Crohn's disease

Survival of the fittest. In the early days, simple diseases were treated using herbs as medicines; as our knowledge on diseases and medicines progressed, we are now able to threat a whole range of diseases. Nevertheless, there are still diseases which cannot be cured since their origin lies in our DNA. DNA provides the building blocks of our body, it determines for example our sex, hair and eye color, character, and susceptibility for certain diseases. Current technology is able to decipher DNA,…

Huntington’s Diseases: Huntington disease (HD) is a hereditary, neurodegenerative disease with physical, cognitive and emotional symptoms. Huntington disease is caused by a mutation within the gene that produces the protein known huntingtin. In people with HD, the CAG sequence is repeated too many times at the beginning of the gene. That causes cells to manufacture a harmful protein known mutant huntingtin. The mutant huntingtin protein causes certain parts of the brain to die – specifically the…

In the book Survival of the Sickest, many interesting claims are made that have the same general idea that diseases still exist today because they had some sort of evolutionary benefit in our past and are the result of historical events. Two of the very interesting claims that are briefly touched upon are that Africans Americans have a higher chance of getting hypertension than other races and that the hemochromatosis mutation actually helped our ancestors survive the bubonic plague. These two…

MEASLES According to the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), Rubeola, or “red” measles, is a highly contagious respiratory disease spread by coughing, sneezing, or simply being in close contact with someone who is infected with it, even when the rash is not visible. Measles tends to be more severe in adults than in children, with a higher fever, more prominent rash, and more complications. Symptoms start with a fever, cough, runny nose, red irritated eyes, sore throat with tiny white…

social, and environmental aspects. All these dimensions converge together to form particular places of health that influence disease exposure and transmission. King asserts that a political ecology framework applied to health provides insight into “how health is situated within political, economic, cultural, and environmental systems that intersect to shape the spread of disease and decision-making options” (King 49). By taking into account these dynamic multiscalar processes, we can see how…

Reflective Learning and Writing, Assessment 2 Step 1 In this reflective learning task it will discuss why poor countries have a predominance of infectious diseases as opposed to the lifestyle-related diseases of wealthy countries. Such as obesity, diabetes, lung cancer, alcohol and drug use. This reflective learning task will also include my opinion of the global health inequalities that exist currently and how we can resolve them. For examples poverty, hygiene, access, wealth, resources,…

Infectious Diseases Infectious diseases are spread through four methods of transmission they are 1. Respiratory tract transmission 2. Fecal-Oral transmission 3. Direct contact transmission 4. Blood contact transmission Respiratory tract Infectious diseases are transmitted via the respiratory tract and they can range from a mild cold to many life threatening diseases. This is the most common method of transmission of infectious diseases in an early childhood environment. Germs pass through the…

lazy and try to make it easier on them, then clients or even the cosmetologist could both be affected. Although some diseases that are introduced in the salon are not contagious there are other diseases that are very serious to people’s well being. Skin diseases especially on the hands, affect one in five hairstylists. In fact, skin diseases are the number one occupation-related disease in America. Many chemicals produce symptoms ranging from itchy rash to serious burns or allergies. In the…

affecting the institution in two ways (Scott 2015: 34). First, infectious disease outbreaks posed a direct threat to social contact between citizens and the government (Scott 2015: 34). If the government allowed the disease to rage unchecked, the legitimacy of the state would be questionable. Plus, to go against the Resolution would put them on a difficult position as their humanity would be questionable. Second, emphasis on disease also fits the biomedical of health (Scott 2015:…

infectious diseases have disappeared and chronic diseases have risen. Epidemics such as obesity have caused the social models of health to improve order to more effectively improve the treatment of patients. A representation of this is the change from the medical model to the more modern socials model. This is due to current health epidemics being more complicated than just the patient’s physical health. With the increasing prevalence of obesity, diseases such as diabetes, ischemic heart disease…