Concussions are known to be one of the most dangerous injuries anyone can have. Especially, when talking about sports, it is known to be the number one health problem that has been on a rise and has prevented players from performing well. This can happen to anyone, from young, current, and former athletes. When dealing with sports, this is an injury that gets looked upon and doesn't get paid too much attention. Many reports have been conducted and they all conclude that sports is the number one severe health problem that continues to rise, doesn't get paid more attention to, and causes concussion. Another term for concussion is traumatic brain injury, or TBI. This is a more severe version or what a concussion can end up becoming over time.
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This kind of injury can be temporary or a long-term, which can impact in a physical, cognitive, or emotional way in life. A concussion can be a result from a fall, two players colliding with one another, hitting the ground super hard, or it can be combination of many things happening all at once. The ten essentials of public health services are: monitor health status to identify community health problems, diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community, inform, educate, and empower people about health issues, mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve the health problem, develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts, enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety, link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable, assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce, evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services, and lastly research for new insights and innovative solutions to the health …show more content…
Here is we take what we have monitored and diagnose and investigate it even further. Based off of the Mayo Clinic and CDC, both of them have addressed that patients who are diagnosed with a concussion should be tested further by getting a GST test, CT scan, neurological exam, or cognitive test. To investigate further, you need to look into how many ED visits there has been, how many deaths have happened, and how many patients were hospitalized with a concussion ("Traumatic Brain Injury & Concussion"). In order to get a more clearer and better understand about concussion, it is best to look at sex, age group, and percentage to determine how we are able to prevent more concussions from happening for both sexes and for different age groups ("Traumatic Brain Injury &
This kind of injury can be temporary or a long-term, which can impact in a physical, cognitive, or emotional way in life. A concussion can be a result from a fall, two players colliding with one another, hitting the ground super hard, or it can be combination of many things happening all at once. The ten essentials of public health services are: monitor health status to identify community health problems, diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community, inform, educate, and empower people about health issues, mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve the health problem, develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts, enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety, link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable, assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce, evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services, and lastly research for new insights and innovative solutions to the health …show more content…
Here is we take what we have monitored and diagnose and investigate it even further. Based off of the Mayo Clinic and CDC, both of them have addressed that patients who are diagnosed with a concussion should be tested further by getting a GST test, CT scan, neurological exam, or cognitive test. To investigate further, you need to look into how many ED visits there has been, how many deaths have happened, and how many patients were hospitalized with a concussion ("Traumatic Brain Injury & Concussion"). In order to get a more clearer and better understand about concussion, it is best to look at sex, age group, and percentage to determine how we are able to prevent more concussions from happening for both sexes and for different age groups ("Traumatic Brain Injury &