CPH - Disease Control and Prevention

Prevention is Better than Cure

• it is better to stop an illness from occurring than it is to treat after it has happened

• you are safe from risk if you are living in a healthy manner

• unlike if you have illness, even if it is curable, it can still cause death.

• things that you can do to prevent having a disease

HEALTH IS WEALTH

• being healthy means you have the freedom to do what you want to do.

• a freedom that money can’t buy

• “what you reap is what you saw

GOOD HEALTH IS A CHOICE

• we choose everything that is happening in our life.

• our body only fights foreign organisms that enters our body

• it is up to us if we want to make our immune system strong and healthy or not

Non- Communicable Disease

• Cardiovascular disease

• Cancer

• Diabetes

• Chronic respiratory disease(asthma)

• Is a non-infectious disease or medical condition. They tend to be chronic (long- lasting) diseases with slow progression.

• Example: ___…

• Non- Modifiable

• Modifiable

RISK FACTORS OF NON- COMMUNICABLE DISEASE

Non-Modifiable

· can’t be changed by an individual. Such as age, sex, genetic make up

Modifiable

· can be changed by an individual.

• Smoking

• Physical activity

• Poor nutrition

• Harmful use of alcohol

4 important modifiable risk factors

• Primary Prevention

• Secondary Prevention

• Tertiary Prevention

Prevention f Non-communicablr Disease

Primary Prevention

· Action taken prior to onset of disease, which removes the possibility that a disease will ever occur.

Secondary prevention

· Action which halts the progress of the disease at its incipient stage and prevents complication.

CA 153

Most common marker for breast cancer

Communicable Disease

• Can be transmitted from person to person. Some communicable disease are also chronic such as HIV/AIDS

• person to person

• Bacteria

• Viruses

• Fungi

• Protozoa(parasite)

Types of Phatogen

Escherichia coli

• a single coiled organisms without a nucleus.

• number one cause of UTI

• can also cause food poisoning

Eosin Methylene Blue agar

EMB (it is a plate fr bacteria)

Green metallic sheen

· Characteristic of E. coli in EMB plate:

Herpes simplex

herpes

• Thread like particles that reproduce by taking over living cells

• ______- Common infection that can cause painful blisters or ulsters

• Primarily spread through skin to skin contact and it is treatable but not curable

• Common cold, Flu, Genital herpes, Cold sores, Measles, AIDS, Genital warts, Chicken pox, Small pox

• Rhinovirus

• Influenza viruses

• Herpes

• Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV 1)

• Human papilloma virus

• Varicella zoster virus

• Variola virus

Causative agent:

• Common cold-

• Flu-

• Genital herpes-

• Cold sores-

• Genital warts-

• Chicken pox-

• Small pox-

Death cap mushroom

• simple organisms including mushrooms and yeast, that grow as single cells or thread like filaments.

• Eating them, may lead to liver and kidney damage as well as death

• Extremely poisonous

• Ringworm, Athlete’s foot, Tinea, Candidiasis, Histoplasmosis, Mushroom poisoning

Giardia lamblia

• Old man with eyeglasses

• single celled organism with a nucleus

• Aka- ____________________

• Motility: falling leaf

• Symmetrical

• Malaria, “Traveler’s diarrhea”, (Giardiasis), Trypanosomiasis, (“Sleeping sickness”)

• Tinea corporis

• Tinea pedis

• Candida Labicans

• Histoplasma capsulatum

• Ringworm-

• Athletes foot/alipunga-

• Candidiasis-

• Histoplasmosis-

Direct

· occurs when there is a physical contact between the infected person and susceptible person

Indirect

· occurs when there is no human-to-human contact

1. Person-To-Person Contact

2. Mother to unborn Child

3. Droplet Spread

Direct Contact:

1. Airborne Transmission

2. Contaminated Objects

3. Food and Drinking Water

4. Animal- To- Person Contact

5. Insect Bites

Indirect Contact:

Toxoplasma gondii

-parasites through cat

Handwashing

to break the chain infection

Measures

• to implement is to interrupt the process by acting for control on intermediate host by:

• Use of insecticides

• Drainage of standing water used as breeding places of vector (favorite ng mga lamok and stagnant water)

• Isolation of ill patient

• Avoid overcrowding as in public places

• Use f well ventilated room

FOR CONTROL MEASURES OF AIRBORNE SPREAD

Naegleria fowleri

• acquire in dirty water

• free living amoeba

• Immunization

• Licensing of dog ownership

For Dogs