education regarding the dangers of not being immunized (Zimlich, 2014). The ANA, who has a long-standing policy of supporting immunizations, has partnered with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] in a program called, Bringing…

compared to cigarette smoking, they all tend to have similar negative effects on the body. That is, Hookah smoking delivers nicotine in the same manner as cigarette smoking. Subsequently, hookah smokers are at a high risk of suffering from the same diseases as cigarette smokers such as lung cancer, oral cancer, decreased fertility, stomach cancer, and reduced lung function among others. As such, this paper will summarize and critically analyze different articles regarding the effects of these…

to teenagers because it is a safe and effective emergency way to decline unintentional teenage pregnancy. Birth control should be readily available to teenagers to provide easy access, lower teen pregnancy rates and set safety precautions. To begin with, being able to have birth control pills over the counter provides easy access for scared teenagers’. Being able to purchase birth control over the counter would be looked upon as a weight lifter because of what most teens fear the…

exemplifications of diseases prevented by invented vaccinations (“Centers For Disease Control and Prevention”). Vaccinations have ceased the spread of multiple diseases and have saved countless lives over the course of history. Every person should be governmentally required to receive vaccinations in childhood and, in adulthood, give them to their children because of the potential that an unvaccinated child could spread diseases to a healthy one. Firstly, vaccinations work to protect. The…