As a parent or an educator we aim to do all that we are capable to provide a healthy, happy future for all of our children while protecting them from anything that may bring harm to them. Unfortunately, some things are out of our control, for example Communicable and Acute illnesses, which include Airborne Transmitted illnesses, Blood Borne Transmitted illnesses, Contact (Direct and Indirect) Transmitted illnesses, Fecal/Oral Transmitted illnesses, and Common Acute Childhood illnesses. While illnesses may be out of our control, we as parents and educators can do what we can to protect our children by educating ourselves about the different signs and symptoms of illnesses and how to manage them. Children under the age of three are highly susceptible to communicable illnesses because at that age they are just becoming apart of a group setting; with children being so young they have not been exposed to communicable illnesses so their bodies have not been able to create protective antibodies. Children under the age of three also explore everything and anything that they can put their hands and mouth, which also greatens the risk of developing an illness because pathogens are located in the discharge for the respiratory track. If a classroom of twelve children are exposed to the same toys in a classroom and one is sick the chance of another becoming infected is great. Another factor that contributes to the increased risk of illness in children involves any disabilities that the child may already have including diabetes, sickle cell anemia, and asthma because they reduce a child’s ability to resist any type of bacteria, virus, or parasite. Communicable illness is an infection that can be transmitted or spread from one person or animal... ... middle of paper ... ...illnesses to keep their children away from infected children and to keep them healthy, and it is important for educators to be aware of the signs and symptoms of illnesses so that they can be aware of the necessary control measures and also inform the parents. If we as educators and parents do our job and educate ourselves about Communicable and Acute illnesses our children, they will be less likely to be exposed and infected. Works Cited National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. (2007, May 24). What would happen if we stopped vaccinations?. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/VACCINES/vac-gen/whatifstop.htm Bozof, L. (2002, July). National meningitis association . Retrieved from http://www.nmaus.org/ Marotz, L. R. (2012). Health, safety, and nutrition for the young child. (8th ed.). California: Wadsworth Cengage Learning
During the event of a communicable disease outbreak, as a human services administrator, I would take all of the necessary steps to communicate to youths, parents and medical staff in a timely and efficient manner. My priority would be to isolate the disease as much as possible and to assist those that have been infected with getting the treatment that they need (Graham-Clay, 2005). In the event that there is an outbreak of a disease such as E-coli within a local high school, I would begin by notifying the medical staff immediately. Considering the fact that Ecoli is a food borne illness, it is considered to be a public health crisis and should be handled as such. There are three recognized phases of a crisis: prevention, preparedness, and recovery. Each of these phases requires planned communication strategies. An outbreak often creates a high-emotion, low-trust situation (Heymann, 2004).
Health visitors may need to give information about hygiene to their patients to ensure they are safe and are preventing illness and diseases caused by bacteria and viruses which may harm vulnerable patients. For example patients with autoimmune disease will be very vulnerable to unhygienic and unsteralised places as their immune system attacks their normal cells as is can’t tell the difference bacteria and its own blood cells. Safety is a key part of the job, health visitors need to ensure how to keep safe in vulnerable places and how to keep patients safe, by learning what to so in dangerous situations such as an earthquake and knowing what are their responsibilities of the job. In addition, supporting parents and their kids’ on development and wellbeing and safety to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Furthermore, supporting children with special needs and advising their parents on how to care for their wellbeing for parents to be able to support them appropriately with their needs for example ensuring they attempt to prevent injuries and accidents. Moreover, working with different social services and other organizations’ to safeguard and protect vulnerable children, adults and elderly patients to ensure they are safe and feel safe around their surroundings and environment. A
Verbally expressing the word “POLIO” brings forth anxiety, trepidation, and thoughts of mortality, crippled bodies, and iron lungs. Once the first shock wears off that you-- in fact, have the disease than the fight for your life begins. This highly contagious illness was unknowingly transmitted by close contact and in fecal matter. Unfortunately, many poor and middle class families' contracted this viral disease, which rapidly destroyed motor-neurons to arms, legs, and diaphragm muscles. Ironically, improved twentieth- century sanitation practices like enclosed sewers and indoor plumbing were cited for this delayed childhood disease. Younger breastfeeding toddlers received maternal antibodies that protected them from the virus. However, older children did not have this immune advantage, they suffered more debilitative disabilities. Sadly, children under fifteen years old, experienced the highest rates of contracting infantile pa...
1.Identification of problem. The primary goal is to achieve consensus between parents since they are caregivers and decision- makers. Education about the disease, complications, and risk is a first and most important step in resolving of this dilemma as long as parents physically and morally fit and are capable of making rational decisions regarding the care of their
Furthermore, reporting communicable diseases to the local health department can help detect outbreaks and prevent secondary transmission. This is especially true when there is an outbreak of illnesses, such as Encephalitis, smallpox, and rabies. These illnesses are warrant prompt and need to be reported immediately (2017). It is the responsibility of physicians, nurses, laboratory directors, infection and control practitioners, health care facilities, state institutions, and schools to report communicable
There are three key factors of prevention. The factors are primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention. Each factor has certain areas to cover for prevention. Primary prevention is the first step of prevention. The education people get from t.v., magazines, and doctors are one type of primary prevention. Primary prevention happens before the disease or illness has come in contact with a person (Williams & Torrens, 2008). The immunizations babies, adults, and the elderly get are primary prevention from those illnesses or diseases. Secondary prevention is when a doctor takes a person's medical history to know what diseases and illnesses to look for (Williams & Torrens, 2008). When a person is treated for the flu in the early stages the doctor is practicing secondary prevention. Secondary prevention is also when
In our everyday life, we run the major possibility of becoming sick. Just from talking to somebody else can increase our chances of contracting a disease. Infectious Diseases can be contracted from just about anywhere, from the food we eat to the air we breathe. We have been dealing with disease for as long as we can remember and while they are still poise a major problem for us, we have gone through major steps to try and decrease the spread of these diseases.
As a population it is extremely important for us to be aware of the diseases that can be contagious to us. By having this opportunity to write a paper about epidemiology I will be able to do more research about epidemiology, so I can increase my knowledge about it and also be able to provide accurate information to the reader. In this essay I am going to write about epidemiology by describing what is epidemiology, how is it impact nursing care, talk about the work of several researcher such as John Snow, Ronald Ross, Janet-Claypon, Alexander Fleming, Frank Fenner by describing their work, and their current impact on nursing, and talk about some of the areas that has been affected with epidemiology in our society.
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Infectious diseases also called as communicable diseases are caused by pathogenic microorganisms (such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi), can be spread directly or indirectly from one person to another.
Sorte, J., Daeschel, I., Amador, C. (2011). Nutrition, Health, and Safety for Young Children. (Ashford University ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
Health promotion is a vital component to the healthy of a society, is a key component of Healthy People 2020, and is a major role of the nurse. Health promotion is achieved through education and preventive strategies. Vaccination is a health promotion activity in that its purpose is to prevent disease (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). Through vaccination, it is possible to significantly reduce the incidents of many diseases. Diseases that can be prevented through use of vaccinations are are referred to as vaccine preventable diseases. Some of the commonly vaccinated infections include polio, measles, Haemophilus Influenzae type b, pertussis, pneumococcal, rubella, varicella, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, and mumps (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2013).
"Vaccination Programs Have Reduced the Incidence of Many Diseases." Vaccines, edited by Noël Merino, Greenhaven Press, 2015. At Issue. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ3010938202/OVIC?u=j031903001&xid=d532cdb1. Originally published as "What Would Happen If We Stopped Vaccinations?" Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 18 Sept.
Recent research shows that, there are three major means by which infections can be transmitted and they include direct transmission, indirect transmission and airborne transmission (Hinman,Wasserheit and Kamb,1995). Direct transmission occurs when the physical contact between an infected person and s susceptible person takes place (division of public health, 2011). An example is a health care worker who attends to an Ebola patient, without gloves, gown and mask plus forget to wash his or her hand with soap and hot water and or a person having flu without the use of mask or washes his hand after sneezing easily passes the infection to the other through hand shake or surface touch, living the bacteria there for another vulnerable person to also touch if the surface is not disinfected with bleach. Studies makes it clear that, the spreads takes effect when disease-causing microorganisms pass from the infected person to the healthy person through direct physical contact such as touching of blood, body fluids, contact with oral secretion, bites kissing, contact with body lesions and even sexual contact. However, measles and chicken pox are said to be conditions spread by direct
But they have to keep in mind that if they do not vaccinate themselves, they are being a carrier of the virus and may pass this along to those who are vulnerable.