Fire prevention

Accident Prevention Preventing accidents when there is an open fire As the old adage goes, “ Fire is a good servant but a bad master.” Although fire has numerous good uses such as aiding us in cooking, keeping warm, roasting food and the list goes on, it can also bring about adverse effects and irreparable damage. This can be prevented if the fire safety precaution is taken and people are educated about the danger lurking around houses furniture(for eg. Electrical appliances) which may potentially spark a fire. A few ways of prevention are listed below. Never leave the stove and fire unattended Cooking should never be left unattended as it poses a threat to the cook and anyone in the house. Make sure to stay in the kitchen at all times when…

Fire is a national problem that has a huge impact on people, property and the environment. According to the report “American burning published in 1973” annually more than 300,000 people are injured as a result of fire. Additionally, nearly 12,000 lives are claimed with the highest aggregate cost of $11billion in property loss, burn injury treatments and wasted resources. Since the release of America burning these numbers have decreased dramatically. The fire problem in the United States can be…

Fire in the healthcare setting can occur due to multiple causes such as defective electricity wiring, storage of combustible chemicals, and smoking materials. The United States fire departments, in 2006- 2010, reported that they approximately responded to 6240 health care structures in a year (Ahrens, 2012). The fires resulted in six deaths in average, 171 injuries, and $52.1 million of property loss (Ahrens, 2012). Therefore, there is an urgent need for fire prevention and basic disaster…

of public health is injury and disease prevention. While there is a plethora of time and research going into disease prevention like vaccines, there is not a lot of resources going into injury prevention. There is not much of a purpose in spending time and money vaccinating children if parents aren’t aware of simple things like needing to put their baby on their back to sleep, resulting in that baby dying of Sudden Infant Death…

of acres are lost in forest fires every year. There are so many horrible effects from fires and most of them affect so many people. Studies have shown that out of all of the different methods to decrease fire damage, prescribed burns are the most effective. Prevention is the key to society these days and is definitely an important factor in saving lives. Reduction of fuels, prevention of vegetative communities, and improvement of wildlife habitat are happening because of controlled burns.…

Preventive medicine is also similar to community and public health, which all share a common ground of prevention of disease and promotion of health not only through indi viduals, but the community. By definition, preventive medicine has been given to "healthy" people through large amounts. There are natural ways through kinesiology, weight management, healthy eating and lastly knowing your family history in preventing disease,. Without these options your children would be worst off in the…

Secondary prevention such as provision of opioids, availability of blood for transfusion, free provision of malarial prophylaxis, vitamin supplements, blood transfusion and antibiotics can effectively prevent the complication of the disease (WHO 2006 ; NICE 2010). Tertiary prevention, which is aimed at reducing further progression and suffering of patients, will involve provision of emotional support for patients and patient’s family, providing treatment for resulting conditions like kidney…

pressure ulcer annually, and more than 1 million of those patients are affected annually in the acute and long-term care settings (Sullivan & Schoelles, 2013). Treatment for pressure ulcers can become very costly. The cost of a stage III or IV pressure can range anywhere between $5,000 and $50,000 (Cooper K. , 2013). In fact, in 2008 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced they will no longer pay for additional costs incurred for hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (Cooper K. ,…

Please define and classify the different prevention approaches. There are two different to classify prevention efforts. First, Prevention versus control focused on corrective prevention, punitive prevention, and mechanical prevention. Corrective prevention deals with eliminating conditions that can lead to criminal behavior. Punitive prevention focused on using punishment as a to forestall criminal acts. “Mechanical prevention is directed toward “target hardening”, making it difficult or…

educators create public health media campaigns around nutrition and individuals eating habits can potentially have both positive and unintended negative effects. Seemingly, health educators they perform the above with the sole aim of preventing of diseases for example obesity basing on the points of intervention for example: primary care which involves the activities we think of before somebody fells sick and are done mainly to reduce the chances of growth of a disease. Secondly it also involves…