Kelsey Layton
11:17 AM
September 27, 2010
There are many global health issues that are being addressed today, and even more issues are being added to the list to this day. Hiliary Clinton has just recently announced a $63 billion global health initiative and wants to focus on maternal and child care, these are types of things to aim at fighting dieases such as; malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS. Although we have worked on fighting diseases such as polio and respiratory disease, they want to aim at issues that are more fit to the budget.Also they want to be able to ensure health care for women and girls. Terry Miller, and economist at the Heritage Foundation, stated that we right now are focusing on infectious disease, but when we should shift to also concerning ourselves with non-infectious disease also. Miller said, "I would like to have seen a little more emphasis on improving outsomces for a society as a whole in an equitable way across all genders. Many people in the health field are calling for a broader balance in the health system of public health. In this article i think that it really does make sense. We as a society do need to think about all the health issues that are being looked into with out money, and we need to learn to balance they money between them. In this article the the quote said by Miller stated that we wanted to see improvement for the outcomes for society as a whole. This is true, we need to start by trying to improve the big "issues" for the people in the society and not waste our money on problems that are not 'big'.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Maternal-Child-Health-Infectious-Disease-Focus-of-Obama-Administrations-Global-Health-Initiative-102064123.html
1 comment:
I agree with you. Our country needs to be worried about every disease that effects people, and not just certain ones. Every disease is is just as important as another, therefore we need to be just as concerned for all diseases.
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