Epidemiology

The health behavior model that we chose to help lower-sodium intake for adults in Lynchburg, VA is the health belief model. We really needed a model that would demonstrate and make the adults realize that having too much sodium is very detrimental to your health. The health belief model was the best choice for us because it demonstrates that every person is susceptible, but also takes into cue the certain barriers that each person could come across. Also, the constructs in this model parallel…

Saturated fats (SFA), commonly found in animal fats that we consume, has been shown to increase one’s low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol by inhibiting LDL receptor activity need for LDL uptake by cell (increasing in blood LDL) and increasing LDL production. This increase in LDL causes it to deposit in the walls of arteries forming plaques; therefore, increasing risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). By lowering the consumption of SFA, it decreases one’s risk of a cardiac event by…

Health can be defined from different perspectives, thus leading to wide and varied meanings of health, biomedical and social models are used to elucidate the views of ill-health. This paper will firstly compare and contrast between biomedical and social models. Secondly, it will discuss how and why the social model has become more applicable over the last fifteen decades. Consequently, its effectiveness in expounding high incidences of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease…

I. Introduction The cholera outbreak in Haiti has claimed the lives of over 7,000 Haitians and has sickened over 470,000 since the 2010 earthquake.1 An effective program that Haiti should consider is using a mass vaccination of a new and inexpensive oral cholera vaccine called Shanchol, which has been successful in Odisha, India.2 II. Body of Paper A. The emergence of cholera in Haiti was initiated by a number of existing problems. There where two national disasters that struck Haiti between…

Plagued by chronic disease in recent decades, the health of America’s population has become a pressing matter. With the establishment of health-related organizations and increased sanitation regulations, an epidemiological transition occurred that marked a dramatic decrease in infectious disease and a surge in chronic diseases, such as obesity and depression. Consequently, the newly developed concept of preventative medicine has been gaining momentum among health care professionals. Stemming…

The global epidemic of infectious diseases is a major concern and will continue to be until more steps are taken to control it. History has proven the lack of control we have when it comes to disease. A real solution to infectious diseases spread by globalization is nearly nonexistent. The only solution that will succeed won 't be through solving the problem as a whole, but to control certain points of the disease and how it is transmitted. We can achieve this by making new international and…

Any four-year college student will share with you the emotional turmoil and stress that each and every student here in the United States faces every day. With grades or GPA becoming ever more prominent as a measure of intelligence, students face stresses to compete with one another for perfection. These stresses eat away at some students, while other strive under them. Health can play a role in these stresses. Exercise has been shown, even in as small amounts as 30 minutes a day, to relieve…

Factors in Modeling: For measles specifically, both birth and vaccination rates heavily influence the resulting outbreak patterns associated with the disease. Through several case studies conducted by Earn, Rohani, and Bolker, it is revealed that higher birthrates typically indicate a cyclic pattern in measles epidemics, while lower birth rates combined with high vaccination rates result in irregular patterns (Earn, Rohani, & Bolker, 668). This phenomenon was especially apparent in the United…

Implications for Multicultural and Global Health Locally, health education is essential as an implementation tool to address the health disparity affecting Central Valley residents. As two major settings of the community which are schools and religious institutions, health educators should collaborate with the staff of these establishments about policies, procedures, and curriculums that can directly provide awareness to access to health services and prenatal programs for women and adolescent…

DAPPS goals can help people plan for the future. The acronym DAPPS stands for dated achievable, personal, positive, and specific. Having a goal that is all of these things gives one an obtainable goal that has a time frame that is within reach. My three DAPPS goals are to become a clinical psychologist, buy a house, and to improve my physical and mental health, also, my sub-goals to reduce stress are to continue to get good grades, keep up to date with my school work, decrease spending, increase…