Uninsured children are 10 times more likely than insured children to have unmet medical needs, such as untreated asthma, diabetes or obesity, and are 5 times as likely as an insured child to go more than two years without seeing a doctor, according to Uninsured Children: The Children’s Defense Fund,2012. Children without adequate health insurance are also more likely to die from diseases or illnesses. Children living in a poverty filled home may have health issues that come from such things as no running water, lack of food, lack of heat, or an infestation of bugs. These poor living conditions can really cause a child to fall ill, but when they don’t have the means to receive healthcare, they can become seriously ill. Health can influence everything from a child’s ability to learn to a child’s overall wellbeing (Wolf, 1999). When a parent does not have health insurance for their child, they tend to wait longer to take that child in for care.
Symptoms of this type of diabetes are: fatigue, hunger, increased thirst, and increased in urination. Increased rates of diabetes type 2 among adolescents will have very important long term implications for the affected individuals. in society and in the public health system as a whole Because diabetes is going to lead to certain complications in the future including progressive neuropathy, retinopathy leading in some cases to blindness, nephropathy leading in most cases to chronic renal failure and atherosclerosis a cardiovascular disease. According to the (CDC) center for disease and control prevention, currently there’s 28.8 million people only in the united states about (8.4% of the population) have diabetes about 1.7 million new cases of diabetes were diagnosed in people younger than 21 years old. Diabetes type 2 was the seventh leading cause in 2008 in the United States according to death certificates.
1.It cost $35 million for childhood obesity 2.End of the decade it had risen $127 million III. The Health Risk A) Due to natural occurring medical conditions like hypothyroidism syndrome. 1.Hypothyroidism is a condition characterized by abnormal low thyroid hormone production. (medicine net.com) 2.Any child that demonstrates these symptoms of obesity should be seen by a doctor. Conclusion: 1.
Type 1 diabetes in young children is devastating for young parents to go through when they have to give their children insulin shots intramuscular shots everyday. In recent, “Studies examining knowledge and metabolic control in a diabetes have been mixed in their results.” More than 180 million people worldwide have diabetes and it is likely to double by 2030. Young parents either have diabetes or their
Childhood Obesity Terenda Jones ENG 122 English Comp II Instructor: Sharon Hanscom June 4, 2012 Childhood Obesity Childhood Obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. In my finding the definition of “overweight and obesity are the result of “calorie imbalance”—two few calories expanded for the amount of calories consumed—and are affected by various genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors.”(www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/obesity). The nature of this disease obesity starts from birth. Researching this information is important because kids are not being active because they are overweight and become restless and tired easily. In this paper I will discuss how this starts from birth dealing with genetics
As these children grow older, they are actually, in many cases, at high risk of being seriously injured or even killed by this harmful thing, obesity. Only six years ago a survey was taken up that led to knowledge of estimated deaths caused by obesity-related illness. The astounding statistic shows that 112,000 to 325,000 American adults die from it every year. This means that people with the highest BMI’s are twice more likely to die prematurely than the average American. Here are a few examples of the illnesses caused by obesity: type 2 diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular (heart) disease, and asthma.
Afterwards it was changed to type one diabetes. (McCarthy, 2007) V. The silent epidemic, also known as diabetes, affects people from birth to adulthood. There are differences between the most common diabetes known today as type two diabetes and the first. Children cannot do the same activities as normal, healthy children can accomplish. Lastly, statistics show that this disease is deadly and affects, not only children, but adults as
These diseases are seen not only in the adult population but in our children as well. With the obese and overweight child population the disease processes lead to early adult mortality as well as childhood hypertension, diabetes, and psychological health problems (World health Organization, 2011). These diseases are non-communicable yet have mortality rates that parallel those of communicable status. Research from the U.N Global Health Decade states that these same diseases were responsible for 36 million death across the globe, with hypertension being responsible for 13% of early mortality, physical inactivity being six percent, and overweight and obesity five percent. According to the numbers reported in the 2011 Global Health profiles 73.5% of all males, and 68.2% of all females in the United States were overweight, whereas 31.1 and 34.8% prospectively were
Childhood Obesity Policy Obesity is one of the leading health problems of the 21st century. According to Ferry, 31.7% of children between the ages of 2-19 and 34.2% of adolescents are obese (Ferry1406). About 1/3 of all children in America are obese, that is an alarming number and it must be lowered. Childhood obesity that develops into adulthood is only second, in deaths that could have been prevented, to tobacco (Ferry 1406). We can now see obesity is the second killer behind tobacco that could have been prevented with the proper lifestyle changes.
Tawsif Rafid Siddiqui Professor Abdul Ali EN101 8th November, 2013 Diabetes and Socioeconomic status Diabetes is one of the most important health issue for any American today. Around 8.3% of the total population of the America has diabetes, and that includes children, men and women of all ages. Many Americans’ don’t want to believe in the existence of the socioeconomic class, but it is really shocking, how SES is interconnected with the widespread of diabetes. BRFSS is a state-based, random-digit--dialed telephone surveyor. A survey by BRFSS shows how the chance of Diabetes for a woman is related to their SES (Socioeconomic Status).