Germ theory changed the scientific world; it also created a worldwide impact on people in many disciplines and in everyday life. Using the Natural science discipline of biology doctors and scientist used their research to determine that diseases and illnesses were caused from germs. Germ theory impacted how researchers interact with illnesses and gave them an avenue to look for cures and treatments. When realizing what caused illness ordinary people could learn how to prevent them and this changed how people lived their lives.
“Don’t go outside with your hair wet, you might get sick.” I’m sure we have all heard this but germ theory changed how we view disease. In the social science discipline of psychology, people began to view diseases differently. Knowing what causes illness and that cleanliness is the easiest prevention changed how we view being dirty. I have my children wash their hands before meals. Though they may not understand fully why; we can assume that I am building a psychological imperative that it must always be done. Looking at germ theory through a social science discipline of sociology we can also see a shift in how society views cleanliness. It has become
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Washing hands, using sanitizers, and having treatments to diseases is such common place; we don’t realize the drastic change that took place. Working in a school, preventing the spread of germs is important. Sanitizing is a part of our daily routine and we are notified about any possibly contagious children. When thinking of the impact germ theory has had on me I was surprised to find that the social science discipline of communication is very important to how we utilize germ theory. Knowing what we know now, we must communicate to each other personally, in business, nationally and globally about outbreaks so that germ theory prevention can be maintained and improved upon. With this knowledge we cannot stop every disease but we can do our
...nd make people aware that it is more common than people realize and that a rather large part of America has the illness, whether they know it or not. This paper also discussed how the virus, could target certain individuals more easily than others based on the genetic makeup of an individual and families.
...ld have been used. If a common case definition is used it is easier to compare outbreaks to another in order to gain information for future outbreaks. The ability of the norovirus to have multiple modes of transmission, prolonged shedding after symptoms have gone, and the environmental stability of the virus cause it to be easily spread and complicate interventions to stop or prevent spread. In college campuses and other facilities that have many people in close quarters should focus on proper hand washing techniques, environmental disinfection, and exclusion of ill food workers. Using technology such as email, texting and internet to reach out to campuses and inform them of proper hygiene and cleaning techniques is a must. Using all sources of technology to communicate on college campuses would help to conduct a more thorough investigation of a reported outbreak. 6
Political, religious and scientific standpoints reshaped the society on the continent. Scientific discovery brought about as much questioning as it did answers. Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei invented the improved telescope that gave man the capability to peer into the heavens1. Seeing the universe in this new light causes men to awaken to a new sense of being. Finding that seeing the way our universe was laid out was different than what was originally conceived caused a major impact on society.
In this discussion, we will have three main topics. First What are allergies, second how are they started and third why the number of people with allergies has increased in the last 20 years? This is what myself and Hamjreet are prepared to discuss.
No matter what, where, or who you are, water is a necessary component to keeping any organism alive. Although water is essential for life, in many places, clean drinking water is hard to find. There are many consequences to drinking contaminated water. Every year, three to five million people are attacked by water-borne diseases and over 100,000 of them die. One fatal disease that can kill within hours is cholera.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines hand hygiene as, “a general term that applies to routine hand washing, antiseptic hand wash, antiseptic hand rub, or surgical hand antisepsis.” (Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2013) The idea of hand washing has been around for centuries. In the mid-1800’s Ignaz Semmelweis established that hospital-acquired diseases were transmitted via the hands of health care workers. After Semmelweis observed physicians and health care workers in the obstetric setting and studied mortality rates he recommended that hands be scrubbed in a chlorinated lime solution before coming in contact with every patient. Following the implementation of Semmelweis’s recommendation mortality rates associated with childbirth fell from seven percent to three percent. Although Semmelweis observation and recommendations were significant fellow physicians and colleagues did not adopt them. The 1980’s posed as a crucial time for health care in the sense of hand hygiene. This was when the first national hand hygiene guidelines were published in the 1980s. In 1995 and 1996, the CDC/Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) in the USA suggested that either antimicrobial soap or a waterless antiseptic agent be use...
...also putting together vaccines and other medications on other diseases that could possibly cause an outbreak
As you exit the bus, another passenger next to you starts to cough, and then you hold the handrail as you exit the bus. Since you’re late getting home, you take a shortcut through a field to get home quicker. These three simple acts just exposed you to bacteria, viruses, and insects that could cause illness or even death. Infectious diseases, also known as communicable disease, are spread by germs. Germs are living things that are found in the air, in the soil, and in water. You can be exposed to germs in many ways, including touching, eating, drinking or breathing something that contains a germ. Animal and insect bites can also spread germs.1
An infectious disease is caused by another organism whether bacterial, viral, fungal, parasitic or rickettsia. Infectious diseases are transmitted through a direct transfer of bacteria, viruses or other germs from one person to another. This can happen when someone who has the bacterium or virus touches, kisses, coughs/sneezes on someone who is not infected. Noninfectious disease cannot be passed from one being to another. Non-infectious diseases are generic or life style related. Things such as Down syndrome and skin cancer are non-infectious diseases.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE, 2012) guidelines state that misconceptions about hand hygiene in relation to
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Recent research shows that, there are three major means by which infections can be transmitted and they include direct transmission, indirect transmission and airborne transmission (Hinman,Wasserheit and Kamb,1995). Direct transmission occurs when the physical contact between an infected person and s susceptible person takes place (division of public health, 2011). An example is a health care worker who attends to an Ebola patient, without gloves, gown and mask plus forget to wash his or her hand with soap and hot water and or a person having flu without the use of mask or washes his hand after sneezing easily passes the infection to the other through hand shake or surface touch, living the bacteria there for another vulnerable person to also touch if the surface is not disinfected with bleach. Studies makes it clear that, the spreads takes effect when disease-causing microorganisms pass from the infected person to the healthy person through direct physical contact such as touching of blood, body fluids, contact with oral secretion, bites kissing, contact with body lesions and even sexual contact. However, measles and chicken pox are said to be conditions spread by direct
In the 1960s, doctors in the United States predicted that infectious diseases were in decline. US surgeon Dr. William H. Stewart told the nation that it had already seen most of the frontiers in the field of contagious disease. Epidemiology seemed destined to become a scientific backwater (Karlen 1995, 3). Although people thought that this particular field was gradually dying, it wasn’t. A lot more of it was destined to come. By the late 1980s, it became clear that people’s initial belief of infectious diseases declining needed to be qualified, as a host of new diseases emerged to infect human beings (Smallman & Brown, 2011).With the current trends, the epidemics and pandemics we have faced have created a very chaotic and unreliable future for mankind. As of today, it has really been difficult to prevent global epidemics and pandemics. Although the cases may be different from one state to another, the challenges we all face are all interconnected in this globalized world.
...th in the theory, it was succeeded by the cell theory and the germ theory, allowing for knowledge in the natural sciences to advance in those areas, eventually leading to the development of vaccines and stem-cell research.
Frieden establishes the fundamentals of success. These components that are innovation, communication, technical package, management, and political commitment create a web for Public Health. By utilizing this over everyday lives. These programs can target anything from micro issue to epidemics. This educational tool focuses on building a system that challenges normative ideas and helps identify new strategies. This ultimately relates in a creating an ecosystem of new ground rules that every Public Health official should use. Dr. Frieden did a great job on explaining what is next in educating and