Essays on Flu

Similar to other types of emergencies, disaster planning must also take into consideration the likelihood of a flu outbreak, which may, or may not be mitigated through the use of flu shots, which have been known to be unreliable in the past. The goals and objectives of Baltimore’s Office of Sustainability involve protecting the safety, health, and welfare of the residents and visitors of the City of Baltimore (Baltimore Office of Sustainability , 2017). This paper will analyze the case study considering the options and organizations required to deal with a flu outbreak in the community, and a high ...

Introduction

The Ebola virus has existed for centuries. Like all life forms and viruses, it has been changing and adapting since the beginning of time to survive. Despite this the disease did not make itself known until the twentieth century. However, once the virus revealed itself only three major outbreaks have occurred. There were two in 1976 and one which took started in 2014 (CDC, 2015). The latest outbreak has been the longest and worst, effecting numerous countries such as, Mali, Nigeria, Liberia and Senegal in West Africa (CDC, 2015). This paper will look at the scientific aspects of the ...

ABSTRACT

There are so many things in the world that can make people very sick and in some cases can claim their lives. That being said if there are ways to avoid sickness then it should be embraced. Foodborne illnesses are all too common in modern society. Again, they are very common, but also highly preventable. If businesses and the general public dedicate themselves to greater efforts in food safety then these illnesses would never really be a threat. Understanding foodborne illness better it is best to look at some of the most common sources of foodborne illness, including Salmonella, ...

A 10-Step Hypothetical Outbreak Investigation and Response Model

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Managing Communicable Disease and Risk

After a suspected outbreak of a new strain of influenza virus among workers at the nation’s largest airport, a series of steps must be completed in order to confirm and manage the situation. Advice from the CDC in 2012 should be taken into consideration during this process; message mapping, priority communication, accuracy, credibility, empathy, providing action steps and, overall, a show of respect is vital to the process (CDC, 2012). Referring to the H1N1 pandemic response in ...

Evolutionary theories have been deep rooted in the field of Biology. Much of modern day Biology is what it is due to the knowledge and application of evolutionary theories. Study of evolutionary theories have made it possible for many areas of Biology to advance including medicine. However, there are limitations to evolutionary theories. This, however, does not mean that the evolution itself can be renounced, as many non-biologist believe. This paper discusses the advantages and limitations of evolutionary theories rooted in Biology. As for advantages of evolutionary theories for Biology as a field, there are many. Medicine is probably ...

Question 1

Conditions That Will Exist If Tuition Is kept Below Equilibrium Price When the tuition is set at a fee which is below the equilibrium, the demand will be more than the supply; thus there will be a distress situation that is not conducive to education. This would show a good effort by the government, as people will see it as a show of constructive and admirable strength by the government to make education relatively cheap. The effect of this is an increase in the number of students’ intake and in a great way and educated society. This situation is ...

Abstract

Over thirty years after its identification, HIV and AIDS remains a somewhat elusive virus, particularly when it comes to its history as a human infectious agent, and resourcing a complete epidemiology of the disease. Part of the problem is that so many antiretroviral drugs have come out and have either been used or prescribed incorrectly. In addition, the virus, like many other reverse RNA transcriptase viruses, has a very high aptitude in terms of developing resistance to drugs at a very rapid rate. What further complicates matters is how quickly it has spread. It will probably never truly be ...

Sore throat is one of the most common medical problems being encountered by people. In terms of prevalence, it is comparable to flu (influenza) and cough. Aside from the discomfort and in more severe cases, pain, that it causes, sore throat may also disrupt a person’s life. A person who has a sore throat, for example, would most likely have a concomitant fever as this usually accompanies medical problems that are associated with infection. Having fever can prevent a person from going to work and or fulfilling his daily responsibilities. So, despite the fact that sore throat is ...

Introduction

Antibiotics are a class of drugs that are mostly used to treat infections caused by bacteria. Uncountable bacteria live in various parts the human body. These include the gut, skin, mouth and throats (Gelband et. al, 2015). Some of these bacteria are harmless. However, there are others that are pathogenic (disease causing) and can cause infections. These infections are known as bacterial infections and doctors prescribe antibiotics as mode of treatment. Antibiotics were introduced in 1940 and since then they have been significant to modern medicine. The core role of antibiotics was to treat infections caused by bacteria. However, ...

Juvaris BioTherapeutics   

Today in the world we have many new forms of diseases. Cancer is the most dangerous and insidious scourge. To treat cancer we should spend plenty of time and money and there is a great field of work. Juvaris BioTherapeutics, Inc. is a company, located in Pleasanton, California, which develops novel, adjuvanted vaccines and immunotherapeutics to treat infectious disease and cancer and helps both human and animals. Company was registered in 2001 with total amount of employees approximately 50 persons. It provides JVRS-100, a cationic lipid-DNA complex and adjuvant that improves the efficiency of present vaccines, as well as ...

According to Mittal, and Vikas (330), a business continuity plan is an outline that an enterprise develops about the core activities to undertake after an emergency or disastrous event happen to the organization. Let us take for instance when a company is faced with fire outbreak, the plan that it would write down to follow after the incident is a business continuity plan. It involves planning for the essential goods or services that the company can continue to offer for the market. It also sets up the departments that need to be operational as the company recovers towards the ...

Translation science can be defined as a branch of science which aims to develop various interventions and programs that can help improve the health of human beings using the “bench to bedside” approach (Wagner and Kroetz, 2016). The translation science project which will be discussed in this paper is mainly focused on the effect of the implementation of a vaccination screening program on the vaccination rates of elderly Hispanic population aged between 65 and 90 years old in a Community Health setting in Miami-Dade area. Currently, there are numerous evidences that can support the need for various interventions and ...

WGU

A. Table of Contents Professional Resume – presents my clinical knowledge, skills, experience, and philosophy to potential employers Executive Summary – provides an overview of the contents of the portfolio Professional Reference Questionnaire – presents the objective and subjective evaluation of my key behaviors and clinical performance by one of my professional references Importance of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) – discusses the need to develop knowledge and skills in quality leadership in order to improve the quality and safety of patient care and promote holistic, patient-centered care

Copy of IHI certificate of completion – serves to validate my completion of the IHI Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership course

Evidence-based Practice – summarizes an evidence-based research project on hand hygiene Applied Leadership – summarizes my ...

Flu is a viral disease that influences for the most part the nose, throat, bronchi and, once in a while, lungs. Disease typically goes on for around a week, and is portrayed by sudden onset of high fever, hurting muscles, cerebral pain and extreme disquietude, non-beneficial hack, sore throat and rhinitis (WHO, 2016). The name "flu" started in fifteenth century Italy, from a plague ascribed to "impact of the stars." The principal pandemic, or overall pestilence, that unmistakably fits the portrayal of flu was in 1580. No less than four pandemics of flu happened in the nineteenth century, and ...

Influenza is a highly communicable viral infection that is fundamental for the critical outbreaks of respiratory illnesses; it is usually very common in the winter (CDC, 2015). Influenza, unlike the common cold, can cause brutal, life-threatening complications such as bronchitis and pneumonia as well as a severe illness which must require hospitalization. The flu is more dangerous to pregnant women, Aboriginal, and Torres Strait Islander individuals, elderly people and young children.

The cause of influenza

There are three common types of influenza viruses which infect a human being. These include influenza A, B, and C (Commonwealth of Australia, 2016). Influenza A and B ...

The study of infectious diseases has always been crucial to mankind because of the devastating effects it has had on the human race. The influenza epidemic, for example, occurred repeatedly in the 20 th and 21st century, spreading across large regions and multiple continents. Influenza in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people world wide. This was higher than the amount of people that died in World War I. About 500,000 fatalities occurred in the US which was approximately 28% of the US population at that time. The number of deaths that took place in 1957 and 1968 ...

Immunizations in Children

According to World Health Organization (WHO), “Immunization is the process whereby a person is made immune or resistant to an infectious disease, typically by the administration of a vaccine” (World Health Organization). This definition of WHO can be further elaborated by saying that the concept of immunization works by stimulation of the immune system. The immune system performs the function of protecting the body against disease causing agents. In its healthy condition, the body’s immune system has the ability to recognize any invading microbe. The leucocytes identify the microbes and produce antibodies against them. These antibodies are capable ...

Avian influenza refers to an infectious disease that originates from wild birds and can be transmitted to humans through contact with domesticated birds. The avian flu virus initially originated from wild birds, and I have noted that they are not usually affected by this illness but spread the virus to birds that are domesticated or raised for food like ducks, turkey, chicken, and pigeons. Avian influenza is highly pathogenic and has led to severe outbreaks in birds that are domesticated mostly in the Asian and Middle East region. There are several types of avian flu, but the most common ...

In the contemporary times, the spread of the Asian flu, the Aids virus and the SARS epidemic have been instrumental in disease outbreaks and pandemics into mainstream consciousness. The pandemics of the modern day may seem unique, but they all have a connotation in history. A staggering twenty-five million people lost their lives to the flu as it spread all over the world. The outbreak began in August of 1918, and it was finally contained in March 1919. To the American nation, over a half-million people lost their lives to the terrible flu. In the contemporary America, the pandemic ...

The “Dog Stars” by Peter Heller is a post-apocalyptic book with its setting in Colorado. Nine years After a flu pandemic wiped out almost every creation on earth; a deadly blood disease spreads to claim the remnants of the flu pandemic (Peter 1). Among the survivors who remain after the second calamity was the books main character Hig, who is also the narrator. He lives at an abandoned airstrip together with Bangley and his loveable old dog, Jasper after moving away from the comforts of his previous home. They struggle to survive in the new environment against all odds ( ...

Influenza Case Study: Presentation Outline

The other diagnosis considered was pneumonia, but the patient lacked all of the symptoms corresponding to pneumonia (i.e. cough); similarly, the patient’s symptoms corresponded with the flu (i.e. fever, muscle soreness, lethargy, runny nose, and shortness of breath).

So, for these reasons, the patient was not started on oral antibiotics at the hospital.

Instead, the patient began a course of the aforementioned Tamiflu, despite laboratory supported data confirming that the patient had the flu. The reason for this decision is that laboratory-run viral cultures take 3-10 days to return to the clinician treating the patient, and Tamiflu useful only if administered within 48 hours of flu onset; this means that a course of ...

strains?” Researches on viruses have been carried out since time immemorial. Several vaccines, therapeutics, and targeted drug delivery systems have been developed only through extensive research on virulent strains. However, genetic engineering and molecular biology techniques have enabled scientists to manipulate, and develop new recombinant strains that may not occur in nature spontaneously. Proper containment of these engineered strains is essential as they might have properties that are entirely different from their parent strains. In September 2011 a researcher from Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam revealed how he had engineered avian influenza strain H5N1, and made it “more receptive to ...

Criterion 1: Tanner’s Model

Noticing- The patient is an 89 old widowed woman and has no family. Two years ago, she was sent to a nursing home, where she is residing up to now. She has Medicaid as well as Medicare that covers for her health expenses (Whalley & Breitner, 2009, p. 13). Ideally, the woman enjoys medical benefits through Medicare since her deceased husband had covered his family members. The signs portrayed by the woman are BP 126/76, Respiration 18, Temperature 98.2, Pulse 76 and Pain level 0. Interpreting- The client has several medical problems such as memory loss, faulty reasoning, impaired judgment, ...

Introduction

Avian influenza also is known as bird flu and results from viruses acclimatized to some birds. People may be infected with avian influenza when they get into contact with the infected birds or infected fluids from the birds (Capua and Dennis 10). In this report, the discussion is about the evolution of avian influenza, characteristics of the virus, epidemiology of the virus, as well as the mode of transmission. Moreover, the paper talks about the gene expression of the virus, infection of the human by the virus, evolution of avian influenza's vaccines, and criticisms surrounding evolution of the virus.

Overall features of the avian flu virus

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An Assignment Submitted by

Essay 1 The research question pursued by the researchers was the following: which of the vaccines, nasal spray or shot is more effective for preventing the flu? On the basis of the results it is possible to imply that the group of researchers developed two hypotheses: 1) vaccine in the form of shot is more effective than the spray to prevent the flu; 2) vaccine in the form of nasal spray is more effective than the one in the form of a shot for preventing the flu. The null hypothesis supposed that both vaccines have equal impact on the ...

Family Health Assessment

Family Description The family that will be discussed in this paper is a blended family of Caucasian descent. Included is a father, age 50, who has a daughter from a previous marriage age, 15, a mother , age 48 with three children whose age are 25, 20 and 15 respectively. The father’s biological daughter was from a previous marriage which ended in divorce because of irreconcilable differences with his previous wife. The mother was a widow after her previous husband died of a heart attack four years ago. The family combined two years ago after the mother and father ...

VITAMIN WATER ADVERTISING CLAIMS

This Coca-Cola advertisement on Vitamin water is a deceptive advertisement. Its relation to offering protection same as flu shots or exercise is not only misleading but is also potentially dangerous to consumers. In order to successfully justify the abilities of a product, all elements that contribute to that particular justification should not only be labeled but also indicated in their rightful propositions. The case of Vitamin water advertisement for instance, there is absolutely zero evidence in the product has the capacity to replace flu shots (media.pearsoncmg.com). I think it’s high time the law adopts the idea of “buyers ...

Internet-enabled self-diagnosis is nowadays prevalent due to the presence of search engines that deliver information within seconds. A variety of health-related websites avails data on any disease in today’s hyper-connected world. The information might be useful to a person or not implying the websites allow a two-way communication process due to a feedback channel (Schmidt, 2012). Mostly, people report diseases symptoms via social media thus allowing experts to search and monitor diseases. To this end, this paper examines the advantages and disadvantages of tracking diseases outbreak via the social media. A key disadvantage of data available on social ...

Influenza injection program

Abstract Influenza which is at times referred to as flu is a highly communicable disease that attacks the respiratory system. It is a viral disease caused by the Influenza virus (CDC, 2015). The severity of the condition can range from mild to serious depending on the immunity of an individual towards the disease. In extreme situations, hospitalization or death may occur. As such, from the proverbial prevention is better than treatment, it is imperative that persons who are likely to be affected by this virus receive vaccination to cushion them against the effects that are likely to be brought ...

More often than not, globalization is associated increase in development due to the interdependence between economies. Increased flow of information and technology as a result of globalization has led to the emergence of new economies. From one place to another, globalization has also been associated with the degradation of the moral fabric in some societies. This is especially when more liberal lifestyles from developed nations impact on the conservative lifestyles that people in less developed nations lead. It is surprising that as much attention has not been given to globalization and disease.

Owing to globalization, diseases travel faster than ...

A considerable number of General Practitioners, surgeons and other practicing medical specialists occasionally misdiagnose medical conditions causing devastating effect on patients’ lives. Many times that ends fatally with death. The question we have to answer is could that bring murder charges against physicians whose patients die. The answer is positive because practically this is a murder and murder is a crime. The most significant element of an act to be qualified as a crime is the guilt. In the Criminal law guilt is the psychical attitude of the intruder towards the crime. We distinguish two types of guilt: direct – when the perpetrator ...

Cloning is done by removing the nucleus of an egg and substituted it with the nucleus from an embryonic stem cell animal .A tadpole was produced from an adult cell of a frog by Dr. Gurdon in 1962, but it was welcomed with great distrust since the adult cells cannot assume new ones. He removed the cell nucleus from a developed intestinal cell and injected it into a frog egg. This was to test if the genome could change. The egg was reprogrammed introducing nucleus and the genes were switched to a developing egg rather than duties of an intestinal cell. From the ...

Emergency situation occurs when hazards threaten the safety and well-being of the community. Ironically, hazards exist around us, and there are always risks that these hazards escalate to a level where emergency situation needs to be declared. Without proper management, emergency situation can escalate to a disaster. The idea of emergency preparedness is to prevent hazard from threatening the community, and responding to an emergency situation so that disaster can be prevented.

New York City is home of more than 8 million people, and this city is not immune to hazards. In fact, the city officials recognize 12 hazards consisting of ...

Annotated Bibliography

Brewer, N.T., Chapman, G.B., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., McCaul, K.D., and Weinstein, N.D. "Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: The example of vaccination." Health Psychology, 26(2) (2007): 136-145.

The study examines the relationship between perceived risk of flu and health behavior shown by the people. The study informs how higher perceived risk can increase the immunization rate and result into positive health behavior of the people. The source is very useful in understanding health behavior shown by different groups of the people, and also in understanding how rate of flu immunization can ...

Exam #1

- What are the two types of statistics? (5pts.)

The two types of statistics are descriptive and inferential. In descriptive statistics, the data of a population is summarized graphically or numerically through derivation of statistics related to central tendency and dispersion around the same. The shape and nature of distribution is also used in descriptive statistics. In inferential statistics, the parameters of a population are inferred according to sample statistics. This involves the estimation of statistics of a group allowing for approximation of information data relating to the entire population. In this type of statistics, modeling are used to generate mathematical ...

Part A

Education is one of the major concerns that any government addresses. The world nations embrace education as the key strategy towards attaining economic growth and development. Politicians have advocated for a constant funding to the higher institutions hence low fees to enable high standards of education. This is an aim to improve its accessibility as a way of enhancing skills in the society and more so increase innovation, science, and technology (Levin, 2005).

In a case where the government maintains a constant university funding, the demand for higher education increases in the country. The initial equilibrium price for education will decrease due to ...

Part 1a: Imagine you are being chased through the woods by a hungry bear. Which nervous system would engage? (parasympathetic or sympathetic) Why is this?

Someone being chased through the woods by a hungry bear will have his or her sympathetic nervous system being engaged in the flight. This second type of autonomic nervous system tagged sympathetic will be responsible for the control of many homeostatic mechanisms that will help the person to flit away from the hungry bear. The mechanism is that of the sympatho-adrenal response of the body. The interconnected neurons of the SNS are connected to several organs of the body which enables several organs to be controlled during this period of flight response. In response to the flight, the organs connected ...

The 1918 influenza pandemic has been aptly described as the mother of all pandemics. It led to the death of approximately 50 million people worldwide. A lot of questions about the pandemic still remain unanswered. Its unusual epidemiological features, the factors contributing to its high pathogenecity among other things are not known. It is estimated that about one third of the world population was infected by the virus and case fatality rate was >2.5% when compared to <0.1% in other influenza pandemics.

I believe that it is imperative for all these unanswered questions to be unanswered as ...

Introduction

Infectious diseases have been affecting humans since diseases and germs were discovered. No sophisticated antibiotics or antiviral medications were available to treat neither disease nor epidemiological records to trace their origin and destinations. In contemporary societies mankind is so advanced in science and technology that, viruses, bacteria, fungi and other types of microorganisms are detected, sensitivity identified; epidemiological implications uncovered and prognoses delivered. This discussion provides an epidemiological evaluation of the Avian influenza infection as a twenty first century pandemic.

A.1 Description of Outbreak

Avian influenza is a viral infection similar to bird flu/ swine flu, dog flu, horse flu, or human flu. Epidemiologists have ...

“Contagion”: The Review

In April 2009 the world was aghast at a horrific event – the start of the pandemic of the new strain of H1N1 virus known to the general public as a “swine flu”. The disease claimed over 1900 lives. The flu caused mass frenzy on a worldwide scale, and hysteria over medicine. The population was terrified to the point of buying everything and anything the pharmacies could offer. Eventually, when the turmoil subsided, many scholars presumed that such an occurrence could be called a “mass psychosis”. The governments and the corporations, on the other hand, were utilizing it for the purpose of realizing the ...

The outbreak at the Jonathan nursing home was due to the negligence of the new cook. Jonathan had acquired a new cook who was replacing another who had died after suffering from flu during a flu outbreak. Jonathan was forced to employ new staff to replace the ill kitchen staff because they were not any position to continue carrying out the kitchen work. The new cook, however, was not keen on following the kitchen instructions. The instructions required him to grind the meat after it was cooked and keep the meat so that it can be warmed and served to the ...

Americans are primarily the victims of obesity and they constantly worry about losing their weight. For this reason, several weight loss programs have come up to lift the Americans both physically and emotionally. One such program has been put up Dr. Oz (powered by share care). This website’s interest includes helping over-weight people lose some of their unhealthy fat by following simple yet healthy tips. “Willpower is everything”, says Dr. Oz. If you are not emotionally strong, you will not be able to achieve the desired results. This weight loss program is for a span of two weeks. It is said ...

THE GREAT INFLUENZA

The book the great influenza by john Barry takes us back to arguably one of the greatest medical disasters in human history, the book focuses on the influenza pandemic which took place in the year 1918. The world was at war in the First World War and with everyone preoccupied with happenings in Europe and winning the war the influenza pandemic displayed more of its opportunistic tendencies and struck when the human race was least ready and most distracted by happenings all over the world. In total the influenza pandemic killed over a hundred million people on a global scale, clearly ...

Scientists have found metallopolymers. Metallopolymers are used to make strains vulnerable to antibiotics. Previously, bacteria were resistant to these antibiotics. Tang and his colleagues noted that a significant fraction of infection is caused by bacteria such as MRSA. MRSA is spread through contaminated hands. The presence of MRSA in the body causes pneumonia and deters treatment by traditional antibiotic such as penicillin when they produce enzymes. Although much effort has been made to inactivate this enzyme, a successful resolution has not been reached. In the process of coming up with a better alternative, Tang’s team tested a recently discovered class against a number ...

The primary function of a vaccine program is not merely to protect the individual from the dangers of certain diseases, but to protect society as a whole through a concept known as herd immunity. Herd immunity is the byproduct of widespread vaccination programs; these programs protect everyone in society, even those who have not been vaccinated, by slowing or even halting the spread of diseases within the population (Dalgleish, 1996). The goals of the vaccination program are to reduce the spread of communicable diseases in high-risk populations, and to reduce the long-term need for care in these same populations. In addition, the ...

The epidemiology of Influenza is currently being monitored because a pandemic had plagued the world three times (1918, 1959 and 1968) in the last century. It has been predicted that one or more pandemics awaits the world. It has been well known that a pandemic costs several diseases, death and interference in the entire world such that an outbreak may be underway simultaneously in different locations (http://www.flu.gov/planning-preparedness/states/planningresolutionor.html, 2014). Therefore, this need to prepare for an influenza pandemic that is yet to come requires a collective effort from all sectors of the society with the leadership of the federal government. The viral ...

In this article Colin Campbell and Jill Colvin have reported over the protest to be held against annual influenza vaccination requirements. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing mandatory flu vaccination for children under the age of five, and residing in New York. This mandate by the Health Department suggests that, the vaccination would prevent children against influenza. The Board of Health has reported 20,000 hospitalizations and between 30-150 deaths of children under five due to influenza. But a vocal group is opposing the idea on the basis that the vaccination is potentially dangerous. According to my viewpoint, people who ...

Introduction

Most of the time, people with flu ignore the disease especially when the symptoms are very mild. Moreover, people think of the flu as a bad cold. However, flu is worse than cold (Williams, 2014). Because of misinformation, there is a necessity for a better information dissemination concerning the flu, its causes, and the flu vaccines. Thus, this report gives information about the flu and the flu vaccine.

The Flu

Flu is a viral disease primarily caused by influenza viruses (CDC, 2014a). Most of the time, influenza viruses attack the windpipe and the lungs. Flu is considered a highly contagious disease, and its symptoms are known ...

Management Information System

- According to Mark Hurd, why does his typical customer's IT budget increase by two to three percent per year (even when his typical customer does not do any innovation)? (5 points) There are tons of changes the application undergoes in its structure. The companies are trying to update the old applications to be used with today’s gadgets and cloud as the users today are not limited to, system based apps, but use a variety of products like tablets, smartphones and tabs. Clouds have become modern day’s database and means to communicate, circulate and publish information. ...

Introduction:

I agree with the above statement. Parents should forcefully request to take the vaccination for their children. There are facts, which tells that about 675000 people died due to the disease named as “Pandemic Flu” in 1918.

Thesis Statement:

Making vaccination mandatory is a positive act. Reason one: The vaccination help in curing dangerous disease that present in the current era. First vaccination has taken place in 1809 in the city Massachusetts that disease was “small pox”. In United States, each and every state has mandatory law for vaccination.

Reason two:

Yes! Mandatory law should pass and cover on an international basis ...

Streets I would plow first

Snow brings a lot of problems to the residents of any region. This is because it affects the movement of goods and services from one point to another. In most cases, the snow is so thick that the local governments are required to plow it to ease movement. However, problems arise in that everyone wants their streets to be given the priority in plowing the snow. The heads of public works of the county are required to oversee such exercises in order to boost development. Whenever such situations arise, some streets must be prioritized because of the importance that ...

Introduction

Every year witnesses a recurring flu season which is always synonymous with influenza outbreaks. In most cases, such a season occurs in each hemisphere’s cold half. Important to note is the fact that influenza activity can easily be predicted and geographically tracked. Although the outbreak of flu activity varies by location in each season, minor epidemics tend to take around three weeks before peaking. They then take a further three weeks to diminish significantly. In this paper, I seek to give an outline on how I will actualize my plan to teach the community on this aspect. In so doing, I ...

Great University

Background In this study, we plan to conduct an audit of medical practices at London University Hospital to determine how well the quality and evidence-based practices are being followed at the hospital regarding the common flu or allergic rhinitis symptoms. In this observational study, we plan to randomly select patients who have been regular to the hospital in the past two years. Further, we plan to evaluate whether they had been provided with evidence based care. This we primarily plan to do by evaluating the health records of the randomly selected patients, and evaluating if they have been ...

Imogene Thompson

JERSEY COLLEGE SCHOOL OF NURSING THERESA REBOLI Abstract The issue of malaria and its effect on the world is one of grave concern. Many organizations have come together to find ways to eradicate the mosquitoes that cause this deadly disease. Nearly half of the population in the world is at risk of contracting malaria. However, most of the fatal cases of malaria occur in the sub-Saharan Africa, while countries in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East record a smaller number of deaths from malaria. The statistics are alarming, and with the advance in travels, war, and ...

Essay #1. The research questions for this experiment involved the relative effectiveness of a shot and a nasal spray in keeping people from getting the flu. The hypothesis appears to have been that there would not be a significant difference between the two, with an eye toward proving that the nasal spray is just as effective as the shot. A nasal spray would be easier to deliver to patients and therefore more salable. 16 percent of the people who took the shot ended up getting the flu, while 24 percent got the flu in spite of the shot. This is a significant level ...

Part 1

Imagine you are being chased through the woods by a hungry bear. Which nervous system would engage? (Parasympathetic or sympathetic) Why is this? The nervous system of a human being is categorized into two major parts, the first one being the peripheral nervous system, which comprises the autonomic nervous system, the somatic nervous system and the cranial and peripheral nervous system. The second major part is the central nervous system which made up of the brain and the spinal cord. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) plays the fundamental role of controlling the spontaneous or involuntary body functions. Such functions ...

When government adopts a principle to guide its decision making and action that benefit the population for whom it is representing can be termed as Public Policy. All decisions and actions taken by the government to tackle public issues come under public policy. It proposes the social, moral and economic values to keep the society together. Public policy may be crafted at local, state, federal, or international level, and a wide range of sectors such as health, education, social development, human resources, technology, defense, terrorism; justice, etc. are touched upon by it. All public policy of the country must be consistent ...

Question I A

The main argument of the One Health concept is that there is no real separation between human health, animal health and the environment. This statement sounds so ambiguous but explicit dissection of the statement reveals that it is not as complex as it sounds. First, One health refers to a collaborative effort of a variety of disciplines that work locally, nationally as well as internationally to achieve optimum health for three primary elements, people, animals and finally the environment. The one health campaign argues that the health of humans that of animals and that of the environment are all interrelated. When ...

Clean pull handle.

COMPANY OVERVIEW Introduction Mission Vision We believe we can mount a successful fight against preventable contagious infections and keep people healthy. Shelton Sanitary Systems is a startup that commenced its operations in February 2013 by a team of six tech savvy youngsters and a former senior marketer at freehold. It is a limited company that specializes in the Clean Pull and Turn Clean monitoring systems. It utilizes the modern and recent developments in the information technology industry. It is supported by a complex system of mobile devices support and a combination of software that are able to disseminate the data in ...

Purpose

This debut novel of Makiia Lucier fills up the Young-adult/Juvenile/Historic fiction genre with its historically appropriate and emotionally driven recollections. From its apprehensive start to the contemplative close, A Death-Struck Year captures the readers’ imagination and attention. Despite the grisly descriptions about Spanish Influenza, and sadness accompanied by several characters dying in the novel, the readers can find a sense of hope and comfort in the lead character Cleo’s relationships with the staff at Red Cross. She develops a romantic relationship with Doctor Edmund Parrish, a wounded army doctor. Despite their growing romance, the author has not made it the core ...