Epidemiology

The 6 month intervention study by Jenkins and others (2011) is a follow-up study of their 2003 study. In this study, they tested the impact of dietary advice on cholesterol and other CVD risk factors as well as the long term effect of the portfolio diet. Three intervention groups with different dietary advice was used: the control group with a low-saturated fat therapeutic diet, the routine dietary portfolio group with 2 clinic visits, and the intensive dietary portfolio group with 7 clinic…

Many data interpretation issues have been identified in the above mentioned studies conducted on yellow fever to determine the prevalence, distribution, determinants. Some of them include: • Measuring the burden of the disease which was caused by the yellow fever is challenging because of the wide range of the clinical severity and non-specific symptoms reported in majority of the infection. This has made diagnosis for yellow fever very difficult for investigators. It was found that the…

Spillover is not just a regular book about diseases. In this book, the author, David Quammen, dialogues about a multitude of zoonotic diseases, which are pathogens that can be transmitted from an animal into a human. There are eleven diseases that the author primarily discusses: Hendra, Ebola, Malaria, SARS, Q-fever, Psittacosis, Lyme disease, Herpes B, Nipah and HIV/AIDS. All of these are viruses, with the exceptions of Q-fever, Psittacosis and Lyme disease, which are bacterium. All zoonotic…

Kyosha Valley is taking a proactive approach to addressing the issue of pandemics head on so that we can ensure a sustainable healthcare response at all Kyosha Valley practices. I have enacted guidelines for the pandemic preparedness policies, which will be effective immediately. Pandemics affect a large group of people under a very large radius. Many of the epidemics that countries experience come by due to inadequacy in knowledge about the disease in question. Such a disease spreads faster…

In addition to the policy development and assurance, assessment is one of the important core functions of public health, and one of significant tools of assessing health status in the community, is through surveillance. By definition, surveillance “is ongoing collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and dissemination to those who need to know” (book p: 206).Therefore, evaluating the health system in the community, assessing the health plans, looking for any weakness or strength in the…

Introduction: This report will examine the effect of garbage removal and location and plague status. Both garbage removal and location serve as risk factors and being a plague a cause is the outcome. This risk outcome association will be explored thorough various odds ratio and chi square calculations. The plague is also known as “the black death” and wiped out nearly half of the European population during the middle ages. There are three strains of the Y.pestis bacterium leading to either…

It is without question that Britain was facing increasing problems 1819, and ‘the urban adult population in general faced grave health risks resulting from poverty, crowded housing and poor ventilation as the so-called “filth diseases”.’ This abundance of disease and suffering would have contributed significantly to Shelley’s interest in the vitality debate, especially having already lost 3 children he shared with Mary Shelley to premature birth, dysentery and malaria. Mary Shelley, when…

Adenotonsillectomy is one of the most frequently performed surgical procedures in children. The adenoids, being located in the nasopharynx, form a major part of the vocal tract, which extends from the lips to the glottis. They have the propensity to change the shape of the vocal tract by mere hypertrophy of thelymphoid tissue. Changes in the architecture of the vocal tract occur due to removal of these lymphoid tissues during surgery and these changes are assumed to cause changes in voice in the…

Exoskeleton vs Robot-Assisted Gait Training Post Robot-Assisted Gait Intervention in Parkinson’s Disease Patients with Mild Symptoms: a random controlled trial Kyle Condon Exoskeletons are a developing technology used in gait training, mainly with patients diagnosed with a spinal cord injury (SCI) or a stroke( 9,6). Some research has been done in patients with other neurological disabilities such as multiple sclerosis (MS), but nothing has been done to address the Parkinson’s disease (PD)…

Amid working on several things, I thought I would start a Health Blog as some people ask me about what public health really is and what it entails. Public Health is a scientific approach, which is focused on preventative care to help improve and protect all populations. Population health, specifically, aims to improve and protect the entire human population. In part of my research in Grad School, including my past experience and emphasis on community health, I’ve learned that there are many…