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An excludable illness is a contagious illness. Some examples of excludable illnesses would be Chicken Pox, Scabies, Strep Throat, and Measles. Many schools and day care centers follow strict guidelines when dealing with excludable illnesses.
doctors treat and take care of the sick according to their illnesses and according to his/her specialty.
Insurance companies have guidelines in place that can legally restrict you from being eligible for their coverage. For instance, depending on the company's guidelines, illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, severe mental illness, and other major illnesses can render a person ineligible. Check with the agent for the specific company to find out if there guidlines will restrict your eligiblity. An agent cannot refuse coverage, but the can tell you that they are not allowed to process your application due to certain illnesses.
Excessive drinking and poor diet are causing epidemics of alcoholism and obesity/diabetes in Native Americans today. Otherwise, the causes of illnesses are the same as for other people...
NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) guidelines are national guidance to help promote good health and the prevention and treatment of illnesses. NICE guidance is followed by GP's ensuring the patient receives excellent quality of care for each individual illness.
The purpose of OSHA regulations is to make workplaces as safe as possible; minimizing accidents, reducing the severity of accidents, and reducing long term illnesses resulting from workplace conditions.
"To cope with illnesses brought on by the climate, [New England] colonists heeded Native Americans and looked to local plants and herbs as medicines. For instance, colonists learned from Native Americans that the Boneset plant could be used to break fevers and chills and could treat diseases ranging from colds and influenza to malaria and typhoid." from THE AMERICANS page 61
The purpose of OSHA regulations is to make workplaces as safe as possible; minimizing accidents, reducing the severity of accidents, and reducing long term illnesses resulting from workplace conditions.
The Native Americans were impacted by many illnesses that came from the new settlers. In the 1500's and 1800's the Native population was affected by smallpox for which they had no immunity.
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It was diseases like small pox because the native americans had not been exposed to these illnesses before and their immune system could not fight it off like the european's could.