Essays on Mortality Rate

The world is gradually becoming virtually smaller this is because of the rapid globalization being experienced everywhere. As we experience rapid globalization so is our level of knowledge meaning we can perform so many activities with ease and far much better than we used to before. We have less mortality rate as people are living longer than before. An improved health care service has also promoted people living longer than before. Canada has seen a decrease in fertility rate especially in the twentieth century and when we combine this with a low mortality rate; it means that Canadian population ...

The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is one of the most recent epidemics in Western Africa. People fear this type of disease due to its contagious characteristic and high mortality rate. The EVD is caused by the groups of Ebola viruses and it could affect humans and several species of primates. In 2015, there are more than 28,000 cases of EVD reported in West Africa which resulted to more than 11,000 deaths (Uyeki et al. np). Challenges to combat the effects of this epidemic have been the major barriers in West Africa such as lack of resources and ...

A total of 57 million deaths were reported worldwide in 2008, and the majority of those deaths were caused by either non-cardiovascular diseases (36 million; 63%) or cardiovascular diseases (17.3 million; 30%) according to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2011). The highest mortality rates are associated with ischemic heart diseases and cerebrovascular diseases, which account for 45% and 29% of the cardiovascular-related deaths in men and 37% and 33% of cardiovascular-related deaths in women, respectively (see Figure 1). Ischemic heart disease is considered the most common cardiovascular cause of death as it accounts for 7.6 million deaths worldwide (Institute ...

According to Healthy People 2020 (2017), DM tends to occur when the body fails to produce sufficient insulin or fails to respond effectively to insulin. Insulin is responsible for the release of sugar required to energize the body’s cells. Therefore, when the insulin signaling system is affected, the body suffers from elevated levels of blood glucose, leading to metabolic abnormalities. Healthy People 2020 (2017) identifies three types of DM as expounded below: Type 1 Diabetes- This condition is commonly found in children and young adults. Affected individuals experience extremely high blood sugar levels as a result of the ...

Assignment 2: Middleville Regional Healthcare

Assignment 2: Middleville Regional Healthcare

The Governing Board is objectified towards determining the organization’s strategic direction by means of identifying the external challenges and opportunities and utilizing the internal resources in such manner that it enhance the outcome and efficiency of the organization. The strategic initiatives are incorporated under the strategic plans that are developed by the board members which encompasses the strategies, budgets and responsibilities that are further delegated to the respective departments. In this manner, the continuous analysis of market and the forces that effect the organizational efficiency and productivity takes place and the Governing Board ...

Introduction

Teenage pregnancy refers to the pregnancy in human females that are aged twenty years and below. Pregnancy in girls is caused by sexual intercourse after the girl has become viable, that can ovulate, which can even be before her first menstrual period but most cases occurs after the onset of her periods. This issue has many menaces alongside it, following the fact that most of the girls in this age bracket have not developed thus experience many obstetric issues. Moreover, many risks are associated with teenage pregnancy some of which include: premature labour, low birth weight, anaemia, and pre-eclampsia, ...

Medicare and Medicaid

The current paper aims to discuss the prevalence of Medicare and Medicaid and enlighten the influence of Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the hospital system of the United States. Medicare offers the healthcare insurance to the individuals who are aged 65 years or more and have provided their services to country. Medicare also provides financial assistance to the young individuals with disabilities or chronic diseases. The program was originally initiated in accordance with the legislation of Medical Care Act in the year 1956 in order to provide financial assistance in healthcare services to the military personnel (Chan et al., ...

HCA 302. Health Care Organization

Introduction Health care systems are essential in providing security to nation-states world-over, which goes beyond health issues; entire economies depend on such vital system for security. One only has to imagine the devastation of a population by an infectious disease such as HIV/AIDS. Despite having some similarities, health systems vary from one country to the other. Notably, nations design as well as develop their health systems in line with their needs as well as the available resources. The United States and Canada share a border, and thus there is a natural inclination to compare the two health care regimes. ...

Introduction

The prevalence of Affordable Care Act (ACA) has reduced the healthcare cost and has extended the eligibility of Medicaid for 32 million Americans. The effect of Medicaid on the healthcare of elderly remains hindered due to the lack of access to care, whereas its effect on the healthcare outcomes have remained optimum and children (Fairman et al., 2011). The combined objective of Medicaid in accordance with the Affordable Care Act incorporates the provision of healthcare services to the low-income parents, children, pregnant women and disabled individuals and hence, the healthcare services for the nondisabled adults are not addressed by ...

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Application of Drone Technology to Facilitate Effective HIV Diagnostic and Treatment Services to Children in Rural Malawi

INGO UNICEF 1Broadway, New NY 10022 USA Dear Sir, Drones without Borders (DWB) is an organization which has been created to serve HIV vulnerable children in rural Malawi through a partnership with ZipLine Drones. Our organization seeks to develop and implement an four-months program aimed at ensuring fast and continuous delivery of HIV test kits, results, and antiretroviral drugs to provide immediate medical attention to HIV positive children in rural, cut off, hard to access, often combat zone areas in Malawi. The mortality rate of the infected children has been on the rise due to lack of access ...

Arsenicosis is a medical condition that results from increased levels of arsenic elements in the bod and it is a global health concern that many states are vehemently fighting to eradicate. A study in 2007 noted that over 137 million people globally are victims of arsenic poisoning and many more face risks of exposure. For instance, the situation in Bangladesh has been alarming, where arsenic poisoning dates many decades back. Apparently, it has a population of over 156.6 million citizens and at least 90 percent face a chronic risk of exposure of the arsenic poisoning (Khan et al., 2003). ...

In preparing for this assignment, a list of all countries of the world by land area was obtained from the CIA website and was sorted in a spreadsheet from countries with the largest land area to countries with the smallest land area. A total of 224 countries were obtained, and after elimination of all countries with a land area smaller than Belgium, a total of 137 countries remained. Data on global infant mortality rates was obtained for each country in the reduced list and was recorded as deaths/1000 live births . To obtain a dissection of these figures in to ...

Demographic movements accentuate the fact that current and future trends in the social, political, and economic fronts are directly affected by the issue of an aging population. It is a reality for people regardless of race or culture. However, the rate at which demographic shifts differs in countries worldwide will have significant effects on developed and developing countries when saddled by a high number of ageing population. This is because in a typical developing country, baby boomers opt to delay having babies or starting their own families as they focus more on themselves and career advancement. The same problem ...

Voting is a representation of the democratic rights of the citizens through expressing their right to choose the leaders of their choice. In the United States of America, research shows that close to 40 percent of the total registered voters do take place in the voting exercise of the presidential candidates (Campbell 32). This value is known to increase as the midterm congressional elections are formed. I believe that voting should be made mandatory in the United States of America (Campbell 32). This is a clear strategy, which will ensure that the Americans ignoring their democratic right of voting ...

Definition:

Ebola virus, well known for its hemorrhagic effects produced inside as well as outside of body. This virus progresses with bleeding, which leads to organ failure and if not treated properly can also cause death. ("Ebola virus and Marburg virus - Mayo Clinic", 2016). Ebola is also termed as Ebola Hemorrhagic fever because of its hemorrhagic property and it is also known to cause the death of 90% effected people ("Ebola Virus: Symptoms, Treatment, and Prevention", 2016). There are 5 strains of this virus and four of them are known to cause deadly symptoms like hemorrhage. Ebola have its ...

The article “A Brief History of Medical Diagnosis and the Birth of the Clinical Laboratory”, by Darlene Berger, is an interesting read, which thoroughly explores the subject at hand. This article, which is Part 1 in a series of four articles, discusses medical advances from. “Ancient times through the 19th century.” Berger makes very succinct observations about advances in medicine and the advent of the clinical laboratory. She does an excellent job of objectively discussing many of the important discoveries in medical history, providing stirring examples of success and of failure in the context of medical history, and cites ...

(TITLE OF THE PAPER) (City and State of school) (Title Goes Here) 1. Briefly outline the specific issues that exist in the community (e.g. based on demographic data or other external source, or your observations if this is a real\community you are actually working in). Myanmar is suffering from an HIV epidemic which has increased since the last part of the 1980’s and needs financial support to treat those suffering from the disease. According to information found at the Humanitarian Practice Network Website, the numbers of people with HIV/AIDS seems to have leveled off. Although there are ...

Two of the most remarkable stories of growth in the past 3 decades has been the growht of China and India's economies, two countries. Their populations, when added together, make up one-third of the total population of the world. While India and China's development paths have been different, there are many similarities to their approaches. Both countries developed their private sector, deregulated laws, liberalized prices and opened their countries to foreign direct investment (Reddy 3). However, China and India have relied on different economic drivers for growth. China has focused its efforts on manufacturing and exporting goods, while much ...

Introduction

In past few years, one of the most significant developments in the world economy is the emergence of India and China as major forces in the global economy. The constant growth of these countries is expected to dominate the economy of the whole world for several decades. Both countries contribute as more than one-third of the world’s population. Since 1980, both economies have been successful in achieving remarkable poverty reduction and economic growth rate. In respect of economic growth, it seems that China and India both are similar as both of these countries have large geographies and populations. ...

Performance management is an important tool for the supervision of human resource in an organisation as it makes sure that the available scarce resources are utilised efficiently and effectively. The purpose of a performance management plan is to develop or design a planned, organised, systematic-wide methodology to process policy and performance measurement, evaluation and the enhancement of the health services being provided. According to Epstein and Manzoni, management control scholars have for a long time advocated for the alignment of strategy, structure, and systems that leads to a rise in a firm’s organisational performance standards needs to rise. ...

Mathematical model.

In 1985, Kallen, Arcuri and Murray (377-393) presented a simple mathematical model for the spread of the rabies epidemics to approximate the minimum width of a break and enable the control of the spatial progression of rabies.

Features and assumptions of the model.

The model developed by Kallen, Arcuri and Murray (377-393) was based on a deterministic approach where the fox populations were categorized into two groups, namely infective and susceptible foxes. In this classification, the infective foxes included those with rabies virus present in their saliva while the susceptible ones included those without traces of rabies virus in their saliva. One of the assumptions ...

Analysis of Diseases

Overview Chikungunya (CHIK) refers to a re-emerging arboviral disease transmitted by the mosquitos Aedes aegypty and Aedes albopictus (Pialoux 318). The virus belongs to the genus Alphavirus and family Togaviridae. The word chikungunya derives from Makonde language (spoken in Tanzania and northern Mozambique), where it means “to walk bent over” (Halstead 557). This name refers to the main feature of both chronic and acute phase of the disease a change in posture causes by the arthritis and arthralgia (Charrel, Lamballerie and Raoult 769).

History

The disease gained its name after the outbreak in Tanganyika, the modern Tanzania in 1952. However, ...

Breast cancer is identified as the most common cancer among women in the world (Chlebowski, Chen, Anderson, Rohan, Aragaki, Paskett, and Prentice, 2013). The prevalence rates have increased in the recent past, a trend associated with lifestyle attributes such as improper diets and lack of exercise. In as much as genetics play a contributory role in the development of breast cancer, a significant part is associated with these changes. An interesting aspect is that the ailment affects women differently in relation to differences in racial and ethnic considerations. In this regard, Asian women are the least affected group in ...

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Introduction

Parkinson Disease (PD) is a very complicated neurodegenerative condition including the motor and non-motor manifestations that lead to neuronal loss. Currently, only symptomatic therapies are available but nothing is known yet to prevent this degenerative process. This is a multi-factorial condition with multiple risk factors that includes increasing age, genetic vulnerability, and environmental determinants. All these factors mutually play a role in the pathogenic process of PD. Medical sciences have achieved major advances in understanding the process working behind PD development that are Nigral Dopaminergic Apoptosis, Protein ...

1. Introduction

Background of the Research

Ethiopia is a Sub-Saharan country located in the Horn of Africa. The population of Ethiopia is estimated to be over 100 million inhabitants, making it the most populated landlocked country in Africa, and the second most populated country in Africa after Nigeria. Ethiopia is the only country in the Sub-Saharan Africa which has got a history of having its alphabets and calendar. Paradoxically, Ethiopia which has possessed alphabets for centuries is still one of the most illiterate countries in the world. This is the reason why some writers refer to Ethiopia as one country with alphabet and ...

International Comparison of Data

International Comparison of Data Health indicators are defined by health scientists as quantitative features used to define health status of a population. Health indicators have direct influences on the health of a community and the indicators are used to characterize the health quality of the community. The United States and most of the European countries have favorable health indicators compared to other developed counties. The research paper is going to compare the health indicators of three countries including United States, Denmark and Ethiopia. Health indicators are used by the governments and other health agencies in guiding the healthy policy ...

Becky TysonDate April 26th, 2015Biology IIProfessor Raven

The human population has grown tremendously worldwide since time immemorial. Originally, there was one ancestor from whom the present 7 billion human populations grew (Miller & Spoolman, 2015). The original human ancestors lived in one particular part of the globe. However, as the population increased and the need for more resources and better living conditions emerged, the people spread to different parts of the earth. The origin of man is not well known yet. However, many theories have been proposed to explain this phenomenon. Most researchers believe that Homo sapiens originated from Africa from where its descendants moved to the ...

The study of infectious diseases has always been crucial to mankind because of the devastating effects it has had on the human race. The influenza epidemic, for example, occurred repeatedly in the 20 th and 21st century, spreading across large regions and multiple continents. Influenza in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people world wide. This was higher than the amount of people that died in World War I. About 500,000 fatalities occurred in the US which was approximately 28% of the US population at that time. The number of deaths that took place in 1957 and 1968 ...

Abstract

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is an infection which often develops as a result of poor handling of mechanical ventilation. Such as, poor nursing practice in caring for patients with difficulty in breathing can lead to microorganisms entering patient’s body through a tube inserted especially via mouth and nose of the patient. When these microorganisms get into the respiratory system they cause lung infection which is referred to as ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). In preventing this infection, it is important that nurses adopt best practices to reduce the incidence of VAP and provide quality care that is aimed at improving the ...

Introduction

Abortion is a sensitive aspect in the various dimensions of life, which include religious, cultural and political aspects. It is a concern that has led to public debate over the decades and an area of interest in the public health sector as evidenced by the World Health Organization. At least, a huge percentage of the world population come from countries where the practice is prohibited, and if permitted, it is on the grounds of saving a woman's life, such as in Kenya (Izugbara et al., 2015). However, despite the policies to manage the practice, it is important to appreciate ...

Abstract

Ventilation Associate pneumonia is a nosocomial infection that affects immobile patients, especially those admitted in the Intensive Care Unit. The management of these patients has been challenged and it triggered numerous studies on the most efficient ways of managing such patients. In the ward care of a patient that is ambulant and can describe changes in their condition it is easy not to pay attention to the positions of the patients. However, in the acute wards, the positioning of such patients is significant in prevention of complications. One of the main challenges is pneumonia. The positioning of the head ...

Infection in cancer patient with febrile neutropenia: epidemiology, microbiology and management

Abstract Febrile neutropenia (FN) is characterised by a decrease in neutrophils number to values below 500 cells/ mm3 and an occurrence of fever higher or similar to 38.3ºC. It commonly occurs in cancer patients as a result of chemotherapy regimens. Chemotherapy destroys carcinogenic cells but also attacks in many cases some normal cells including essential elements of the immune system. Fever is one of the characteristic symptoms of FN and is usually associated with the presence of an infection caused by various microorganisms. Bacteria, including Gram-positive isolates (currently dominating) and Gram-negative species (dominant in the 1970s), are usually ...

The demographic profile indicates the country's statistics regarding population growth, education, health, economy, urban growth and development and also the environmental status of the country. The project will undertake a demographic profile of the United States of America and that of China. Furthermore, the analysis will be given based on the demographic profile of these two countries.

U.S Demographic Profile Table

Population Growth Economy Education Health Rural Development Environment Demographic Profile Table for China Population Growth Economy Education Health

Rural and Urban Development

Environmental Analysis Introduction The demographic profile of China indicates that the country is in the fourth state of the Demographic Transition Theory. The profile ...

Executive summary

It is evident that Malaria remains to be one of the main issues affecting children in Sierra Leone. Essentially, the high child mortality rate resulting from Malaria infections in Sierra Leone has become a critical concern. This position has been reiterated by the National Health Sector Strategic Plan. The organization revealed that Malaria has become both a health, social and economic challenge to the country. In essence, it has been identified that the disease is the primary causative agent of children deaths in the nation. Although there are other diseases that account for children deaths, Malaria still remains a ...

What explains the decline in mortality in developed countries? Are there lessons to be learned in relation to the poor in developing countries today? I. Introduction

A. General Information

In general, the mortality level is deservedly considered to be among one of the characteristics that reveals both economic and social health of the certain state and that clearly describes the effectiveness of the policies that governments get used to adopt. In this context, the most significant particular demographic indicators are commonly the following: 1) Infant mortality rate; 2) Maternal mortality rate; 3) Mortality amid able-bodied citizens; 4) Mortality caused by external factors; ...

There are several causes of breast cancer. Cancer is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system of the body affects its organs (Lietzen, et al.,7). Breast cancer can recur even after treatment because of several factors, namely, age, medication administrated, other diseases that may compromise the immune system and the age of the individual. Ethnicity also plays a big part in whether or not an individual is more likely to get breast cancer. White women are more than likely to get breast cancer because they have a higher incidence of getting it. Ethnic minority groups such as ...

Health Care in Russia vs Health Care in the U.S.

According to the Institute of Medicine of National Academy of Sciences, the United States of America is a single developed industrial country that does not have universal health care. Instead there is a powerful health insurance system, partially funded by government through national programs. As a result 45% of total health care expenditures are spent on these programs (Sultz and Young 154). Unlike the U.S., Russian Federation has free universal medicine, and state constitution guarantees each citizen free health care services. Numerous debates rise regarding both American and Russian health care systems, their availability, effectiveness and expenditures. Each of the systems has ...

Q. 6.

In Kenya, the mortality rate of Rift Valley Fever (RFV) was reported to be 23 % between 30th November, 2006 and March 12, 2007. This percentage is a representative of the overall 684 cases reported and the 155 deaths reported. North Eastern province led with a total of 333 cases while Rift Valley had 183 cases reported. On the other hand, 141 cases were reported in Coast Province while 14 cases were reported in the Central region. The North Eastern part of Kenya had the least number of casualties reported; 13 cases. Out of the 684 cases described, only 234 cases were ...

Abstract

Obesity and breast cancer are key health issues for American women. Obesity has approximately reached epidemic percentages in the United States and is more widespread among American women. The breast cancer mortality rate persists to mount in Americans. A review of the recent literature was conducted to bring into focus the relationship of these two health problems as they relate to American women. The review is separated into three subjects, obesity prevalence and incidence, breast cancer incidence and mortality and the relationship between obesity and breast cancer. The two studies reviewed are facts of a connection between obesity and breast ...

World View and Newcomers to Canada

My family and I decided to emigrate to Canada for economic reasons and to experience a better quality of life in a stable, first world country. I also wanted to ensure that my children grew up in a country where their life-chances would be better and they could take advantage of free health care and social care; a country where the courts and the police are fair and not corrupt; a country with a completely free press and a democratic process that is transparent and accountable – and has been for decades. From a very early age I wanted to emigrate from Brazil and this urge strengthened ...

Introduction:

Losing a loved one is a very painful experience especially when someone is lost through maternal means. As far as culture diversity is concerned, many communities around the world have different expectations when it comes to maternal mortality on whether to lose the baby or the mom. In most communities, they opt for the child to die and the mom to survive while in others, they prefer the baby to survive and lose the mom even though such believers are very minimal around the world. Maternal mortalities of both the mothers and the infants are increasing at a very high level around ...