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Introduction
Public health is the science of providing protection and improving the health of the people through education, reinforcement of healthy lifestyles, and research for injury and disease prevention. Public health is vital in preventing problems concerning health even before they transpire. The significant achievements of public health in the 20th era have enhanced the way quality of life of the people.
Core Public Health Function Chosen
The core public health function chosen is the monitoring of the environment and health status and solving community health problems.
How the Core Function Pertains to the Controversial Public Health Issue
In the 20th century, there have been increased in the life expectancy, global reduction in child and infant mortality, and the eradication or lessening of various communicable diseases. In the 20th century, several achievements were attained for the prevention of prominent diseases. Public health organized programs of vaccinations which led to the elimination of chicken pox, eradication of poliomyelitis in the United States, and control of rubella, measles, tetanus, haemophilus, influenza, diphtheria, and other diseases.
Vaccine is made up of an unrecognized alteration of the pathogen. When a person is vaccinated, the immune system becomes easily aware that a virus has entered the body. This signal continues to the B cells and the T cells of the immune system that directly start an attack as if a real virus were trying to invade the system. Vaccines do not stop diseases or bacteria from getting into the body. They simply ensure that the immune system prevents them quickly and keeps them from causing sickness to the person. Vaccines have been discovered to be the best and practical open wellbeing measures that avert ailment and recover lives. Such is especially genuine among youngsters everywhere throughout the world. In the course of the last 50% of the twentieth century, sicknesses that were excessively basic got uncommon in the created world because of inoculation. An insurmountable number of lives saved and billions of dollars preserved with far reaching vaccination initiatives.
Core function of public health is to educate the people in the community on how diseases can be prevented through vaccinations and proper hygiene. Vaccines have the capacity of eliminating the disease and stopping the existence of serious sickness and death. In addition, mandatory vaccination eliminated diseases that caused the death of many children including smallpox and polio. Infectious diseases were controlled via clean water and good sanitation. Infections including cholera and typhoid have been greatly reduced through improved sanitation. Antimicrobial therapy was discovered and has been crucial in controlling sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis. Since 1900, foods were made sure that they were healthy and safe thus have led from reductions in microbial pollution and upsurges in nourishing content. Vital micronutrients were identified and food-fortification programs were established. These projects have eradicated major nutritional deficiency including goiter, rickets, and pellagra. Mothers and babies healthy physiologic conditions were outcomes of good nutrition and better hygiene, greater admission to healthcare, accessibility of antibiotics, and technological developments in neonatal and maternal medicine.
Objective of Healthy People 2020 that Pertains to the Controversial Topic
Vaccination is related to the objectives of the Healthy People 2020 which pertains to reduction of deaths among children and mothers. Three thousand years ago, smallpox emerged as a contagious disease brought about by variola virus. Small pox caused epidemics that took the lives of over 30% infected individuals while the remaining 65 to 80% of the survivors acquired deep scars (Whatispublichealth.org, 2010).
In 1960, the World Health Organization propelled a strong plan to eliminate smallpox. It was globally exterminated in 1980. There are worries that samples of the smallpox virus that are still present could be employed for bioterrorism. Methicilllin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is brought about by staphylococcus aureus bacteria, also called "staph" (Whatispublichealth.org, 2010). Staph bacteria are generally seen on the skin or nose of about 30% of the population. Healthy people can be infected with MRSA and have no negative impacts yet they can pass on the germs to other people. The United States has been working with other nations and the World Health Organization to reinforce systems to trace epidemics of influenza that may cause a plague. Children are also given attention in healthcare.
Public health works through giving protection to the people especially the children and the mothers from viruses that may endanger their lives. Included in the objective of Healthy People 2020 to reduce deaths is family planning. Family planning has offered health advantages including smaller family size and lengthy interval between children’s birth. Furthermore, family planning increases the prospects for pre-conception counseling as well as screening, reduced maternal and child deaths, and the use of barrier contraceptives to avert gestation and spread of human immunodeficiency virus and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Conclusion
Every now and then, new diseases emerge that may cause harm to people’s health. Public health engages in educating the people about these diseases. Furthermore, public health delivers programs to avert any danger that may be brought about by certain viruses.
References
Cdc.gov,. (2014). CDC - EHS - EPHLI Core Essentials. Retrieved 1 June 2014, from http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/ephli/core_ess.htm
HealthyChildren.org,. 'Why Does My Child Need To Be Immunized?'.
Healthypeople.gov,. (2014). Maternal, Infant, and Child Health - Healthy People. Retrieved 1 June 2014, from http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/objectiveslist.aspx?topicId=26
