Public Health
Introduction
I am producing an information book for new members of staff that will include
information about the main factors that influence health in different parts of
the south and north of the United Kingdom. I will also include information
about one catching and one noncommunicable disease and explain how they
might have had a recent outbreak. I will be including statistics and graphs to
back up my information.
(iStock 2019)
A catching disease is an infectious disease caused by germs like bacteria that
can get into the body and create issues for your health. Multiple diseases but
not all diseases that are infectious can be spread directly from one person to
another this would label the disease as contagious.
(Clipart Library
2018)
An example of a catching disease is measles,
measles is a very contagious disease caused by a
virus that is airborne disease meaning it is spread
by coughing, sneezing and inhaling it. There are
multiple symptoms of measles such as a rash,
having a high fever, runny nose and red water
eyes. However, most cases of measles are not
severe but if they are, they can cause a swelling of the brain and sometimes
death. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018)
, (Kruzikova, H 2019)
The government are trying to put a compulsory measles vaccination in place
for children starting primary school to prevent the reappearance of the disease
as Italian researchers think that the current precautions are not enough to
prevent outbreaks of the disease in the coming years. The BMC Medicine
reported that “the number of cases in the UK could double in the coming
decades" which is why researchers want the compulsory vaccinations to take
place as it did in Italy. In England the number of children receiving the
vaccination for the mumps and rubella by the age of five has fallen to 87.2%
and according to the World Health Organisation this is below the 95% required
to protect the population from a disease. (BBC 2019)
The United Kingdom was reported free of measles in 2017 by the World Health
Organisation however in 2018 the United Kingdom experienced small
outbreaks of measles in March in greater Manchester. (BBC 2019)
(oxford vaccine group 2019)
As the graph shows measle
rates were low up until 2010
where is increased rapidly as
there was a failure in
vaccinating parts of the
population. The measles rates
then went down until 2018
where it has increased again
because of children not receiving their measles, mumps and rubella
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