Essays Tagged: "Chronic (medicine)"
Health, Disease and Disability
to recover from stress.· As an individual age, acute conditions decrease in frequency while chronic conditions increase in frequency. 4/5 of adults over 65 have at least one chronic condition. ... unger age groups, the elderly are likely to suffer from physical health problems that are multiple, chronic, and treatable but not curable. Acute illness may be superimposed on these conditions.Althou ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness
Childhood Asthma
Childhood AsthmaAsthma is a chronic condition where narrowing of the passages from the lungs tothe nose and mouth leads to diffi ... environment including weather, allergens, foods, or respiratoryinfections.Asthma is the number one chronic illness among children and is the mostcommon cause of hospitalization for children under 15 ... hma is a disease of the respiratory system commonly found in children. Asthma is a leading cause of chronic disease, and school absenteeism.In people with asthma, the airways that run from the nasal c ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Influential Event
alk to me. The kids and I talked for hours, about everything from their favorite cartoons, to their chronic illnesses. I went back to the hospital almost everyday that summer. It was the most a ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Chronic Disease Management
�PAGE � Chronic Disease ManagementDisease management means taking actions to ensure the best possible level ... ing for the individual and the least amount of disruption of daily life. Implicit in the concept of chronic disease is the idea that no cure for the given illness is available and the condition must b ... e, enhance functioning, and in some instances reduce costs.Similar themes run across definitions of chronic disease management by the patient (Creer, Levstek, & Reynolds, 1998; Karoly & Kanfer ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Forced Drug Testing
Chronic and Infectious Diseases � PAGE �1� Chronic and Infectious DiseasesHealt ... 33; Chronic and Infectious DiseasesHealth and Physical Education HPE/170Dr. Eboni GreenJune 27, 2010Chronic and Infectious Diseases"A chronic illness is an illness that lasts for an extended amount of ... nded amount of time, or that last longer than acute illnesses, which are shorter and do not linger. Chronic illnesses can be treated but typically not cured completely. One author states , "The term ' ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Aboriginal Health
y tend to Smoke during their pregnancy, and population like this has higher risk of getting HIV and Chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, arthritis and depression . Prostate cancer affects ... stly suffer from obesity. This is due to the lack of understanding and they are more likely to have chronic illness rather than people who are educated. Nurses can educate them by giving them informat ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
worked
Assignment: Chronic DiseaseRisk AssessmentIn my assessment I chose to do the colon cancer assessment, colon canc ... ables, take a multivitamin with folate every day.Brandon J BuckReferencesThe University of Phoenix: Chronic DiseaseRisk Assessment.http://www.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/colon-cancer/risk-factor ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
Government Regulation of Obesity
s, mainly obesity. "Excessive sugar consumption leads to metabolic disease, which leads to the main chronic illness that will eventually kill most of us; Heart disease, stroke, cancer, as well as diab ... evidence shows that fructose can trigger processes that lead to liver toxicity and a host of other chronic diseases" (Dell'Antonia). One of the main reasons that it is so easy to ingest high enough a ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues