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Communicable, infectious and parasitic conditions
Published in Jackie Musgrave, Health and Wellbeing for Babies and Children, 2022
This chapter has explored the ways that communicable diseases can be prevented and highlights the responsibility that we all have to minimise spread. Improvements in our own practice and the way we model behaviour to teach children and young people good health behaviours have been highlighted. The tensions that surround immunisations have been illustrated and it is important to remember that the child's right to health may be diminished because of parental beliefs about immunisation. As professionals, we need to be sensitive to parental beliefs but at the same time be aware that the welfare of the children we work with is paramount. It is worth remembering that some of the practices that were advocated to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, such as regular and effective handwashing, are what we should always have been doing.
External factors for diseases
Published in Dinesh Kumar Jain, Homeopathy, 2022
Spread of communicable disease can also be checked by preventing transmission of etiological agents. Spread of cholera can be prevented by purifying contaminated food and water. Spread of malaria can be checked by preventing mosquito bite. If cholera, typhoid, and malaria originate from inside the body, then these diseases cannot be checked by preventing transmission of bacteria and malarial parasites.
Health Needs of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Camp Settings
Published in Miriam Orcutt, Clare Shortall, Sarah Walpole, Aula Abbara, Sylvia Garry, Rita Issa, Alimuddin Zumla, Ibrahim Abubakar, Handbook of Refugee Health, 2021
Lilian Kiapi, Gemma Lyons, Selma Sevkli
Despite improvements in hygiene practices and reductions in infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) over the past few decades, outbreaks of communicable diseases are still a major problem, particularly in overcrowded environments. The burden of communicable diseases includes cholera, malaria, giardiasis, leishmaniasis, hepatitis, TB, HIV and sexually transmitted infections. Vaccination programmes are particularly important in camp settings to prevent outbreaks of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases.
Impact of socio-behavioral measures implemented during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on the outcomes of febrile neutropenia episodes in pediatric cancer patients: a single center quasi-experimental pre-post study
Published in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, 2023
Charles Nathaniel Nessle, Tom Braun, Vineet Chopra, Sung Won Choi, Rajen Mody
The implications of these results are important in understanding the impact communicable disease have on admission characteristics of FN episodes. Efforts to mitigate transmission of viral URIs in the general population will lower the incidence of low-risk FN episodes and URIs diagnosed.16,32,33 However, although URIs are the most common MDI in low-risk episodes, viral respiratory seasons are brief, therefore preventing only relatively small proportion of FN episodes. The overall FN episodes per month, LOS, and admission characteristics will be only minimally impacted by such measures. High-risk FN episodes and PICU admissions may incidentally show a relative increase during the respiratory season of the intervention period, but the overall prevalence of severe outcomes will not be affected.
The triple burden of disease, destitution, and debt: Small business-women’s voices about health challenges after becoming debt-ridden
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2023
Sara Rizvi Jafree, Mudasir Mustafa
Women from all MFP types reported at least seven or more types of health problems and thus differences in health challenges faced by women according to MFP type have not been reported separately. Health challenges have been reported using the theoretical framework of this study, which categorizes problems according to “environment” and “healthcare delivery system.” “Environmental” health challenges are further sub-divided under “social,” “physical and mental,” and “economic” challenges. For the “social” sub-category, we found that women faced the following health challenges: (i) unsupportive loan officers, (ii) communicable diseases, and (iii) lack of permission to seek healthcare. Under the “physical and mental” sub-category we found that women face health challenges related to: (i) stress and anxiety, (ii) injuries, and (iii) non-communicable diseases. Under the “economic” sub-category we found two health challenges: (i) poverty and (ii) small loans and high installments rates.
A systematic review to determine the anti-vaccination thoughts of pregnant women and the reasons for not getting vaccinated
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2022
Rukiye Demir, Resmiye Kaya Odabaş
It was determined that pregnant women had anti-vaccine thoughts due to financial, temporal and logistical barriers in five studies included in our review. Although the vaccine provides individual immunisation, it contributes to the provision of community immunity by reducing the incidence of the disease in the community. Therefore, vaccination is the best method for preventing and eliminating communicable diseases, reducing morbidity and mortality of diseases, and developing healthy societies (Cunningham et al. 2018; Özceylan et al. 2020). There are many reasons preventing the spread of vaccines in developing and developed countries. Financial and logistical barriers may be the primary reasons for vaccine refusal, especially in underdeveloped countries (Levy et al. 2021). Therefore, worldwide efforts to remove all obstacles in front of vaccination, especially financial and logistics, and solving the problem with cooperation between countries will slow down the rate of disease in the world and thus contribute to the improvement of health all over the world.