The Theories Of A Communicable Disease - 1878 Words

Epidemiology can be defined as a medical science discipline that arranges the structure for studying the distribution and determinants of health, communicable disease, and circumstances related to health status. The epidemiology research help to understand in what means a person catch diseases or disorders, the changes, and how the disorders affect the population. The nurses that work with these communities to help identify the onset of communicable diseases determine new victims, the patterns it spread, the causes or preventive methods are known as community or public health nursing (Maurer, Smith, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to explain on the concepts of a communicable disease â€Å"Chickenpox† with its own unique epidemiology and†¦show more content†¦These rashes will go through stages of blistering, bursting, drying and crushing over and it takes about 5 to 7 days for this process to complete, by 10 to 21 days all the blisters have crusted over (CDC 2016). Once there is a dry scabs formation, the virus is unlikely to spread. Chickenpox disease can cause serious complications on infants, adults, adolescents, pregnant women and those with weakened immune system like HIV/Aids or cancer patients, people with organ transplants, on chemotherapy, immunosuppressive medications or long-term use of steroids. Complications includes pneumonia, dehydration, sepsis, bleeding problems, children having bacterial infection like group A streptococcal on the skin and soft tissues, and death to unvaccinated person. If a pregnant woman is infected with Chickenpox at her first trimester, the diseases can cause rare congenital symptoms on the fetal which presents as congenital varicella syndrome, low birth weight, atrophy, neurological abnormalities, or scarring of the skin and eyes (Maurer Smith 2013). 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