There are many social epidemiology factors that aggravate the risk of HIV like poverty, stigma and discrimination, lack of access to healthcare, and prisons and also for that type of family have drug abuse and risky sexual behavior also. Because of due to the reason of poverty young people cannot study in the small age and also they are easily habituated to drug abuse. Poverty also one of the factor of spread HIV because sexual relationship like sex relationship between young women and older men (Zamudio, 2006). Because of poverty the women easily sex with the men for earn a more money, without using a condom, so that way also more HIV spread.
People live with HIV because they are afraid to be tested. Homosexuality is majorly shown in many
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75% of black’s people the age between 18-64 were tested for HIV and reported even having been tested for HIV. On one of the research 17% black people living with HIV infected people and they don’t know about infection. 31% of Blacks people were tested HIV infection after their illness.
For prevention of that type of infectious disease we organize health education training or camp where educate the patient about how to transmit HIV from one person to another, and spread awareness in the community. To use flyers and instruct the people who are suffering from HIV via sigh and symbols and by this method it prevent the disease. There should be sticking the posters on the wall of public places like subways, bus station, garden and restaurants. We also start community center classes for community people who are not aware about HIV or who are suffering from HIV. To guide the patient about safe sex because mainly HIV is sexually transmitted disease. We educate the hospital nurses who treat HIV patient and use one needle in two patients. HIV is transmitted by infectious blood and when nurses use HIV infected patient’s needle in another patient than it is easy to transmit the
One solution is for health counselors being widely available for people who are struggling with AIDS. In addition, schools must also educate their students about AIDS, while being mindful of the students who have AIDS. Another solution to address the stigma of the AIDS epidemic on an institutional level is by having high-profile personalities such as Magic Johnson, being an advocate of AIDS, because this may lessen the stigma of AIDS in lower-SES communities and allow people relate and feel more comfortable speaking up about AIDS. With that said, the United States must improve their health-care system by investing more money on health centers and clinics in low-SES neighborhoods, but also health-care providing equal and fair medical treatment and resources that people of high-SES backgrounds are receiving.
AIDS is a condition that is caused by a condition called HIV that attacks the immune system of people, making them weaker, vulnerable and decreasing their life expectancy. This disease is transmitted by certain bodily fluids and it has affected the infectants as well as their families and friends due to social stigmas and misunderstandings about AIDS. The epidemic had a big social impact within the United States, “When AIDS appeared in the early 1980s, most of its victims were gay men. For a time the disease was known as GRID—gay-related immune deficiency. The epidemic rekindled older pseudoscientific ideas about the inherently diseased nature of homosexual bodies.”
For 40 years, many African Americans in Alabama that were infected with syphilis were left untreated as part of an experiment to determine how “different” syphilis affected blacks. This was an orchestrated even by the United States Public Health Service, and other organizations; whose job is to protect the public. Syphilis is a highly contagious infection spread by sexual contact. If untreated, it can cause bone and dental deformations, deafness, blindness, heart disease and deterioration of the central nervous system. The participants, mostly made of poor, uneducated black men, were lured into the program with false pretenses, not advising of the infections they carried (Heller).
Healthy People 2020 The purpose of this paper is to talk about the health of my community. Throughout the paper, I will state long-term and short-term goals for two nursing diagnoses related to cardiovascular disease and lung cancer, as well as nursing interventions in an attempt to help improve the outcomes of cardiovascular disease and lung cancer in my community. Furthermore, I will talk about goals of Healthy People 2020. The summary of the above-mentioned diagnoses will conclude this paper.
In the mid-1980s all the way through the 1990s, the United States was plagued with an epidemic and the fears that came along with this, after severely infected areas like New York City were forced to recognize AIDS as a rapidly spreading disease. AIDS is mostly a sexually transmitted virus that attacks white blood cells and weakens the body’s ability to fight off infections, and if left untreated, can result in death. This virus was most identified as claiming more lives of black, male homosexuals, than any other populated group in the U.S at this time, and therefore AIDS was considered a “gay disease” that left this group stigmatized and loathed by an already racist and homophobic society. The term “living with AIDS” began to be utilized when
Social Determinants of Health Shelly Clavis Rutgers University School of Nursing Social Determinants of Health Defined Health concerns is an issue that most organizations have formed a pact to safely deal with the challenge. The main agenda focuses on the eradication of health inequalities that may exist in most countries. It is best suited that social determinants are accorded the much-needed attention since they affect a number of people. In assessing the factors that affect one’s health, genetic disposition, personal behaviors, ability to obtain healthcare and the overall environment in which an individual resides are to be considered. Social determinants of Health are issues that deals with the conditions that people have found constructed in a society and acts as a parcel in their lives, such as; growth, age and some of the more complex systems that construct a society which include economic policies and their systems that include social norms, development goals and the basic political system that they are indulged under (World Health Organization, 2008).
In recent times, the subject of health disparities has attracted a lot of attention through the media report in both local and national level.in this essay, the health condition of African American will be discussed in this in the following areas as their health status, barriers to health, diverse population and disparities, and health promotion approach to improving this situation. Health Status: According to the 2014 National Health Interview Survey, 13.5% of all African Americans have less than average health (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2014a). Averagely, the African-American have higher prevalence of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension compared to the national ratio. Further study reveals that 48
For my research project this semester, I would like to focus on Southern African Countries, such as, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia and their government’s response to the increasing cases of HIV/Aids across the region. For this project, I feel it would be useful to create a policy recommendation that’s outlines the problems with HIV/Aids in Africa and hopefully create a solution to decrease the cases to this plaguing issue. My proposed solution to decrease the rising cases of HIV/Aids in Southern Africa would be to devote more financial resources to educational programs and build health clinics across South Africa, Botswana and Namibia, which will encourage testing. The following question, “Southern African Countries, such as, South Africa,
Robert Koch discovered tuberculosis in 1882. In 1870 Tuberculosis was a dreaded disease in the United States. Tuberculosis was known to be communicable and incurable. According to Maurer & Smith (2013), Tuberculosis was the primary cause of death among adolescent and adults. Physicians throughout the nineteenth century had recommended fresh air, rest, and healthy food (pg. 41).
Being infected with AIDS in the 1980’s and in many scenarios today impact social relationships and potentially leaves the infected abandoned by loved
For my comparison, I’ll use the analytic epidemiology model. According to Stanhope and Lancaster (2010), this model investigates causes and associations between events and health, and has as a goal the discovery of the determinants of outcomes. In the movie, we can see a specific group of people, the male homosexual community, sharing common interests and characteristics. They went to the same places, such as the San Francisco bath house, had similar type of unsafe sexual behavior, they were from the same class, and later on develop similar type of clinical signs and symptoms that were characteristic of AIDS. In the movies’ case we can see a web of causality, in which many factors contributed to the negative outcomes that was seen, with many
Struggling with HIV Stigma HIV/AIDS, a severe epidemic of this era, is an incurable disease till date. HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system or the defense system. The virus makes human body vulnerable to diseases that would otherwise be curable. AIDS, that stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, is the last stage of the HIV symptom. Even though no cure for HIV is found yet, the virus can be kept in control by proper treatment and therapy.
I have always wanted to pursue a career related to the medical field, and it wasn't until my freshman year of college that I encountered the area of public health. I was immediately drawn to the specific area of epidemiology and infectious diseases. I am now a junior at the University of Texas majoring in Public Health with a concentration in microbiology and infectious diseases. I find epidemiology so enthralling, as it is implements ways in which we can scientifically and statistically describe diseases and the mortality/morbidity as well as predict how and why they spread. More so, I think the infectious disease aspect is interesting as well, because while the United States has shifted from burden of infectious disease to that of chronic
HIV/AIDS is a serious health condition which is highly stigmatized and it is the one of the important factor of job termination. Every individual have the equal right for the employment and live the independent life, and so of the healthcare workers with HIV/AIDS. If healthcare worker can take care of a patient with HIV/AIDS with full courage and respect, then why can’t the healthcare worker who is suffering from HIV/AIDS provide care to the patient? Every patient has a right to keep his/her diagnosis confidential and there shouldn’t be any impartiality in their course of treatment. Healthcare workers who are infected with HIV/AIDS, should be allowed to work comfortably in their areas, and should have the right of confidentiality and impartiality.
Heath Education The health education progragmme should be focus on the population at risk. The prime objectives of health education is to provide information, make awareness and mobilize peoples to practice good health related aspects to keep them safe and sound. In resource poor community, where lacks proper sanitation and hygiene, health education can bring life style changes (Smits, 2009; Knopp et al., 2010; Bieri et al., 2013; Gyorkos et al., 2013; Al-Delaimy et al., 2014). The health education intervention should be cost effective and option should be best for the community, so that they must adopt and, this will help to retain the achievements obtained through preventive chemotherapy (Knopp et al., 2010; Bieri et al., 2013).The people