Life-savers. The great tasting candy that cheers people up when they are down. They heal people when they feel bad, and they bring a fun and happy feeling or tone into the area. Their great taste help others when they feel lonely, or even when they just want a sank.Epidemiologists in a way are life-savers. They save peoples lives by researching diseases and creating vaccines that work. Epidemiologists are vital to our civilization because without them, diseases would take over our world.
What is Epidemiology? Epidemiology is the study of diseases in populations of humans or other animals, specifically how, and when and where they occur. They study and attempt to determine what factors are associated with diseases and how vaccines can protect humans or animals (pmep.cee.comell.edu). They investigate the causes of different diseases and prevent them from spreading or even happening again. They also speak publicly about their findings, trying to let as much people possible about a certain disease, how to not get it, and how to tell others about it. Epidemiologists do not only do those duties, for they do way more jobs than what people think.
Some duties that epidemiologists do daily are they collect and analyze data, they supervise professional personal, and they communicate their findings to the public. They try to determine what factors are associated with diseases and what factors protect people and animals. These factors then are sent on around the world to other scientists, to help not only to create a vaccine, but also exterminate it from the world.
Epidemiological studies can be split up into two main topics: whether the events or epidemic has already happened or if the events will be upcoming in the future. These cases are ...
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At first polio was a troubling prospect when it first reared its ugly head in the United States of America. In a noble effort to be rid of polio, America as a whole was to adopt stringent sanitation measures. Everywhere, especially the home was to be spotless and clean in order to try and prevent the contraction of polio. This coupled with the view that America as a western nation seemed impervious to such a lowly disease tried to assuage American fear of the disease. Despite the measures commonly adopted throughout the myriad of cities and towns, polio still managed to spread around the country and wreak havoc taking thousands of lives. An outbreak that ravaged America claimed nearly 27,000 lives in a terrible reckoning before it finally subsided. This and several other troubling outbreaks
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One of the other notable important advances was the “Conquest of Polio” this disease usually caused paralysis in the people who contracted the virus. Back then there...
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...in the fields of both science and medicine, future epidemics of any disease can be handled better. When a lethal disease begins to rampage a population, research on similar epidemics can help the world contain, cure, and prevent the disease to protect the world and its population.
The first discovery was made in 1952, in the developing field of virology. Virology is the study of viruses and how they behave. To develop the vaccines for the viruses, researchers infected the HeLa cells with many types of infections, such as measles, mumps, and the infamous poliomyelitis virus, also known as Polio. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose mission is to save lives and protect people’s health security, Polio is a "crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease caused by a virus that spreads from person to person invading the brain and spinal cord and causing paralysis" (Freeman). Jonas Salk, who was a virologist at the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP), used inactivated viruses (virus particles grown in culture and then killed by a form of heat) to create a polio vaccine. Salk drew blood from about two million children, which the NFIP checked for immunization.Through the collection of many HeLa cells and trial and error, the polio vaccine wa...
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Epidemiological transition theory is the idea that there are complex changes in patterns of health and disease in relation with demographic and technologic transitions. The original three phases include the age of pestilence and famine, the age of receding pandemics, and the age of degenerative and man-made diseases (Omran, 2005). The age of pestilence and famine is characterized by high mortality due to war, famine, and epidemic outbreaks (Omran, 2005). Very few countries are in this phase as average life expectancy has increased globally. However, in Africa, ongoing conflict and famine continue to plague many populations. In the age of receding pandemics, average life expectancy increases and infectious disease outbreaks become fewer in frequency
In an effort to analyze the natural history of a disease, an epidemiological triangle is used. An epidemiological triangle is comprised of a susceptible host or individual, environment, and a causative agent. The host tends to have low immunity, poor nutrition, and a concurrent disease. The host tends to have poor
Public Health is a field that is concerned about improving the health of a population, people, environment and communities that we live in. Public health helps maintain the water clean, prevent illness and diseases and keeping our environment safe and clean. The most important distinctions between Public health and medical care is public health deals with the health of the population whereas Medical care only focuses on individual’s health. Medical care only focuses on One individual at a time and helping the patients who have illness but public health focuses on preventing the illness of a community not just an individual. Doctors in medical care diagnoses the diseases and give treatment and medicines to cure them but Public health
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