Female Genital Mutilation
.... associated with these operations such as; hemorrhage, shock, painful scars, keloid formation, clitoral cysts, chronic urinary infection, chronic pelvic infections, painful menstruation, severe pain during intercourse, sterility, kidney stones, sexual dysfunction, depression and complications during childbirth.
Female genital mutilation is usually performed on young girls prior to puberty. It is practiced in more than twenty countries in Africa, in Oman, Southern Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East and in Indonesia and Malaysia in Asia. Statistics have shown that 90% or more of the women in Djibouti, E .....
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Hypochondria
.... the vulnerable person simultaneously obtains the protection and attention he craves,excuses his excessive dependence, and binds his protector to him(who could leave someone who was seriously ill?).
Psychiatrists today classify hypochondria as one of a type of behaviors collectively known as the somatoform disorders. What these conditions have in common is that sufferers feel physical symptoms for which they seek medical attention in the absence of a detected organic disease or which are out of proportion to a given element. Depending on symptoms and behavior, "somatizers" fall into one of several categories.(Cantor 33) .....
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Health Experience
.... the system more often, we should pay higher insurance premiums." "’Poor women and women of color are liabilities, while insured women are ‘markets’ and ‘billable’ resources." "doctors accuse ‘poor’ women of not taking proper care of ourselves or our children, or they see drug use and depression in ‘poor’ families as individual, preventable failures of character rather than as markets of economically and socially depressed community development." "’Poor’ women are more likely to be used as ‘teaching material’ in hospitals, so that physicians in training can practice the craft they will use later on wealthy private patients." (O .....
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Tourette's Disorder
.... disorder (ADHD) from TS. Many ADHD children, on close examination, have a few phonic or motor tics, grimace, or produce noises similar to those of TS. Since at least half of the TS patients also have attention deficits and hyperactivity as children, a physician may well be confused. However, the treating doctor should be aware of the potential dangers of treating a possible case of TS with stimulant medication. On rare occasions the differentiation between TS and a seizure disorder may be problematic. The symptoms of TS sometimes occur in a rather sharply separated paroxysmal manner and may resemble automatisms. TS patients .....
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Anxiety
.... when you have to start changing your lifestyle to avoid your anxieties. Anxiety can take the form of many situations. For example. another woman overheard at her work that someone had a bad odor. The woman assumed it was her, and became paranoid about her odor. She was afraid to go out in public, an didn’t let her husband go either. She became anti-social and then depressed. This pattern persisted for 10 years, until her husband eventually took them to a therapist.
Anxiety can cause severe depression. What happens is the person becomes anti-social, and because of isolation, becomes lonely and depressed. The depress .....
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Exotic Diseases And The Treat To Humanity
.... seems the most likely to happen is a world epidemic.
Human activities and behavior often help increases the risk of a world epidemic. In such activities like increased travel, shipments of resources and wild animals increase the possibility of catching a deadly virus and starting to spread an epidemic. Human behavior such as neglect can determine the fate of a world epidemic. Most people believe that Ebola or any other exotic disease would spawn off and epidemic only in third world countries, but that’s not true. In 1989 Ebola made it’s way to the United States. The virus hit Virginia, but luckily only in some Monkey’s. The .....
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The Influence Of Ecstasy On The Youth
.... acceptable. Rave like other cult is self-stupefying and refuses to question the taking of the drugs affecting its continual and successful existence. “Recreational drug users often see only benefits only from drug use and at this stage will have control over the drug taking, despite using drug on regular basis. However recreational drug use does not mean problem free drug use.”(Latimer 1997). For this reason it is vital to raise awareness about some of the known effects of the drug use. Both within the raving community and the general public, after all the young Ravers of today a whole generation, who will ultimately effect the .....
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The Female Body
.... infection, but it is also hostile to sperm. Although vaginal fluid of adult woman is acidic, it tends to be alkaline in adolescents, predisposing sexually active teenagers to sexually transmitted diseases.
In virgins, the mucosa near the distal vaginal orifice forms an incomplete partition called the hymen. The hymen is very vascular & tends to bleed when it is ruptured during the first coitus (sexual intercourse). However, its durability varies. In some females, it is ruptured during a sports activity, tampon insertion, or pelvic examination. Occasionally, it is so though that it must be breach surgically if intercourse is .....
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Human Nutrition
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Depressive disorders are at the present the highest-ranking problems in America. A variety of medical conditions can cause and lead to depression. A depressive disorder is a "whole body" illness involving your body, mood and thoughts. People with severe depressive disorder usually deal with a combination of genetics, behavioral, and environmental factors. People with these feelings have greater thoughts towards committing suicide. Fiftieth percent of depressed people commit and others attempt suicide. Most of these depressed persons suffer from malnutrition.
Mental Health a, psychological state of well being, a .....
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
.... problems are permanent; all of these problems associated with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects are forever and once alcohol has done the damage there is no recovery.
According to the writer, an experimental study was done among alcoholic male rats, and the observation showed evident of how alcohol may damage the rat’s sperm. Therefore, it should be acknowledged that males’ alcohol consumption is also a risk factor for adverse pregnancy outcome. To help prevent Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects the father of the unborn child must also be educated on the possible results of the effect alcohol could have .....
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Anorexia Nervosa
.... an anxious to please, even obsession in their habits.
There are also many problems caused by anorexia nervosa. Girls with anorexia nervosa stop having their menstrual periods, which is also called amenorrhea People with anorexia have excessively dry skin, and have thinning hair on their heads. They may have a growth of fine hair all over their body, which is usually light-colored. They may feel cold all the time, and may also get sick often. There is also a problem with concentration, because the disorder makes them think usually only of food, and when they are not thinking about food, they are concentrating too much on th .....
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Artificial Contraceptives
.... using an IUD. (Billings, pg.63) in fact, some devices increase the risk of pelvic infection(Funk & Wagnall’s, pg.98). Further, in Perry and Dawson’s book, Nightmare, they proclaim the dangers of IUDs. They focus, especially, on the Dalkon Shield IUD; an IUD described as “the safest and most satisfying form of contraception.” In their book, Perry and Dawson state that “more than 12,000 women have filed damage suits for complications ranging from debilitating pain and severe bleeding to perforated uteri, unplanned pregnancies, spontaneous miscarriages, and septic abortions(Perry & Dawson, pg. 1).
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