Incidence

Unique in nature, smallpox eradication was not born out of a post-WWII innovation, but an older vaccination that could almost completely (95%) reduce the incidence of the disease. Unlike other diseases Soper tried to eradicate, smallpox had no foreign vector, it was an airborne disease transmitted from human to human. “Year after year, Soper reported to the Pan American Health Organization Directing Council…

Americans, who were perceived as the minority (LULAC News, pg. 602-603). The civil rights battle advocated for the initiation of democracy in the American society. Post World War 11 Incidences that helped start the process for knocking down racial barriers in American society. After the second World War, several crucial incidences which triggered the commencement of the battle against racial discrimination against these people occurred. Among the events is the creation of Concentration Camps…

Social Determinants of Health Parental Education and Socioeconomic Status (SES) The protection of healthy teeth in children and adolescents is greatly influenced by the parental attitudes and behavior regarding oral hygiene.[20]The foundation of a child’s oral hygiene habits and occurrence of oral disease is dependent on the skills and attitudes of the parent.[20] According to Saldunaite et al[20], family can shape a child’s environment creating a “healthy lifestyle, increasing…

In previous years, the rate of TB was decreasing at roughly 13.6 cases a year until 2012. In 2013, there were a reported 107 cases, or a 12.9 incidence rate. In 2014, there has been roughly seven new cases, bring the reported cases up to 114 cases, or a 13.6 incidence rate. There has fortunately been no major outbreaks, either, and indicators of severe disease has remained unchanged (CDPH, 2014). In 2014, it was reported that ninety percent of TB cases…

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNCCC) is the sixth most common cancer known worldwide with an incidence of 0.5 million new cases diagnosed annually, around half of these cases are oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) (Jithesh et al., 2013). Though numerous risk factors have been implicated in the development of OSCC , the most important are tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption and betel-quid chewing (Petti et al., 2013). Evidences suggested that viruses are involved in oral…

saying any no to them. “Client is always right” taught to us since we joined organization. Since, I am doing my Senior Electives with Head Nurse ED. Besides accomplishing made goals, I do help her completing her everyday errands. Besides, I deal with incidence reporting and attend counseling sessions. One morning, while taking unit over we came to know last night a middle age male patient had a fall and I got hurt due to which he passed away. News shaken all of us, we all were wondering how…

Stenting is associated with higher post-operative morbidity in terms of increased dysuria, frequency/urgency, hematuria, flank and suprapubic pain.7-9 Stent requires cystoscopic removal which is not without a small incidence of morbidity, including infection. The disadvantage of omission of stent may be increased risk of unplanned hospital…

Learners Theories, Principles and Health Education Models The purpose of this post is to discuss Learners Theories and how to apply it when addressing the high incidence of infant mortality rate in my community (Franklin County, Ohio) with mothers and expectant mothers. According to Nies &McEwen, 2015 page 124: Learners Theories help us understands how individual, families and groups learn. Nies & McEven postulate different theories that can be useful to the nurse in educating its patients.…

Management Strategy at Qantas Airlines Qantas Airlines was started in 1919 by two former Australian Corps Officers, Paul McGinness and W. Hudson Fysh with two aircraft that they had obtained from Mascot Aerodrome in Sydney. The two officers were inspired by the assignment they had been given by the Australian Defense Department to survey an air race from Longreach in Queensland to Katherine in the Northern Territory (Guthrie, 2013). The duo used a Model-T Ford to travel through the stretch of…

like to see. He wanted to know when the majority of the incidences were occurring, how many students accounted for the 451 incidences and what grade level they were, and the top three reasons. As I began to summarize the data I went a step further and broke it down by grade level. In a previous assignment I had looked at discipline data and had created a comparison chart. The assistant principal asked me later to see how many of the incidences came from our alternative school, so I went through…