World Health Organization essential medicines

National Nutrition and Health survey, which portrayed results of 14.7% Chinese being overweight and about 2.6% being obese (Potts, 2006). These results were out of a population of 184 million overweight and 31 million obese from a total population of 1.3 billion in China (Potts, 2006). Despite a population this large, there is about one fourth of China’s population that falls into the category of overweight or obese. Besides the statistical measures, the World Health Organization (WHO) is…

harmful substance, how would you respond? It’s a hot topic that has been debated amongst society for decades, but one has to wonder: why are one of these substances legal, while the other remains an illegal substance? In various cultures around the world, drinking alcohol has become a normalized activity, with many seeing getting intoxicated as a rite of passage into our adolescent years or as a celebration of reaching the legal drinking age. On the other hand, many individuals still view…

The Zika virus is a current global healthcare crisis. From 2007 to 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported documented Zika virus transmission in a total of 62 countries and territories (2016, April 7). Hennessey, Fischer, and Staples (2016) report Brazil had an estimated 440,000–1,300,000 alleged cases of Zika virus disease in 2015. The risk of the Zika virus has recently become a threat in the United States with 1,860 reported cases (Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]…

Some children who are expose to secondhand smoke may have many serious health problems such as ear infections, coughs and colds, respiratory problem and tooth decay. Some country they don’t even restrict the age to buy the cigarette. My country Vietnam is an example. We can buy anything including alcohol and cigarette when…

stress and make maintaining your health and wellness more difficult. What is stress? According to the Fundamentals of Nursing eighth edition textbook (2015), stress is a “condition in which the human system responds to change in its normal balanced state” (page 1744). Stress can be caused by any number of things and is different for each person. For example, if you have never lived with another…

Health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or injury (Cockerham, 2017. Pg. 10). According to the textbook, social behavior and health are related to each other based on the story that people were primitive and did not have the mindset to think as humans, instead they behaved as animal by relying upon their instincts to remain healthy. Therefore, some people discovered that doing some stuffs was helpful in relieving…

percent of men in this age group4) and 5.3 million women3 (4.2 percent of women in this age group4).” Many people are abusing alcohol consumption and don’t even think about the effect it is having on their body, drinking too much can actually harm your health. It can lead to high blood pressure, heart disease, liver disease, stroke, digestive problems, and even cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, colon, and liver. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that “Excessive alcohol use…

-Summary: In this part of the book we go back to 1976 when the outbreak of the Ebola virus began with Yu G. Who was a store owner in the town of Nzara, sudan. Yu G. died from Ebola at home and is now buried in a traditional Zande funeral. The doctors are still unaware of how Yu G. became infection. A few days after his death two of his co-workers also started to experience the same symptoms. P.G one of the men has a large group of friends and without knowing exposed many of the people in the…

Throughout my working career I plan to utilize the critical model of disability, with a strong emphasis on both the social and cultural model of disability. I hope to encourage the young people I work with to view their disability outside the medical box it was put into. The critical model of disability views “disability [as] a social construct, not the inevitable consequence of impairment” (Hosking, p.7) and that people who are disabled are at a social disadvantage because their environment…

7HW019 Health Protection and Health Improvement Postgraduate Block 2 2011/12 Student Name: ILONZO MBANEFO CHIBUZOR Student Number: 1120352 Assessment 1 Feedback Overall Marking Criteria | A | B | C | D | E | F | Ability to synthesise and evaluate current evidence on a specified public health topic is demonstrated | | | | | | | Demonstration of sound understanding of the nature and scope of the public health topic | | | | | | | Demonstration of critical…