Sample essays on health/medicine.
Prevention of Malaria infection is by mosquito control through eradication or prevention of mosquito bites and the use of prophylactic drugs. In prophylaxis, most of the drugs used for treatment can be taken preventively.
It has been suggested that the best strategy to achieve the objectives of health care management is on-job training. The clinical setting is the best environment for the gaining of managerial and leadership skills since it gives practical experience of what is described in the health care management curriculum.
The objectives set for this course are quite comprehensive as they assume that the prospective student has a good clinical background but only requires empowerment in managerial, organizational and leadership fields in order to ensure that the affairs of a health facility or organization are running smoothly.
Nancy was admitted but the nurses were so busy attending to other patients that by the time she was wheeled to the theatre for an emergency cesarean section, she was barely conscious. Her baby was still born.
My aunt Nancy cannot come to terms with the fact that her baby is gone and blames the nurses for their carelessness. She was 8 months pregnant and had gone to the doctor for her regular prenatal care.
The parasite’s main hosts are the humans. The Anopheles mosquito is just but a secondary host. The mosquitoes first get infected by ingesting a blood meal from an infected human and they like to feed at night.
Malaria is a fever-like infectious disease that is caused by a parasite of the genus Plasmodium. It is rampant in the tropical and sub-tropical regions. Its fatality is mostly experienced in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially among the young children. The deaths caused by Malaria (more than 250 million deaths are recorded each year), are alarming and have gone to the extent of destabilizing the economic development of affected regions. It is usually associated with poverty.
The treatment of the disease has undergone a revolution over the past decade, with strong scientific consensus arising to favour early and aggressive therapy (Scott & Kingsley, 2006). There is proof that early treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis is beneficial for patients and the treatment outcome.
Tests are conducted because scientific evidence has shown that patients suffering from RA, have serum that had agglutinins against the common heamolytic streptococci, which led in the use of agglutination reaction as a valid diagnosis test. This is another test which provides diagnosis results for RA (Gotzsche, 2008). However, as most researches are proving, there are patents with negative results for agglutination, therefore diagnosis tests which a negative are often not rejected.
In the application, of this type of communication skills of the physician is required to interpret the feeling of the patient to what it means. Another technique of communication is asking of questions, which is mostly a closed or open type of questions.