1.1 Background of the Study Infectious diseases remain to be one of the serious public health concerns worldwide, especially in the developing countries. Pneumonia is one of the most prevalent infectious diseases, which approximately affects 450 million people per year and is a major cause of death among all age groups causing 4 million deaths annually (Ruuskanen et al., 2011). The Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infection including pneumonia also ranked as the second leading cause of morbidity (2012)
PERTUSSIS RESURGENCE Pertussis: Pertussis is a respiratory illness also known as Whooping cough, which is a highly contagious disease caused by a type of bacteria called Bordetella pertussis[1]. This small gram negative coccobaccilus is non motile, aerobic and fastidious[22]. Its incubation period is generally between 7-10 days ranging between 4-21 days and may also exceed to 42 days[3]. It causes an uncontrollable violent coughing. The coughing makes hard the patient to take breath. A deep “whooping”
techniques when they are providing care for the patients with hospital acquired infections. For example, they do not wear gloves while preparing and doing procedures so that will increase the risk of transmission of bacteria from the nurses to the patients. 2. Hand hygiene lack of practice The ministry of health assures that the workers of health care have enough knowledge about the most important mean of transmission of infection which is the hands during providing patients care. However, there are several
victim of many viruses and infectious diseases. But whatever is the case, if we donnot take any medicine we can observe that after two days or a week some of the viral infection itself gets vanish away or get completely cured with time. Suppose we had a cut in our hand, after some days the wound itself gets healed. Have you ever
Ii) Potential effects of the air pollutants on the human populations: Air pollution impact immensely on the daily lives of the people. The effect of air pollutants on the human population is either on: • Health • Economic Health impact of air pollutants: 3.1 million premature deaths occur worldwide due to air pollution. Air pollution is also responsible for the 3.2% of the global burden of disease (WHO, 2009). Air pollution in developing countries contributes to more than half of the global
skin and tissue infections with an increased prevalence in healthcare facilities, primary clinics, intensive care units, and emergency rooms (Durai, et al., 2010 and Mera, et al., 2011) Health care workers, families, visitors and other non-infected patients in acute care hospitals are at risk of developing MRSA; to break the chain of infection, routine practices such as hand hygiene, wearing of barrier protection, environmental hygiene are essential when in contact with confirmed cases and generally
Pneumonia is the acute lower respiratory tract infection (ARTI) that exclusively affects the lung or Pneumonia is one of the serious illnesses, which involves lung infection specifically alveoli.. While it attacks every person, children under the age of five years are particularly prone to pneumonia. A range of both bacterial and viral pathogens have been recognized to cause pneumonia in children with streptococcus pneumonia accountable for the vast majority of cases (1). Nearly 40,000 to 70,000
produce nutrients by themselves, or they can be heterotrophic, which allows them to obtain energy from their environment. Lastly, bacteria can affect humans in various ways, certain bacteria, called pathogens, are harmful to the human body and cause infection or disease. These pathogenic, or harmful, bacteria cause diseases such as
Youngsters these days are no strangers to the existence of cigarettes and it’s health risks, yet today’s society seems to publicly endorse smoking. Physician Michael Beach and her colleagues in the Dartmouth study had found that about 60 percent of smoking in popular Hollywood films had been rated G, PG and PG-13, all of which are youth-accessible films. (qtd. in Batchelor 58). This brings up questions on the effects of these films on teenagers, which could
physiological and biomechanical whose purpose is the formation of new tissue. [2] However, there are complex clinical situations that can exceed the ability of bone regeneration. We refer to the large bone defects caused by complex fractures, infections, tumors or skeletal deformities. Other diseases involving the bone regenerative process may be the avascular necrosis, atrophic pseudarthrosis, or the severe osteoporosis.