Prevalence

Moreover, CVD is responsible for significant and alarming morbidity, disability and loss of work.In 2010, a study indicated that the cost of CVD in the United States of America was around $444 billion. It may also be pertinent to mention that the prevalence of the disease is higher in men than in women. Furthermore, 11% of the elderly population, are afflicted with coronary heart disease.lThere are numerous factors that impact the risk of cardiovascular health disease. These include both an…

research that the adult Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence rate is 0.5% which translates to 26,000 people of all ages living with HIV in Honduras. This poses a health risk to the population because HIV can be transmitted to otherwise healthy individuals through many routes. This paper will explore this major outbreak and go through the nursing process systematically in order to propose and evaluate a plan to decrease the prevalence of the disease. Assessment Honduras has accounted…

Introduction Children in this current generation are born and brought up differently compared to the past generations. This has been made possible due to the improvement in technology, as well as, the living standards. Education, being the key value, has played an important role in cognitive development in children which has made many changes in the normal way of life. For example, education has made children become more conversant with their rights. Also parents have become more involved in…

next step, this second study explored the prevalence of ASDs in relation to their proximity to industrial facilities. These researchers found industrial facilities that released arsenic, lead, or mercury into the environment and compared these locations to data from the Autism Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) network which track records of cases of Autism. The study found that proximity to these facilities did impact rates of ASDs. ASD prevalence was higher in the closest 10th…

The prevalence of obesity for the age group of 2-19 is at 17% and within the past decade 12.7 million children and teenagers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted that the prevalence of obesity in 2011-2012 in the age group 2-5 was 8.4%. That same year 17.7% of 6-11-year-old were diagnosed as obese and 20.5% of 12-19 were obese. It was discovered that this epidemic was more prevalent in Hispanics and African Americans. Hispanics children and teenager’s obesity prevalence was 22…

Previous studies on the prevalence of mental health problems in our nation’s public schools estimate that depression occurs in up to 4.6% of children and up to 8.3% of adolescents. In fact, the research suggests that nearly 3% of youth are diagnosed with bipolar disorder by the time they reach adolescence (Merikangas, K.R, He. J.P, Burstein, M., Swanson, S. A., Avenevoli, S., Cui, L., et al. 2010). A further probe into mental health problem prevalence data suggests that incidents of…

finding is in accordance with the study conducted by Patil et al in which the prevalence rate of diastolic dysfunction was 54.33% [1]. Diastolic dysfunction was found to be higher in the older people of more than 45 years of age compared to the individuals in the age group of less than 45 years. The prevalence of diastolic dysfunction in the males and females were 25 (20.8%) and 41 (34.2%) respectively. Higher prevalence rate of diastolic dysfunction was noted among the elderly diabetic women in…

Recognised for a number of decades is the high prevalence of physical health disorders and increased mortality in persons with a serious mental illness (SMI) (Scott & Happell, 2011). For people with SMI, physical health promotion does not currently fit easily within the health system as a result of multiple boundaries. The capability of the system to respond is hindered because of these boundaries. In 2007, more than half of Australian adults who had experienced SMI between the ages of 16-85,…

African Americans populations have the highest -age adjusted rates of obesity at 48.1%. In the African American population, nearly seventy percent of men and over eighty percent of women are overweight or obese (Burton et al, 2017). The Obesity prevalence in the United States is higher in the rural areas than in the urban areas, particularly from the population of racial ethnic minorities. An estimated of forty percent of the rural residents, compared with the thirty percent of urban residents,…

without infection) was 15% and 19%, respectively. Therefore, on average, the prevalence of bacterial vaginosis among female service members of the U.S. Army was 16% during the study period. A direct comparison of this overall estimate with other groups of women, for instance, from the U.S. civilian population, is not possible because bacterial vaginosis is a condition that can be asymptomatic, and therefore confirmed prevalence data can not be determined. Egan and Lipsky (2000) argue that…