Introduction As a brand-new nursing student who is in the first semester of nursing school, I do not have much experience in the nursing profession and do not have a decent grasp on the philosophy of nursing. However, I do know my own beliefs and...
Under Armour, Inc is an American based company that developed, manufactured, and distributed casual wear, sports, and footwear for women, children, and men, and the Under Armour products will sell worldwide. The information gathered and outlined with this executive summary will show that despite the...
Introduction COVID-19 which is termed as Corona Virus Disease was first identified in Wuhan-one of the major transportation hub in China in December-2019. From there, it has been spread worldwide and has been declared as pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO) in March-2019. The effects...
In the early 1900s, New York state was a hotspot for outbreaks of typhoid fever. George Sober, a sanitary engineer, attributed these outbreaks to one woman, a cook by the name of Mary Mallon. Mallon was the first described case of a healthy carrier of...
The Prisoner’s Dilemma is a type of game theory that defines human behaviour entirely as self-interested. This theory suggests that an individual will virtually always choose their own self-interest ahead of the interests of an entire group. “A prisoner’s dilemma is a situation where individual...
Introduction: As a Computer Science student who never took Pre-Calculus and Basic Calculus in Senior High School, I never realized that there will be a relevance of Calculus in everyday life for a student. Background: Before the beginning of it uses, there’s a short background...
Covid-19 is an unprecedented global pandemic that no one could’ve foreseen this time last year. Covid-19 has spread from the first cluster in the capital of China’s Hubei province to a pandemic that has so far killed over 200,000 people, with over 3 million who...
The history of Herpes traces back to Ancient Greece. The Greeks coined the term Herpes which means “to creep/crawl” and they documented the description of the virus as sores appearing on the surface of people’s skin. The Roman Emperor Tiberius banned kissing in ceremonies to...
Introduction ‘AIDS and/or HIV was always seen as the disease of homosexuals and drug addicts.’ (M. Grey, 2014). The lack of education and research about AIDS in the 1980s was due to the homophobic stereotypes, some people believed that this was God’s will because sex...
The Biggest Pandemics in History are diseases that had a massive outbreak and killed a lot of people. It’s a disease that spreads worldwide and I’ll be talking about a couple that I found interesting, there are tons more pandemics that won’t be talked about....
“And The Band Played On” is a movie released in 1993 by Roger Spottiswoode which focuses around an epidemic that was discovered in the early 1980’s. In this movie, an epidemiologist Don Francis notices an increased rate of death in homosexual men in an urban...
Whenever a person gets sick, the first thing that person does is go to the doctor. This is a normal thing that happens in society. A sick person visits the hospital and expects treatment. When we go to see a doctor, we hold this doctor...
The Zika virus is transmitted through the Aedes mosquitoes however there’s been cases where the virus has been transmitted through sexual intercourse. This virus usually causes mild infections; it also includes some symptoms such as muscle pain, rash, itching all over the body and fevers...
Introduction Until now, viruses have been seen as nothing but damaging, dangerous and detrimental to our health. Since their discovery in 1892 they have been perceived as a global health threat; not a remedy or possible treatment for one of the leading causes of mortality...
Since the rapid rise and spread of the Zika virus, search for a vaccine has ensued. While the virus causes mild symptoms in most, its association with severe birth defects in pregnant women, notably abnormal fetal brain development and microcephaly, to Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults...
Dengue Fever Virus (DENV) is one of the life-threatening diseases which are caused by pests that transfers infectious agents from a living organism to another that causes serious illnesses. It has become the most endemic tropical disease in the Philippines especially during rainy season, starting...
Introduction Risk communication is the sharing of ideas and knowledge between two parties about the nature, purpose and control of the risk. Risk communication in public health means the involvement of audience and responding to the question and concern as well as providing the important...
Introduction Infectious diseases are the major cause of mortality in recent years. The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that about 13 million deaths worldwide are attributed to infectious diseases. The majority of these deaths are related to the people living in third world countries....
Introduction The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has affected millions of people worldwide, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2014, the number of infections that occurred in infants was estimated at 220,000. Approximately ninety-nine percent of these infections in infants are acquired during the pre-partum period, labor,...