The Global Public Health Threats in the Future
The Global Public Health Threats in The Future
-Prabesh Ghimire
The world has been encountering the numerous public health challenges for ages. Majority of these challenges still persists to the date & further,new series of serious public health problems have been threatening the global community. The public health problem that evolved with the birth of infectious diseases during the primitive ages have now become more pronounced. On one hand, the effects of communicable diseases have diversified & become more profound, while on the other hand, chronic illnesses & ecological disasters are on the rise. With globalization, the risks to public health have been changing in the recent decades. Hence, it has become necessary to peep into the future to imagine a world that is overrun by large no. of public health problems or perpetual war. The public health problems in the future depends upon the numerous factors, everyone of which is unpredictable. Hence, no one can accurately predict what health problems are likely to occur in 10 years from now. However, if we assume that the current trends remain to continue in the future, we may not have difficulty to project what mega-challenges in public health will the world be facing .
With the mankind’s industrialization ethos &changing patterns of population, environment & diseases, the globe will be suffering from numerous public health problems in the future. Greenhouse effect & global warming will be one of the major issue threatening human health & survival. This in turn, is expected to increase the threats of extreme weather changes such as glacial melting, shore-line flooding, widespread droughts & drastic climate shifts. Further, in the next decade, the misery effects due to air, water & soil pollution are likely to be seen, followed by ozone depletion in the upper atmosphere. Hence, ecological disasters, as never seen before are likely, as the cumulative effects of population increase,
-Prabesh Ghimire
The world has been encountering the numerous public health challenges for ages. Majority of these challenges still persists to the date & further,new series of serious public health problems have been threatening the global community. The public health problem that evolved with the birth of infectious diseases during the primitive ages have now become more pronounced. On one hand, the effects of communicable diseases have diversified & become more profound, while on the other hand, chronic illnesses & ecological disasters are on the rise. With globalization, the risks to public health have been changing in the recent decades. Hence, it has become necessary to peep into the future to imagine a world that is overrun by large no. of public health problems or perpetual war. The public health problems in the future depends upon the numerous factors, everyone of which is unpredictable. Hence, no one can accurately predict what health problems are likely to occur in 10 years from now. However, if we assume that the current trends remain to continue in the future, we may not have difficulty to project what mega-challenges in public health will the world be facing .
With the mankind’s industrialization ethos &changing patterns of population, environment & diseases, the globe will be suffering from numerous public health problems in the future. Greenhouse effect & global warming will be one of the major issue threatening human health & survival. This in turn, is expected to increase the threats of extreme weather changes such as glacial melting, shore-line flooding, widespread droughts & drastic climate shifts. Further, in the next decade, the misery effects due to air, water & soil pollution are likely to be seen, followed by ozone depletion in the upper atmosphere. Hence, ecological disasters, as never seen before are likely, as the cumulative effects of population increase,