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Intra-Health International
One of the tope 10 global health issues identified by Intra-Health International in 2013 is: Helping even more children to live longer. According to the 2012 UNICEF report,
Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed, the number of child deaths has decreased in many countries across the globe ("Intra-Health," 2013). Indeed, child mortality rates have decreased nearly 50% from a 1990 figure of 12 million under-five deaths to a 2011 figure of 6.9 million. In absolute terms, if the child mortality rate could be reduced to just 20 child deaths per 1,000 live births in every country by 2035, a minimum of 45 million children saved ("Intra-Health," 2013). Recommendations from the Child Survival Call to Action hosted by USAID point to the need for better and more systematic collection of health sector data, as well as better implementation of high-impact interventions to tackle the major causes of newborn and child mortality ("Intra-Health," 2013).
The recent outbreaks of measles in the continental United States is indicative of an increasing complacency in developed countries about the communicable diseases of childhood and an increasingly influential corpus of misinformed people who mistrust the safety of vaccinations. The exigencies associated with these two conflating influences pose...
The situation also requires conversations about values clarification, particularly with regard to religion-based exemptions for requiring children to receive immunizations before they can attend public school. Issues related to the suppression, eradication, and management of childhood infectious disease must be clearly identified and appropriate resolutions generated and implemented. Rubella is a particularly insidious disease since it is so easily spread, appears to be a mild disease, but is associated with serious birth defects. Indeed, a cluster of birth defects known as congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) occurs in children born to mothers who were infected with rubella, particularly during the first trimester of pregnancy.
Mitiku, et al. (2011) analyzed rubella cases that had been reported to the measles case-based surveillance system during the period between 2004 through 2009. A sample of 8212 was tested for the rubella immunoglobulin (Ig) M. Of these members of the sample, 992 or 12.1% included specimens that were shown to test positive for rubella IgM. The age distribution of the patients identified as rubella-positive cases spanned ages of 3 months to 44 years. It is important to note for the purposes of this analysis that a majority of the…
References
Mitku, K., Bedada, T., Masresha, B., Wenemagegn, K., Nafo-Traore, F., Tesfaye, N., and Beyene, B. (2011). The epidemiology of rubella disease in Ethiopia: Data from the measles case-based surveillance system. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 204(1), S239-S242. DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir120. Retreived from http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/204/suppl_1/S239.full.pdf+html
____. (2013, January 15). The top 10 global health issues to watch in 2013. Intra-Health International. Retrieved from http://www.intrahealth.org/page/the-top-10-global-health-issues-to-watch-in-2013
Obesity, overweight and underweight all have impacts that are negative on self-esteem of many children and adolescents that if not checked can have long-term effects on the success in lives of these children and their general happiness in the future (Moran, 1999). The persistence of chronic diseases in more in the developing than in the developed countries. The World Health Organization posits that by 2020, a quarter of deaths in
incidence tuberculosis as an Urban Health issue among ethnic minority group in Canning Town, Newham Borough of London. Large scale incidence of tuberculosis (TB) has been a major concern for public health planners in the UK. The report is structured as follows to enhance a greater understanding of the TB rate in Newham and strategies to reduce the TB rates in Newham London. First, the report explores the TB rates
Women and Health Agenda Over the Last 20 Years This review is about women's health demands and their contribution in creating a healthy society. For many decades, World Health Organization (WHO) has had tremendous measures that concern women's health. Women's health remains a crucial priority by various healthcare agencies. This review explains why various healthcare institutions take a great initiative in ensuring that women's health remains an urgent priority in the
Policy, Politics, and Global Health The public policy issue selected is childhood obesity. I selected this issue because childhood obesity has a considerable longstanding impact on the health of the public as well as the cost of health care. This is becoming a more significant issue in the public realm because childhood obesity emanates from the main reason that these children grow up into obese adults who might end up suffering
" (United Nations, 2000) The Household Budget Survey 1996/1997 reported that in excess of 14.5 of households in Mauritius are presently living below the poverty line and economic development has been stalled due to the "…rising cost of labor erosion of the protected international markets due to gradual effects of globalization and liberalization and increasing competition with other countries…" (United Nations, 2000) The distribution aspect of income and wealth has not
Child care and illness are closely intertwined issues that affect a significant number of families. With the majority of parents in the modern workforce, child care has become a necessity for many households. As a result, children often spend large portions of their day in group care settings, where the transmission of illnesses can be more prevalent. In child care facilities, due to the close proximity of children, the spread of