Rheumatic fever

Rheumatic heart disease is when the heart is damaged. It’s often damage to the valves of the heart. Rheumatic heart disease is a result of having rheumatic fever. It’s commonly seen in children in many developing countries around the world. To begin with, Rheumatic fever causes a person to have rheumatic heart disease. Rheumatic fever affects the connective tissues of the body, mostly the connective tissues of the heart, brain and the joints of the body. Rheumatic fever is associated with having strep throat. This fever usually shows up in children between the ages of 5 and 15. More than 50% of people develop heart problems after having a rheumatic fever. In the heart almost every part, including the valves and the lining of the heart is inflamed when a person has rheumatic…

Health promotion empowers people to have control and knowledge to improve their health. Several nations collectively devised the Ottawa Charter for Health promotion with the goal of health improvement for all communities by the millennium (McMurray & Clendon, 2015). This essay explores the roles of a nurse for health promotion within the five categories of the Ottawa Charter for sufferers of Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease. The five strategies include Build Healthy Public…

Many different models of health exist, generally, falling into two categories: a biomedical and a social model. Both of these models are important in health systems over the last 150 years, although recently there has been a stronger emphasizes on social models. Primarily, social models are used in health systems as it expands on generalised medicine seen in the western world. This model is central to explaining how age, income, environmental conditions and housing play an important role in the…

owners. When Carson was a child, she did not aspire to be an author, she aspired to be a pianist. This started at age ten, but this dream did not last long, due to her illness that suddenly sprung up and ruined her music lessons. This illness was known as rheumatic fever, but even this sudden turn of events could not keep her away from going to New york even after she was diagnosed, to continue on her journey to be a pianist. She planned on once she arrived in New York City that she would learn…

Mozart’s death. This paper will deal with certain theories of his death on accounts of poison, murder, and illness. To say Mozart was a busy man around the time of his death is to say the least; receiving three heavy commissions almost simultaneously, Mozart was under a presumably demanding and stressful schedule. Upon returning to Vienna, Mozart completed “The Magic Flute,” and went on to conduct the first performance of the opera. While working on his final piece, the requiem, his wife…

Rheumatic fever is one of autoimmune diseases which cause a type of bacteria called group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus that leads to an inflammation in the connective tissues like brain, heart and joints. The disease seems to be linked to scarlet fever which is also involved in sore throat infection. Rheumatic fever and scarlet fever can be treated with penicillin injection to kill the bacteria while Azithromycin can be given for those who are allergic to penicillin. Scientists have been…

Health can be defined from different perspectives, thus leading to wide and varied meanings of health, biomedical and social models are used to elucidate the views of ill-health. This paper will firstly compare and contrast between biomedical and social models. Secondly, it will discuss how and why the social model has become more applicable over the last fifteen decades. Consequently, its effectiveness in expounding high incidences of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease…

INTRO Rheumatic fever rates in New Zealand continue to rise, a developed country with levels of rheumatic fever similar to third world countries - with approximately 5.3 cases per 100, 000 people – almost five times the rate of meningococcal disease (King, 2015). Rheumatic fever is a complication of strep throat, it is dominantly a disease of economic deprivation, overcrowding and healthcare inequality (Sharpe, 2011). A key symptom associated with rheumatic fever is a sore throat, if left…

American doctors and most people do not question their doctors. In some countries this is not the case. In other countries around the world, there is less use of doctors to cure sicknesses. Instead the people, who are sick, go see shamans or herbalists. The article Healing Herbs and Dangerous Doctors Fruit Fever and Community Conflicts with Biomedical Care in Northeast Thailand discussed the different views of the medical system. There were several interviews that were performed by the author…

contamination. A large number of cases of intestinal infections and a considerable number of cases of typhoid fever occurring during the month of May lead to exhaustive chemical and bacteriological examination of he water.”(1905) This annual report suggested that “the heavy rains which occurred in April carried out large quantities of sewage into the lake, and this quantity greater than previous time because the river had not been flushed for some time. “(1905) It also stated that along with…