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Don’t Let Measles Be Your Travel Souvenir Stay safe and healthy when traveling abroad. Measles spreads easily through coughing and sneezing. It can cause serious illness, even death. Make sure you and your family are vaccinated for measles before you travel. Are you traveling abroad? You might not think about measles when you are preparing for your trip, but it is a health risk in many destinations. Make sure you and your family are vaccinated for measles and other diseases before you travel abroad. After your trip, you want to bring home fun souvenirs, a camera full of photos, and fantastic memories—NOT measles! (From CDC) (From CDC) How much sugar in soda? Too many sugary drinks? (From ChooseHealthLA.com) Experts call for a tobacco-free world by 2040A world virtually free of tobacco and its devastating health consequences could be a reality within 30 years if governments showed political will and took stronger action against cigarette companies, health experts said on Friday. The international group of public health and policy specialists, writing in The Lancet medical journal, said sale of tobacco should be phased out worldwide by 2040 and called for a “turbo-charged” international effort against its use. A billion people are forecast to die this century from smoking and other forms of tobacco use if control efforts are not stepped up. More than 80 percent of those deaths will be in poor and middle-income countries." A world where tobacco is out of sight, out of mind, and out of fashion — yet not prohibited — is achievable in less than three decades… but only with full commitment from governments, international agencies, such as United Nations and World Health Organization, and civil society," said Robert Beaglehole of the University of Auckland in New Zealand, one of the experts. Describing a “tobacco-free” world as one where less than 5 percent of adults use it, he added: “The time has come for the world to acknowledge the unacceptability of the damage being done by the tobacco industry and work towards a world essentially free from the… sale of tobacco products.” Tobacco kills some 6 million people a year worldwide, according to the WHO. More: http://news.yahoo.com/experts-call-tobacco-free-world-2040-000640055.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr Tooth decay: sugar industry ‘behaved like tobacco manufacturersWhen the science first established that sugar was the damaging component in tooth decay - and when the sugar industry saw there was this unquestionable harm - its trade organizations ignored dentists’ calls for restricting intake, and instead deflected the debate elsewhere, influencing public health research in food producers’ favor. Those are the allegations of researchers who have trawled a previously unexplored source of industry documents from the 60s. The sugar industry’s responses in the 1960s, about dental health science, raise questions about how it continues to respond, including to today’s obesity concerns. The authors say their findings are a “historical example” of the industry’s self-interest “that can inform policy makers today” over opposition to current sugar policy proposals. More: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/290643.php - Nationally, 51% of all U.S. births in 2010 were paid for by public insurance through Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Indian Health Service. - Public insurance programs paid for 68% of the 1.5 million unplanned births that year, compared with 38% of planned births. - Two million births were publicly funded in 2010; of those, about half—one million—were unplanned. - A publicly funded birth in 2010 cost an average of $12,770 in prenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum care and 12 months of infant care; when 60 months of care are included, the cost per birth increases to $20,716. - Government expenditures on the births, abortions and miscarriages resulting from unintended pregnancies nationwide totaled $21.0 billion in 2010; that amounts to 51% of the $40.8 billion spent for all publicly funded pregnancies that year. - To put these figures in perspective, in 2010, the federal and state governments together spent an average of $336 on unintended pregnancies for every woman aged 15–44 in the country. - In the absence of the current U.S. publicly funded family planning effort, the public costs of unintended pregnancies in 2010 might have been 75% higher. - The total gross potential savings from averting all unintended pregnancies in 2010 would have been $15.5 billion. This is less than the total public cost of all unintended pregnancies, because even if all women had been able to time their pregnancies as they wanted, some of the resulting births still would have been publicly funded. These potential savings do not account for the public investment in family planning services and other interventions that might be required to achieve them. (From Guttmacher Institute) Invasive Cancer Incidence and Survival — United States, 2011 Invasive Cancer Incidence and Survival — United States, 2011 In the United States, about two of three persons diagnosed with cancer survive ≥5 years after diagnosis. This depends on the type of cancer and age at diagnosis, and was lower among black persons compared with white persons. Differences in survival after cancer diagnosis might be attributable to differences in type of cancer, stage at diagnosis, timeliness of follow-up after diagnosis, appropriate treatment after diagnosis, or having a chronic condition. Among persons with cancer diagnosed during 2003–2010, the 5-year relative survival rate was 65%. This percentage was similar for males and females. The 5-year relative survival was highest among those diagnosed with cancer before age 45 years (81%) and decreased with increasing age. Among the most common cancer sites, 5-year relative survival was highest for prostate cancer (97%) and breast cancer (88%), intermediate for colorectal cancer (63%), and lowest for lung cancer (18%). The 5-year relative survival after any cancer diagnosis was lower for black persons (60%) than for white persons (65%) and for each cancer site. (From CDC - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, MMWR;Invasive Cancer Incidence and Survival — United States, 2011
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Može li svijet ostati bez cigareta za 25 godina? Svijet bez duhanskih proizvoda i njihovih štetnih posljedica po zdravlje mogao bi postati stvarnost ako vlade pokažu političku volju i poduzmu snažnije akcije protiv proizvođača cigareta Međunarodna skupina stručnjaka za javno zdravstvo ocijenila je u članku u časopisu za medicinu Lancet da bi se prodaja duhana trebala postupno ukinuti do 2040. godine i pozvala na vrlo snažne međunarodne napore protiv uživanja duhana. Predviđa se da će u ovom stoljeću zbog pušenja i drugih oblika uživanja duhana umrijeti milijarda ljudi ukoliko se ne pojačaju napori u nadziranju njegove uporabe. Više od 80% umrlih bit će u siromašnim i zemljama s prihodima srednje razine. "Svijet u kojem je duhan van vidokruga, van svijesti i van mode, no ne i zabranjen, može se postići u manje od tri desetljeća, no samo uz punu predanost vlada, međunarodnih agencija, poput Ujedinjenih naroda i Svjetske zdravstvene organizacije, te civilnog društva", rekao je Robert Beaglehole sa sveučilišta u Aucklandu. Opisujući svijet bez duhana kao svijet u kojem ga koristi manje od 5% odraslih osoba, Beaglehole je dodao da je "došlo vrijeme da svijet uvidi neprihvatljivost štete koju čini duhanska industrija i radi na svijetu koji bi u osnovi bio lišen prodaje duhanskih proizvoda". Duhan, po Svjetskoj zdravstvenoj organizaciji (WHO), godišnje u svijetu ubije oko 6 milijuna ljudi. Osim u slučaju raka pluća, kojega uzrokuje pušenje i koji je često smrtonosan, pušenje predstavlja i veliki faktor rizika u nizu drugih bolesti. Duhan je vodeći uzrok preranih smrti od kroničnih stanja koja bi se moglo spriječiti, poput bolesti srca, moždanog udara i visokog krvnog tlaka.