Flu Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

One manner in which probability is used in public health practice is determining whether or not the risks outweigh the benefits in receiving a flu vaccine. The risks include flu-like symptoms and pain in the injection area. The benefits include better resistance to certain strains of the flu. This would influence individuals in the clinical setting in determining if the current flu vaccine is going to be beneficial for the clients in the clinical atmosphere. The problems could result if there is a flu epidemic and the clients were not treated with the vaccine. As the flu would spread throughout the ...

Avian influenza refers to an infectious disease that originates from wild birds and can be transmitted to humans through contact with domesticated birds. The avian flu virus initially originated from wild birds, and I have noted that they are not usually affected by this illness but spread the virus to birds that are domesticated or raised for food like ducks, turkey, chicken, and pigeons. Avian influenza is highly pathogenic and has led to severe outbreaks in birds that are domesticated mostly in the Asian and Middle East region. There are several types of avian flu, but the most common ...

Entry One: When I Am Old, I Shall Wear Purple

The first thing I thought of when I considered the idea of aging issues was a poem by Jenny Joseph, who wrote Warning, the first lines of which are, “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple/ With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me” (Sachteleben 2009). Joseph was born in 1932 in England composed this ode to being elderly in 1961. Although she grew up in a different generation, Joseph’s poem still resonates. In some ways, there is a certain freedom for the elderly. Many people spend their younger lives trying to do the right thing, ...

Stimulus theory

Human being responds to alteration in internal and external environment, to produce a behavior that depicts their life. Availability of cigarette to someone for a long time makes him/her become acquainted with the smoking environment thus producing a stimulus effect. This stimulus effect makes one to view smoking as the order of the day and normal activity. Therefore, at the end of the day, the environment availability of the cigarette smoking and internal vision of smoking as order of the day result to smoking.

Social cognitive theory

Provision of the basic for intervention strategies help people acquire and maintain curtain behavior patterns. The strategies emanates ...

With the start of the 21st century, children’s death across the world had become a controllable phenomenon, mainly because most of the killer diseases that took away their lives especially in the developing and underdeveloped had already found cure, vaccines as well as preventable measures all across the world. Various non-governmental organizations such as the United Nation’s Children’s Fund and World Health Organization had set camps in most regions across the globe and especially in Africa, Asia and South America. These are some of the regions that had been heavily affected by children-related illnesses and this helped a ...

Internet-enabled self-diagnosis is nowadays prevalent due to the presence of search engines that deliver information within seconds. A variety of health-related websites avails data on any disease in today’s hyper-connected world. The information might be useful to a person or not implying the websites allow a two-way communication process due to a feedback channel (Schmidt, 2012). Mostly, people report diseases symptoms via social media thus allowing experts to search and monitor diseases. To this end, this paper examines the advantages and disadvantages of tracking diseases outbreak via the social media.
A key disadvantage of data available on social ...