Communicable Diseases Essay
Select and describe one of the major public health communicable diseases such as : diarrheal disease, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, measles, Lyme disease, hookworm, polio, flu, cholera, hepatitis.
Discuss the following categories in regard to the disease that you have selected:
• History
• Date of the first identification
• Incidence
• Pathogenesis
• Clinical Manifestations
• Complications
• Etiology
• Epidemiology
• Diagnostics Tests
• Treatment
• Is there a vaccine for this disease? Why or why not?
• Prevention and control measures be sure to focus on vaccinations if it is applicable to your disease of choice.
• Public health significance
Format
The body of the essay should be 2-4 pages of text (excluding title page, abstract, and references) written in APA format.
Your writing and analysis will be held to a high standard, and you will be expected to bring in outside sources (primary literature), at least 5-7 APA formatted scholarly resources should be cited to analyze the burden of disease, necessity to address it as a problem, risk factors and determinants of health, and an evaluation of existing health policy aimed at the disease, as well as any recommendations.
