Epidemiology

Have you ever felt extreme fear or the feeling of worry? The character I have chose is a young, successful basketball player and her name is Tina. Tina has played in a professional basketball team for twelve years. She always was very fearful of many things in her daily life. She continued to go on with her life but she knew something was wrong. Tina went to a psychologist; her psychologist diagnosed her with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. She now sees her psychologists once a week to discuss her…

In 1854, Dr. John Snow, devised a map of the London Cholera outbreak. He was known to be one of the founding fathers of epidemiology. During that time period, many civilians were dying quickly and rapidly from Cholera (Frerichs). Dr. John Snow suspected the containment was coming from a well known area like a water pump. Snow obtained data of where the individuals lived and the location of the water pumps and mapped the outcome (Frerichs). The map has many different aspects.First, I will…

Alcohol consumption is the third leading actual cause of death in the United States. This actual cause of death leads to some of the leading deaths in the United States such as heart disease, cancer, and others. The main substance in alcohol that causes intoxication is ethanol. This ethanol and other substances found in alcohol acts as a depressant. A depressant means to negatively affect the functions of ones central nervous system. It is now the question that everyone would ask, why would…

Community Settings for Family Health Nurses Family nurses work in a number of diverse settings, including schools, occupational sites, public health departments, physician offices, family homes, and community nursing centers. Even though the populations vary with each setting, the family nurse uses the same concepts and principles altering them to fit the needs of each family or group. In the community, the role of the family nurse is to educate, promote health, prevent disease, and influence…

Lung cancer is one of the most usually diagnosed cancer in United States and worldwide and is responsible for about 27% of all Cancer deaths which is up to date the leading cause of Cancer death among both men and women according to (American Cancer Society). Patients who are 80 years or older account for 14% (70 years or older accounted for 47%) of all lung Cancers with African Americans being more affected from lung Cancer than any other population in the U.S. (Owonikoko, T. K., Ragin, C. C.,…

devoted better part of five and half years of academic life to accumulating knowledge and exposure through various co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. I had subject named Community Medicine which had given me thorough understanding of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Environmental Health, Occupational Health, Health Education and Promotion, National Health Programs etc. During clerkship rotation in Department of Community Medicine (16 weeks), I did small epidemiological research studies;…

Kleinman, A. (2004). Culture and depression. The New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 35 (Issue 10), pages 951-953 retrieved on October 3, 2015 The article “Culture and depression” seeks to analyze how clinical illness symptoms may vary based off of the patients culture. The author, Arthur Kleinman is a leading physician and anthropologist, and currently the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology. Kleinman explains that culturally coded symptoms may confound diagnosis amongst…

Heart Failure in Older Adults Heart failure (HF) is a preventable, complex, and progressive disease that affects most older adults. The enormous personal and national financial burden of HF is astounding. HF has become a global epidemic affecting over 23 million people worldwide with economic burden estimated at more than $108 billion per year (Dickson et al., 2014). This condition is predominant in adults older than 65, and is a chronic and progressive syndrome often associated with the…

It was surprising to learn that studying epidemiology was more than just studying disease as an epidemic affecting the population. Instead, this class was more of a summary of all the SPSS classes and other pass classes that were offered for this program. It was more like putting everything together as public health professional. It is evident that this class requires a lot of concentration and research; however, this is what makes it very comprehensive and informative. From module one,…

It seems that the stereotypical thinking that "slums are undesirable" is very widely shared among the people. Parkar et al., a group of experts in the field of psychiatry and epidemiology, state that, "Outsiders commonly have low regard for slums, considering them to be dirty, dangerous places where uneducated, criminal, and alcoholic people reside" (292). And these "outsiders", or non-slum residents, are not entirely wrong. Although…