Teenage pregnancy is a multifaceted issue that has far-reaching implications for young individuals, their families, and society as a whole. In this essay, we will delve into the causes, consequences, and potential solutions surrounding teenage pregnancy, seeking to shed light on this complex and sensitive…
Essays on Public Health Issues
Surrogacy, a method of assisted reproduction, raises a host of ethical issues that require careful consideration. In this essay, we will delve into the ethical complexities surrounding surrogacy, examining various perspectives and dilemmas. Surrogacy is a practice where a woman carries a pregnancy for intended…
Nowadays even young people know the causes of teenage pregnancy but they are still falling pregnant. What is the problem? Do we need a policy as a country concerning teenage pregnancy? Policy, trends and causes of teenage pregnancy are discussed in this essay as this…
Individuals and communities alike suffer from a shortage of medically accurate sexual education. Often, with groups who are either underserved and underfunded, or consistent with religious beliefs, sexual education is generally unavailable, or limited access to medically misleading education. Teen birth rates are greater in…
In a world marked by evolving food trends and consumer preferences, the fast-food industry plays a significant role in shaping our dining habits. Chipotle, a prominent player in this realm, has garnered attention for its commitment to providing ‘food with integrity.’ However, as with any…
Introduction LSD, often referred to as “acid,” is a substance that has ignited both intrigue and controversy due to its ability to induce profound alterations in perception, cognition, and consciousness. This essay embarks on a journey through the intricate realm of LSD, delving into its…
Introduction LSD, a substance renowned for its profound effects on human perception and consciousness, has long captivated the minds of scientists, artists, and seekers of altered states. Its ability to unveil hidden dimensions of the mind and forge a connection with the cosmos has inspired…
Introduction LSD, also known as acid, is a psychedelic substance that has fascinated and perplexed scientists, artists, and enthusiasts for decades. Its profound effects on consciousness, perception, and creativity have made it a subject of both scientific inquiry and cultural exploration. This essay delves into…
Introduction Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), commonly known as acid, is a powerful hallucinogenic drug that has intrigued, fascinated, and perplexed individuals for decades. Synthesized from a fungus, LSD has the ability to induce intense sensory and psychological experiences. This essay delves into the effects of…
Teenage pregnancy is one of the commonest causes of maternal and neonatal mortality. This arises as a result of immaturity of the female body at that age leading to anemia in pregnancy, obstructed labor and if it goes unsupervised could lead to vesico-vaginal or rectovaginal…
Background of the Problem Nowadays, the increasing youth involved of having STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) such as HIV/AIDS with the Philippines is the fastest increasing of percentage in Asia-pacific according to United Nations (UN) with a 19.85% new cases as of 2017 in the February…
Hudson Pennisi Professor Thaden-Koch Love Sex & Family 4/30/2019 The phrase “teenage pregnancy” refers to an adolescent girl, often between the ages of 13 and 19 years old becoming expectant. This phrase on a daily basis often refers to adolescent girls who are not legal…
Teenage pregnancy is defined by the United Nations Population Fund as the pregnancy of teenage or underage girl between the ages of 13 and 19 years (UNFPA, 2002). Teenage pregnancy is a global problem and its prevalence in jamaica and poses a serious problem to…
In the ACT UP movement, resistance meant the refusal to accept the lack of care for AIDS/HIV patients and the discrepancies they were facing. They showed resistance with acts of civil disobedience, using vocal and visual demonstrations, paired with admirable dedication to their cause, to…
My first health issue that is happening every day is drug Addiction. Many do not realize how harmful some substances can be towards their health and overall on how they look. People judge others based on those habits and also by the person first impression,…
A brief introduction to drug abuse is that it is a form of drug-taking behaviour that results in some form of physical, mental, or social disability. The early stages of drug abuse usually are drug addiction. According to World Drug report for 2012, 230 million…
There are many resources to help people understand what vaccines are, how they work, how they can hurt, and how they help. “Immunization currently prevents between 2-3 million deaths every year” (World Health Organization). This is a good point to start off with since it…
Chronic stress is a precursor for most health problems in today’s society. The start of most health problems, can likely be traced back to chronic stress. Chronic stress releases levels of cortisol higher than normal. Cortisol is a hormone released from someone with chronic stress,…
Public health has made many accomplishments that have aided the welfare of the general population, one of which includes contraception. Contraception is an option used to prevent pregnancy as it allows individuals greater autonomy in regards to family planning [1]. Family planning becomes crucial as…
In the United States, there is a major controversy on the safety and efficiency of vaccines. Although there is a large portion of the population that believes vaccines positively affect society and are a step in the right direction for eradicating harmful diseases, some scientists…
Throughout history, illness has long haunted the human race. However, we have always found ways to treat these illnesses through herbs, medicine, and even proceeding to complex vaccines and antibiotics. One virus in particular that has frustrated scientists for ages is the influenza virus. With…
Not just the pandemic, its ramifications too, have been unprecedented and unanticipated. The overwhelming global pandemic of Covid-19 has unleashed devastating impacts on the lives of almost everyone on this planet. The dedicated health care force that fights relentlessly to defeat this micro-sized enemy that…
Introduction South Africa is one of the countries that has the lowest fertility levels on the continent. Its fertility has declined in past years; it has shown a remarkable demographic achievement in those years. This literature reviews in depth analysis to study the relation between…
This delay in marriage will also mean that Singaporean women will start to conceive at a later age (Thang 87). According to the Singapore’s Current Population Trends (Tan 5), the average age of Singaporeans having their first child have went up to over 28 years…
Singapore is an epitome of a success story in which the burgeoning population boom was curbed efficiently. Family planning had become imperative due to the strain on scarce land resources and possible diminishing economic prospects for the budding independent nation. This fuelled the state to…
The fertility rate in China is historically declined from the 1960s to today. In generally, China’s fertility rate reached the highest point as roughly 6.2 children per family in the 1960s. Start from the 1970s, the Chinese government started to implement several fertility policies for…
Background In its current state, HIV in South Africa is a severe public health issue. Following 2016 UN statistics, South Africa has the highest HIV rate on the planet, and over 7,100,000 people live with HIV in South Africa alone. According to mid-year population estimates…
Successful aging specifically particularly is important because we all particularly essentially want to live long happy and healthy lives, which mostly actually is fairly significant, which is quite significant. We all generally want to mostly actually be pretty active up to our very last days,…
Introduction As humans get older, they experience increased risks and rates of disease and disability. Above the age of 65, 80% of seniors experience at least one chronic condition, with common diseases being heart disease, hypertension, arthritis, and cancer (Flood, 2007). On top of these…
The arousal of Tuskegee Experiment is a widely condemned experiment during 1940 in Macon Country. It was a study that evidently shows an allegedly increasing of deliberate racism. According to some research; it’s like an epidemical disease on how we rationalize insufficient or invalid justification….
The documentary, Deadly Deception, is based on the true story about the Tuskegee Study which was carried out in Macon County, Alabama over a forty year period. Sanctioned by the United States Public Health Service and the Tuskegee Institute, and paid for with taxpayer dollars,…
There have been notable, and some gruesome, scientific experimentations that have been conducted on humans that are dated as far back as the 1800s. It is not uncommon to wonder how human experimentation may be deemed ethical. Before the Nuremberg Trials, it was likely that…
Abstract This paper will show basic Psychological studies and terms. One theory that will be introduced is Skinner’s box theory. Burrhus Skinner was an American scientist who conducted behavioral experiments with rats. This paper will also give the reason to why Psychology is a mandatory…
Julia Gonzalez was found deceased in a park in 2008 at the age of sixteen. She consumed sixteen drinks in an hour. One drink an hour is the amount required for a healthy individual. Although there are laws made about underage drinking in the United…
Poliomyelitis, also known as Polio is a contagious viral illness that, in severe cases, destroys nerve cells in the spinal cord. This causes muscle to waste away and cause permanent paralysis, difficulty breathing and sometimes death. In most cases people who are affected with the…
The movement of birth control in America stemmed off of the feminist movement’s agenda to reach equality for the sexes. While the feminist movement pushed for increasing overall gender equality, they pursued women’s suffrage, fair opportunities in education and working, equality for wives that were…
Osteoporosis is increased among those who smoke cigarette drank alcohol, glucocorticoids or had an associated medical disease known to affect calcium or bone metabolism, causes of osteoporosis are associated with bone marrow adiposity, Medical intravenous has been shown to hurt health leading to both obesity…
Obesity is amongst the most important motives for decreased lifestyles expectancy within the “modern” world. The occurrence of overweight and obesity continues to enlarge both in creating and in developed countries. It is frequent in every age group, from pediatric to geriatric individuals, which serve…
When I went to a grade 12 prom, I was very surprised to see a couple who were just celebrating their child’s second birthday, the mother being only a year older than me. This situation prompted me to want to do more research on teen…
Historically, women have had to face a large amour of discriminations toward themselves in society, workplace, politics and in the effort to receive a better education. Within the past decades, women have been discriminated against in many different aspects and have struggled throughout their day…
Youth heftiness has turned out to be predominant in created nations. One-fourth of the youngsters in the US are overweight, and 11% are fat. There is proof that intemperate sugar admission, bigger bit measure, and the decrease in the open air and physical action assume…
Has the idea the of the direct relationship between physical and mental health ever cross your mind? When I get sick or injured, my mom would always say to me that it is because of my mindset; that I was too negative about something and…
Everyone enjoys their fair share of foods which are not quite so good for the body. But, feel so right for the soul. In America, if we look around, we are surrounded by food. Billboard signs displaying deals on burgers being two for four dollars,…
In the present, researchers have to balance gathering data from the subjects whilst protecting their human volunteers. In the past, however, researchers have not always been considerate regarding the state of the human beings they were studying. Thus, a lot of researches done with historical…
If we were to see obesity as personal trouble, those who are obese would be assumed to have unhealthy eating habits, bad sleeping cycles, are lazy and unmotivated and do not do any form of regular physical activity. Obesity is often associated with a person’s…
Do you ever think about the food you eat? What chemicals might be in them and if it is truly safe to eat? Those questions are the kind of questions experts argue about genetically modified food. Those who are supporting the new technology mention that…
Abortion is a legal option for women who decide that a pregnancy is not in their best interest at the moment. For women ages fifteen to forty-four, the states that offer sex education, and in which abortions are more widely accepted, have higher abortion rates…
Addiction is all around us, affecting people from all aspects of life, for it is not limited to certain social classes or lifestyles. It is found in every ethnic group, regardless of gender or age. It affects our neighbors, our friends, and our family either…
Imagine you are a parent, watching your child suffer and quickly deteriorate from a condition such as measles which could have been easily preventable. How would you feel knowing they might not survive due to your decision to not vaccinate them and should parents vaccinate…
Substance abuse is the serious issue rising alarmingly in young as well as old age people in almost every part of the world. It has damaging effects on physical as well as mental health of the addict which if not cured; can lead to a…
Obesity is a term that is used to referred to as a disease involving excess body fat. Due to most body fat measurement technology becoming so expensive, the standard measurement for body fat is measure by the body mass index (BMI). The Body Mass Index…
The most epidemic health challenge among children in mostly every part of the world is childhood obesity. It develops when children – as a result of the endorsement of corrupting eating attitude at a younger age – gain a surplus of body fat compared to…
The legalization of illicit drugs has been a major concern that has been debated for decades in most states and countries all over the world. On of the leading suggestions is to have restructurings in the national policies on drugs to control drugs on the…
In as much as the men who impregnant these young women are willing to go through the situation with them, for whichever reason, they suffer from much more damage than meets the eye; both physical and emotional. Most of these men are below 25 years…
In the past few years, there has been a major increase of buying and using drugs. Drugs can be used for a stress reliever, a way to escape from reality, and a few other uses. There are some major costs that affect the person as…
In today’s society getting vaccinated is one of the cheapest form of being able to not cause a disease or other things. Vaccinations have a great amount of benefits especially when it comes to many diseases. Those who are vaccinated are protected from diseases, but…
As someone who only brushes once a day and had never used or seen a floss, a dental check-up to a dental practice in this country changed my perspective on dentistry. The different oral hygiene products and the vast difference in technology made me more…
Teenagers are known to be spontaneous and vulnerable. They make decisions recklessly without further thinking what would be the consequences. At that moment when curiosity kicks in, a teenager will do everything to quench their thirst. However, it is not the curiosity that makes them…
“Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use,” said Richard Nixon during his presidential campaign, and yet the argument is still a topic of discussion to this day in politics. In today’s world,…
More now than ever, most people, especially adolescents and young teens prefer to eat fast food, such as burgers, pizza, fried food, etc, over a home-cooked meal. Over the years, fast food has become very popular. The reason for the fast-growing of fast food companies…
“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you,” said Jesus. We are supposed to love one another. Vaccines are a way that God has made people be able to take care of one another. However, vaccines are a highly controversial topic….
Due to the increase in obesity in Ireland, childhood obesity is becoming an issue. The statistics on obesity among Irish children has shown that the as of 1990, 2 percent of children were obese. As of 2016, the figures have increased exponentially; the percentage of…
The vaccination debate is nonsense. There should not be a debate over vaccinations because there should be a law that states that you have to get yourself and your kid(s) vaccinated, no questions asked. The debate is over whether it should be mandatory or not…
The epidemic of obesity is a significant, chronic health problem and it is proving to be a major challenge to the adolescents in our society to face. Our society has been in a fast-paced change for the past thirty years, which has led to more…
Introduction Should vaccinations be mandatory? The argumentative essay will try to answer this question as it is in high debate across America. This controversial dispute first began when a British doctor composed a paper with flawed problematic research claiming that there were vaccine ingredients that…
Due to increase aging population, screening elderly relate to social determinants of health (SDOH) requires thoughtful investigation the present state of the science. The objective of the study is to systematically evaluate SDOH among elderly to manage, maintain and promote healthier stage of life. A…
This paper examines data on life expectancy, focusing on income, childhood poverty, health literacy, housing, food security, stress, and depression in Canada and the United States. Moreover, the main objective of this assignment is to analyze how these social determinants of health reside in different…
Nobel Prize is a kind of annual honor for outstanding intellectual achievement created by Swedish scientist and philanthropist Alfred Nobel. Here are the six fields of the Nobel Prize: literature, physical, chemistry, physiology or medicine, promotion of peace and economic sciences. The first prizes were…
‘Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.’ This a quote from the prominent professor, Sir Michael Marmot, who was commissioned by the then health minister, to propose, evidence-based, cost effectiveness…
Michael Kremer, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo are awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019. They have significant contributions to the improvement of world poverty through their new field experiment-baed approach in the last two decades. Although the…
Moderate liquor utilization by obviously sound individuals or patients with cardiovascular sickness is related with lower vascular and all-cause mortality. These discoveries were stretched out by two new meta-investigations went for evaluating the relationship of liquor drinking with vascular and all out mortality in an…
Surrogacy is defined as an arrangement by which a woman gives birth to a baby on behalf of a woman who is physically unable to have babies herself, and then gives the baby to her. It is meaningful in different ways for every person involved….
For organisms to be able to adapt in this ever-changing world, one must evolve. Evolution, however, is not as simple as it seems, it is a battle between species, species battle it out and the species more willing to change wins, and it looks like…
The nineteenth century author, Charles Dickens wrote of Tuberculosis that it is, “a disease which medicine never cured, wealth warded off, or poverty could boast exemption from – which sometimes moves in giant strides, and sometimes at a tardy sluggish pace, but, slow or quick,…
A clear comprehension of vaccines is necessitated to be able to evaluate if it ought to be compulsory or not. According to nursing articles put forward by several clinicians, vaccines also hypodermic involves the administration of lymphocytes to a person or group of people to…
Why care about mass incarceration or its root factors? As a society, we all want to live in a safe neighborhood, and people who are a danger to society should be locked up behind bars. However, why is it that America has 2.3 million people…
Obesity is the top worst disease our generation is facing today. For many years till now, we are slowly killing ourselves from conceiving too much food in our bodies. This health problem or disease affects people of all ages and that is why we should…
For many years, obesity has dramatically increased in the United States affecting toddlers, children, teenagers, and adults. Obesity is drastically spreading and ruining the lives of many Americans today. In America, obesity is such a common problem. Obesity decreases the life of a person in…
Should smoking be banned in public places? This question has a lot of people’s own opinions on it, like 66% people say ban it in public places and 27% say ban it completely. Some say to stop smoking is one of the hardest things to…
During the span of a person’s life, they are meant with certain critical decisions that can affect there day to day lives. Living a healthy lifestyle can be a beneficial thing that can make someone’s life better, depending on what a person’s diet is to…
