Epidemiology essays

Introduction Diabetes is one of most prevalent health problems causing serious concern among care providers. It is a major killer disease across the globe and it exists in two categories namely, type I diabetes mellitus and type ...

Introduction Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRs) is a critical condition that arise from an inflammatory reaction that has been delocalized. Within the realms of its epidemiology, survey done by Boehne, Sasse and Karch...

Part 1 The health care system especially in United States have shown a critical perpetuation in health care related issues, therefore causing an overwhelming experience in the American Nurse Association and the healthcare organiz...

Introduction There are three types of descriptive epidemiologic studies; case reports, case series and surveys. Case report descriptive studies are those that covering individual animals or people. The number of cases is very sma...

Discussion One There are occupational risks associated with the diagnosis and testing of tuberculosis in hospitals especially if health practitioners do not carefully follow the instructions on using tuberculin, a Tuberculosis (T...

Definition Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, is the unexpected death of an infant that is less than 1 year old and usually whose cause of death is not obvious before it is investigated (CDC, 2017). Epidemiology (Age Groups) ...

Introduction Cholera is an acute and life-threatening infection caused by ingestion of bacterium vibrio Cholerae present in contaminated foods or drinks. In 2010, the Haitian Ministry of public health was notified of a sudden inc...

Introduction An outbreak is considered to be present when there is a sudden rise in cases of occurrence of a given disease among a group of people at a particular place and time or even a larger geographical area that has severe ...