Principles of Disease
Student Assignment 1
Spring 2017
This assignment must be turned in on Blackboard and no hard copies will be accepted. Each student will choose a specific disease. In order for the assignment to be complete the student will need to answer all of the activity questions listed below. Information for the assignment can be obtained for the following suggested websites:
WEBMD Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the Department of Health and Human Services the National Institutes of Health (NIH) PubMed the World Health Organization (WHO) and any other website publishing peer-reviewed literature. Your paper needs to have cited references if you include information obtained from any literature source. Some diseases you can use include:
Hypertension Influence (FLU) HIV/AIDS
Diabetes Malaria Ebola
Some information on each of the listed diseases can be found in the textbook. However it should not be the only source of information.
Activity Questions
1. Describe how this diseased is diagnosed?
2. What is the typical prognosis for the disease?
3. What are the know signs and symptoms of the disease?
4. What is the etiology of the disease?
5. Categorize this disease. Is it chronic acute communicable infectious heredity congenital metabolic inflammatory virulent degenerative neoplastic or environmental (all that apply)?
6. Apply as applicable the terms pathogen pathogenesis and pathophysiology for this disease.
7. Apply as applicable the terms recovery remission endemic epidemic and pandemic to the disease.
8. Summarize risk factors and disease prevention strategies for this disease.
9. Provide disease incidence prevalence mortality rate and survival rate for the disease.
Post Student responses to Blackboard under Assignment 1. Remember Safe Assign will be on and does flag any violations of academic integrity. You may be asked to present your work during the class period. Thank you.