In Le Roy, New York, in 2011, a mysterious medical condition emerged: Several teenage girls suddenly began to exhibit symptoms similar to those of Tourette’s Syndrome, including involuntary twitches, movements, and sounds. Soon after, the number of individuals experiencing comparable symptoms increased. As media attention toward the situation grew, questions and concerns intensified about the origin of this condition. Did an environmental exposure trigger this? Was it the result of an infectious disease? If so, why were some people in the region affected and not others? In other words, could genetic factors play a role in this?
This week, you have been exploring a number of environmental and genetic factors that influence population health. Understanding how environmental and genetic factors influence populations will support your work as an advanced practice nurse. Therefore, for this Discussion, you will investigate the relationship between an environmental agent or genetic factor and a population health problem. You will also give attention to health disparities that may arise within a population because of environment or genetics.
Review the Learning Resources, and select one environmental agent or one genetic factor and an associated population health problem. For example, you might consider lead paint and its effect on children, air pollution and its effect on individuals with asthma, genetic associations of various cancers, etc.
Conduct additional research using the Walden Library and credible websites, reviewing the literature on your selected health problem and the relevant environmental agent or genetic factor.
Explore health data resources and determine morbidity, mortality, incidence, prevalence, exposures, and costs to society as they relate to your chosen environmental agent or genetic factor.
How might your chosen environmental or genetic factor result in health disparities in populations?
By Day 3
Post a cohesive scholarly response that addresses the following:
Identify the environmental agent or genetic factor that you selected and the population health problem with which it is associated.
Evaluate the significance of the health risk resulting from your selected environmental agent or genetic factor, discussing such aspects as morbidity, mortality, incidence, prevalence, exposures, and costs to society. Support your response with references and data.
How might the environmental or genetic factor you identified result in health disparities in populations?
expired young kid and stroked the body (Cahill and Ewing 46). Stunned at himself, Gacy comes back to Chicago to live with his family and graduates from Northwestern Business College in 1963, and acknowledges an administration student position with Nunn-Bush Shoe Company. In 1964, Gacy is moved to Springfield and meets his future spouse, Marlynn Myers. In Springfield, Gacy has his subsequent gay experience when a collaborator unsteadily performed oral sex on him (London 11:7). Gacy moves to Waterloo, Iowa, and starts a family with Myers. Be that as it may, after normally undermining his better half with whores, Gacy submits his previously known rape in 1967 upon Donald Vorhees. In the coming months, Gacy explicitly manhandles a few different young people and is captured and accused of oral homosexuality (Sullivan and Maiken 60). On December 3, 1968, Gacy is indicted and condemned to ten years at the Anamosa State Penitentiary. Gacy turns into a model detainee at Anamosa and is conceded parole in June of 1970, an insignificant year and a half after his condemning. He had to migrate to Chicago and live with his mom and watch a 10:00PM check in time. Not exactly a year later, Gacy is accused again of explicitly ambushing a high school kid yet the adolescent didn’t show up in court, so the charges were dropped.
Gacy was known by numerous individuals in his locale to be an ardent volunteer and being dynamic in network legislative issues. His job as “Pogo the Clown” the comedian started in 1975 when Gacy joined a neighborhood “Buoyant Joker” jokester club that routinely performed at raising money occasions.
On January 3, 1972, Gacy submits his first homicide of Timothy McCoy, a 16-year old kid making a trip from Michigan to Omaha. Asserting that McCoy went into his room employing a kitchen blade, Gacy gets into a physical squabble with McCoy before cutting him more than once in the chest. In the wake of understanding that McCoy had absentmindedly strolled into the stay with the blade while attempting to get ready breakfast, Gacy covers the body in his creep space. Gacy conceded in the meetings following his capture that slaughtering McCoy gave him a “mind-desensitizing climax”, expressing that this homicide was the point at which he “understood passing was a definitive rush” (Cahill and Ewing 349). Just about 2 years after the fact, Gacy submits his second homicide of a unidentified youngster. Gacy choked the kid before stuffing the body in his storeroom before covering him (Cahill 349).
In 1975, Gacy’s business was developing rapidly and his craving for youngsters developed