Friday, February 7, 2014

Health In Society

In many parts of the world, we associate health with facts that are both medical and biological. However, this is not the case. Also, we believe that being healthy means not being ill. However, this is not true either. Instead, health is more about the conduct of society as opposed to medical and biological facts.


To begin, I will re-state information about nations that have a high income. People who are resident in more rich nations, such as North America and Western Europe, have better health compared to countries that have a low income An example that shows the good health of a society is the infant mortality rate. The term known as the "infant mortality rate" is a definition used for babies who become deceased before reaching the age of one within a ratio of one-thousand infants born.


Therefore, this ratio converts to each infant in the ratio of one-thousand having a ninety-nine point ninety-nine percent chance of living through the first year of their lives. Within the health of high-income nations, there is "life expectancy at birth". "Life expectancy at birth" is a term used for an estimated amount of years in which a human being is estimated to live. A study that was taken shows that boys have the potential to live up to seventy-five years old, while girls have the potential to live up to eighty years old, according to a test taken in the year of 2004. However, in other countries, an individual's life estimate is less than the amount of years of forty-five.


When an individual in a high-income does become deceased, it is usually due to a type of "chronic disease". A "chronic disease" is a type of illness that emerges over a long period of time. Chronic diseases consist of heart disease, stroke and cancer. Therefore, a society's income can play a role in an individual's health.With all of these statements taken into consideration, there can be health flaws in various nations with a high income.


An example of this statement is that individuals who are resident in the United States have a diet that consists of high amounts of fat. Americans also do not perform enough physical work. Therefore, two-thirds of full-grown individuals in America are overweight. Having too much weight on your body can result in health issues such as diabetes. This concludes the first part of my essay.


The next part of this essay will be about low income nations. The "World Health Organization" states that approximately one billion individuals have a fatal illness due to their wealth. Individuals who have low amounts of nutrition, alongside hazardous drinking water, are what infects individuals with diseases. Individuals in other countries that are poor also have a short life span. An example of this statement are nations such as Ethiopia, where a lack of nutrition and hazardous water results in the death of over half the amount of children in Ethiopia.


Also, half the amount of people in Asia are estimated to live up to age sixty. Also, individuals in lower-income nations become deceased at any age due to a type of "acute disease". An acute disease is a type of disease that infects the body promptly. These types of illnesses include cholera, diarrhea, malaria, measles and typhoid. These listed diseases were the same diseases that killed Americans many centuries ago.


The next part of this essay is the comparison of the rich and the poor being compared in reference to AIDS. To begin this part of the essay, Africa is known to be the world's most non-wealthy continent, and it has sixty-four percent of the globe's HIV-positive people. Various Presidents throughout our country have claimed AIDS as a threat to various aspects of Africa's future. The issue of AIDS has already taken the lives of twenty-five million individuals in Africa. One of the reasons why lower-income nations are vulnerable to AIDS is because lower-income nations have less establishments available for education and the prevention of AIDS. This concludes the third part of my essay.


The fourth part of my essay is about AIDS in the United States of America. In the United States Of America, the AIDS population is smaller than five percent. However, over 500,000 have become deceased due to AIDS. Therefore, this makes AIDS a fatal social issue. While there are AIDS education classes, health officials believe that younger generations of youth will not take this problem seriously. AIDS is an issue with the poor communities in the United States of America.


To conclude this entire essay, there are other areas to health beyond feeling ill. Therefore, we must continue to take care of ourselves in the best ways we can.

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