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Antibiotic Resistance, Rachel Balentine, Kaitlyn Flint, Aaron Motsinger, Mitchell Webber Oct 2016

Antibiotic Resistance, Rachel Balentine, Kaitlyn Flint, Aaron Motsinger, Mitchell Webber

Introduction to Public Health Posters

Antibiotic resistance is the ability of bacteria to resist the effects of an antibiotic. It occurs when bacteria change in a way that reduces the effectiveness of drugs, chemicals, or other agents designed to cure or prevent infections. Bacteria survive and continue to multiply, causing more harm.


Antibiotic Resistance, Jonathan Williams, Kjersti Fry, Leno Abraham, Meghan Robbins Oct 2016

Antibiotic Resistance, Jonathan Williams, Kjersti Fry, Leno Abraham, Meghan Robbins

Introduction to Public Health Posters

Antibiotics have been so widely used across the world that organisms have evolved and adapted to them, causing the drug to be less effective. Professionals do not know how to adapt because the bacteria keeps evolving to become resistant against the antibiotics.


Prescription Drug Abuse, Alaura Meister, Brianne O'Dell, Alathea Westbrook, Rachel Yuchimiuk Oct 2016

Prescription Drug Abuse, Alaura Meister, Brianne O'Dell, Alathea Westbrook, Rachel Yuchimiuk

Introduction to Public Health Posters

Prescription drugs can be abused in multiple ways: using a medication that is not prescribed to you; taking a drug in a higher dosage or different form than originally prescribed, or; taking a drug for a different reason than prescribed.


Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Emily Genet, Caleb Hoover, Nicole K. Stute, Christy Varghese Oct 2016

Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Emily Genet, Caleb Hoover, Nicole K. Stute, Christy Varghese

Introduction to Public Health Posters

Vaccine preventable diseases are illnesses that can be defended against with vaccines. Vaccines are drugs that make a person immune to an illness using the body’s natural defense mechanisms


Death With Dignity, Bemjamin Adam, Samantha Gross, John Nybo, Joel Sweeney Oct 2016

Death With Dignity, Bemjamin Adam, Samantha Gross, John Nybo, Joel Sweeney

Introduction to Public Health Posters

The death with dignity movement, which encompasses euthanasia, is a current trend in healthcare that negatively affects the public health of nations and adversely impacts the profession of pharmacy .


Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Katie Miller, Jinho Son, Meghan Strickling, Stephanie Wu Oct 2016

Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Katie Miller, Jinho Son, Meghan Strickling, Stephanie Wu

Introduction to Public Health Posters

Plastic is found in 9% of fish. At this rate, the Garbage Island will likely double in size in ten years. 7 billion pounds of non recyclable plastic are produced every year, and only 7% of the plastic in America is recycled. 1500 plastic water bottles are put in landfills and the ocean every second. The average person produces a half-pound of plastic waste every day in the U.S.


Gender Issues, Elizabeth Johnston, Elizabeth Depew, Cora Duran Oct 2016

Gender Issues, Elizabeth Johnston, Elizabeth Depew, Cora Duran

Introduction to Public Health Posters

Gender issues occur when men and women (and everything in between) do not get the opportunity to enjoy the same rights across all sectors in society, valuing and favoring the opinions of them all equally.


Prescription Drug Abuse, Erin Ashley, Samantha Newman, Mason Thomas, Abby Woodard Oct 2016

Prescription Drug Abuse, Erin Ashley, Samantha Newman, Mason Thomas, Abby Woodard

Introduction to Public Health Posters

Prescription drug abuse is the use of a prescription medication in a way that is not intended by the prescribing doctor and can include taking medication that belongs to someone else, taking a medication in a way other than prescribed, or taking a medication to get high.


Driving While "Intexticated", Noah Branch, Ryan Mayer, Matthew Swett, Steven Woodfield Oct 2016

Driving While "Intexticated", Noah Branch, Ryan Mayer, Matthew Swett, Steven Woodfield

Introduction to Public Health Posters

82% of American teens age 16-17 own a cell phone, and 91% of adults own a cell phone. 34% of teens and 27% of adults have admitted to texting and driving.


Food Deserts, Mary Sprow, Martha Morton, Emily Fisher, Bethany Anderson Oct 2016

Food Deserts, Mary Sprow, Martha Morton, Emily Fisher, Bethany Anderson

Introduction to Public Health Posters

A food desert is a geographical area in which there is not easy access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food.


Consumerism, Shawn Mosser, Kristin Tague Oct 2016

Consumerism, Shawn Mosser, Kristin Tague

Introduction to Public Health Posters

Consumerism/materialism is when material possessions are made more important than physical and/or spiritual needs. It is not only affected by the buying of material possessions, but also the hoarding of them.


Human Trafficking, Erin Dickman, Alaina Spears, Jessica Burval, Caleb Hasty Oct 2016

Human Trafficking, Erin Dickman, Alaina Spears, Jessica Burval, Caleb Hasty

Introduction to Public Health Posters

Human trafficking is the recruitment, transfer, or harboring of persons, through the use or threat of force, coercion, or deception, for the purpose of exploitation, including sexual exploitation and forced labor. It is a modern form of slavery where people profit from the control and exploitation of others.


Religion, Jacob Grasser, Meiling G. Norfolk, Ashton Prusia Oct 2016

Religion, Jacob Grasser, Meiling G. Norfolk, Ashton Prusia

Introduction to Public Health Posters

Pharmacists should be well-trained and sensitive to patient religious concerns and proactive in their research of any drug ingredients that may conflict with a patient's beliefs. Pharmaceutical manufacturing companies should be comprehensive in their product labeling to accommodate religious sensitivities.


Food Deserts, Jacob Day, Lauren Setzkorn Oct 2016

Food Deserts, Jacob Day, Lauren Setzkorn

Introduction to Public Health Posters

A food desert is a community, particularly a low-income area, in which the residents lack access to affordable and healthy food. There may be no supermarket or large grocery store within one mile if in an urban area or within ten miles if in a rural area, there is a lack of affordable vegetables, fruit, whole grains, and other nutritious foods, or there is a prevalence of fast food restaurants and convenience stores in the area.


School Of Nursing Class Of 2016 Hooding And Pinning Program, Cedarville University May 2016

School Of Nursing Class Of 2016 Hooding And Pinning Program, Cedarville University

B.S.N. and M.S.N. Academic Celebrations

No abstract provided.


School Of Pharmacy Inaugural Hooding Program, Cedarville University May 2016

School Of Pharmacy Inaugural Hooding Program, Cedarville University

Doctor of Pharmacy Hooding Ceremony

No abstract provided.