Introduction Lyme disease is a zoonotic disease and was first recognised in 1975 in Connecticut, U.S., by Dr. Burgdofer ( Discovery of the disease agent causing Lyme disease , 2018). The disease is transmitted from bacteria to vertebrae animals, including dogs, horses, birds, livestock and humans, through the bite of an infected tick. What is…
Public Health Challenges & Achievements
This study is intended to initiate the field of public health all the way through accounts of how publichealth, exercisee has evolved authority through opposite historic challenges to the healthiness of human populations. It will also provide a view of the existing problems for which the discipline is in the procedure of discovering solutions. Contents…
Controlling Obesity in Canada
Public Health Policy: Controlling Obesity in Canada The World Health Organisation defined health in its constitution as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” (WHO, 1946) The health of an individual is affected by multiple factors like personal hygiene, access to health care, socio-economics,…
Health Risks of Weight Gain and Obesity
This essay will analyse some of the main health risks posed by weight gain and obesity such as the risk of developing chronic heart disease, diabetes and cancer. It will also discuss some of the factors that can impact on wellbeing and the strategies in place nationally to promote healthy living habits. The World Health…
Management- Leadership and Public Health Planning
Student Name: Aphrodis Ndayisaba 0. Introduction The complexity and dynamism of healthcare systems around the world make them require strong, knowledgeable and skilful managers and leaders. The need for effective health managers and leaders is of paramount importance in allowing organisations and professionals to achieve their goals. Part of the knowledge and skills that healthcare…
Smoking as a Public Health Issue
INTRODUCTION Smoking is an extremely crucial public health issue which is considered to be an immediate and serious threat to many developing countries across the globe (WHO 2005). Being one of the most significant determinants of increased rate of mortality and ill-health throughout the world, smoking is still a preventable epidemic (OTC 2005). Active cigarette…
Comparison of Public Health and Clinical Research Ethics
How Does Public Health Research Ethics Differ From Clinical Research Ethics? Zoheb Rafique INTRODUCTION: The field of biomedical ethics arose in late 1960s in the response to some emerging ethical dilemmas and issues of that era. This field for many years focused on dilemmas generated by the high technology medicine, rather than on the issues…
Importance of Public Health Research
Data and research relating to public health Gathering data is an important process in the field of public health as it provides a bigger picture of current health status of populations and communities as well as indentifying tends and potential problems. It enables care practitioners to recognise the social factors that are affecting the population….
The Role of Public Health and Social Care
Table of Contents (Jump to) Introduction LO1: Understanding approaches & strategies utilized to measure monitor and control the incidence of disease in communities Question 1: Agencies regulating levels of health and disease in communities Question 2: Epidemiology of one infectious and one non-infectious disease Question 3: Evaluation of effectiveness different approaches and strategies Question 4:…
Role of Public Health in Health and Social Care
Introduction: A science which helps to improve the lifestyle of the people or communities by preventing and damaging various kinds of disease is called public health. It is totally concerned with the protection of good health of the whole population of a country of a territory. Social care is a system which helps to an…