NR 503 Week 7 Discussion: Global and Environmental Health
Please go to a lay press newspaper, for example, The Washington Post, The New York Times, or
... [Show More] other national publication. Locate an article that has global health implications, such as malaria, untreated strep throat or other infectious diseases in developing countries. Other topic areas may address environmental global health issues, for example, safe water, sanitation, or oral health. After you locate and read over the article respond to the following prompt:
During NR503 the Web of Causation, Epidemiological Triangle, Population Health and inter-professional collaboration … discussed, as well as other population health topics.
Respond to your chosen article in this week’s discussion board by synthesizing, integrating, course concepts. Compare and contrast the article you chose to course concepts and this week’s objectives. For example, consider the World Health Organization and its SDG’s or you may choose to write about social justice theory and its relationship to your article.You may consider the WHO and SDG’s or perhaps you may choose to write about social justice and its relationship to this article. The specific focus is up to you, just be sure to integrate, compare/contrast, and think/write critically.
Your post should be a minimum of two paragraphs with 4-5 sentences per paragraph. Your initial post should include a minimum of two (2) scholarly articles which would not include your course text, which is also permitted to … Reply posts should include a scholarly reference and be a minimum of one paragraph, 4-5 sentences. A scholarly tone should … maintained. Include the reference to the article using APA and link if available.
Global and Environmental Health
The global health issue that will be discus is coronavirus disease (COVID 19). Globally, it has become a pandemic and with almost 2 million infected cases and almost 0ver 120, 000 deaths (World Health Organization, 2020). The Washington Post published an article entitled “more than 9000 U.S. health care workers have been infected with coronavirus”, which explores how healthcare teams are being exposed to the virus because of a lack of personal protective equipment (Cha, 2020). The article also shared how the virus quickly spread amongst workers because of how contagious the virus is (World Health Organization, 2020). The coronavirus has cause major impact on almost every country, mainly shutdowns and stay at home orders.
Coronavirus is a large group of viruses that cause illness in animals or humans. In humans, several coronaviruses cause respiratory infections extending from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) (World Health Organization, 2020). The most latest detected coronavirus causes coronavirus disease or COVID-19. The cause of COVID 19 is still being investigated, however, they are enveloped single-stranded RNA viruses that are zoonotic (Adhikari et al., 2020). At the beginning of the outbreak in Wuhan, China, researchers noticed 33 samples containing COVID 19 and indicated that it originated from wild animals sold in the market (Adhikari et al., 2020).
In terms of the epidemiological triad, when a person is infected with COVID 19, there are three main transmission routes: droplet, contact and aerosol transmission (Adhikari et al., 2020).
Droplets transmission was reported to occur when an infected pe [Show Less]