Traces Of Nightingale 's Tuberculosis Treatment And Control

With the close proximity infection range TB is known for completes the remainder of the epidemiologic triangle. Overcrowded environments are the coal to the fire of this transmittable disease with outbreaks capable of occurring, infection hundreds. Common symptoms of this active form of tuberculosis include: weight loss, coughing, fatigue, fever, night sweats, chills, and loss of appetite (MayoClinic, 2014). The Mayo Clinic also states that it is believed that 2 billion (one third) of the world population is living with Latent TB (2014). This emphasizes the need for public health and community involvement in order to completely abolish this disease from our planet.

Thank you for reaching out to Dallas County Health and Human Services(DCHHS). In response to your inquiry, DCHHS is unaware of an increased incidence of Tuberculosis among Square Cottage residents. In the event as such, DCHHS would not disclose a specific location due to medical confidentiality and personal privacy reasons. Overall, DCHHS has shown that the number of annual TB cases have decreased by 37% from 1993 to 2015 in Dallas County. In regards to homelessness specifically, I can confirm the proportion of TB cases occurring in persons experiencing homelessness has increased since 2014. Please note, homeless individuals are disproportionately affected by Tuberculosis in Dallas County as well as the United States. In an effort

Tuberculosis is a disease of an infectious nature caused by a bacterium known as mycobacterium tuberculosis. The disease spreads through the air. People with the disease can spread it to susceptible people through coughing, sneezing, talking or spitting. It mainly affects the lungs and other parts such as the lymph nodes and kidneys can also be affected. The symptoms for TB are fatigue, coughing, night sweats, weight loss and fever. One third of the population of the world is affected with mycobacterium tuberculosis. The rate of infection is estimated to be one person per second. About 14 million people in the world are infected with active tuberculosis. Drug resistant TB has been recorded to be a serious public health hazard in many countries. Resistant strains have developed making it difficult to treat the disease. TB has caused millions of death mainly in people living with HIV/AIDS ADDIN EN.CITE Ginsberg19981447(Ginsberg, 1998)1447144717Ginsberg, Ann M.The Tuberculosis Epidemic: Scientific Challenges and OpportunitiesPublic Health Reports (1974-)Public Health Reports (1974-)128-13611321998Association of Schools of Public Health00333549http://www.jstor.org/stable/4598234( HYPERLINK l "_ENREF_3" o "Ginsberg, 1998 #1447" Ginsberg, 1998). The World Health Organization came up with the DOTS (Directly Observed, Therapy, Short course) strategy. The approach involves diagnosing cases and treating patients with drugs for about 6-8

Tuberculosis (TB), which is brought on by contamination with an individual from the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, is a noteworthy reason for incapacity and passing in numerous parts of the world. The frequency (recently reported cases) of tuberculosis in Louisiana is near the normal occurrence in the United States. . In 2013, Louisiana: Ranked eleventh among the 50 states in TB rates (3 for each 100,000 people) and 22.3% of TB cases were foreign-born people (CDC, 2015). As in the U.S., frequency has diminished

The tuberculosis in the United States increased by 20 percent between 1985 and 1992 due to the following reasons: “(1) Inadequate funding for TB control and other public health efforts, (2) the HIV epidemic, (3) increased immigration from countries where TB is common, (4) the spread of TB in certain settings (for example, correctional facilities and homeless shelters), and (5) the spread of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB)” (CDC). Meanwhile, as what is evident in Dr. Trudeau’s experiment, the factors for Tuberculosis to thrive are due to inadequate-lacks-in-nutritional-value food supply, and poor environmental conditions. In like manner, incarcerated populations resemble that situation. Thus, one of the many reasons that TB can be higher in prisons, is that most prisons are not kept that clean and sanitary. Even though they may sweep and mop thinking they are getting rid of TB, there is a form of Tuberculosis called latent TB which lie dormant for days or even many years that can actually reactivate (CDC), and spread the disease between prisoners. A second reason that TB is high in prisons is due to overcrowding. The prisoners are in such close proximity of each other on a daily basis, that there is no way of separating themselves from getting TB. A third reason, the prisoners could have easily gotten Tuberculosis from each other due to small areas. Since some forms of Tuberculosis is spread by airborne droplets (Mayo Clinic) it would make sense why prisoners get it so much easier. Other factors in

The progress of tuberculosis infected more people over the years. The rate of Inuits being infected with tuberculosis still continues to be high and has gotten higher, the amount of Inuits infected by latent tuberculosis has increased, but the rate of latent turning to active tuberculosis has decreased because some Iqaluit's died from it.(1). Iqaluit has the most case and highest rate of tuberculosis in Canada(2). The reason why these cases are still high is because the health system is not so great in Iqaluit and functions very poorly. Because the nurses or doctors in Iqaluit who don’t diagnose patients quickly or a mislead on diagnosis. Also tuberculosis is high in Iqaluit is because the housing is often overcrowded which would enable the infections to spread by air. Lack of food is also a problem followed up with security and access to health care are part of the factors why tuberculosis is high in Iqaluit.(4)

Findings of tuberculosis in the homeless population are no surprise, as this specific population has a high incidence of conditions that increase the risk of TB, including: substance abuse, HIV infection, and congregation in crowded shelters. With these risk factors that are present amongst this vulnerable community, the spread of TB increases prominently.

Canada has had many events where tuberculosis was having an outbreak in 1924 through 1948, but since then it has been decreasing. We have dealt with this problem back in 2012 where an outbreak of tuberculosis infected 8% of the individuals in the extremely small Northern Quebec community of Kangiqsualujjuaq. After the outbreak The Public Health Agency of Canada is running over to discover the origin of the outburst its spread. Officials are also bringing up more additional resources to the place, such as a mobile x-ray machine. Tuberculosis is a disease caused by bacteria that travel from person to person. A person who is infected with tuberculosis, but does not show any symptoms at all may have dormant tuberculosis and can still transmit

Homelessness is a growing problem in the U.S according to Rukmana, (2012) “there is more than 800,000 homeless individuals in the U.S”. People who are homeless have poorer health and higher mortality than the general population, because of these statistics my program will be targeting the homeless population in our Miami-Dade community who are suffering from tuberculous. Tuberculosis have been recognized as an important health problem among the homeless population, that is why I believe it is very important to teach the homeless population in our community how to prevent the spread of tuberculosis and how to take preventable measures not to contract the disease.

People-Centered Tuberculosis Care Verses Standard Directly Observed Therapy: Study Protocol For a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Throughout the past six years, two outbreaks of tuberculosis occurred within the homeless population in the city of Toronto. With intensive care management and contact follow-up partnership with City of Toronto Shelter, Support and housing Administration Division, shelter staff, TB clinics, the provincial public health laboratory and community partners, the Toronto Public Health (TBH) was able to effectively manage these outbreaks (Toronto Public Health, 2016). TBH created a program to help homeless shelters, and drop-in operators apply the correct protocols to essentially reduce TB transmission risk by enforcing environmental control measures (Toronto Public Health, 2016). Similarly, implementing Florence Nightingale’s theories, found in the novel Notes on Nursing, developed an imperative understanding that the patients’ wellbeing is dependent on their surrounding environment. City of Toronto TB program for the under-housed, homeless and correctional population with tuberculosis, is based on Florence Nightingale’s theories of providing ventilation and warming, maintain cleanliness of rooms and walls, and ensuring observation of the sick.

Tuberculosis is spread from person to person through droplet infection. In other words, when an active victim coughs, they eject millions of tiny infected aerosol droplets of sputum into the air, and when another person breathes in the Mtb, the bacteria nestle in the lungs, make themselves at home, and immediately begin multiplying. Contrary to popular belief, although tuberculosis is contagious, it is not as highly contagious as compared to other infectious diseases. Around one in three close contacts, mainly immediate family and intimate friends, and one in ten remote contacts of an infected individual, consequently became infected as well, through exposure to contaminated air (Tuberculosis). This nature of tuberculosis often caused tragedies in households, killing off entire families at a time, since the most frequent visitors were

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. It is generally spread from person to person through inhalation of contaminated aerosol droplets from an infected person through coughing, sneezing, or talking. Although generally affecting the lungs, the disease can spread to other parts of the body via the bloodstream. Generalized symptoms of tuberculosis include a chronic cough, fever, and night sweats. There are multiple diagnostic assays that can be used to test for either Tuberculosis disease or for M. Tuberculosis bacterium. Tuberculosis has been shown to exist as a problem throughout the world since ancient civilizations. Although once thought to be eradicated, Tuberculosis is still a

This particular case study is about controlling tuberculosis (TB) in china. At the moment tuberculosis is what causes most deaths in china. The case study discusses in length about the way china took part in an intervention to attempt to control. China set about implementing this intervention by trying to revitalizing its this was done by china revitalizing its previously unsuccessful tuberculosis program and instead launch the 10 year infectious and endemic disease control project to reduce its TB epidemic (Skolnik 2012). DOTS was recommended by the World Health Organization as a TB control strategy, this basically trained health workers in how to supply medication for individuals who were diagnosed with TB. According to the World Health Organization ‘’the most cost-effective way to stop the spread of TB in communities with a high incidence is by curing it’’ Implementing the DOTS strategy secured the result that china attained a 95 percent rate of curing for people who were already diagnosed with TB, within just two years of adopting DOTS.

Tuberculosis is among the fatal diseases that are spread through the air. It’s contagious, meaning that it spreads from one infected individual to another, and at times it spreads very fast. In addition to being contagious, the disease is an opportunist infection as it takes advantage of those with weak defense mechanism, and especially the ones with terminal diseases like HIV and AIDS. Tuberculosis is therefore among the major concerns for the World Health Organization due to its contagious nature (World Health Organization 1).