关于公共卫生问题的谜底

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新的一年才刚刚开始,还有resolutions and hope for the future there are nevertheless a lot of persistent things we could really worry about if we choose to:

  • 病原体变得对抗生素产生抗药性。
  • Bullying at school, online, and at the workplace is a national problem.
  • 火灾,极端天气和气候变化的其他表现出现越来越成为家常便饭。
  • 枪支暴力经常爆发,是非常普遍,每一个新病例的冲击越来越少。
  • Increasing numbers of people refuse to vaccinate themselves and their children.
  • Vaping and the use of e-cigarettes is on the rise, sickening and even killing people.

这是一个范围广泛的不同问题,并琢磨任何一个别说所有的这些,可能会导致夜不能寐。但是,如果你想开始他们之间绘制连接,以团结他们研究的领域之下,扑灭随着科学的恐惧,你会认识到,每个人对健康和幸福大量人群的影响。他们是所有的公共健康问题。而有些人,机构,以及致力于解决这些问题的机构。

还有一本书,讨论这些和许多其他相关问题简洁明了的语言,大风百科金宝搏彩票全书公共卫生,第2版

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—there’s an entry on the organization in the book—quotes the American bacteriologist and early public health expert Charles-Edward Amory Winslow’s definition of public health:1

Public health is “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private communities, and individuals.”

除了描述的疾病的所有方式(癌症,流感病毒,埃博拉病毒,寨卡病毒),The Gale Encyclopedia of Public Healthdiscusses the social issues involved, the impact on communities, and ways to deal with these things that afflict us. So there are discussions of what antimicrobial resistance is and what it means for the public; how bullying is not just a schoolyard thing, it affects all age groups; the impacts of environmental and natural disasters; the long-overdue understanding that gun violence is a public health issue; how vaccination works and why it’s safe; and what vaping is and how it affects people.

The Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health可以帮助你得到什么回事了手柄有 - 以及如何处理它。

1。疾病预防与控制中心website, “Introduction to Public Health” 2018年11月15日。

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