In the more than 20 years since they have been saving extremely premature infants, with all the medical advanced technology the survival of very low birth weight babies. The National Center for Health statistics said that of the 3.9 million infants born in the United States in 1998, about 56,000 were considered very low birth weight. Of those about 16,647 were micro-preemies. With infants who were born weighing less than 1,000 grams or a little over 2 pounds were at a slightly higher risk for having cerebral palsy and slightly lower intelligence quotients than those of the same weight born in earlier decades. I feel like the author who wrote this is very persuasive on what she wrote about and with all of the evidence that was put into this essay was pretty much all hard evidence.
b) Explain how the UKs population structure has changed since 1900 as a result of social changes. (15) The main factors that have contributed to a significant population change since the 1900s are family size, migration and improvements in health care. However they can be split up into internal and external issues, as many factors are on a global scale. The family size has decreased significantly over the past 100 years, as many women had 3.25 babies during their reproductive years however this fell later in the 20th century to 2.03 children nowadays the average family has only 1 child or no child at all. During the early 20th century the suffragette movement passed, meaning equal rights for women led to changes, allowing more freedom to the opposite sex.
Powerfully Pink: The Story of Susan G. Komen Rory Douthard BA507 July 12, 2014 John Troutman In the United States, breast cancer is the second leading cause of death amongst women. There are over 200,000 new cases reported each year, and so many more that go unreported. Unfortunately, approximately 40,000 women die of this disease, mainly because it was detected too late to change the prognosis. Even with early detection and treatment, which can lead to a positive outcome, breast cancer is more often detected once it has spread to other vital organs, which makes it harder to fight. This trend generally happens with the younger demographic, particularly in younger patients who are premenopausal and don’t have a good understanding of the disease.
On the other hand, type 16 and 18 cause about seventy percent of all cervical cancers. These types change the cells on a woman’s cervix which eventually turn cancerous. HPV usually comes and goes, but in about 11,000 cases a year in the United States, types 16 and 18 will claim 3,800 lives (Timmerman). According to the data HPV is more dominant in the younger group of women. Therefore, the CDC has recommended routine vaccinations for girls aged 11 or 12 or as young as
To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate? When the right time comes for me to have a child, I am for vaccinations. Over the years vaccinations have become more and more efficient for fighting away diseases such as mumps, measles, rubella, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and polio. According to a 2003 report by researchers at the Pediatric Academic Society, childhood vaccinations in the U.S. prevented about 10.5 million cases of infectious illness and 33,000 deaths. Once the vaccine is injected, your body mimics what would happen if the real harmful virus took over your body’s defense.
Barry Folland In 2000 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report “ Too Err is Human”, citing that as many as 98,000 people die per annum from medical errors and attributes to the eighth leading cause of death. The cost is estimated at between $17 and $29 billion a year, of which health care costs are one half. The Department of Health and Human Services did a survey in 2010 and found that 180,000 people die per year as a result of medical errors and infections. The health care industry has been behind a decade or more in attention to assuring basic safety. Safety is a critical first step in improving quality of healthcare.
Sickle Cell anemia is a genetic disorder that causes the red blood cells to assume an abnormal sickle shape, making it difficult for blood to flow through vessels and deliver oxygen throughout the body. During the 19th century sickle cell anemia was a deadly disease; the average child born lived to be only 14. However, over the last four decades with the development of technology, early intervention techniques and newborn screening programs have helped turn this disease into a manageable chronic illness. Nowadays, most patients with sickle cell disease live longer than in the old days. Penicillin, which is an antibiotic, was the first medication given to a patient because the first symptoms the patients died
However for those who support it, it was estimated in 1999 that as many Americans suffer from the devastating diseases that could be helped with the pluripotent stem cell therapies (McGee & Caplan, 1999). In today’s age 11 years later the statistics are even more. Caplan and McGee estimate that more than half of the world’s population will suffer at some point to in life with conditions such as cancer, heart disease, and degenerative diseases of aging such as Parkinson’s disease. They have also compared the number of people who die each year cancer is more than the Kosovo and Vietnam conflicts (Caplan & McGee, 1999). Therefore, supporters feel that stem cell research is a pursuit of known and important moral goods.
Children who have lost their mothers are 10 times more likely to die prematurely. Over 80 percent of maternal deaths are caused by hemorrhage, sepsis, unsafe abortions, and hypertensive disease. These deaths could have been prevented with adequate access to reproductive health services equipment supplies and skilled health care workers. (United Nations,
One of the most problematic health issues in our country is smoking.. Lung cancer is the leading cause of death in America, due to its harmful contents. Although thousands of people die from it each year, it is one of the single, most preventable deaths. If tobacco production were made illegal, an enormous amount of lives would be saved. Currently in our country one in five deaths are caused by a smoking related disease (Tobacco).