Examples of Diarrheal Diseases in the following topics:
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- Childhood mortality is high in developing countries where malnutrition, infectious diseases, and unsanitary conditions are widespread.
- In Asia, dengue fever, an infectious tropical disease, is a major cause of child mortality.
- Diarrheal diseases cause an estimated 1.4 million deaths per year in children under 5 years old.
- In developing countries, diarrheal diseases are also a leading cause of death from infections among persons with HIV.
- Poor nutrition is also an important factor in diarrheal disease risk.
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- The main diseases and health conditions prioritized by global health initiatives are sometimes classified under the terms diseases of affluence and diseases of poverty, although the impacts of globalization are increasingly blurring any such distinction.
- Examples of diseases of affluence include Type II diabetes, asthma, coronary heart disease, obesity, hypertension, cancer, and alcoholism.
- In 2008, nearly 80% of deaths due to non-communicable diseases, including heart disease, strokes, chronic lung diseases, cancers, and diabetes, occurred in low- and middle-income countries.
- These illnesses include measles, pertussis, diarrheal diseases, pneumonia, and polio.
- As the above discussion of diseases of poverty and diseases of affluence reveals, health trends are closely related to social, political, and economic patterns.
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- Infectious diseases, also known as transmissible diseases or communicable diseases, are clinically evident illnesses resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents.
- However, some infectious diseases remain a problem today.
- The top three single agent/disease killers are HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
- Normally not a problem to North Americans, malaria is the infectious disease most deadly to children worldwide.
- Assess the implications of infectious diseases in terms of health care and life expectancy of individuals
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- Furthermore, sexual transmission of disease grew with colonization.
- European colonization contributed to the spread of disease worldwide.
- The European contribution to global pathogen exposure created a "global homogenization of disease," where no border was left uncrossed in the spread of infectious diseases.
- From the beginning of the twentieth century onwards, the elimination or control of disease in tropical countries became a driving force for all colonial powers.
- Summarize the impact of European colonialism on the spread of infectious disease and beginnings of disease control
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- According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the leading causes of death for Americans are heart disease and cancer.
- Statistically, heart disease and cancer account for the most American deaths by far.
- Dementia is not a single disease, but rather a syndrome that is associated with a variety of different diseases, such as Alzheimer's.
- Most often, Alzheimer's disease is diagnosed in people over the age of 65.
- A person's body is more likely to encounter disease as he or she ages.
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- Preventive medicine, or preventive care, refers to measures taken to prevent diseases, rather than curing them or treating their symptoms.
- Polio vaccine, smallpox vaccine, measles vaccine, mumps vaccine and others have greatly reduced many childhood diseases.
- Preventive medicine, or preventive care, refers to measures taken to prevent diseases, rather than curing them or treating their symptoms.
- For example, a person with a family history of certain cancers or other diseases would begin screening at an earlier age and/or more frequently than those with no such family history.
- This data is outdated and was in fact significantly revised in subsequent reports of the leading causes of deaths, especially for obesity-related diseases.
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- Cystic fibrosis is the most common life-limiting autosomal recessive disease among people of European heritage.
- Race and health research, often done in the United States, has found both current and historical racial differences in the frequency, treatments, and availability of treatments for several diseases.
- Some argue that for many diseases, racial differences would disappear if all environmental factors could be controlled for.
- Taking the example of sickle-cell disease, in an emergency room, knowing the geographic origin of a patient may help a doctor doing an initial diagnosis if a patient presents with symptoms compatible with this disease.
- This is unreliable evidence with the disease being present in many different groups as noted above with the trait also present in some Mediterranean European populations.
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- Epidemiology is the study (or the science of the study) of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations.
- It is the cornerstone of public health, and informs policy decisions and evidence-based medicine by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive medicine.
- Major areas of epidemiological study include disease etiology, outbreak investigation, disease surveillance and screening, biomonitoring, and comparisons of treatment effects such as in clinical trials.
- Epidemiologists rely on other scientific disciplines like biology to better understand disease processes, statistics to make efficient use of the data and draw appropriate conclusions, social sciences to better understand proximate and distal causes, and engineering for exposure assessment.
- However, these fields often use health and disease in order to explain specifically social phenomenon (such as the growth of lay health advocacy movements), while social epidemiologists generally use social concepts in order to explain patterns of health in the population.
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- This susceptibility increases as these disease gets worse.
- Prevention of HIV infection, primarily through safe sex and needle-exchange programs, is a key strategy to control the disease.
- Antiretroviral treatment reduces the risk of death and complications from the disease.
- AIDS was first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1981 and its cause, HIV, was identified in the early 1980s.
- Medication can also include a decreased risk of transmission of the disease to sexual partners and a decrease in mother to child transmission.
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- Rapidly expanding industrial cities could be quite deadly, and were often full of contaminated water and air, and communicable diseases.
- Disease often spread through contaminated water supplies.
- In the 19th century, health conditions improved with better sanitation, but urban people, especially small children, continued to die from diseases spreading through the cramped living conditions.
- Tuberculosis (spread in congested dwellings), lung diseases from mines, cholera from polluted water, and typhoid were all common.