Epidemiology

Scientists and healthcare professionals have conducted un-ending researches to understand how a trend or outbreak becomes an epidemic or reaches a tipping point. Malcolm Gladwell tries to rationalize this phenomenon in his book “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.” Gladwell, a staff writer for the New Yorker, was formerly a business and science reporter at the Washington Post whose interest in writing focused on trends and the nature of things. The author forms…

1) Mount Elgon was created from a leftover shield volcano. 2) Mount Elgon is located on the border between Uganda and Kenya. It’s in an island of rain forest in the center of Africa and it is the widest mountain in Africa. 3) Because the author wanted to show Monet’s relationship with the environment around him. 4) Not very far, because once the hot virus is on the plane, it can infect everyone on the plane, and go anywhere else to infect those places. I think this is important, because that…

Health sectors in every nation are critical and even take a greater portion of their collected revenue. Within this important area, different departments work together to ensure that the entire nation is healthy. This paper, apart differentiating between public health and community health, shall look at the merit and demerits of conducting a public health assessment. It shall also examine the role played by such an evaluation in the formulation of health policies and legislations.…

Public health is organized collective efforts to assure the health of the population by preventing diseases and prolonging life. However, in order to effectively protect the health of the population, there is a need for a level of power. Public health ethical principles ensure assurance of health of the population without abuse of this power on the part of public or private organizations. Major values and beliefs also underlie these principles which encompass health as a human right, knowledge,…

Chapter eight was interesting because it discussed managing public health interactions. What this meant was basically assessing where we are now and where we want to be. I felt this is essential in terms of moving forward with improving the world for future concerns that require public health to step in. I researched an article that stood out to me which dealt with the CDC. I wanted to look in detail at how big health care facilities like CDC are doing to ensure that there framework for program…

Research by Hambly and Griva (2010) attempted to assess how well the IKDC and KOOS measure symptoms and disabilities important to post-ACL reconstructed patients by having subjects complete a survey. Subjects for this study were recruited from the knee guru website, which is an online forum for patients with different types of knee pathologies. Inclusion criterion was set as initial ACL reconstruction. Subjects who underwent revisions or had multiple ligament repairs were excluded from the study…

The public health workforce is a vital part of the public health system ("Recruitment and Retention", 2017). Protection of the public’s health depends on maintaining a sufficient number of workers capable of delivering essential public health services ("Recruitment and Retention", 2017). The recruitment of qualified and capable individuals into the field of public health and the retention of these individuals within the public health workforce are two important elements public health…

Many Americans or almost the majority get addicted to sugary beverages. Have you ever asked yourself what consequences of those big addiction on sugary drink? The typical consequence of consumption on sugary beverages is obesity, diabetes, heart failure. Technically the people are killing themselves in a slowly form, the Americans must be responsible with the quantity of sugar they consume. So, what can be a solution for this issue? A tax on sugary beverages would be perfect because it can…

Ebola has impacted the healthcare system as a whole due to its adverse effects on healthcare employees and facilities (Ebola Virus Disease, 2014).Thinking about the facility aspect the loss and infection of needed staff all the way to death. “Infection of health care staff trickles into the loss of healthcare resources and tools needed to treat common issues that can become deadly that normally would be easily treatable”( Ebola Virus Disease, 2014,p.1 ). I spoke earlier in my writing how in…

Recently, I interviewed Dr. Dan Jernigan, the Director of the Influenza Division, for a school project. I had always known that the CDC was in Atlanta and tried to prevent disease on a global scale, but he truly opened my eyes to the wonders of Public Health and the CDC. My dad is a pediatrician, and I have always been interested in medicine, but he always seems to be playing a game of catch up. The disease comes first, then he has the task of fighting it off. Dr. Jernigan showed me a completely…