Global Issues and Trends in Healthcare Answer the essay question below and give

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Global Issues and Trends in Healthcare

Answer the essay question below and give your reasons and examples.

Create a brief disease profile for one of the many infections, diseases, or disabilities introduced in textbook Chapter 2. What sources provide trusted background information about the symptoms of the disease and ways to prevent and treat it? What sources provide good statistical information about how many people worldwide are affected by the condition? What can academic publications contribute to your profile?

Cardiovascular Ischemic heart CerebrovascularRheumatic heart Diseases disease (heart attacks) disease strokes) disease Congestive heart failure . Hypertension Blood Disorders Sickle cell Thalassemia Anemia . Hemophilia Pancreatic cancer Lung cancer Lymphoma Stomach cancerMouth and Colorectal Bladder cancer throat cancer Ovarian cancer Prostate cancerUterine cancer Melanoma and . Liver cancer Leukemia Breast cancer Cervical cancer other skin cancers . Esophageal .Cystic fibrosis Respiratory Chronic obstruc-Asthma Diseases tive pulmonary disease (COPD) Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders . Diabetes Thyroid disease Adrenal dis- orders (like Addison's disease and Cushing's syndrome) Digestive Diseases Cirrhosis of the Hernias liver Gallstones . Inflammatory bowel disease Peptic ulcer disease Genitourinary Kidney disease Benign prostatic Pelvic inflamma- Diseases hypertrophy (BPH) tory disease (PID) MusculoskeletalMuscular Diseases dystrophy Rheumatoid arthritis Skin Diseases Acne Eczema

Explanation / Answer

1.a.Ischemic heart diseases: coronary artery diseases are the most common heart diseases .patients may be asymptomatic or develop chronic stable angina .atherosclerosis isthe main cause of developing IHD

b.Incidence:1.2 million americans are affected

c.symptoms;Myocardial infarctions, stable angina,sometimes asymptomatic,unstable angina.

d.etiology:Atherosclerosis,obesity,life style,food habits ,physical inactivity etc

e.treatment:a physical activity programshould be designed ,nutritional therapy ,drugs that restrict lipo protein production,antiplatelet therapy,drugtherapy;niacin ,atorvastatin etc

f.prevention;achive and maintain a healthy weight

reduce salt and sodium intake

increase the level of physical activity

avoid use of tobacco products

2a.hyper tension: increase in blood pressur levelabove 120/80/139/89 is termed as hypertension

b.causes:sedimentary life style

c.food habits etc.

d.types of HT: primary hypertension

e. secondaryhypertension

? psedo hypertension.

f.causes: age ,alcohol,cigarrete smoking,diabetic mellitus etc

g.symptoms ;it is a silentkiller.asymptomatic the secondary symptoms include fatigue,diziness,palpitationetc.

h.treatment;diuretics,

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