Perinatal mortality

‘Public health is everyone’s business’ illustrates Jones (2012, p.2). The Faculty of Public Health regard public health as a combination of health protection, health advancement and promoting health (Griffiths and Dark, 2006 cited in Jones p.6 2012). For part 1 of this assignment, public health in context aims to set the scene and illustrate the challenges. Health inequalities arising in society will be addresed and critically evaluated using the Marmot Review and the associated policy…

Throughout human history, our species lived in groups – and not just because people are sociable beings, but because living together increases the chance of survival. Ideally, community provides protection against a constantly changing environment – or at least, tries to ease the hardships caused – and acts as a ’safety net’ in case of members being less well-off than the majority. However, theory does not entirely match reality, as evident in the situation of the poorest in modern societies. As…

stark discrepancies remain between the different provinces. The two new studies into China’s state of health were published in the medical journal the Lancet on October 26. The studies looked at life expectancy, causes of death as well as child mortality in the Chinese provinces. While the study found the average life expectancy to go up by 8.5 years from 1990, some provinces managed to fare better than others. In Shanghai, the average life expectance was 85.2 for women and 80.2 for men.…

a mix, it is no surprise that homeless people have extremely high mortality rate. According to Plumb, “In Philadelphia homeless people who had an age-adjusted mortality rate 3.5 times higher than the general population and in New York city had a rate of 2 to 3 times higher.”. “Among homeless men, using injectable drugs beforehand, incarceration and chronic homelessness is what adds up to death”. In addition, a study showed mortality rates among men using shelters in Toronto showed that the rates…

Paid Maternity Leave Madeleine M. Kunin once said, “Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.” This quote displays the true effects of the neglect of paid leave in the United States. The United States is part of a small handful of countries that still do not mandate…

because educational attainment has been strongly linked to improved health outcomes through infant mortality rates, income and employment, and health literacy (Bloom, as cited in WHO, 2008a; McMurray & Clendon, 2015). Firstly, infant mortality rates are crucially affected by the mothers' educational attainment (WHO, 2008a). In Bolivia, it was found that women with no education had higher infant mortality rates than those with at least a…

Health Statistics, 2015). While in Canada 3.4% of births resulted in still born babies (World Health Statistics, 2015). In the U.S., despite seeing a decrease in infant mortality, blacks continue to have the highest mortality rate than any other races. The United States has been the slowest country to improve its infant mortality rate, and Canada is close behind. Approximately 1,500 cases of malaria are annually diagnosed in the U.S (CDC, 2015). Malaria is a disease that is brought over from…

started, whether from rats or the filth or trade routes or the Jews caused it. The death rate was outstanding (not in the good way); an estimated 8 million deaths in the Middle East and 75 million in Europe. The mortality rate in Europe: 31%. The Middle East: 33%. “The mortality in Siena (Italy) began in May (1348). “It was a cruel and horrible thing; and I do not know where to begin to tell of the cruelty and the pitiless ways. It seemed that almost everyone became stupefied by seeing the…

I think goal 1, 2, 4 and 8 have done a lot of work and have come a long way. I believe goal 1 has done a lot of work because poverty has significantly declined by more than half, in 1990 it was 1.9 billion and in 2015 it decreased to 836 million. Goal 2 has come a long way in improving education. In 2000 there were 100 million out of school children, and in 2015 there were 57 million. In Sub-Saharan Africa primary school net enrolment has increased up to 80% which is higher than what it was in…

including, both workplace and community. Nature of Health Initiative Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, and research indicates both inadequate infrastructure and ongoing political instability contribute to high maternal and infant mortality. With 80% of the population living under the poverty line and over 50% living in abject poverty, Haitians average life expectancy is a mere 53 years. ‘Emergency Care Capabilities in North East Haiti’ was a cross-sectional observation…