I believe that although infectious diseases would appear to be the biggest problem to the U.S in actuality chronic disease statistically have the biggest impact on the nation in a variety of ways. According to U.S department of State, while infectious disease still remain a major problem in many countries, chronic disease, including such no communicable conditions as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and repiratory disease, are now the major cause of death and disability, not only in developed countries, but also worldwide. (U.S. Department of State, n.d) The epidemiology of chronic diseases shows tha mortality trends since 1935 can be attributed to cancer, strokemm and heat disease all which have continued to be among the five leading
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When looking disease such as cancer, and heart disease you can use the agent, host, and environment perspective to understand how this happens. You can look at a situation where a person is brought up in an environment that has a lot of drug, alchol, and especially tobacco use and the vast array of potential illness that can derive from the exposure, which may include the person picking up these havits which lead to cancer rather directly or second-hand. Although the is earier used with infectious disease it can also translate to chronic disease in many instances. I initially was thinking about how government has in recent years banned smoking in public places in an attempt to protect non-smokers and in actually smokers as well, with the awareness that has been broadcast over the last twenty plus years of the negative health effects of smoking, By allowing smokers to still be able to smoke, but it designated areas you can say that public health and societal rights mixed with individuals are still upheld, although maybe not to the conveinience that was once there. But, I saw an article that better showed how public health can blur the lines and even outweigh societal and individual rights. This was seen in the 1980’s when HIV/AIDS was still a foreign disease in the United States. According to Bayner, the HIV/AIDS epidemic provided the occasion to articulate a new paradign of
When looking disease such as cancer, and heart disease you can use the agent, host, and environment perspective to understand how this happens. You can look at a situation where a person is brought up in an environment that has a lot of drug, alchol, and especially tobacco use and the vast array of potential illness that can derive from the exposure, which may include the person picking up these havits which lead to cancer rather directly or second-hand. Although the is earier used with infectious disease it can also translate to chronic disease in many instances. I initially was thinking about how government has in recent years banned smoking in public places in an attempt to protect non-smokers and in actually smokers as well, with the awareness that has been broadcast over the last twenty plus years of the negative health effects of smoking, By allowing smokers to still be able to smoke, but it designated areas you can say that public health and societal rights mixed with individuals are still upheld, although maybe not to the conveinience that was once there. But, I saw an article that better showed how public health can blur the lines and even outweigh societal and individual rights. This was seen in the 1980’s when HIV/AIDS was still a foreign disease in the United States. According to Bayner, the HIV/AIDS epidemic provided the occasion to articulate a new paradign of