P H 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Environmental Health, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Human Services
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According to the world health organization: a health system consists of all organizations, people, and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore, or maintain health, no single us health care system-diverse subsystems. Economic downturn and loss of health insurance. Ve leading cause of deaths in 2015: heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, unintentional injuries, stroke. Mortality rates from infectious disease declined signi cantly. Declines related to health e orts to educate the public. Most prevalent mental disorders include anxiety disorders and depression. Increased medical care costs and loss of productivity (300 billion per year) Over 50% of causes of death are behavioral and include: diet/lifestyle, lack of regular physical activity, tobacco and alcohol use, illicit drug use, and motorcycle fatalities. Rising health care costs: expensive medical technology, prescription drugs, reimbursement systems that reward multiple services, inadequate preventive services. Tuesday, august 29, 2017: aging population, increased prevalence of chronic disease, high administrative costs.
