Public Health Issues

Public Health Issues: Bath salts, bad taste! : Bath salts, bad taste! It is a bitter pill to take. It is bitter in the sense that it is the modern-day reality. It is what the soci...

Bath salts, bad taste! It is a bitter pill to take. It is bitter in the sense that it is the modern-day reality. It is what the society is battling to cage. Bath salts have ravaged and vanquished so many young Americans in the recent past. The recent sordid and unsavory story about bath salts is that of a 24 year old Florida man by name Randy Eugene who chopped off the face of a 64 year man Ronal Poppo on May 26 th , 2012 due to high inhalation of ( http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/05/31/erin-new-pics-bath-salt-cannibal.cnn?iref=allsearch ) bath salts. In Colorado, the strangulation death of a 19-year-old man could be linked to the emerging threat posed by the ingestion of bath salts ( http://www.denverpost.com/editorials/ci_20762986/bath-salt-drugs-called-emerging-threat-colo ). What bath salt is not? Bath salt is never bath salt. It is not anything close to the name. What bath salt is? Bath salt is a stimulant that is sold under the guise of bath salt or pla...

Public Health Issues: Dana Crash and public health : The Dana plane crash in Lagos and public health implications No doubt that there must be some health fall-outs from the Dana airline...

The Dana plane crash in Lagos and public health implications No doubt that there must be some health fall-outs from the Dana airline plane that crashed in Lagos, Nigeria, on the 3 rd of June, 2012. The public stand at risk of jeopardizing their health especially those with pulmonary problems. There are speculations that within the vicinity of the crash will be newborn babies with immature lungs, fragile and immuno-compromised old men and women, young men that smoke cigarettes and second-hand smokers, young women that has been exposed to smokes that exudes during cooking on kerosene stove, firewood or even gas ovens and pregnant women. With an already saturated and polluted air, compounded with the countless generators in almost every apartment or compound, the inflamed flight and charred bodies have added more risk to the population around the crash scene and eye-witnesses. It is observable that most people that ran to the scene of the crash had no nose mask, safety boots ...

Public Health Issues: Genomics and public health : Your gene, your health, our future: The contemporaneity of genomics Individuals are different and therefore respond differently to med...

Your gene, your health, our future: The contemporaneity of genomics Individuals are different and therefore respond differently to medical treatments. This uniqueness is well understood by experienced physicians 1 . Evaluating the structure and biology of genomes, understanding the biology of disease, advancing the science of medicine, and improving the effectiveness of health care 2 validates the celerity needed and the importance of recent currency genomics is globally gaining. Genomics as a novel field in public health seeks to intersect the findings of research in genetic and molecular technology with public health 3 . Genomics is relevant to public health because it has the potential for improved disease diagnosis, treatment and individualized and population-based prevention 3 . An ailment which affects an individual, if not properly treated and contained, could affect the population within the carrier’s proximity hence, the need to prevent diseases from source and not ...