Epidemiology

Since infectious diseases pose a threat to the global public health system, the purpose of this project is to identify some of the gaps revealed by the Ebola outbreak response. This will help accomplish larger public health goals such as those of the public health system guided by the Ten Essential Public Health Services (EPHS).8 Given that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines public health as “what we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy”9,…

The burden of diseases Ebola in Guinea infects people regardless age, gender or economic status. The distribution is very rapid and the contagiousness is very high. The poverty level is very high in Guinea. But, I believe that the contagiousness is not related to the situation of poverty in the Country. However, the poverty can affect the compliance of the basis hygiene rules (hand washing) that can facilitate the contamination. Ebola outbreak is a real burden of diseases on the health care…

Introduction Current health issues are of great importance in society because there needs to be awareness on issues that are affecting the health of different populations around the world. It is important to know about current health issues so the issues could be addressed in order to keep health issues from spreading, and causing detrimental health effects. Understanding current health issues are also of great importance because it is necessary to learn why the health issues exist, how the…

SARS as a disease that was spreading fast through the contact of the mucous membrane, the Public health of Ontario must had to face many challenges, because not had preparation and a plan to respond to the outbreak immediately, by the overcrowding of the health facility, inadequate controls to prevent transmission of the disease, the lack of laboratories to carry out an effective investigation about the disease and its causes to allowing avoid major risks. (Arnold, 2009) An emergency department…

Completing a Community Assessment Health Determinants and Risk Factors The ten health determinants that I identified are as following: children are uninsured or underinsured, unemployment rate, only one clinic that offers a sliding scale flexible payment, high rate of teen suicide, teen smoking and alcohol are at a high rate, high levels of absenteeism from school, single parent house hold, five hours of watching television and social networking, the nearest grocery store is in a nearby suburb,…

Radley Balko is an esteemed columnist with the publications carrying his work ranging from major news outlets like FoxNew.com and the Washington Post, to other periodicals such as Playboy. Additionally, he is the senior editor of the American libertarian magazine Reason. The Cato Institute, a self ascribed “American Libertarian think tank”, published this essay in which Balko calls for an end to the socialistic progression of American healthcare with a focus on obesity. Denying that federal…

The Burkholderia Taxonomy and Genomics Burkholderia pseudomallei (Bp) belongs to the Burkholderia genus which contains over 40 species that inhabit a variety of ecological niches. The majority of species within this genus are non-pathogenic soil-dwelling bacteria, but a few species are highly pathogenic to humans and can result in severe disease [1]. This includes B. mallei, an obligate mammalian pathogen and the causative agent of glanders, which primarily affects horses and other solipeds…

Abdirahman Ega Research case study As a part of a student working group, the information that would be the most appropriate when it comes to overall student wellness would be school web sites, student affairs and health magazines for example student wellness center at the Ohio State University and Helath.mil which is the military health system. I would seek information from scholarly articles that focused on student health, different health systems used by colleges that are current and…

1. How did the DAY TIME assessment differ from the NIGHT TIME assessment? Describe. a. During the day time assess, there were many people walking around the city. Lots of people in business attire were walking around the capital area and near strawberry square. People from different ethnic background were standing at the bus stops. There was a handful of people with an unsteady gait using assistive devices. b. During the night time, there were mainly Caucasian people outside the bars on 2nd…

1. a) A longitudinal study is a study approach where data of a person, or people, is gathered over a long period of time. For example, a Perry Preschool study (high/scope program) was conducted using the longitudinal approach. Researchers continuously added new information to their original files, using the original participants, for the length of 40 years. A cross-sectional study is a research approach where participants of differing ages are observed and compared, at a single point in time.…