How the individuals risk of disease such as TB (tuberculosis) might differ from the risk posed by the same disease for the population at large.
Tuberculosis is a contagious infection caused by an airborne bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It usually affects the lungs, although it can attack most any organ in the body. Tuberculosis has been a serious public health problem for a long time. There were more cases among older people because they have likely to have acquired the infection as the body’s immune system weakens with age, dormant bacteria become reactivated. Tuberculosis may transmit to a person depend on the boy’s immune system, an individual may get infected with the bacteria if an individual possess a strong body immune system, prolong exposure on the bacteria, immune system is compromised having cancer, HIV, poor nutrition, substance abuse, inadequate hygiene which is susceptible to the bacteria. Individuals having no BCG scar is in risk of developing the bacteria. Although both the individual and the population is in risk of having the disease, the same mode of transmission and how TB spread into the body but they are differ in terms of treatment as with the individual its causes either we went to a certain places and encountered a person whom has a tuberculosis, the treatment is within the person alone being affected.
While in terms with the population at large who were being affected, it will involve the whole community in treating the disease, the carrier or the host should be mainly targeted in order not to spread the disease. Doing the case control study on the certain population. In the community, if one person is carrying the bacteria, the community may get the chance to be infected especially in those areas that are crowded, poorly ventilated, homeless shelters, tenement houses, and squatter’s area as compare to an individual who is at risk of having tuberculosis. It may affect also on the individuals who are uneducated in which they don’t have a knowledge regarding the transmission of the disease. Since tuberculosis is very contagious an individual must be treated with its basic treatments. As with this making up with the lifestyle habits, stop smoking, and stop alcohol consumption at the turie of their diagnosis. With the community, people may tend to discriminate and make avoidance on the certain community, people who have tuberculosis and which they’re community is high incidence in TB they tend to be avoided. It may have an effect on the social interaction lead to disturbance, occupational changes on individual’s side as well. To assess the feasibility and cost effectiveness of community based tuberculosis care, operational research is needed. Tuberculosis really give an impact on ones life, on the community. It should really need to comply those entire regimen treatment courses to stop the spread of the bacteria. To sum up everything, individual risk is that tendency he/ she might infect other people to have tuberculosis in which it may lead to a community problem. And as the community that has a high incidence of tuberculosis, as a result it may lead to social disturbance. More preventive measures in a community it needs a lot of appropriate actions to reduce the number of cases in tuberculosis. First thing first target those individual who have TB .
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