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Public health issues include truncal obesity, drug abuse, teenage anxiety, and senior mental health. Learn more about how public health addresses these issues.
Following are 10 emerging public health issues that have grown to new levels or have experts concerned. 1. Public Health Authority. According to a 2021 report by the Network for Public Health Law, 15 states have proposed or passed laws that would undermine public health authority.
We identify ten public health challenges that need to be closely tracked in 2022. These challenges are COVID-19, inadequate human resources for health, poor health systems financing, conflict and humanitarian crises, mental health, poverty, climate change, the health of children, reproductive health issues, and the infodemic.
10 global health issues to track in 2021. 24 December 2020. 2020 was a devastating year for global health. A previously unknown virus raced around the world, rapidly emerging as one of its top killers, laying bare the inadequacies of health systems.
NIH Researchers — Basic, Translation, clinical and community based — are tackling these challenges head on. Thanks to decades of research, Americans are living longer. Yet Chronic diseases still affect large swaths of the population and are unevenly distributed creating health disparities.
We focus on the most important problems and solutions of our time. Check back often to see what topics and issues we're working on. Aging, Health and Equity. Chronic Disease. Climate, Health and Equity. Communicable Disease. Community Water Fluoridation. COVID-19. Disability and Health.
At the same time, highly visible violence against Black people, including multiple killings by police, highlighted race and racism as a pivotal social determinant of health (SDOH). The authors...