Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Evidence 1: According to researchers, 25% of children in the United States are obese because of excessive usage of home computers or television. (Subrahmanyam, E. Kraut, M. Greenfield, and F. Gross). Evidence 2: According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, children on average, spend eight hours a day using screens that cause headache, eye dryness, and myopia. (Khan and staff writer) Reason 2: Technology has negative impacts on the mental development of children. Evidence 1:…

Isabella Ragonese Introduction to Public Health October 30, 2014 Policy Prohibiting Minors’ Use of Indoor Tanning Executive Summary: Skin cancer is an extremely prevalent and disease affecting many Americans. Exposure to ultraviolet radiation in a person’s early life can magnify their risk for developing skin cancer in the future.1 In North Carolina, the legislature HB118/SB167 proposes to prohibit the use of indoor tanning beds by minors under age 18. It could be argued that this law would be…

growing public health epidemic with many chronic risk factors involved. Some of these risk factors include: heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancers, hypertension, arthritis, and hypercholesterolemia. From the various syndromes, “type I and II diabetes may be very closely related to obesity” (Carroll, Flegal, Brian, & Ogden, 2004, p. 493). An epidemic is defined as a communicable disease affecting concurrently large numbers of persons in a population. (Crowley, 2011, p. 96).…

Waking up early is always a struggle, something almost no one looks forward to- except many young children on Christmas day. Imagine having to wake up five out of the seven days in a week at about 5:30 o'clock in the morning in order to be able to get ready and make it to school in time at about 7:20am. That is what many high school students have to do all over the United States. Teenagers are biologically predisposed to go to sleep and wake up later, but what is surprising is that high school…

CDC stands for centers for disease control and prevention. It’s a natural public health association, CDC purpose is to protect public health and ensures safety by trying to control and prevent the outbreaks of disease. Its major focus is on contagious disease, also “food borne pathogens, environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, injury prevention “(1) CDC is helping many countries on establishing a well-functioning health information system . CDC make sure that it…

Today in America child obesity is a growing problem. According to the “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” the agency of the US Department of Health, childhood obesity is on the rise and has emerged as the number one problem facing children in America. In this essay I plan to discuss the various reasons as to why this epidemic has come about and highlight government failures which have arisen while tackling the issue. I find this research very important to focus on because it has been a…

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention works all around the United States as an agency that promotes public health. Through this agency, we have a bioterrorism website that focuses on biological agents like bacteria, viruses, and toxins that are deliberate released making it a form of terrorism. These biological agents can be spread in three ways air, water, and food. The main disease resulting from bioterrorism is death ranging from humans, animals, and plants. The CDC Bioterrorism website…

Identify the disease process presented by the case study as well as the normal structure and function of the organ system and/or physiological process that has the alteration. Shawn, the main character of “The Uniformed Coach” scenario has sickle cell disease (SCD) and is suffering from a sickle cell crisis. Sickle cell disease is a form of hemolytic anemia that is inherited; being caused by an abnormal hemoglobin molecule. There are several forms of SCD but the most severe is simply called…

Mary Mallon, known as “Typhoid Mary,” was an Irish maid in New York from the early 1900s, and was known for spreading Typhoid. At the time, Mary was a cook and a typhoid carrier, and with that she exposed many people to typhoid, by “shedding” typhoid and infecting others, as she handled and prepared food (Leavitt, 2004). Mary was just going about her daily business, and didn't know at first that she even was a carrier of Typhoid. I feel Mary was treated horribly, by isolating her on an island,…

fatal disease that has been infecting thousands of people in the West Africa for years and recently America. Ebola was discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo and southern Sudan. Researchers believe the disease is animal borne and that bats are mostly the original reservoir. There are 5 different types of Ebola; Ebola virus, Sudan virus, Tai forest virus, bundibugyo virus, and Reston virus. The Reston virus is the only strain of Ebola that only causes disease…