HYPERTENSION AND IMPACT ON US Hypertension and Its Potential Significant Impact on U.S. PopulationThomas Fuller, an English churchman, and historian, said: \\\"Health is not valued till sickness comes.\\\" Hypertension is one of the most life-threatening diseases in the U.S., which is present in almost one out of four adults. Almost half of the U.S. deaths were primarily because of hypertension in the year 2017 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

Obesity in Los Angeles County The United States, while being one of the most technologically developed countries in the world, is not a healthy nation. Typically, when we think of disease pandemics we think of things like Swine Flu, Ebola, Lyme disease, etc. However, in the 21st century, we have a new pandemic that affects our children, adults, and eventually the whole population. Because of a more sedentary lifestyle, a proclivity

The growing number of New Yorkers lacking health insurance has been a persistent concern of government as well as the public. (309) In contrast, the distribution of health care resources came to the fore more recently. The New York State Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, for example, recommended a series of hospital closures and downsizing, based primarily on financial considerations in 2006. (310) As described below,

5 per 100,000 in 1986. In 1994, the number of TB cases among residents of correctional facilities for 59 reporting areas had reached 24,361 (4.6% of the total reporting correctional population) (Braithwaite et al.). The incidence rate was 139.3 per 100,000 by 1993 and the unadjusted case rates for prison populations in many areas are significantly higher than the rates for the general population (Braithwaite et al.). According to these

SOURCES OF EPIDEMIOLOGIC DATASources of Epidemiologic DataIn this write-up, I elected to focus on the BRFSS Prevalence and Trends Data. It is important to note that the BRFSS (which is the acronym for Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System) happens to be an instrumental health survey tool that largely concerns itself with various behavioral risk factors (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – CDC, 2022). As the CDC (2022) further indicates,

Policy Brief: Parental Influences on Child Obesity and Dental Caries POLICY BRIEF Parental Influences on Child Obesity and Dental Caries Obesity represents a major health and economic threat to Australia by degrading the lives of countless citizens and costing the nation about $58.2 billion in 2010 alone (Crowle & Turner, 2010, p. 32-33). This reality has motivated Australian policymakers to increase the amount of dollars allocated to researching this preventable condition by 5.4-fold