The essence of the problem: deteriorating health conditions in many developing countries, population explosion, unsanitary living conditions of the population, medical. The problem of human health: a global aspect
Everyone's health individual person- this is a huge asset, having lost which it is very difficult or even impossible to make up for the loss. But this value is not purely personal for everyone. The health of individuals is determined by many social aspects and issues that reflect the well-being of society as a whole. Thus, the global problem of human health cannot concern only the person himself or even a single country, so many international organizations and funds are being created special programs And .
The health of the individual is the health of society
In the global problem of human health, all components are important: physical fitness, mental sanity, peace of mind and social well-being. Violations of any of listed components or even a simple imbalance between them leads to loss of health. Without healthy body It is difficult for a person to survive and independently adapt in society. The mentally ill are simply unable to survive natural environment. People with low social security or no social security at all are deprived of the opportunity to adequately take care of their health.
In addition, factors that allow maintaining full health, are nutrition, habitat and emotional comfort. These components require huge infrastructure. Emotional comfort is impossible without recognition of a given individual by members of the community, without the implementation of basic functions (procreation, self-expression in craft or creativity). Healthy eating can only be achieved through the interaction of a certain number of people. An eco-friendly living environment includes temperature and atmospheric comfort, personal time, and freedom of movement.
The problem of human health, global aspect
When summarizing the importance of the health of each member of the human community, we must not lose sight of financial aspect. High incidence, disability, loss of ability to work, decreased life expectancy - all these are consequences of insufficient health protection that reduce the economic potential of countries and peoples.
The effectiveness of the state is ultimately determined by how it treats the problem of people's health. The global aspect of the problem reflects, at a minimum, a complete disregard for public health in at the moment. Therefore, today the salvation of drowning people is in the hands of the drowning people themselves.
What to do?
Left alone with the problem of maintaining one's own health, a person cannot feel protected. The M. S. Norbekov Center is ready to help in solving the problem, which offers methods based on the methodology of revealing the body’s potential for self-preservation and healing.
M. S. Norbekov’s method is based on various specialized gymnastics in combination with psychological trainings that help patients gain the will to overcome illnesses.
Have you ever wondered what “health” is? “Why think about it,” another impatient one of you will answer, “when everything is already extremely clear: if nothing hurts inside, then the person is healthy.” Alas, scientists think differently. In accordance with the latest ideas, health is a synthetic category that includes, in addition to physiological, moral, intellectual and mental components. It turns out that a sick person is not only one who has chronic illness or physical defects, but also someone who is distinguished by moral pathology, weakened intellect, and unstable psyche. Such a person is weakened, he is not able to fully fulfill his social functions. From this point of view, almost every second inhabitant of the planet is unhealthy.
Moreover, new diseases have appeared. Facts are accumulating about the increased impact of harmful emissions and toxic wastewater from enterprises on heredity. This is very dangerous. Every year, tens of thousands of new chemical compounds are born in scientists’ laboratories. Sometimes enterprises themselves produce products that are hazardous to health. It would be naive to hope that this can continue indefinitely: the percentage of newborns with genetic abnormalities is growing. That is why humanity, in order not to degenerate and die out, must take urgent measures.
The persistence of high infant mortality rates on the planet is a shame for our time. Experts from the World Health Organization believe that if it does not decrease, then in the 90s more than 100 million children in underdeveloped countries will die from disease and malnutrition. They will die suffocating from ordinary pneumonia, or gripped by the iron hand of tetanus, or in measles fever, or from whooping cough. Each of these five trivial diseases can be easily prevented or cured. And it's inexpensive. According to the same WHO experts, this approximate cost five American Stele bombers. This is the amount that humanity spends every day on military needs.
According to many scientists, today the level of civilization of a country is determined not by the development of, say, electronic computing or space technology, but by the life expectancy of the population. Statistics show that the highest average life expectancy is in Japan, Norway, the Netherlands, the USA and others (about 80 years), the lowest is in underdeveloped countries (about 50 years).
What about the health of people in our country? To put it mildly, not very good. Until recently, data characterizing the degree of health was not known to our people at all. But for many decades it was drummed into people’s consciousness: “We will give all our strength... For the victory of socialism. For the victory of communism. For the further development of the national economy. To fulfill five-year plans. For decisions of the Food Program”, etc. etc.
Many facts allow us to conclude that today among our fellow citizens the proportion of chronically ill people, people with various physical and mental defects and simply weakened people is very large. For example, the alarming increase in the number of deaf-mutes has made even the well-known “modernization” of television programs necessary.
Negative trends in the healthcare sector of the USSR especially began to increase in the 70-80s. This was reflected in a decrease in the share of healthcare expenditures in the state budget, a slowdown in the processes of updating its material and technical base, the development of new drugs, etc. The dynamics of demographic processes worsened, infant mortality and mortality among men of working age were high, and the growth of average life expectancy slowed down (approx. 70 years), the incidence of cardiovascular diseases and cancer remains virtually unchanged. We can talk endlessly about our troubles in the field of healthcare.
An extremely alarming symptom was the message from the Russian Statistical Office that in 1991-1993 the mortality rate exceeded the birth rate. Of course, the decline in the birth rate is partly explained by a completely valid demographic reason: there are now fewer women of fertile (i.e., “fruit-bearing”, giving birth to children) age than in the previous generation, since they are children of a small number of children born in 1941-1945 - this is the effect of the so-called “echoes of war.”
But this is the birth rate, but how to explain the high mortality rate? In 1990, the number of deaths in Russia was 1,655,993. This seven-digit mourning statistics cannot but shock. The dynamics of the decline in average life expectancy at the expense of the working-age population of Russia is alarming.
The mortality rate in Russia today is higher than in most other CIS countries. At the same time, a Russian lives on average 13 years less than, for example, a Japanese. The reasons for the sharp decline in the average life expectancy of the population in Russia - one of the most important indicators of ill-being - lie on the surface. Everything is determined by the mode in which a person lives, what kind of air he breathes, how and what he eats (any nutritionist knows that proper or improper nutrition lengthens or shortens a person’s life by 8-10 years). A lot also depends on the quality of medical care and the existing healthcare system. Unfortunately, our healthcare system is in deep crisis.
Is there a certain standard of a country with an impeccably established healthcare system in the world today? This seemingly simple and specific question is difficult to answer. Assessing the situation even in such a prosperous country as the USA, one can come to the conclusion that there is no ideal healthcare system there either. In the euphoria of self-deprecation, we tend to exaggerate the social achievements of the West, including in the field of health. Meanwhile, the rampant AIDS epidemic calls into question the high effectiveness of the policy Western countries in the field of health.
Describing the geography of diseases is difficult. And not only because we don’t have much statistical data at our disposal (especially for developing countries), but also because infectious diseases they suddenly appear in one or the other end of the globe and immediately confuse all medical records.
At the same time, it is absolutely clear that diseases primarily affect underdeveloped countries. Hunger and malnutrition, hardship and deprivation, misfortune and disease are related concepts. Until recently, in large areas of Asia, Africa and Latin America Infectious diseases such as smallpox, plague, cholera, yellow fever, malaria and others, already eliminated and practically forgotten in developed regions of the world, circulated freely. They brought untold disasters to the population of these states, significantly increasing mortality.
Today the situation, of course, has changed in many ways. As a result of the use of advances in modern medicine, pharmacology and chemistry, developing countries have achieved certain successes in the field of health care. At the same time, to combat some infectious diseases no branched system was required at all. medical institutions, nor a large number of doctors. It is enough to treat areas infected with vectors of infection several times with special preparations, and the job is done: simple, cheap, accessible. And if we also vaccinate the population, success will certainly be ensured.
The World Health Organization provided significant assistance to the young states, which took upon itself the coordination of all measures aimed at combating diseases. It is curious that in the reception room of the WHO Director General, in a modest frame, hangs a memorandum announcing the great victory of world medicine: “There is no more smallpox in the world.” This is true.
But there remains, for example, malaria - the most common tropical disease in the world. It is interesting that in the mid-60s, in most countries of Asia and Latin America, malaria was considered virtually defeated. However, subsequently more than one outbreak of this disease broke out here. The situation was much worse in Africa, where the population is scattered over vast territories, poorly connected, which has always made it difficult to carry out anti-malarial measures.
In principle, it is, of course, curable. There are medications, but, unfortunately, many patients go to the doctor when it is already too late, that is, when the central nervous system is affected and inhibition processes occur in the brain. In Africans, unlike Europeans, who die within 1-2 months, the disease can last for years, although, as a rule, it also ends in death.
Millions of Africans - alas, there are no exact statistics - have died over the past two centuries from “sleeping sickness”. If we add to this that the fly causes enormous damage to agriculture, infecting livestock with the disease, then it becomes clear why this insect is called the “curse of Africa.”
The fight against the tsetse fly in Africa began at the beginning of the century, with mass shooting of sick animals. But these measures did not give the desired results. Then they began to use insecticides, and in lately- use specially designed traps and insect sterilization methods. Certain results in the fight against flies have been achieved. However, a final solution to the problem is still far away.
Diseases such as measles, tetanus, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and polio are also very common in the developing world. Thus, in Ghana, out of every thousand newborns, 125 babies die from these diseases. At the same time, about 100 thousand children under the age of five die annually for this reason, which is approximately half of the total mortality rate in this country. At the same time, one of the most complex problems problem facing doctors in Ghana is lack of faith rural residents that vaccinations can prevent some of these diseases. The situation is similar in other tropical countries in Africa.
At the end of the 80s, about 270 million people on Earth were sick with malaria, 200 million with schistosomiasis. The number of victims of other “exotic” diseases was measured in the following figures: river blindness (onchocera goats) - 17 million, leprosy - 12 million, etc. The main zone of their distribution is, again, Tropical Africa.
However, as the title of this section states, diseases know no boundaries. Thus, from time to time, even in the most developed countries, outbreaks of plague appear (for example, if in 1988 in the USSR 2 cases of this disease were registered, then in (WHA - 14). Every year from 500 to 600 cases of plague are registered in the world, and Unfortunately, it is impossible to talk about the complete elimination of this disease in our country, much less in the world, since the causative agent of plague circulates in nature among more than 260 rodents and small predators that suffer from plague in the same way as humans.
Hepatitis remains a serious problem in many countries. Considering that viral hepatitis often becomes chronic with complications such as cirrhosis and primary liver cancer. World organization Health has developed a strategy to combat the disease and is facilitating the transfer of vaccine technology to dozens of countries. The problems of eliminating cancer (primarily in industrialized countries), paralytic poliomyelitis, cardiovascular and other diseases are of planetary, global significance. We should also not forget that the most widespread infection in modern world the familiar flu remains. As for AIDS, that is a separate matter.
The fear of this disease that has gripped humanity does not disappear, and the name given to it “plague of the 20th century” does not lose its ominous relevance. AIDS is rapidly spreading around the world and does not want to recognize national borders. In 1990, its epidemic already covered 156 countries located on all continents, and the total number of patients with this terrible disease was about 300 thousand people. Moreover, according to experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), the real number of AIDS patients exceeded 600 thousand people, since in many developing countries reliable statistics on this issue simply do not exist.
The fire of the epidemic is flaring up more and more, the flames are engulfing more and more regions of the world. At the same time, most patients are in America (about half), followed in order of priority by Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. By the year 2000, there are expected to be approximately 20 million carriers of the AIDS virus (in 1990 there were about 8 million people), many of whom will be its victims.
What kind of scourge is this, where did it come from, what contributes to its spread and how to fight it? It seems that if there were ready-made answers to all these questions, then the fear of this disease would have subsided long ago.
As you probably know, AIDS stands for: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. This is a disease of the human immune system when it is unable to cope with the virus, which does its “dirty deed” and often leads to a lethal (i.e. fatal) outcome. The literature provides the following main symptoms of this disease: 1) enlarged lymph nodes, in several places at once - on the neck, in the elbows, armpits, in the groin; 2) long-term - more than a month - temperature (37-39 ° C without established cause); 3) progressive weight loss despite maintaining the same diet; 4) frequent purulent and inflammatory lesions genitals and skin; 5) long-term bowel disorders.
It is useful to know that there are two AIDS viruses. The second of them, discovered quite recently (in 1986), turned out to be very similar to the green monkey virus living in some African countries. This circumstance served as the basis for the statement about the “African trace” of AIDS. This is most likely a premature conclusion. Firstly, this virus is extremely rare among patients and people infected with AIDS. And secondly, the origin of the most widespread virus, which is now conquering America, Europe and many other countries, cannot be established to this day. Tests of blood preserved decades ago indicate the absence of this terrible virus in the past in Africa.
We hope that we will not open America for you, young reader, if we remind you that the main distributors of AIDS in the world are drug addicts, homosexuals, and prostitutes. These are those people who are traditionally classified as so-called risk groups. The direct involvement of many of these individuals in the bottom of human society has recently served as the basis for promoting harsh sanctions against AIDS patients, including their resettlement to special reservations, to separate islands, etc.
AIDS is not the first epidemic to hit humanity. The idea of resettling the sick is simply absurd. What about, for example, residents of New York, where every fourth person aged 25 to 44 is infected with this disease? What to do with tens of thousands of people in Zaire, Uganda, Brazil, France, many of whom are innocent victims of AIDS, since they became infected not as a result of moral corruption, but due to accidental introduction of the virus? Would it be humane to deprive us of our last joys? infants infected with a virus from dirty syringes or even due to the frivolity of unlucky parents? Life is not that simple.
AIDS is a rare disease in which morality and the spiritual world of a person play a decisive role. After all, it is precisely lack of spirituality that gives rise to sexual promiscuity, drug addiction and other social vices that serve fertile soil for the spread of AIDS.
You, young reader, are, of course, interested in assessing the degree of danger of AIDS in our country. Unfortunately, this disease is already “with us”. The scale of its spread, fortunately, cannot yet be compared with the number of infected people in the leading country in the world - the United States. The number of patients and virus carriers in relation to the country's population is miniscule (in 1990 there were less than 500). And yet, this figure and the flattering assessments of foreign experts cannot compensate for the feeling of pain for the unprotected children of Elista, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, who became victims of the criminal negligence of doctors.
It is very sad that AIDS came to us just when the country’s body was weakened by poverty and devastation, when our health care immune system state - is a pitiful sight: there are no medicines, appropriate equipment, specialized clinics, etc. Anti-AIDS propaganda is weak. Just a few years ago, our healthcare leaders were afraid to even say out loud foreign word“homosexuality”, without an analysis of the causes and extent of its spread, any anti-AIDS propaganda is impossible.
Most countries in the world have already created national programs to combat AIDS, but in our country such a program is just being created. Once again we are wasting time. A whole complex is needed urgent measures, including instilling high moral principles in young people, healthy image life. In Western countries today greatest effect provides explanatory and preventive work among the population to prevent sexual transmission. In our country it is still miserable. Moral and sexual education in most of our schools is at an extremely low level. Here they are afraid to even pronounce the word “condom,” whereas in the West, first-graders know not only this word itself, but also that with the help of this thing you can protect yourself from mortal danger.
Strengthening anti-AIDS propaganda involves solving pressing problems of material support. How, for example, can you convince a nurse to use only sterile instruments when there are not enough reusable syringes? It is quite obvious that without eliminating such deficits, any talk about anti-AIDS propaganda is not very serious.
And one last thing. The world today is intensifying the search for drugs that could stop the AIDS epidemic. Alas, reliable vaccine no cure for this terrible disease has yet been found. At the same time, a search is underway for a drug to vaccinate those who are not yet infected.
A very difficult problem today is the lack of a living model, animals with an immune system similar enough to humans, which is holding back the necessary testing. Experimenting directly on a person is very dangerous.
In any case, vaccinating humanity is not such a big deal. simple task. Let's remember the story of smallpox. Even with a vaccine, it took many decades to finally defeat this dangerous disease. Therefore, even if scientists are lucky and a vaccine against AIDS appears in 2-3 years, it will take a lot of time to get a tangible result.
In the meantime, the only “recipe” and “vaccine” against AIDS remains health education of the population and propaganda of high moral principles - especially among children and adolescents.
CONCLUSION
Two frogs fell into a pot of cream. One said: this is the end, folded her paws and choked. The other floundered, floundered... knocked down a lump of butter under her and got out of the pot. (Parable).
How I would like to see the fate of humanity in the image of not the first, but the second of the frogs. Although, to tell the truth, peoples do not yet have firm confidence in the future.
Contrary to the aspirations of billions of people, the geographical unity of the world is still not supported by the unity of the peoples living on Earth. The reduction in geographical distances is not accompanied by a reduction in social, social, national, state, political distances, which until recently remained the same...
Our planet still remains childishly defenseless against the hellish force of the awakened forces of nature. It’s scary to even think about what the ignorant use of the power of civilization - the atomic nucleus - can lead to? Is it really possible that life, which has developed on Earth for 5 billion years, will be completely destroyed in a matter of seconds and the generation of 2000 will simply have nowhere to live? Could our blue planet ever become a gigantic mass grave of humanity, over which neither the Eternal Flame nor the fire of Prometheus will ever be lit?
The great Russian thinker-naturalist V.I. Vernadsky warned about the terrible misfortune hanging over humanity back in 1910 (a year before Rutherford’s discovery of the atomic nucleus): “With hope and fear we peer into this source of energy that has opened up before us, before which the forces of steam, electricity and chemical explosives are fading... He, this source, surpasses everything before by billions.” And further, already in 1922, the scientist seemed to continue his thought: “The time is not far when man will get his hands on atomic energy... will he be able to use this power for good, and not for self-destruction? Has he grown to the ability to use this power?
The creation of thermonuclear weapons and their mortal threat to humanity, almost simultaneously with our compatriot V.I. Vernadsky, were predicted in 1913 by the visionary English science fiction writer Herbert Wells in the novel “The Liberated World.” World War with the use of these weapons, according to Wells, “the last war” in the history of mankind. It will lead to catastrophic consequences and will almost end in the “death of civilization.” And again: “After the atomic explosions, all international disputes seemed to have lost all meaning... We need to find a way to stop the use of these terrible weapons, while all life on Earth has not yet been destroyed... These bombs and those even more terrible forces of destruction, the forerunners of which they are, can in the blink of an eye destroy everything created by humanity and break all connections existing between people.”
How modern, poignant, and tragic the thoughts of the great writer sound. They are quite consistent with the concept of new political thinking, which the whole world is talking about today. In the nuclear era, inciting ideological, class struggle is an absurdity that could push the world to the brink of war. But a nuclear tornado is blind, it will sweep away socialists, capitalists, righteous and sinners. Today, more than ever, it is necessary to deeply understand the interdependence of man and the biosphere, to unite the efforts of all people living on Earth to save life on the planet. Humanity today simply does not have a more important task. And preserving peace is the “entrance door” to solving all other burning problems of our time: environmental, energy, food, demographic, raw materials, etc.
One can argue about the degree of threat that this or that global problem poses to human civilization. However, their growing severity in the modern world is undeniable. At the same time, not a single state, no matter how powerful it may be, or a group of states is able to independently cope with these problems. Only the interaction of all countries in peace, only the awareness of universal interdependence and the highlighting of universal human tasks will allow peoples to gain confidence in the future, prevent social and environmental disasters, and, finally, simply survive.
Humanity and the planet, of course, have a chance to survive, to survive. However, it is not obvious, as some people think. In any case, the course of events “according to a template,” that is, without making significant changes in people’s lives, will bring untold disasters to humanity in the coming years. This is not a forecast or a revelation. The environmental drama alone is a “bomb” that is as dangerous for humanity as a nuclear one. The situation is so serious that unprecedented, never-before-used efforts, ideas and material resources are needed to prevent the coming catastrophe.
As you read these lines, the world is entering a radically new period: history is accelerating, military blocs are dissolving, and democracy is expanding. What is happening today in Russia and in Eastern Europe gives the world certain hopes for a way out of the global economic crisis and for solving a number of other global problems. Of course, changes will not occur synchronously or automatically. Any withdrawal is painful. She throws you into fever, now into cold, here and there she suffers from cramps and anemia, like any crisis of a protracted illness. I would like to think that all the healthy forces of perestroika in our country have enough common sense not to give. turn the “boat” over and avoid ending up (for the umpteenth time!) with a broken trough.
In general, it is short-sighted to underestimate the role of the social “bomb,” especially in developing countries, where the majority of humanity lives and where a quarter of a million people are added every day. The potential for human disasters accumulates here, the explosion of which could also have irreversible consequences for the entire planet.
Before putting the last point in this book, let us emphasize once again that the time has come to ring all earthly bells. Humanity today has no more serious concern than finding strength, finding means, finding reason to get along with nature and resolve social conflicts. Otherwise, we will have to return to some semblance of the Stone Age, a dark era of violence and cultural degradation.
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“Solving global problems of our time” - The causes of global problems. Nature is influenced by society. World Meteorological Organization. Globalization of environmental problems. ABOUT possible consequences environmental pollution. Disarmament issues. Environmental problem. Components ecological crisis. Problems facing humanity.
“Global problems of humanity in the 21st century” - Libya. Egypt. Tunisia. The most powerful tsunami. Causes of backwardness. Forget about oil - think about water. The unrest spread to the Libyan capital, Tripoli. Creation of an elective course in geography for pre-professional training of 9th grade students. Multi-level testing on the topic. Lack of access to clean water.
“Food problem” - The quality of human nutrition. Power supplies. Humanity. Wheat forms the basis of the diet. Global problem. Food shortage. Vicious circle. Nutrition structure in different countries. Regional types of food. The real nutritional situation of the population. Hunger and human health. Boundaries of regional food types.
“The food problem of humanity” - Indicator. Lack of food. The intensive way is the main way to solve the food problem. Unconventional way food production. The main problem. Amount of food. Food problem. Cause of occurrence. The phenomenon of hunger. Ways to solve. Intensive way.
“The essence of global problems of our time” - Features of global problems. Population growth. Desertification of lands. What threatens people today? World ocean. Local war. Practical problems of human exploration of the World Ocean. Warming. A plant polluting a pond with industrial waste. Typical examples. Energy and raw materials problems.
“Classification of global problems” - Demographic problem. Environmental issues. Classification of global problems. Global problems humanity. Energy problem. Ways to resolve global problems. Causes of global problems. Global problems. The concept of "global problems". Nuclear threat. Epigraph. Peculiarities. Demography records the decline of the indigenous population in developed countries.
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Global problems- these are problems that cover the whole world, all of humanity, pose a threat to its present and future and require united efforts and joint actions of all states and peoples to be solved. When you hear the term Global Problems, first of all you think about ecology, peace and disarmament, but hardly anyone thinks about no less important issue as a public health problem. Recently, in world practice, when assessing the quality of people’s lives, health has been put in first place, because without health it is impossible to talk about the quality of life. This problem worried people at all stages historical development. The diseases for which a vaccine was found were replaced by new diseases previously unknown to science. Until the mid-20th century, human life was threatened by plague, cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, polio, tuberculosis, etc. In the second half of the last century, great successes were achieved in the fight against these diseases. For example, tuberculosis can now be detected on early stages and even by getting vaccinated, you can determine the body’s ability to become infected with this disease in the future. As for smallpox, in the 60-70s the World Health Organization carried out a wide range of medical events to combat smallpox, which covered more than 50 countries with a population of over 2 billion people. As a result, this disease was virtually eliminated from our planet. But they were replaced by new diseases, or diseases that existed before, but were rare, began to increase in numbers. These diseases include cardiovascular diseases, malignant tumors, venereal diseases, drug addiction, malaria.
Oncological diseases. This disease occupies a special place among other diseases, since this disease is very difficult to predict and it spares no one: neither adults nor children. But from cancer diseases man is powerless. As is known, cancer cells are present in any organism, and when these cells begin to develop, and what will trigger this phenomenon, is unknown. Many scientists argue that cancer cells begin to develop under the influence of ultraviolet rays. There are also additives that speed up this process. Such additives are found in seasonings, for example glutomat, in sparkling water, chips, crackers, etc. All these supplements were invented in the late 90s, and it was then that mass illness of people began. The development of this disease is also influenced by the environment, which has deteriorated greatly in recent years. Quantity ozone holes, which let through dangerous ultraviolet rays, increased. Radiation is also very dangerous for humans; it causes many diseases, including cancer. Our planet has not yet recovered from the explosion on Chernobyl nuclear power plant, how the disaster happened in Japan, which led to an explosion at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. In a few years, this disaster will certainly affect people's health. And, of course, it will be oncology.
AIDS. The human immunodeficiency virus is different from other viruses and represents great danger precisely because it attacks the cells that are supposed to fight the virus. Fortunately, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is transmitted from person to person only under certain conditions and much less frequently than other diseases such as influenza and chicken pox. HIV lives in blood cells and can pass from one person to another if blood contaminated with HIV enters the bloodstream. healthy person. To avoid becoming infected through someone else's blood, it is enough to take basic precautions where you have to deal with blood. For example, make sure that there are no cuts or abrasions on the body. Then, even if the patient’s blood accidentally gets on the skin, it will not be able to penetrate the body. The virus can be transmitted to a child from a sick mother. Developing in her womb, he is connected to her by the umbilical cord. Blood by blood vessels flows in both directions. If HIV is present in the mother's body, it can be transmitted to the child. In addition, there is a risk of infection of infants through mother's milk. HIV can also be transmitted through sexual contact. For example, a person who is sick chicken pox, a rash appears. It becomes clear to both him and everyone that he has chickenpox. But HIV for a long time, and often for years, may not detect anything. At the same time, for quite a long time a person feels absolutely healthy. This is what makes HIV very dangerous. After all, neither the person into whose body the virus has entered, nor those around him, have any idea. Without knowing about the presence of HIV in his body, this person can unwittingly infect others. Nowadays, there are special tests (assays) that determine the presence of HIV in a person’s blood. It is very difficult to predict exactly what will happen to a person who has been diagnosed with HIV, because the virus affects everyone differently; having HIV in your body and having AIDS are not the same thing. Many people infected with HIV live for many years normal life. However, over time they may develop one or even more serious illnesses. In this case, doctors call it AIDS. Exists a whole series diseases that mean a person has developed AIDS. However, it has not yet been established whether HIV always leads to the development of AIDS or not. Unfortunately, no medicine has yet been found that could cure people with HIV and AIDS.
Schizophrenia. When considering this topic, we must keep in mind that when assessing a person’s health, we cannot limit ourselves only to his physiological health. This concept also includes mental health, with which the situation is also unfavorable, including in Russia. For example, a disease such as schizophrenia has become very common lately. The era of schizophrenia began in 1952. We rightfully call schizophrenia a disease, but only from a clinical, medical point of view. In the social sense, it would be incorrect to call a person suffering from this disease sick, that is, inferior. Although this disease is chronic, the forms of schizophrenia are extremely diverse and often a person who is currently in remission, that is, outside of an attack (psychosis), can be quite capable, and even more professionally productive, than his average opponents. For example, a very difficult person in everyday life, with difficult relationships within the family, cold and completely indifferent towards his loved ones, he turns out to be unusually sensitive and touching with his favorite cacti. He can watch them for hours and cry completely sincerely and inconsolably when one of his plants dries up. Of course, from the outside it looks completely inadequate, but for him there is his own logic of relationships, which a person can justify. He’s just sure that all people are deceitful, and no one can be trusted. There are two types of schizophrenia: continuous and paroxysmal. With any type of schizophrenia, changes in personality and character traits are observed under the influence of the disease. A person becomes withdrawn, strange, and commits actions that are absurd and illogical from the point of view of others. The sphere of interests changes, hobbies that were completely unusual before appear.
Cardiovascular diseases. Myocardial infarction is one of the most common manifestations coronary disease heart disease and one of the common causes of death in developed countries. In the United States, approximately one million people develop myocardial infarction each year, and about a third of those affected die. It is important to note that about half of deaths occur in the first hour from the onset of the disease. It has been proven that the incidence of myocardial infarction increases significantly with age. Numerous clinical studies they say that in women under the age of 60, myocardial infarction occurs four times less often and develops 10-15 years later than in men. Smoking has been found to increase mortality from cardiovascular diseases(including myocardial infarction) by 50%, with the risk increasing with age and the number of cigarettes smoked. Smoking has an extremely harmful influence on cardiovascular system person. Contained in tobacco smoke nicotine, carbon monoxide, benzene, ammonia cause tachycardia, arterial hypertension. Smoking increases platelet aggregation, increases the severity and progression of the atherosclerotic process, increases the content of substances in the blood such as fibrinogen, and promotes spasm coronary arteries. It has been established that an increase in cholesterol levels by 1% increases the risk of developing myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular diseases by 2-3%. It has been proven that reducing serum cholesterol levels by 10% reduces the risk of death from cardiovascular diseases, including myocardial infarction, by 15%, and with long-term treatment by 25%. The West of Scotland study found that lipid-lowering therapy was effective in both primary prevention myocardial infarction. Diabetes mellitus. Subject to availability diabetes mellitus the risk of myocardial infarction increases on average by more than two times. Myocardial infarction is the most common reason deaths of patients with diabetes (both men and women) aged 40 years and older.
Supplements and their effect on the body. To date modern market nutrition is characterized by very wide range choice, both in assortment and in price categories. Recently, food products included in the diet have an increasing impact on the state of the body and its performance. daily diet consumption, or to be more precise - their composition, which in turn is replete with a list of all kinds of so-called food additives, the most common of which are ingredients with index E. Most of them are very dangerous for the health of adults, not to mention children. Additives and their effect on the body I would like to consider one of the most harmful and at the same time the most common additives - E 250. E250 - sodium nitrite - a dye, seasoning and preservative used for dry preservation of meat and stabilization of its red color. E250 is approved for use in Russia, but prohibited in the EU. Effect on the body: - increased excitability nervous system in children;- oxygen starvation body (hypoxia); - decrease in the content of vitamins in the body; - food poisoning with possible fatal outcome; - cancer. This additive is found in carbonated drinks, seasonings, boiled sausages, crackers, etc.
Conclusion
global health problem
Danger surrounds man and his health everywhere. Every person should think about their lifestyle, because it doesn’t take long to get sick, but treatment takes years, and some diseases cannot be cured at all. And as long as they exist on Earth incurable diseases, the problem of human health will always be global.
