What is a disease that is common to a geographic region? Use your Care On Point resource to determine the risk factors associated with this disease as well as the risk factors for contracting the disease. How does knowing the risk factors modify your diagnoses, intervention, and management plan?

What is a disease that is common to a geographic region? Use your Care On Point resource to determine the risk factors associated with this disease as well as the risk factors for contracting the disease. How does knowing the risk factors modify your diagnoses, intervention, and management plan?

What is a disease that is common to a geographic region? Use your Care On Point resource to determine the risk factors associated with this disease as well as the risk factors for contracting the disease. How does knowing the risk factors modify your diagnoses, intervention, and management plan?

Valley Fever

Valley fever is also known as coccidioidomycosis. This disease is caused by fungus Coccidioides immitis or C. posadasii. Valley fever is endemic in Southwest US mainly in the states of Arizona, California, and regions of Mexico (Wilson et al., 2019). The clinical presentation of patients with valley fever is mainly nonspecific. They include but are not limited to fever, myalgia, skin manifestations like erythema nodosum, and pulmonary system presentations such as chest pain, dyspnea, and cough which is the commonest manifestation. Valley fever is transmitted mainly through respiratory inhalations but can also be transmitted through direct contact with spores containing animal products and surfaces.

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The risk factors for the development of valley fever include but are not limited to exposure to people with valley fever, a weakened immune system in people with HIV, diabetes, transplants, or autoimmune conditions, and the black race and the Filipinos (Lauer et al., 2020). Knowledge of disease risk factors is a critical aspect of the management of a disease. It helps caregivers narrow down their differential diagnosis based on where a patient lives. The knowledge of risk factors also plays a major role in instituting preventative mechanisms for valley fever to control the prevalence. It can help reduce the incidence by helping inform preventative measures for people who get in and out of the endemic areas (Sasayama et al., 2021), During treatment, knowledge of the risk factors gives a doctor an informed perspective of the foreseeable harms and merits of treatment offered to the patients.

Conclusion

Risk factors are a critical part of an illness process as they serve to independently or synergistically influence the development of a disease. The knowledge of disease risk factors serves to improve diagnosis by limiting the differential range. It also greatly influences the interventions in the prevention and treatment of an illness.

References

Lauer, A., Etyemezian, V., Nikolich, G., Kloock, C., Arzate, A. F., Sadiq Batcha, F., Kaur, M., Garcia, E., Mander, J., & Kayes Passaglia, A. (2020). Valley Fever: Environmental Risk Factors and Exposure Pathways Deduced from Field Measurements in California. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(15), 5285. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155285

Sasayama, K., Gilmour, S., & Ota, E. (2021). Factors Affecting Disease Risk Perception and Self-Management Behaviors among Japanese Long-Term Overseas Volunteers. Health, 13(01), 16–30. https://doi.org/10.4236/health.2021.131002

Wilson, L., Ting, J., Lin, H., Shah, R., MacLean, M., Peterson, M. W., Stockamp, N., Libke, R., & Brown, P. (2019). The Rise of Valley Fever: Prevalence and Cost Burden of Coccidioidomycosis Infection in California. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(7). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071113

What is a disease that is common to a geographic region? Use your Care On Point resource to determine the risk factors associated with this disease as well as the risk factors for contracting the disease. How does knowing the risk factors modify your diagnoses, intervention, and management plan?