...The Deadliest Disease in the World Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most deadly disease in the world. CAD occurs when plaque builds up in the arteries causing blood clots and restricting the heart of oxygen. CAD is the number one cause of death in the United States and the world. Medications and treatments are available but nothing can take the place of being proactive and preventing the disease. ("What Is Coronary Heart Disease?") Coronary artery disease is caused when cholesterol containing deposits of plaque buildup inside the arteries that supply blood to your heart. As the plaque builds up, it begins to narrow your arteries, decreasing the amount of blood flow to your heart. The plaque often attracts other fibrous tissue such as calcium and blood components which further harden the artery by causing blood clots to form. Over time, the decreased blood flow will cause shortness of breath, chest pain and even heart attack. ("What Is Coronary Heart Disease?") According to the center of disease control, heart disease is the number 1 cause of death in the United States, killing over 780,000 people every year. Specifically, coronary artery disease is responsible for killing over 380,000 people per year. ("Heart Disease: Scope and Impact") Cardiovascular disease takes more lives than all forms of cancer combined. Furthermore, someone will have a heart attack every 34 seconds in the United States, and every 60 seconds someone will die from a heart related disease. Research shows...
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...To find why smoking in public places is still not banned in every country in the world, I found many arguments on this topic. There are a huge number of articles, journals and arguments exist, but they lack sufficient judgement to support the cause. For the last few years, some researchers have been trying to indicate the advantages of smoking by their research. This paper describes the information that might have been felt much, but ignored. I have tried to link them with existing knowledge about the problem and give it a new shape, and it may give a significant degree of speed to the voice. This paper is organized in a short form of the effort, describing a summarized view of the cause and argument. WHY SMOKING SHOULD BE BANNED? By not smoking, a person can save as much as money to meet other costly necessities. In third world countries, it is seen that one can save as much money to run his whole family’s educational costs. The whole world can save enough money in one month from smoking to eliminate hunger from the world. There will be 8-10% more food. According to (Chapman), the world can save 65% accidental fire breakouts every year throughout the world. A huge portion of the greenhouse effect could be reduced. Millions of hectoring of lands would become more fertile and grow more food. Millions of square feet of papers will be saved and thus can help the underprivileged children with their...
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...Infectious Diseases: The Greatest Crisis of the world ____________ A Thesis Presented to The Division of The Arts and Sciences Voorhees College ____________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Science ____________ Acknowledgements I am whole-heartily thankful to my Professors at Voorhees College for their tremendous effort in my maturilication through Voorhees College. Lastly I would like to acknowledge all of the people who had any hand in the completion of this thesis. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION * What are infectious Diseases? * Types of infectious diseases * Worldwide distribution of infectious diseases * * CHAPTER 2: THE LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH IS THE WORLD * Top Countries * Top Diseases * CHAPTER 3: MOST DISEASES ARE PREVENTABLE * Why are statistics so high * Minorities prevalence, morbidity, and mortality * How to prevent yourself from being a statistic * Understanding the emotional burden brought upon families who suffer from infectious Diseases * * CHAPTER 4: TRANSMISSION OF DISEASE: COUNTRY TO COUNTRY * Thorough testing while entering and exiting countries * Childhood and adult Immunizations * * CHAPTER 5: FOOD BOURNE PATHOGES * How do they affect America...
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...Lesson 2: Formatting a lab report using APA style APA Style The APA Publication Manual sets out clear guidelines regarding the format of a lab report. General formatting issues Use the following formatting guidelines for your lab report. Your entire report should be: 1. 12-point font (e.g., Times New Roman, Arial, Courier) 2. Double spaced throughout 3. Without gaps – you need to indent the first line of every paragraph by one-half inch (1.27cm) 4. With standard margins – 1” or 2.54cm all round 5. Aligned left (do not use justified alignment) 6. Paginated, with page numbers being consecutive from the title page and located on the top right of the page using Arabic numerals (e.g., 1, 2, 3 ..). There are clear guidelines on the formatting of the headings in your report. See the guidelines below. Level of heading | Format | Sections using this heading level | 1 | Centred, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase heading | Method Results Discussion | 2 | Flushed left, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase heading | Participants Materials Procedure | 3 | Indented, boldface, lowercase paragraph heading ending in a period. | | 4 | Indented, boldface, italicized, lowercase paragraph heading ending in a period. | | 5 | Indented, italicized, lowercase paragraph heading ending in a period. | | When reporting numbers, use numerals when: 1. the number is greater than 10 2. the number is smaller than 10 and is compared to number greater...
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...third world countries Danielle H Woods Ivy Tech Community College October 16, 2013 Water borne illness in third world countries Third countries have myriad problems that interrelate in intricate ways to cause a series of problems for their citizens. One major problem in the third world countries is the disease burden. Waterborne diseases make a major contribution to diseases’ burden in the third world. As per the World Health Organization, waterborne diseases contribute to about 4.1% to the daily burden of diseases on the planet daily. WHO puts the contribution of sanitation, poor hygiene, and unsafe water contribution to waterborne diseases at 88% (Guidelines for drinking-water quality, 2011). Water Bourne diseases result to more than 1.8million deaths every year (Lee, 2008). A Waterborne disease terms any diseases whose transmission occurs through pathogens present in contaminated water. These diseases are particularly rampant in the third world. Waterborne diseases are responsible for the death of one out of every five deaths under the age of five reported on the planet. The third world countries lack the sophisticated mechanisms of treating water for human use. In third world countries, accessing water is not always possible let alone accessing clean water. Developed nations use systems that filter and chlorinate drinking water eliminating pathogens. This explains why diseases like typhoid, dysentery, and cholera only run rampant in the third world. Apart...
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...information, and people has been made fairly easy. Unfortunately, however, the movement of infections and diseases has also been made easy. Due to the fact that our world has become very interconnected, multiple organizations have come about to aid these transfers, be it the transfer of information, or public health. One of these organizations is the World Health Organization, a coordinating authority for health was created in parallel to the United Nations and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. In the 19th Century, there was a massive eruption of diseases, most importantly the cholera epidemic. All around Europe, countries were pushing towards an international health convention to try to address the issues at hand, and while many conventions were finally held, there needed to be something more global to set things right. After the First World War plagued the world, the League of Nations came about and created several agencies to help in aiding the world. One of those agencies was the League of Nations Health Organization. The Health Organization was primarily made to control diseases and try to prevent them. However, their successes came to a halt when the second World War broke out. In 1945, when the war had already ended, the United Nations came about and replaced the former League of Nations. The 61 members of the United Nations all signed the constitution of the World Health Organization in 1946, and two years later, on April 7th, 1948, the constitution finally came into...
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...and influential events in the history of the world, concerning mainly of the widespread exchange of plants, animals, human population, diseases, ideas and technology. This term refers to the exchanges occurred between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after 1492, Columbus’ voyages. Overall, the Columbian Exchange made a huge impact on both the Old World and the New World, including changes in production of crops, spread of diseases, and migration. The plants that comprised the Columbian Exchange, changed both the economy and the culture in the Old and New World....
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...Infectious diseases remain a major cause of illness, disability, and death. Vaccination is a highly effective way of preventing certain infectious diseases since it induces protective immunity against such infectious agents. A traveler’s risk for acquiring infectious diseases is determined by various factors, including immunization status, location of travel, season, duration of exposure, occupational and recreational activities while traveling, as well as local rate of virus transmission at the time of travel. However, hand washing the oldest and still the most effective way of preventing diseases must be practiced by all travelers irrespective of which country you are traveling to. Some of these diseases include food and water borne, vector borne, blood borne, zoonosis, air borne, disease transmitted from soil and sexually transmitted diseases. Food and water borne diseases such as hepatitis A (fecal-oral route), typhoid fever and cholera, and diarrhea transmitted by the consumption of contaminated food and drink water or beverage during traveling. For example, drinking water contaminated with raw sewage, eating shell fish (such as oysters and clams) that have been harvested from contaminated water, eating raw fruits or vegetables washed in contaminated water, and swimming pools that aren't properly disinfected. Travelers must avoid consumption of potentially contaminated food, drink and drinking-water. Oral rehydration salts should be carried to combat dehydration in case of...
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...categories entailed animals, plants, diseases, and people. The Columbian Exchange also entailed the trading of commodities between the Old World and the New World. The Old World transported numerous animals to the New World such as pigs, horses, chickens, and cattle. Although the New World did not bestow animals, they bestowed other expedient commodities such as plants. The New World gave avocadoes, peanuts, cocoa, potatoes, and tobacco. Tobacco was exerted as a medicine to help stomach impediments that emanated from parasites and bacteria in unhygienic water. People would swallow the tobacco and the tobacco would exterminate the parasites in the victims’ gastrointestinal system. Much analogous to parasites, people commenced to apprehending other diseases that caused them to become terminally ill. The Old World was the one liable for the augmentation of these diseases. The Old World bestowed upon the New World diseases such as mumps, measles, and smallpox. After these diseases undertook effect, the civilization’s population plummeted drastically. In remuneration for the Old World’s munificence, the New World bestowed upon the Old World with an additional disease that also deteriorated the population ominously. This disease was differentiated syphilis. Another commodity that was bequeathed with the New World were people. People from the Old World such as Africans, were forced to migrate to the New World by the African Diaspora. The New World forced those who migrated to be slaves...
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... Their biggest reason for victory, however, was unintended. You could call it biological warfare before there was even such a thing or term. When the colonists came to the New World they brought something hidden that the Native Americans never saw coming. The Colonists main weapon was called disease. When the Europeans made their way across the Atlantic Ocean, they were armed with microbes that had never before been introduced to the new world. The Columbian Exchange is a term that has been coined describing the introduction of new animals, plants and technology ideas by the Europeans to the New World. The introduction of new disease worked the other way around in regards to the introduction of new things being taken back to Europe from the New World. Many of the new things brought forth to the new world had positive economic impact. Unfortunately, with these new additions to life in the new world came the unintentional introduction of Diseases never before seen by the Native Americans. The Native Americans were the group that was hardest hit by disease in terms of the number of deaths. According to "Gettysburg.edu" (n.d.), “Since the Indians were isolated from other cultures and peoples before the arrival of the Europeans, this weakened their defenses against the major diseases of mankind.” The deadliest...
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...complex communicable diseases in the world population today is human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It is estimated that 78 million people have been infected and 39 million people have died worldwide since the virus was first identified ("AIDS statistics," 2015, para. 1). HIV is contracted by direct contact with contaminated blood or body fluids. This infection modifies and destroys the specific cells of the immune system ("HIV basics," 2015, para. 1). The result of HIV infection is the eventual progression to AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease) (Klatt, 2015, p. 6). HIV and AIDS are commonly used interchangeably when discussing the disease processes in general terms, but there is a distinctive evolution that identifies the presence of HIV to the development of AIDS. Since HIV targets specific cells, massive cellular destruction leads to the state know as acquired immune deficiency syndrome ("HIV basics," 2015). HIV infection currently has no cure and once acquired. However, with early detection and use of new medication combinations, it can be managed ("HIV Treatment," 2014, para. 3). Epidemiology is the medical study of the causes and transmission of disease within a population. Epidemiologist target specific strategies to break the epidemiological triangle of the agent, the host and the environment. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are organizations that supervise the identification of communicable diseases and provide information...
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...the reasons the Europeans were so successful in the new world. Jared Diamond proves that farms, diseases, and weapons are the reasons the Europeans were successful in the new world. Jared Diamond seeks evidence to be able to show the world that these reasons are true. Will he be able to prove to the world that these reasons are true? The Europeans had farming on their side in the new world. Their civilizations had wheat and barley to farm, which was more nutritious and easier to grow and plant than anyone else’s crops in the new world. An advantage to this was that animals could be used to pull the plows to help farm. Also, wheat and barley could be stored for years before it went bad and all of the other civilizations in the new world did not have crops that could be stored for extensive periods of time. All the animals working caused farms to be more efficient and crops to harvest faster. Finally the animals would spread diseases, but the Europeans would not get them anymore because they developed immunities to the diseases unlike natives the Europeans would encounter....
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...Epidemiology Paper: Tuberculosis Kyle J. Patzner Grand Canyon University: Concepts in Community and Public Health January 12, 2014 Tuberculosis has long been a disease that the human culture has been dealing with which entails significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. With dealing with such a horrific disease over the years, discoveries and evolution on the appropriate ways to contain, diagnose, and challengingly treat the disease has changed. One of the most concerning complications of this worldwide public health issue is the ability for it to quickly spread in high populated areas while becoming ever more resistant to forms of treatment not available in all locations around the world. This is a serious public health concern and poses major implications for current and future treatment of the disease (Chan, B., Khadem, T., & Brown, J. 2013). With the help of the community and the leadership of strong, resourceful organizations, we can come together to overcoming such a hideous disease which affects the lives of millions annually. In this paper, the writer will discuss the incidence of Tuberculosis, treatment, social determinants, organizations involved, and the role public health nursing has on overcoming the presence of this disease. Tuberculosis is an airborne communicable disease which is rapidly spreading. Tuberculosis infection is the result of the exposure to the bacterium mycobacterium tuberculosis. This is the agent as it applies to the Epidemiologic...
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...Epidemiology Paper Epidemiology Paper This will paper discuss one of the deadly disease in the world call Tuberculosis (TB). The goal is to prevent the disease and prevent the spread of the disease from the teaching that the community health nurse will provide. An individual can die if TB is left untreated. Active Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infection caused by a bacteria called Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. This respiratory disease that in most common in the lungs. (World Health Organization, 2014). Other parts of the body are affected by TB is the brain which causes tuberculosis meningitis, genitourinary TB, gastrointestinal TB, tuberculosis lymphadenitis, cutaneous TB, Uterus ovarian TB and Osteo articular skeletal bone and joint TB(articles base, 2008). It is curable and preventable. TB is contagious and is transmitted through the air from a person with the active respiratory disease and then another person inhale this infectious droplet. Active TB symptom from the lung are coughing, and with bloody sputum present sometimes, weakness, chest pain, fever, weight loss and night sweats. Once the germs enter the air it takes only a few of them to infect another person (World Health Organization, 2014). People with active TB usually have positive TB skin test and blood test. The chest x-ray is usually positive and positive sputum culture (Centered for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012). Latent Tuberculosis Another form of TB is called...
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...Health care is one of the most important insurances in the world today. Health care is extremely important for everyone because it does more than just treat or take care of an individual. It provides an opportunity for doctors and physicians to prevent and capture diseases before they mature and take effect. Every nation around the world should have some type of medical or health care for the individuals in their country. Unfortunately, this is not the case for many countries. There are a great deal of people suffering across the world from multiple types of diseases and illnesses. There are tens of thousands of people that die every day due to unfortunate living conditions or infections. Some of the major health conditions and categories that are used to record the number of deaths around the world include infant mortality, surgical disease, measles, respiratory diseases, diarrheal diseases, HIV, malaria, nutrition deficiency, and chronic disease. The number of infants that died across the world in 2005 was around 56 million. Of the 56 million children that died, 10 million were under the age of 5 and 99% of them lived in a low income country. This is equivalent to 30,000 children dying a day. Health care could not only treat the infants who are dying, but it could prevent most of them from dying at such an early age. Another health condition that continues to be a problem is the fact that diseases can be acquired after a surgical procedure. Doctors and surgeons...
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