categorizing them in position of epidemiological transition we see a separation of where these diseases are placed. Lower respiratory infections and diarrheal diseases would be categorized in the first epidemiological transition. Whereas‚ ischemic heart disease‚ cerebrovascular disease‚ Alzheimer diseases‚ lung cancer‚ diabetes‚ road injury‚ and chronic kidney disease are associated with the second epidemiological transition. And lastly‚ the third epidemiological transitions would have HIV/AIDS and
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Epidemiological data surrounding Obesity HCA 415 Community & Public Health Argenia l. McCray Instructor: Adriane Niare June 1‚ 2015 Epidemiological data surrounding Obesity Many in the world today classify child obesity as a health hazard and there is an increased interest in the area with many researchers providing different opinions and arguments regarding the subject. This treatise will carry out an explicit analysis on the epidemiological data regarding obesity including the causes‚ risk
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Chickenpox Causes of Chickenpox - The cause of chickenpox is the varicella-zoster virus (VZV). Chickenpox can also be caused by both direct contact to the skin and by contact from coughing‚ sneezing from the infected individual. Symptoms of Chickenpox - The symptoms of the chickenpox is a red‚ itchy rash the first appears on the back or abdomen and face. It then will spread all over the body to the mouth‚ nose‚ scalp‚ ears and genitals. The rash then turns into small bumps that look like pimples
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Chickenpox can cause serious skin infections‚ pneumonia‚ brain damage‚ and in severe cases death can occur. There is also fever‚ loss of appetite‚ headaches‚ tiredness and general feeling of malaise. The rash has three phases; during the first phases there are raised pink or red bumps (papules)‚ which break out over several days. During the second phases fluid-filled blisters (vesicles)‚ forming from the raised bumps over about one day before breaking and leaking. Finally‚ during the third phases
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I will be doing is chickenpox. One thing cool is that this disease can cause life lasting defects such as weaken immune system. History shows that viral chickenpox caused many problems for us with its symptoms difficulty to cure‚ and its way of spreading. There is a lot of history about chickenpox but the biggest part is Port Jackson. This is where chickenpox’s outbreak happened. One person on a boat coming from England came to the America’s. This person had chickenpox. Everyone on the boat
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Communicable Disease: Chickenpox/Shingles Communicable diseases are the results from the contributing factor(s) of spreading a bacterium or virus that clings onto one person whereby passing to another. The chickenpox virus is not a respecter of persons‚ and children are the most vulnerable because of exposure to environmental situations that cause spreading of the virus. Communicable diseases are preventable‚ however; prevention focuses on how the disease spreads. Health care professionals play
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room on the eighth floor of the Asch Building‚ in Washington Place‚ at 4.40 o’clock on the afternoon of Saturday‚ March 25‚ when I heard somebody cry ‘Fire!’” Unlike those on the ninth and tenth floors (the other two floors that our factory‚ the Triangle Waist Company‚ occupied)‚ I did not climb out of exterior windows in desperation; I was kindly shown to a window in a crash door that I could fit through in order to climb downstairs. Instead of passing through the flames as many of my coworkers
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The world is facing an epidemic of cocaine use by adolescents and young adults from all socioeconomic backgrounds. Epidemiologic data suggest that cocaine use is a serious public health problem because it is highly addictive and is associated with a variety of neurological complications. Cocaine‚ a natural alkaloid‚ is extracted from leaves of an Andean shrub‚ Erythroxylon coca. Coca leaves were used by the native populations to alleviate the rigors of high altitude and to diminish
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The Bermuda Triangle‚ also known as the Devil ’s Triangle‚ is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels are alleged to have disappeared in mysterious circumstances which fall beyond the boundaries of human error‚ piracy‚ equipment failure‚ or natural disasters. Popular culture has attributed some of these disappearances to the paranormal‚ a suspension of the laws of physics‚ or activity by extraterrestrial beings.[1] While a substantial
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The Bermuda Triangle‚ also known as the Devil’s triangle is said to be one of the most dangerous and mysterious areas of the ocean known to man. It has been held responsible for the disappearances of over 2000 vessels‚ 75 airplanes and many innocent lives in the past 3 centuries. But the question is how? What really happened in this deadly body of water? There are many theories about what is going on in the Bermuda Triangle. From human error‚ to the lost city of Atlantis all the way to paranormal
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