Vulnerable Populations

Why are we still ONLY focused on sedentary lifestyles and diets when addressing obesity in the US?  Why are we not also looking at ways to decrease exposures to those chemicals that may be contributing to the epidemic?

Our problem is that we have different approach to the problem like the obesity which was really well addressed in the lecture of Dr. Rishi Manchanda, he said that instead of bringing people to clinics and check the symptoms, we need to see where it starts and from where the health issue begins like (home, work, play). The environment has great impact on health, if we have bad environment and many risk factors and predisposing factors are exposing our body like the chemicals, we have health problem soon or later either from the direct effect or from the accumulative effect. Home, work, play have twice impact on health than the genetic code and 60% of preventable death are due to the same cause.
From watching the video (little things matter) we discover that our bodies are filled with chemicals like mercury, lead. Ops. The children are daily exposed to the chemicals and they have it in their bodies, these chemicals are poising the children body, causing death by time and also decrease their brain development and decrease their IQ level.

We are exposed to numerous chemicals every day from environmental sources such as air and water pollution, pesticides, cleaning products, and food additives. Some of these chemicals are threats to human health, but tracing exposures and determining what levels of risk they pose is a painstaking process. As public health practitioner we need to focus more on the source of these chemical, how to decrease it in our environment to be less exposed and  what kind of regulations we use to reduce exposures, and how we manage associated human health risks.

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  1. Brittany AFebruary 12, 2018 at 9:44 PM

    Ali yes we do need to check our homes, work, and play. It is important to know what we are being exposed to in the first place instead of only checking symptoms and making temporary diagnosis. We need to cure the problem altogether.

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