Epidemiology.Research. Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis _ Epidemiology and Nursing Research.
Concepts in Community & Public Health
NRS427V
November14, 2013
Tuberculosis _Epidemiology and Nursing Research.
Communicable diseases occurs in every country regardless of urban, rural, or with socio economical diversities. In order to help in prevention and control of communicable diseases, locally, nationally and globally, nurses who are working with the public health system , must have basic understanding of epidemiology, microbiology, treatments, and knowledge about public health system and the legal system. Although, the United states attained a significant success in attaining the control over the communicable diseases, compared to the other parts of the world since 1940s, communicable diseases are still leading cause of death in the United States.(Maurer &Smith, 2012). Tuberculosis(TB) is a air bourn infectious disease which is caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. People who are living in poor socioeconomic background and who are living in medically underserved communities are more prone to this deadly , but preventable and curable disease. This disease continue to be as an indicator of poverty and low socio-economic background. Most of the time people affected with this deadly disease are undiagnosed early and affected with malnutrition or immunologically compromised. Tuberculosis can affect several organs of human body, including brain, bones, kidney. Mostly it affects the lungs and spreads through the infected droplets of saliva when the infected person talks, coughs or sneezes. According WHO fact sheets, “Tuberculosis is next to HIV/AIDS in causing death of human worldwide. In 2012, 8.6 million people got sick with TB and 1.3 million people died due to TB infection”(WHO,
Concepts in Community & Public Health
NRS427V
November14, 2013
Tuberculosis _Epidemiology and Nursing Research.
Communicable diseases occurs in every country regardless of urban, rural, or with socio economical diversities. In order to help in prevention and control of communicable diseases, locally, nationally and globally, nurses who are working with the public health system , must have basic understanding of epidemiology, microbiology, treatments, and knowledge about public health system and the legal system. Although, the United states attained a significant success in attaining the control over the communicable diseases, compared to the other parts of the world since 1940s, communicable diseases are still leading cause of death in the United States.(Maurer &Smith, 2012). Tuberculosis(TB) is a air bourn infectious disease which is caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. People who are living in poor socioeconomic background and who are living in medically underserved communities are more prone to this deadly , but preventable and curable disease. This disease continue to be as an indicator of poverty and low socio-economic background. Most of the time people affected with this deadly disease are undiagnosed early and affected with malnutrition or immunologically compromised. Tuberculosis can affect several organs of human body, including brain, bones, kidney. Mostly it affects the lungs and spreads through the infected droplets of saliva when the infected person talks, coughs or sneezes. According WHO fact sheets, “Tuberculosis is next to HIV/AIDS in causing death of human worldwide. In 2012, 8.6 million people got sick with TB and 1.3 million people died due to TB infection”(WHO,
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