Public Health Issues

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This flooding wahala in my native land Environmental disasters are natural occurrences. Preventable at times. Sometimes, unavoidable. Nigeria is blessed with good weather, climate conditions, and less extreme natural disasters when set side-by-side with some Asian, African, and North American countries. This has made ecological and environmental issues the cynosure of contemporary debate: a debate that has transmogrified into political debacle and devastation by the recent exchanges by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN). In any case, let these parties know that as they fight, they grass is suffering. The concern of all should be on the immediate and long-term fallout of the recent flooding and the much anticipated one if the West Camerounian Lake Nyos disintegrates as has been predicted by National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). According to NEMA, if Lake Nyos opens up, states like Akwa Ibom,Cross River, Rivers, Delta, Bayels...

What homelessness has got to do with it Emerging challenges facing modern-day public health efforts includes bioterrorism, globalization, urbanization, aging population, HIV/AIDS, food borne pathogens, tuberculosis, malaria, technological advancements, climate change, obesity, and environmental pollution. However, I wish to add homelessness to this long list of 21 st century public health challenges. This is why. Homelessness and housing add up to the cataclysmic surge in HIV/AIDS transmission thereby exposing neighborhoods, communities, counties, states, and nations (Wolitski, Kidder & Fenton, 2007). In the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), approximately 37% of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or unsure-identifying youths and 22% of heterosexual youths reported having spent a night homeless in the past 12 months ( Rice, Fulginiti, Winetrobe, Montoya, Plant, & Kordic, 2012). Because homelessness is an emerging publi...

West Nile: The Dallas Experience The current outbreak of West Nile disease in Dallas, TX calls for re-evaluation of our preparedness to emergency health care events. In this particular incident, expectations were that the public health system will do greater good for the community, and the population under the radar (Moore, Shiell, Noseworthy, Russell, Predy, 2006). Take for example the outbreak of SARS in Toronto, Canada, the preparedness, readiness, and the capacity to contain and respond to this outbreak produced positive outcome. It was a fortunate experience for Canadians. So the question is: did the Dallas Department of Public Health and Environment rely on fortune or were there infrastructures on ground to address the threat of such an emerging infectious disease? Looking outwardly, are there mechanisms in your locality, county, state, and country, continent to prevent and control the outbreak of infectious diseases of any kind? What are the commitments of the feder...

It has become pertinent for public health to remain focused on infectious disease rather chronic disease in this day and age because of the erroneous declaration of the death of infectious disease. This assertion emanates from the challenge posed by the resurgence of infectious disease and appearance of AIDS, in particular, in the early 1980s (Schneider, 2011). Combating the re-emergence of infectious disease became highly important for public health to re-channel their efforts at containing this sudden appearance of AIDS, Ebola, and West Nile and re-appearance of infectious diseases. The mode of transmission of these infectious diseases equally highlights the essence of public health’s need to re-focus attention. In so doing, a better understanding of means and methods of proffering solutions remains important. Testing and screening of disease victims is important in the fight against HIV (Schneider, 2011). The fact that transmission pathways differ from country to country and pop...

                   It has become pertinent for public health to remain focused on infectious disease rather chronic disease in this day and age because of the erroneous declaration of the death of infectious disease. This assertion emanates from the challenge posed by the resurgence of infectious disease and appearance of AIDS, in particular, in the early 1980s (Schneider, 2011). Combating the re-emergence of infectious disease became highly important for public health to re-channel their efforts at containing this sudden appearance of AIDS, Ebola, and West Nile and re-appearance of infectious diseases.                    The mode of transmission of these infectious diseases equally highlights the essence of public health’s need to re-focus attention. In so doing, a better understanding of means and metho...

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