Epidemiology

Professor, at the Department of Health Services Research & Administration in University of Nebraska Medical Center:College of Public Health. Robert L. Muelleman, MD, has been practicing emergency medicine. His academic interest include; injury epidemiology, rural injuries,and motor vehicle injuries. This article was published on December 2013. It is a newer article, so the research is…

1.1 INTRODUCTION Historically, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have affected the health and readiness of the US military population (De Oliveira, 1951; Rasnake et al., 2005; McKee et al., 2011; Gaydos et al., 2013). According to the US Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC), chlamydia and gonorrhoea have been the most commonly diagnosed bacterial STIs among service members during 2000-2012 (AFHSC, 2013). During the 13-year period, 239,382 diagnoses of chlamydia and…

The Ghost Map, written by Steven Johnson, follows two researchers, John Snow and Henry Whitehead, who are dedicated to solve the Cholera outbreak in London. The Cholera outbreak started in 1854 when a little girl was infected and her contents contaminated a water pump on Broad Street. Soon, London was filled with infected residents and no one could figure out what caused it. Thankfully, John Snow, Henry Whitehead, and other characters were able to understand and piece together how the Cholera…

A variety of studies can be utilized in the attempt to determine both causal and contributing factors regarding risk factors. Out of the multiple typologies surrounding the concept for research, one observational variety to consider is ecological. As with all methods of measurement, ecological studies have been shown to have both strengths and weaknesses. However, when considering the substantial strong correlations that have been found when using this method, whether it be those regarding diet…

Upon stating the public health issue, the key elements of the public health issue, and the goals that are hoped to be achieved, further thought out strategies led to the question- How to improve the testing procedure already in place for Zika? Two public health approaches were concluded to possibly function as a solution: Change Implementation and Management and Performance Improvement Systems. Change Implementation and Management relates directly to a purely public health change implementation…

As a result of epidemiology being a cornerstone in public health, they would be the baseline in figuring out where obesity is most concentrated and what environmental factors like schools, grocery stores, and transportation are near these areas. Public health educators would…

Eating disorders are psychological disorders characterized by the deliberate overeating or undereating due to body any form of body dissatisfaction. Eating disorders are defined by criteria set in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V (DSM-5), which specifies two categories of eating disorders: anorexia nervosa and bulimia (Smink, et al, 2012). Anorexia defined is self starvation or excessive restriction of one’s food intake, often accompanied by extreme weight loss (Eating Disorders, 2013).…

In 1347 Europe was hit by one of the worst epidemics that the world has ever seen. In a period of approximately 5 years nearly 25 million people were killed by a nearly unstoppable disease. In an effort to save themselves and their cities, the authorities of northern Italy’s city-states utilized cutting edge programs to work against further transmittance of this catastrophic infection. The implementation of various quarantine practices led to the requirement for regulation of these policies and…

Introduction The existence of Chlamydia trachomatis has only been acknowledged for a little bit over a century. The microorganism was discovered in 1907 by scientists Ludwig Halberstaedter and Stanislaus von Prowazek when they detected it in scrapings of the conjunctiva of an infected orangutan (Budai, 2007). The duo found that similar microbes were found in humans as well. The affected areas were the urethra of males, cervices of women and the eyes of their infants (Dimitrakov, 2002).…

In their book “The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills”, David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu scrutinize the impact of economic policy to the life and death of the world’s population during recession. To serve their purpose, they discover the term “body economic” which is defined as “a group of persons organized under a common set of economic policies; a people whose lives are collectively affected by these policies” (p. 139). They argue that the neoliberal austerity policy has lethal impact and cause…