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.

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.

 

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