Epidemiology Essay Examples and Topics. Page 3

The efficacy of the Dengvaxia vaccine against Dengue fever in the Philippines was investigated in this study. For this reason, the spread of dengue disease was termed epidemic Dengavaxia in the Philippines.

For example, lack of research and protection gear highlights a gap that needs to be addressed by changing the education practices. The population can use education applications to learn more about the virus and ways [...]

The government needs to be on the frontline to offer the right resources, medical supplies, and medicines that will maximize the fight against COVID-19 and protect the lives of more people who already have the [...]

The action of the illness causes an increase in the permeability of cell membranes and progressed transport of albumin-rich fluid into the interstitial tissue of the lung and the lumen of the alveoli.

The attempts to cure syphilis and the campaign to wipe out polio implied both similarities and differences. To begin with, one should state that the similarities referred to the universal role of both syphilis and [...]

It is widely accepted that the overall conditions in the US correction facilities, along with the background lifestyles of some inmates, lead to a dramatic disease rate in cells.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Guillain-Barre Disease and the swine flu epidemic of 1976-77, to discuss their causes and outcomes, and to find out why the Guillain-Barre Disease was deadlier than [...]

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the current situation in the world caused by COVID-19 and to suggest possible changes that will occur as a result of what has happened.

In 1918, the world saw the spread of one of the deadliest global pandemics in history known as the Spanish Influenza.

The professionals in the field are the most critical actors in investigating the origins of the virus and monitoring the dynamics of its distribution.

The committee was asked to outline the borders of practice, use of equipment, triaging methods, as well as the rights of nurses for self-determination in regards to the management and containment of the diseases.

Thus, the paper will present the theoretical understanding of descriptive epidemiology, show how this concept is used in public health nursing, and demonstrate the application of descriptive epidemiology to understand the issue of breast cancer.

This paper discusses the findings of the article "Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic" by Pfefferbaum and North. Consequently, the mental well-being of the public and healthcare workers is at risk.

Cancer is prevalent in the current world, and though the rate of incidence and morbidity is important in research, the mortality rate is the most helpful in this website because it translates the gravity of [...]

Thirdly, a relapse can occur due to the re-emergence of the blood-stage parasites from the parasites in the liver. The female Anopheles mosquito is an important organism in the distribution of the plasmodium, a parasite [...]

Nowadays, malaria is spread in the territories which are good for malaria mosquitoes' life, where it is warm and wet; thus, malaria is mostly dislocated in African countries.

The aim of this Health Promotion Plan is to improve the situation with infection diseases spreading among the injection drug users due to the social importance of this problem and the high level of mortality [...]

In our paper, we will look at the crux of the issue, its importance, factors that might influence the scale of the problem, and make some claims about the possible origins of the problem and [...]

The causative agent is one of the different forms of hepatitis viruses that trigger inflammation and affect the proper functioning of the liver.

Transmission of the diseases is also another area that generated debate in the entire course of The Plague and during the initial stages of AIDS.

Concerning that, the author claims that since this subtype of influenza is the cause of many deaths in poultry, then it will be the most likely cause of the human pandemic.

The economic instability, the lack of education and improper health care facilities all attribute to the spread of the epidemic in the black community which is set to rise in the coming years.

The origins of the Spanish flu were initially believed to lie in China and arrive at the rest of the world as a result of a rare mutation in a common flu virus; but later [...]

One of the viruses is the influenza virus which is not dangerous by itself, but the complications after the illness can cause different kinds of complications and even death.

According to the article of Genevive Kieger, the symptoms of the H1N1 virus are identical to the symptoms of normal flu.

The article gives the information about the condition in the society and provides us with the statistics about the disease cases in the United States and all over the world.

The interest and attention invoked by this paper were largely due to the fact that it appeared to provide a biological means through which MMR vaccine resulted in autism.

The latter groups consist of diseases transmitted from a vector as a result of a pest or insect bite that may contain the virus or the bacteria that cause the infection.

China's Ministry of Health informed WHO in mid- February 2003 of the occurrence in Guangdong province of 305 cases of "atypical pneumonia" and reported that the spread of the illness was "under control".

It is a respiratory disease which normally grows in the cells that line the back of the throat and in the cells that line the lungs.

Scientists have determined that the etiological agent of SARS is a coronavirus, which is believed to be an animal virus that "crossed the species barrier to humans recently due to ecological changes or changes in [...]

Emerging diseases refer to the newly identified pathogens that have been recognized in the past few decades that lead to a new manifestation of diseases.

Lewis points out that, "HIV/AIDS has sabotaged all of the socioeconomic indices, and the continued damaging western policies in trade and aid and debt, serve to drive the nails into the coffins".

A detailed description of a place where the disease is located allows one to understand its geography and focus on a particular area for the study to estimate the probability of contamination of different communities.

This paper briefly discusses the agent and environmental characteristics of the disease, its signs, symptoms, and treatment, providing a basis for the public health nurse's clinical practice.

The major concern of the US healthcare sector is the gradual improvement of the health of the nation via the elimination of the main causes for the deterioration of people's state and education that might [...]

Due to an easy way of spreading and the gravity of the consequences, it is necessary to prevent the dissemination of tuberculosis.

The purpose of their descriptive and qualitative study was to focus on Norwegian healthcare workers' involvement in treating EVD patients in Sierra Leone.

As a part of them, TB tests, training for employees about tuberculosis and other infections, and HR policies should help to prevent such situations in the future.

An epidemic caused socioeconomic disruptions and resulted in the loss of many lives, which created a need to present more effective ways to prevent any outbreaks of the disease.

Nevertheless, access to health care and the quality of treatment are not the only factors contributing to the resurgence of TB. As compared to the worldwide statistics, the U.S.is not included in the list of [...]

The disparity of populations and countries with different developmental statuses implies the varying levels of exposure to health threats, one of the most dangerous of which is infectious diseases.

In recent years, basic epidemiological patterns have been observed in many parts of the world with political and economic instability, increased migration, and the implementation of irrigation measures.

To obtain a comprehensive picture of the issue, it is necessary to identify the main categories of the population at risk.

The report aims to show that clinicians and nurses should discuss AIDS and associated risks with their patients to enhance individuals' health outcomes and eliminate the prevalence of the disease.

Firstly, it is necessary to understand the meaning of the term and the alterations that occur in one's body due to inflammation.

Ensuring the safety of public health is largely possible due to the development of epidemiology as the science involved in preventing and controlling the outbreaks of dangerous diseases.

As has been mentioned above, one of the peculiarities of the 2017-2018 outbreak was the duration of the investigation aimed at detecting the causes of the spread of the disease.

The present paper will discuss the role and responsibility of nurses working in primary care in recognizing and responding to the threat of the Zika virus.

In the report, the general information about the illness is stated, as well as the history of the disease and its symptoms and signs.

The validity of this statement can be illustrated, in regards to the fact that, as practice indicates, a good half of practicing Christians in the U.S.opposes the policy of vaccination.

In this regard, BRFSS is considered to be one of the most important tools for enhancing the understanding of the epidemiology and control of cancer/chronic diseases.

It is extremely important to learn about the early history of HIV/AIDS, since this knowledge can offer a clue to the problem of curing the disease or at least stop the rapid expansion of the [...]

It is still unknown which drugs will be used in the experiment but it is expected that researchers will agree on the matter during the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene conference that will [...]

According to the article, the government was also identifying new measures to treat every Ebola patient in the country. The American government was also undertaking new measures in order to deal with the disease.

The 2009 Novel Influenza A pandemic brought to the forefront the critical issues of disaster preparedness and planning. The health administrators in Tennessee understood the value of cooperation by deploying the services of the Tennessee [...]

The seriousness of the problem is obvious, and it is necessary to work on the prevention of such statistics in the future.

Therefore, the rate attempts to portray a ratio of the number of cases to the total time that a population is at risk.

The reason for this is that as the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease has shown, the continuation of the ongoing social and technological progress does not make humanity any less susceptible what can be [...]

Affecting large swaths of territory to the northern and southern parts of the country, the civil war led to the collapse of the nation's health infrastructure and the breakdown of health services in the country.

Naturally, the problem could not remain unnoticed by the Centers for Disease Control: the Big Cities Health Coalition was formed to take measures regarding the virus and combat the consequences caused by it.

It is a measurement of the frequency with which a disease may occur in a certain population in a definite period of time. The example is the number of diabetes patients in a hospital divided [...]

The spread of the epidemic of influenza is primarily promoted by a decrease in the immunity of the children of large cities.

One of the main characteristics of epidemiology is a distribution that is focused on the variation of health issues and their outcomes.

A histological analysis of SARS will be developed to clarify the main signs and symptoms of the disease, its epidemiology and etiology, the histological changes, and the existing treatments.

The investigation of a chronicle of the events that led to such an outcome should help to clarify the main reasons and comprehend the peculiarities of the case to avoid similar situations in the future.

This high level of casualty is a result of inequality in the access to health care services, poor service delivery in the health care industry due to underfinancing, poor allocation of health care resources that [...]

The quantity of instances that show that the occurrence of an outbreak depends on the present agent of an infection, the size of the population that has been affected by the infection, previous instances of [...]

According to a report by the Center for Disease Control, the first case of the disease was noticed one week after the pilgrims came back from the Hajj.

Drawing from a study by Ngatchou, the choice of the word human is linked to the fact that the virus only causes disease in human beings.

With reference to the United States, the main objective of this paper is to analyze the country's medical, institutions, and cultural responses to the threat of Ebola.

The level of awareness about sexually transmitted diseases among people is higher compared to that of tuberculosis, owing to the fact the risk factors of the latter are hard to identify. The risk population of [...]

Virus type A is mainly hosted by the aquatic birds, and their transmission might result in devastating epidemics among the poultry, thus increasing the vulnerability of the people to the infection.

According to McBride and Fielding, most of the protein functions of the genome products of the virus have been elucidated and are well known.

On the outside, the virus is covered by a helical capsid that has a diameter of between 40-50nm and cross-striations measuring 5nm. Transmission normally occurs at the late stage of the disease or following the [...]

The disease is also believed to have come to Europe from the black mice that were often seen on the merchants' boats.

Politics and the securitization of the threat of the Ebola virus have influenced responses in different ways. When villagers feared that government and healthcare workers were part of the Ebola epidemic, they undermined all efforts [...]

This is one of the pitfalls that should be avoided because it can result in many violent conflicts. This is one of the details that can be identified.

Ebola is a viral disease that attacks all the cells of the body in a systematic process starting with the white blood cells.

A flu pandemic can be controlled through four steps that would be aimed at reducing the rate of spread of the disease and reducing its impact on the community.

The critical rationale for diagnostic criteria is that it facilitates the establishment of the threshold for diagnosis of an ailment in those circumstances where the symptoms of the disease manifest themselves.

There is a need to address the issue of zoonotic diseases in order to avoid the emergence of deadly diseases that may put lives of people in the society at risk.

This article is aimed at discussing the way in which U.S.healthcare organizations can respond to the threat of Ebola epidemic in the country.

This article is aimed at examining the efforts of the American government to overcome the effects of the Ebola epidemic. In particular, the Department of Defense intends to send more troops to West Africa in [...]

Paucity of data has affected the capability of global health policy makers to prepare for the Ebola contagion. In the near future, it is likely to extend to other parts of the world.

While the CDC has provided the future possible projections for Ebola, the WHO as acted an authoritative source by providing data which the global health community and other stakeholders depend on for updates and situation [...]

The stakeholders include the South African government, the Anglo American employees, the populations of surrounding communities, families of employees, the Global Council on HIV/AIDS, The National Union of Mineworkers, pharmaceutical companies and other multinational companies [...]

Second, the shift should also be introduced to the employment environment with regard to the duties of health care professionals during pandemic.

A synthesis of experimental results in which biopsy specimens were used to develop the argument against the use of DDT on the premise that chronic exposure of the highly lipid and carcinogenic DDT and its [...]

The parties in command of the response to the outbreak, as well as the coordination of activities of the various state and local agencies are some of the issues addressed in this scenario.

The first strategy will entail community needs assessment and diagnosis of HIV to ascertain the extent of infection and provide a backdrop to the work plan on how to approach the issue.

This is a programme plan for controlling the TB epidemic in Swaziland as one of the developing countries with highest prevalence of TB infections in the world.

This negative side of the warfare led to the re-interpretation of human security on the onset of the Cold War that ushered in the second phase of the human security approach.

The protozoan thrives in the gut of the fly and spread when the sand fly bites humans. This has affected the distribution of the sand fly species in the country.

It is also training, collecting, and disseminating the health related pieces of information to the Floridians and visitors thus empowering the society.

The use of condom has been proposed as an effective way of curbing the spread of the disease. This discourages the use of condoms.

The above aspects account for some of the factors that led to the DDT ban in countering the spread of malaria.

It was reported that the population of some birds in certain parts of the United States had reduced. Their activities led to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States.

This study investigates the use of vitamin D for the deterrence and cure of tuberculosis and other contagious infections. The unearthing of vitamin D as a therapeutic agent begins with the detection of rickets as [...]

This case study analyses the relationship between malaria and agriculture and some of the measures which have been put in place to lower the occurrence of the disease.

The fact that India is the second most populous country in the world today and has one of the highest rates of HIV infection, justifies the creation of the said non-profit group and why the [...]

The problem with HIV/AIDS is not only limited to the mortality rate and the epidemiology of the disease but also the social problems that it brings.

Individuals in these groups have taken advantage of the fact that AIDS is manageable to engage in dangerous unprotected sexual activities.

The UK enjoyed high economic growth in the last half of the twentieth century and the early twenty first, however, the global economic recession tool a toll on them.

The article written by Rena Fox is aimed at informing the audience about the approval of two drugs that can be used for the treatment of hepatitis C.

More to the point, the people in the given area will be unable to acquire information concerning the current status of the disease and the existing treatment methods.

A blend consisting of the virus and a standard virus from the laboratory is made to form a hybrid that is later planted in chicken eggs.

The much that physicians have done is to develop medication to reduce the effects of the disease; the major challenge hindering the development of a cure is the different shapes that the virus takes when [...]

In the US, the cases of newly acquired hepatitis B virus infections have reduced significantly due to the success of public health management in the execution of an intensive national immunization policy.

As the cases of the disease continued to increase unabated among African Americans, the government and health care system had to revise their preventive strategies to help in combating the epidemic.

He was instrumental in the acceptance of anaesthesia in the medical field. Snow's research undertakings in relation to cholera are still relevant in the contemporary field of medicine.

Probiotics can be used to treat cases of diarrhea in order to minimize the effects of the bacteria causing the conditions.

The aim of the study was to define the prevalence of the various genotypes, drug resistance isolates and cluster patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Taipei in order to present information on the possible methods and [...]

Culture: This article does not discuss cultural issues, for instance, the impact of the cultural background and national peculiarities on the pandemic prevention.

This then implies that people of the African origin and the Haitians are more susceptible to Aids infection since they do not have the genetic mutation.

Communicable Diseases So as, to categorize communicable infections that pose a noteworthy threat to health care providers, it is crucial to identify the methods of spread of various forms of infectious agents.

The extent of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the region can be attributed to such things as; Sexual behavior-many men and women in the region have different sex partners concurrently; these may be in cases of [...]

In conclusion, the analysis of social, cultural and political situations in Sub-Saharan region and San Francisco has revealed that that there are a great number of factors contributing to the spread of the epidemic.

The goal of this paper is to compare the impacts of the epidemic on these two regions by looking at the driving factors and the intervention efforts by the church.

By the year 2005, the organization had committed a lot of its funds in the fight against HIV/AIDS. In addition, CIDA conducts seminars that are designed to educate the public on ways of fighting the [...]