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A 10 page paper which examines the issue, significance, agent, condition, morbidity and mortality from the perspectives of person, place and time, considering race, age, gender, geographical area, socioeconomic factors, occupation, education and cyclical or seasonal fluctuations in order to determine long-term trends that may influence future epidemiological research. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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and pneumonia, were the major causes of mortality in the United States and throughout much of the world (Kalache et al., 2002). Specifically, it is a medical issue that
is derived from rheumatism, or the migration of polyarthritis throughout the body that originates in a streptococcal bacteria that resides in the throat (Sample, 2002). This bacteria invades the
joints visibly noted through skin rashes and can also attack one or more valves of the heart (Sample, 2002). During the 1950s, it was T. Duckett Jones who collectively
assembled the signs and symptoms of this disease, major and minor, and categorized them in a systematic way that would assist in what had been, up until that time, an
elusive diagnosis, due to its rather ambiguous, flu-like symptoms (Stollerman, 1997). Its significance, at least historically speaking, cannot be disputed, for rheumatic fever had long posed a serious threat
to public health, although today, it is actually only responsible for less than two percent of medical maladies, which would seem to hardly qualify it as a major health risk
(Kalache, 2002). However, statistics can be deceiving, and contrary to the popular view that rheumatic fever has been "cured," the virulent disease is still, unfortunately, alive and well in
many parts of the world, including the United States. In any type of epidemiological consideration of rheumatic fever, it is important to consider familial susceptibility, for as one medical
researcher explains, "We know certain individuals are more likely to get the disease, and theres a feeling theres a genetic predisposition" (Sample, 2002). The factors of malnutrition, overcrowding and
socioeconomic status must also be examined in order to gain a greater understanding as to where the germs accumulate and what causes them to spread (Rheumatic Fever, 2002). The agent
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