Malaria
According to the ONE CAMPAIGN approximately 219 people live in the world with malaria and 90% of those who died from malaria are from sub-Saharan Africa. There are many important risk factors that are highly associated with malaria. Those who are poor in these undeveloped countries live in places where mosquito density tends to be high and because they are unable to afford instecide treated nets over their beds when they are asleep or spray that they could potentially spray around their rooms, they are more exposed being bitten by the mosquitoes. They also live near stagnant water where mosquitoes actually live and hang around and because they cannot remove the water they are surrounded with mosquitoes so they are more likely to
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Heredity is the most important risk factor associated with osteoporosis because if parents or grandparents have had bad signs of osteoporosis then there is a higher risk of the disease developing. (http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/menopause/hic_menopause_and_osteoporosis.aspx)
Diseases can be classified into many ways but in this Assignment we have grouped diseases with their similar causes. The International Classification of Diseases is a tool that epidemiologists would use for health management and clinical purposes. It helps to classify and monitor the incidence and prevalence of diseases and other health problems. These health problems may be recorded on different health and vital records such as health records and death certificates.
Diseases can be classified with their similar causes such as Infectious disease, Environmental disease and Degenerative diseases. Having diseases associated with their cause makes it easier to decide the reason a disease has developed and how it has developed. When causes are associated with diseases you are able to determine what other diseases can develop in order to prevent them. This
Malaria is a very contagious parasite transmitted through mosquitoes to humans. Those at risk are individuals living in areas conducive to the breeding of mosquitoes, especially those that allow the mosquitoes to complete their growth cycle. Everyone is at risk
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Section A (AO1): I will be focusing on communicable and non-communicable diseases are, how they are caused, types of them and the signs and symptoms of one of each and also how they are diagnosed.
In order to compare and contrast these diseases they are put into two groups based on the times that they develop in the human body.
An infectious disease happens when a pathogen goes in the body, multiplies, and causes illness. This is because the body is not strong enough to protect itself from an attack. Pathogens such as bacteria and viruses invade human and animals. Parasites are living organisms that live in their hosts which feed them and enable them to reproduce. Assigning codes for infectious or parasitic diseases can include combination or multiple codes. Use multiple codes when the patient has more than one diagnosis, a diagnosis with an etiology/manifestation connection, or a diagnosis and complications when there is no combination code available. Assign code V08 for a patient with asymptomatic HIV infection. Assign code 042 for a patient with an HIV-related
Throughout this assignment I am going to be looking into the health and social topic of communicable and non-communicable diseases. I will be investigating into various aspects of two specific diseases. A high level of knowledge will be demonstrated with a detailed description of both communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as an understanding of epidemiology. I will then find a communicable and non-communicable disease example and describe the biological basis of each disease with an explanation to how the body responds to the disease. A list of at least three of the different signs and symptoms which are produced and displayed with the disease will then be shown. The changes shown as a result from the disease
Malaria (also called biduoterian fever, blackwater fever, falciparum malaria, plasmodium, Quartan malaria, and tertian malaria) is one of the most infectious and most common diseases in the world. This serious, sometimes-fatal disease is caused by a parasite that is carried by a certain species of mosquito called the Anopheles. It claims more lives every year than any other transmissible disease except tuberculosis. Every year, five hundred million adults and children (around nine percent of the world’s population) contract the disease and of these, one hundred million people die. Children are more susceptible to the disease than adults, and in Africa, where ninety percent of the world’s cases occur and where eighty percent of the cases
The study of disease transmission is the review and examination of the examples, causes, and impacts of wellbeing and illness conditions in characterized populaces. It is the foundation of general wellbeing, and shapes strategy choices and confirmation based practice by recognizing hazard variables for ailment and focuses for preventive human services. ("Epidemiology - Wikipedia," n.d.)
As long as there are diseases there will be questions. These questions range from where did this disease originate? How did the disease form and
Malaria has been a huge problem among many developing nations over the past century. The amount of people in the entire world that die from malaria each year is between 700,000 and 2.7 million. 75% of these deaths are African children (Med. Letter on CDC & FDA, 2001). 90% of the malaria cases in the world are located in Sub-Saharan Africa. Once again, the majority of these deaths are of children (Randerson, 2002). The numbers speak for themselves. Malaria is a huge problem and needs to be dealt with immediately.
Non-infectious, or extrinsic, diseases aren‘t contagious or communicable. They are caused by a genetic defect or other cause like a dietary deficiency ore environmental factors. Since people in developed countries don‘t get as many communicable diseases anymore, non-infectious diseases have become the leading cause of death. Some non-infectious diseases, like certain cancers, are caused by environmental factors. A good example is smoking causing lung cancer and sun burning leading to skin cancer. Diabetes is another non-infectious disease that has become a huge problem. Type 2 diabetes is primarily caused by lifestyle and weight and generally strikes people over 40. Type 1 can strike at any age and is caused by a genetic defect, not an outside
The epidemiology triangle has three sides. The sides consist of the host, the agent and the environment. The host is the person who is affected by the disease. The agent is the organism causing the disease. “In the case of type II diabetes, the agent could be the absence of a substance.” (McMurray, 2006). The agent interacts with the host and the environment to cause the disease. The environment is all the outside conditions that make the host susceptible to the agent. One condition of the environment could be the health of the host.
The disease or illness is a situation that infects the human body or human brain makes annoyance or weakness in functions. Also, exhaustion for infected person and inconvenient syndrome. Pathology is a science that study diseases and classified different types of diseases called "NOSOLOGY". There are a lot of diseases around the world that affect different parts of the human body such as SARS disease. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a disease caused by SARS virus it called sometimes "CORONA" that has many syndromes, spread easily, and has too many ways to protect.
Because improvements in nutrition and sanitation have been made, many epidemics have ended. As longevity of life increases, chronic diseases have taken the place of infectious disease as the leading cause of death. The different modes of transmission, disease development, and disease spectrum are all important factors to consider when studying the transmission of communicable diseases. It is also important to know about emerging infectious diseases. It is important to be aware of these diseases so that signs of these symptoms can be easily recognizable to provide the best patient care.