Essays on Public Health Issues

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How Beauty Pageants Can Cause Health Difficulties

1 page / 603 words

Did you know that beauty pageants are unhealthy and can cause many health difficulties? Beauty pageants are bad because they cause health issues. They also damage the contestants self confidence because of the judges comments. Lastly beauty pageants send the wrong type of message to...

Beauty Eating Disorders

439

In Vitro Fertilization

1 page / 582 words

The three fertility options that I researched were In Vitro fertilization (IVF), donor eggs and embryos, and gestational surrogacy. People choose to participate in In Vitro Fertilization when they are struggling to get pregnant and need additional help. In Vitro Fertilization could help couples who...

Surrogacy

440

Vaccine Types

1 page / 473 words

There are several different types of vaccines. Each type is designed to teach your immune system how to fight off certain kinds of germs — and the serious diseases they cause.When scientists create vaccines, they consider:How your immune system responds to the germWho needs to...

Immune System Vaccination

441

The Differences Between Anorexia and Bulimia

5 pages / 2408 words

Eating disorders can affect people of all ages, genders, or backgrounds and can be influenced greatly by the media. It’s important for people to learn about the different types of eating disorders, so that they can help others that they feel may be suffering from...

Anorexia Bulimia Eating Disorders

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A View of Adoption, Ivf, and Surrogacy as Solutions to Childlessness

3 pages / 1146 words

There are very few options when it comes to infertility. There’s only Surrogacy, IVF (in-vitro fertilization) and Adoption. It is understandable why a person would want a biological child but a person shouldn’t go through so much pain, money, and time just to become a...

Surrogacy

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Modern Family Systems: Gay Parenting and Traditional Family Roles

4 pages / 1763 words

Traditional Family, Gay Parenting and Surrogacy Gay parenting refers to male partners who raise children as parents. Gay people can have children by various methods which include surrogacy, foster parenting, adoption and donor insemination. The traditional family is a structure which involves only two married...

Gay Adoption Surrogacy Traditional Family Roles

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The Different Types of Vaccines

1 page / 667 words

Live, Attenuated Vaccines Attenuated vaccines can be made in a variety of ways. Some of the most common methods include the passage of the disease-causing virus through a series of cell cultures or animal embryos (usually chicken embryos). Using chick embryos as an example, the...

Vaccination

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Chickenpox: History, Symptoms and Treatment

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Chickenpox is a thing that has affected many people in the past and even now in the present. It was discovered in the 1500s by a man named Giovanni Filippo who lived in Italy. Later on in the 1600s Richard Morton, an English physician, was...

Vaccination Viruses

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Malaria Facts

1 page / 443 words

Malaria is an acute febrile, mosquito-borne blood disease caused by a Plasmodium parasite. It is transmitted to humans through the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito. As P. falciparum matures the infected erythrocytes adhere to microvascular endothelium, a term coined cytoadherence, they constrain vascular function...

Malaria

447

The Debate Over Marijuana Legalization

2 pages / 826 words

Drug addiction is something societies all over the world rarely accept. People who say, “A glass of beer after a long work day keeps me relaxed and ready for the next day of work” sounds normal. However a phrase just like the previous one, “A...

Drug Addiction Marijuana Marijuana Legalization

448

An Analysis of Teenage Pregnancy and STDs

3 pages / 1507 words

While I wasn’t alive in the eighties, my mom was. From her childhood she remembers disco, Soul Train, Regan, the war on drugs, and most importantly abstinence plus sexual education programs. In the eighties STD’s like AIDS and teen pregnancy were a big issue, in...

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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An Introduction to The Issue of STDs in Today's Society

1 page / 569 words

When people who are sexually active feel like there is something wrong with their body, or feel like something is out of norm, they may need to be checked by their local health care advisor for an STD. An STD, or Sexually Transmitted Disease, is...

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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Prevention and Treatment of Malaria

2 pages / 991 words

Although malaria has been proven to be both preventable and curable, it still stands as one of the top killers of African children, at a rate of two children per minute. In Masterson’s words, malaria is a societal condition that is dependent on four aspects:...

Malaria

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A Worldwide Epidemic of Obesity and Ways to Handle It

1 page / 890 words

Obesity is among of the most concerning issues humankind faces today. From the last three decades till now people have been experiencing this problem more often. Obesity is defined as a condition of abnormal or excessive fat accumulation in adipose tissue, to the extent that...

Obesity

452

The Effectiveness of Vacciness in Preventing Illnesses and Infectious Diseases

4 pages / 1852 words

In our modern lives nowadays, due to climate, dust from the environment and diseases, many people are now facing with health issues and infectious diseases. Many proponents say that vaccination is safe and one of the greatest advance science prevention health developments in the 20th...

Infectious Disease Vaccination

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Social Media as The Reason of Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Disorders

2 pages / 971 words

Since the Internet was created in 1900, it’s growth has been exponential. The Internet has become a universal source of information for millions of people (Murphy & Roser, 2017). While body dissatisfaction has been shown to mediate the relationship between traditional media exposure (TV and...

Eating Disorders Social Media

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Nafld: a Multisystem Disease

1 page / 471 words

Several epidemiological studies show that obesity and related metabolic dysfunctions are associated with an increased incidence and mortality rates for various types of tumors. For example, it has been shown that obesity and type 2 diabetes are among the risk factors associated with the onset...

Epidemiology Infectious Disease

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Genital Tuberculosis

1 page / 375 words

Genital Tuberculosis- A Reason for Infertility Among Women It is quite likely that each one of us has had a family member or an acquaintance being affected by TB. Tuberculosis is a major health problem throughout the world affecting about 9.4 million people annually. Over 95 %...

Tuberculosis

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Why Should The Drinking Age Stay at 21: The Reasons

3 pages / 1549 words

Introduction Almost everyone can agree that alcohol should not be given or allowed to children or young adults under a certain age. Alcohol is a substance that is very dangerous and if you used incorrectly or immaturely the consequences can be a great danger to...

Legal Drinking Age Underage Drinking