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What is Guinea Worm? Ans✓✓✓ Contracted when a person drinks
stagnant water from a well or bond contaminated with tiny freshwater
copepods carrying guinea worm larvae
What happens during Guinea Worm? Ans✓✓✓ Stomach acid kills the
copepods and the larvae penetrate the small intestinal wall into the
abdominal cavity. After 60-90 days male and female larvae mate and
grow to an average of 2-3 feet. Then the grown worm rises to the skin in
search of water source to lay more eggs
Symptoms of Guinea Worm Ans✓✓✓ Forms painful blister usually in
the person's lower limbs
The worm gradually emerges from the blister in a painful process that
can last 8-12 weeks
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and dizziness
Treatments for Guinea Worm Ans✓✓✓ The ease the burning pain,
infected people submerge the blister in cool water which causes it to
rupture and all the larvae goes into the water
,only real treatment is to coax the worms out of blister by being slowly
wound around a narrow stick - if the worm is broken it retreats into the
body and causes painful inflammation
No medication is available/no vaccine
Effects of Guinea Worm Ans✓✓✓ It is rarely fatal, but causes long
period of disability - increasing children's absenteeism from school
economic damage is extreme
Guinea Worm Eradication Ans✓✓✓ In order to eradicate Guinea worm
it requires the disruption of the worm's transmission for one year
through these intervensions: Provision of safe sources of drinking water,
treatment of unsafe sources of drinking water, health education and
social mobilization, education to ensure cloth filteration, and
surveillance
Steps for Reducing Guinea Worm Ans✓✓✓ 1. Safe water (most
expensive/long term option)
Could be done through cloth filters, larvicide killer, or accessible water
source
2. Health education - no one should approach the water without thinking
about this disease
3. Surveillance and Case management - problem is that these small
villages lack primary healthcare workers, need a monthly reporting
, system, daily detection of cases, case management, containment of
transmission
What is the definition of health? Ans✓✓✓ a state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity
Factors that determine is a person is health Ans✓✓✓ Individual
characteristics (Genetic makeup, age, sex)
Social environment
Access to health services
Physical environment
Health behaviors (smoking, eating, etc)
Definition of Public Health Ans✓✓✓ the science and art of preventing
disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized
efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and
private, communities and individuals
Examples of public health activities Ans✓✓✓ Campaign to promote
immunization, an effort to get people to use seatbelts, promoting hand
washing, education on knowledge of HIV/AIDS
Definition of Global Health Ans✓✓✓ health problems, issues, and
concerns that transcend national boundaries, may be influenced by
VERIFIED ANSWERS |100% CORRECT | ALREADY GRADED
A
What is Guinea Worm? Ans✓✓✓ Contracted when a person drinks
stagnant water from a well or bond contaminated with tiny freshwater
copepods carrying guinea worm larvae
What happens during Guinea Worm? Ans✓✓✓ Stomach acid kills the
copepods and the larvae penetrate the small intestinal wall into the
abdominal cavity. After 60-90 days male and female larvae mate and
grow to an average of 2-3 feet. Then the grown worm rises to the skin in
search of water source to lay more eggs
Symptoms of Guinea Worm Ans✓✓✓ Forms painful blister usually in
the person's lower limbs
The worm gradually emerges from the blister in a painful process that
can last 8-12 weeks
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and dizziness
Treatments for Guinea Worm Ans✓✓✓ The ease the burning pain,
infected people submerge the blister in cool water which causes it to
rupture and all the larvae goes into the water
,only real treatment is to coax the worms out of blister by being slowly
wound around a narrow stick - if the worm is broken it retreats into the
body and causes painful inflammation
No medication is available/no vaccine
Effects of Guinea Worm Ans✓✓✓ It is rarely fatal, but causes long
period of disability - increasing children's absenteeism from school
economic damage is extreme
Guinea Worm Eradication Ans✓✓✓ In order to eradicate Guinea worm
it requires the disruption of the worm's transmission for one year
through these intervensions: Provision of safe sources of drinking water,
treatment of unsafe sources of drinking water, health education and
social mobilization, education to ensure cloth filteration, and
surveillance
Steps for Reducing Guinea Worm Ans✓✓✓ 1. Safe water (most
expensive/long term option)
Could be done through cloth filters, larvicide killer, or accessible water
source
2. Health education - no one should approach the water without thinking
about this disease
3. Surveillance and Case management - problem is that these small
villages lack primary healthcare workers, need a monthly reporting
, system, daily detection of cases, case management, containment of
transmission
What is the definition of health? Ans✓✓✓ a state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity
Factors that determine is a person is health Ans✓✓✓ Individual
characteristics (Genetic makeup, age, sex)
Social environment
Access to health services
Physical environment
Health behaviors (smoking, eating, etc)
Definition of Public Health Ans✓✓✓ the science and art of preventing
disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized
efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and
private, communities and individuals
Examples of public health activities Ans✓✓✓ Campaign to promote
immunization, an effort to get people to use seatbelts, promoting hand
washing, education on knowledge of HIV/AIDS
Definition of Global Health Ans✓✓✓ health problems, issues, and
concerns that transcend national boundaries, may be influenced by
