Epidemic

Loneliness is an epidemic; almost everyone has felt alone at some point or another in their life. Without human connection our health suffers and that is a scientifically proven fact. Feeling lonely has a measurable effect on sleep and blood pressure meaning it negatively effects health. More than effecting physical health, loneliness harms mental health. Feeling lonely and isolated increases risk of suicide and makes it harder to make it through day to day life. This is why I value community.…

Epidemics such as Black Death and Cholera have significantly changed the way public health operates in modern society. Many of the ideas developed during the black death years has been transformed and underwent multiple progressions in order to assist the greater good and potential of society. However, there have also been many similarities and old age ideologies that have stuck around and shaped our practices as well. Moreover, it is imperative that one knows the social, political, and cultural…

device away or would you have the notion that kids will be kids? Every single minute of every single day, people are constantly being cyberbullied. It tears people apart and hurts them not just physically but also mentally and emotionally. It is an epidemic that is not being recognized. It is proven in history that cyberbullying can kill. It is just as deadly as a virus. This is important. People do not understand that this is serious and harmful. Bullying someone can only have bad outcomes.…

Obesity, the World Epidemic Appalling research shows that in the year 2009, people with less than a high school degree had the highest obesity rate at 32.9%. High school graduates (29.5%) and college drop-outs (29.1%) have about the same obesity percentage, having only a 0.4% difference. College graduates have the lowest obesity rate of 20.8% (Insider Monkey). Recent estimates attribute about 112,000 deaths each year in the United States due to obesity (PDRhealth.com). Obesity has become a…

point or another, but when you can't stop feeling lonely, it's time to do something about it. According to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon, and chief medical correspondent at CNN, loneliness affects 60 million Americans and is considered to be an epidemic. Loneliness doesn't target just one type of person. Whether you are single, in a relationship, surrounded by hundreds of people, or living in the mountains alone, loneliness can affect you. The negative effects of feeling lonely are wide and…

child and adolescent epidemic shook society. The thought of a child and adolescent depression epidemic formed from four observations: a rise in antidepressant medication prescribed to adolescents and children, an increase in adolescent suicide, increased rates of long term depression in older generations, and a study in Britain found a rise in emotional problems in adolescents (Costello, Erkanli, and Angold, 2006). To address the profound question as to whether there was an epidemic in child…

Over 80 years after the1918 flu virus disappeared, epidemiologists still did not understand exactly why it was so devastating. After working with tissue samples from the autopsies of flu victims and the infected lung tissue of an Alaskan woman whose body had been preserved in Arctic permafrost, researchers at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were able to recreate an extinct virus. Then, in October of 2005, they announced that they had…

Combating Obesity Epidemic among the Low-Income Groups Obesity has become an increasingly complex public health issue in the United States. The prevalence of the epidemic has increased dramatically over the past few decades. In the early 1990s, approximately 12 percent of the adults were reported to be obese. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition postulates that as of 2001, there was a 75 percent increase since about the number of adults who are obese was estimated at 21 percent. In 2015,…

Obesity is a disease that should be irradiated from this earth. Obese people should be all sent to the hot plain fields of Africa. Obesity is a growing epidemic around the globe, it effects one third of adults in the United States. We need to to stop this epidemic now before every single living organism on this beautiful earth becomes obese. One of my intelligent ideas is to send all the obese people to camps in Africa where they will survive a whole ten years to loose all there weight. I’m…

Currently, one of the biggest problems that society faces is the high rates of obesity. Obesity is simply defined as an abnormal state of health or an excessive accumulation of fat in the fatty tissues (adipose tissue) of the body, which can be a serious danger to health. The underlying cause is a positive energy balance, which results in weight gain, that is when the calories consumed exceed the calories that are spent. It affects a third of the world's population, reveals a study conducted by…