Comparative Research Project - Ethics of Vaccination
Summary - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Vaccination gives humans and living beings immunity against some viruses, allowing humans and animals to live longer, as they can now be protected. Vaccination is a very important procedure in several countries, as it can provide people with general immunity. However, some...
Smallpox and vaccination in the 19th century
Essay - 2 pages - Medical studies
During the 19th century, medicine and technology were two things very far behind what they are today. There were no guidelines on how to treat patients, and epidemics arose due to the poor standards of living. Therefore, when smallpox broke out, there were many reactions to the incredible...
Vaccination of fish against infectious diseases in aquaculture
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
The role of aquaculture in providing a sustainable source of seafood to an ever increasing world population has experienced tremendous growth in recent years. In combination with an increasing world population, the reduction in the wild harvest, changes in consumer eating habits, the economic...
Essay on international agreements : sales of Covid-19 vaccines
Essay - 5 pages - International law
This situation has changed the world. Experiencing such situations require a certain level of implication and commitment on the international scale. Meaning, all the countries were henceforth concerned about this pandemic. Fever, dry cough, and exhaustion are the most prevalent Covid-19 symptoms....
Comprehensive Wellness Assessment - Case of a Caucasian Woman
Case study - 5 pages - Medical care & personal assistance
The comprehensive wellness assessment enables the caregiver and the patient to deliberate on existing and new health issues. A well-woman assessment is a proactive method for screening likely issues associated with women's health (Tong et al., 2021). This evaluation is vital for the health of...
The use of animals for experiments and research purpose
Essay - 4 pages - Everyday's life
From the beginning of time, before confirming the efficiency of a product, especially in the medical sciences, there is always a need for experimentation. In fact, to understand diseases and develop treatments, one of the most used ways by researchers is the animal model. Over the years, this use...
SWOT Analysis - Vodacom
Case study - 5 pages - ICT marketing
Vodacom is a company that originated in South Africa in 1993, founded by Alan Knott-Craig Senior, who later handed the reins over to his son, Alan Knott-Craig Junior. The company has become the leading purpose-led African provider of financial and digital services, and connectivity, offering a...
Infringements of fundamental rights and freedoms
Essay - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Fundamental freedoms organize the collective consciousness, by strengthening the protection of individuals against threats related to the functioning of our contemporary societies and give the holders of these prerogatives a power of self-determination in their action and thought.
HIV / AIDS - Definition, Transmission Mode and Prevention
Course material - 3 pages - Medical studies
AIDS or acquired immunosuppression syndrome, revealed in 1981, is the serious consequence of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), responsible for a reduction in cellular immunity which is a source of opportunistic infections. The improvement of immune functions under multi...
"Fake news is the real virus!" (2020) - Fiction and reality
Text commentary - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
In May 2020, during the early days of the pandemic, a protester in California held a sign sharing a worrying idea. By calling fake news the real virus, they meant that lies and false claims about COVID-19 were actually a bigger problem than the disease itself.
Impact evaluation
Course material - 10 pages - Economy general
When you really do database business of development policy making, it makes it sound very idealistic to, for example, providing easy access to health, which means you intervening when someone is sick. In this case, you are intervening at the earliest stage (for example, providing clean water to...
Analytical Methods for the Development of Haemophilus influenza virus b Vaccine
Dissertation - 44 pages - Medical studies
The ability to provide timely, accurate, and reliable data is central to the discovery, development, and manufacture of biopharmaceuticals. Analytical data are used to screen potential vaccine candidates, aid in the development of vaccine synthesis, support formulation studies, monitor the...
Communicating the Fight for Polio Vaccines
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
For our society, polio was an intense and dramatic disease that was eradicated almost as quickly as it came. Now polio remains a fleeting memory of both the tragedy of disease and the “miracle” of science, yet other nations who are not so fortunate are still living the history and...
Opposing viewpoints: Autism is a serious public health crisis
Case study - 9 pages - Educational studies
According to Anne McElroy Dachel, Autism is now becoming an epidemic because of the increase of cases now being reported as compared to 20 years ago. Dachel, I feel is biased because her child was diagnosed with Autism almost 20 years ago and at the time of his diagnosis not much was known about...
Study case : Sanofi Aventis
Case study - 28 pages - Business strategy
Over the past few years, Sanofi-Aventis' strategic decisions have enabled the company to reinforce its leadership in the international market. The company has grown by merging with competitors, it has increasingly invested in R&D, reinforced its presence in the major markets (the United States...
Glaxo Smithkline : inter-cultural overview
Case study - 10 pages - Management
In today's markets, international trends represent a large part of exchanges. In most cases, companies act on an international level: they try to sell their products all over the world in order to find new opportunity markets. They expect to find competition-advantaged resource providers on...
The RotaShield Fix
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
The field of biomedicine is wrought with ethical questions and dilemmas. As researchers and medical professions work to improve our quality of health, they must constantly evaluate the appropriateness of their efforts, especially when weighted against the experimental and the adverse unknown....
Small-Pox: Remedies and diagnosis
Course material - 9 pages - Medical studies
Owing to the beneficent discovery of Edward Jenner the full terrors of small-pox as it used to prevail can now hardly be realized. In unvaccinated persons, and those upon whom the operation has been performed imperfectly, the disease may still rage with all its natural violence, but in ordinary...
Project of econometrics: Causes of infant mortality in Africa (2006)
Thesis - 20 pages - Philosophy
My study focuses on child mortality in Africa. According to UNICEF figures, the mortality rate among children under 5 years varies considerably from one country to another, and is amplified in certain countries. For this international organization whose responsibility is the protection of...
Strategic analysis Sanofi-Aventis
Case study - 23 pages - Business strategy
On 1st January 2005, the merger of the French pharmaceutical groups Sanofi-Synthelabo and Aventis, gave birth to Sanofi-Aventis, Europe's leading company in the sector in terms of turnover, and the third largest group worldwide. The company now relies on an international research network to...
Analyzing financial statements of Sanofi
Case study - 10 pages - Finance
Sanofi is a French multinational pharmaceutical company that was formed in 2004 with the merger of Sanofi-Synthélabo and Aventis. The company is specialized in research and development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical products. It is the world's fourth larger company by prescription...
GlaxoSmithKline in the US and beyond
Market study - 10 pages - Business strategy
The foundation of today's leading research-based pharmaceutical company was laid by individual entrepreneurs of the 1800s. GlaxoSmithKline was formed on 27 December 2000, by the merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham. Headquartered in the UK, the company is one of the industry...
Denialism
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
The use of term 'denialism' has proliferated and its academic explanatory power is used to examine and study the cause of false beliefs and misperceptions. The concept itself is devoid of concrete meaning it has been stretched in various academic and other directions to accommodate...
Safety of Immunization for Infants
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
In the following study we are going to evaluate the risks involved when immunizing infants. There have been different studies concluded, and research made, in order to determine if the risks of the immunization or getting the illness are larger. There is a discussion among experts, so we will...
A Discussion and analysis of three possible causes of Alzheimer's Disease
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
Read a newspaper, ANY newspaper, and you will come across medical technologies such as reduction in infant mortality, development of vaccines and antibodies, and advances in the treatment of heart disease and stroke that have contributed to the recent increase in life expectancy. In 1900 the...
Study case : sanofi aventis - published: 13/05/2009
Case study - 19 pages - Business strategy
Over the past few years, Sanofi-Aventis strategic decisions have enabled the company to reinforce its leadership on the international market. The company has grown by merging with competitors, it has increasingly invested in R&D, reinforced its presence on the major markets (the United States and...
Stigmas and obstacles in communicable disease research: Responses to the Herpes Simplex Virus
Thesis - 8 pages - Medical studies
The discipline of public health is a relatively new discipline addressing both old and new problems in all areas of health, including physical and mental. Given the limited funding sources and the endless public health concerns to be addressed, the faces of public health (business/private sector,...
The states right to compel individuals to take medications
Case study - 13 pages - Constitutional law
A basic standard of health care for all American citizens is an idea that arose less than 100 years ago, but which today is a tenet that most people in the United States believe. Basic healthcare belongs, in my opinion, to the whole world simply due to them being “world citizens”,...
Gardasil and human papillomavirus
Thesis - 2 pages - Medical studies
Every decade or so, mankind become more effective in the treatment and prevention of disease. It is merely, as I am sure Darwin would put it, how the human race proves to be the fittest of the earth. We have found ways to recognize what is harmful and either eradicate the problem or control it in...
What are the main obstacles to the provision of global public goods?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
Global public goods are hard to define. Even though, there is a consensus about the definitions of public goods and collective goods, there exists different approaches. Public goods are supposed to be available for all and they are characterized by two principles: non-rivalry, which means that...
