Essays on Public Health Issues

“At ordinary schools they tease you. People are cruel. They forget to accommodate you. You are an inconvenience.” This is a quote from Lane Wahl – a South African student with a visual impairment. Children with disabilities are legally allowed to attend “normal” school. In...

Introduction Physical impairment is a disability that restrain one’s person or individual to have the capacity to move, harmonize action or perform physical activities needed in a daily life. Based from the World Health Organization, association of similar difficulties are recognized from the following areas:...

Smoking today in our society stands as being a display of rather exquisite luxurious character and lifestyle and is spreading in the society as being a trend or a fashion, though everyone knows the fact that smoking is highly injurious to health but yet as...

Social skills are any competence, rules, and abilities that helps conduct interactions with others. Many people generally pick up on social cues over time and how one is supposed to react in certain situations. For people with autism it is generally hard for them to...

Transitions are scary. As a college student, I realize that I am a creature of habit. I am comfortable with the idea of having a routine and knowing what to expect. But, as for everyone, life is full of transitions. One transition in particular that...

David Lunn Jr. was in his teenage years when he first went to a DARE program assembly for his school. David heard about the different kinds of drugs and why it is so important to just say no. Sadly, the program enticed him with heroin....

Abstract This research assignment revolves around the research of a known drug in the drug family. Specifically, this paper will be focused on the drug, Heroin. The description of the drug, the short-term effects, long-term effects signs and symptoms as well the route of entry...

‘Trainspotting’ is a film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel by Irvine Welsh, which holds the same title. The film is set in Edinburgh, Scotland it focuses on a group of heroin addicts during a time when Scotland was going through an economic...

Historically heroin is not the only drug that has been vilified, and drug use in various forms, far from being an affliction of modernity, may be considered a cultural universal. According to Bruce Alexander, the demonization of substances is a modern reinvention of the medieval...

Definition  As many health masters describe it, heroin is a chemical substance originating from an opium poppy plant and used as a highly compelling painkiller. Its synthesis involves the slitting of poppy pods to release milky and sticky substances commonly referred to as opium. It...

Introduction Court systems are designed to protect society from individuals who break the law. This is often done through incarceration. Prison is an effective way to keep the heroin abusers away from both drugs and society but when they get released from prison they often...

Introduction Loneliness is proving to be more than just part of the human condition. New research shows it’s a serious public health concern for young people as much as the elderly. The evidence is startling. Feeling lonely can pose a bigger risk for premature death...

I. Introduction Thesis Statement: Adolescents should be encouraged to get sex education for three reasons: good for physical and mental health, good for sexual morality training, and good for sexual disease prevention. II. Good for physical and mental health When an adolescent enters adolescence, both...

Sex education should be implemented as a curriculum for elementary students for them to be responsible and aware about the issues of pre-marital sex, teenage pregnancy, abortion, and STDs (HIV and AIDS). Sex education can be a path for the better subsequent and tend to...

Yellow fever virus is Flavi virus. It is acute febrile vector borne disese that occur in Africa and South America. Last century there was an large epidemics in Caribbean and North America and in Ethiopia in 1960- 1962. There are seven genotypes of virus, five...

Problem statement Pregnancy for high school girls has been a problem of girls’ education in the world. When a girl gets pregnant while studying she drops out. In many African countries, a lot of young girls gets pregnant before the right age in which sometimes...

Most of the time, when a teenager falls in love, he or she does not consider the consequences of sex life or does not have enough security measures to prevent the girl from getting pregnant. After two weeks or more, the girl found herself pregnant...

A significant factor in marking the end of a student’s dreams of high school graduation and future aspirations is becoming a pregnant or parenting teen in high school. In 2017, women aged 15-19 had a birth rate of 18.8 babies per 1,000 women; that is...

Since the 1950s, teenage pregnancy has attracted a great deal of concern and attention from religious leaders, the public, policymakers, and social scientists, particularly in the United States and other developed countries (Cherry & Dillon, 2019).  Demographic studies continue to report that in developed countries...