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Public Health
Public Health refers to the art or science of protecting and improving people’s health and their region, country, or the world. It is majorly concerned with making sure that people’s lifestyle is raised, protecting the health of the entire population in a community. For instance, the Americans have their agency referred to as The Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is the currently leading agency in public health matters their aim being protecting lives and protecting lives in the United States. Public health brought about some significant achievements in the 20th century, and some are as follows(Bryant,2020).
There has been the creation of vaccines that have made an impact on reducing epidemic disease. At the beginning of the 20th-century, the death rate was at a high quality since conditions such as measles, diphtheria, smallpox, among others, had widely spread because there were no prevention measures that were being applied. But since the creation of vaccines for preventable diseases, there has been a significant decline in illnesses and death rates; also, the fight against smallpox has been a success.
There has been a reduction in the condition of smoking tobacco that was rampant and, in most cases, the effects of diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, low birth weight, and mostly cancer. According to the CDC of the United States, the reduction of tobacco use has been the leading prevention of high mortality rates, and there has been a price control of the product, which has lowered the rate of smoking(Koppaka,2011).
The use of fluoride to treat drinking water is another milestone that has significantly impacted public health. Before using the fluoridation method to treat water, there were high complications such as dental caries, whereby the treatment available was tooth extraction. Water treatment has contributed to reduced cases of dental diseases, which is better than before.
By improving motor vehicle safety, there has been a high percentage decrease in the yearly death rates. The changes that led to the reduction of mortality rate due to motor vehicle transport are enforcing and providing safety belts in young drivers lane, pedestrian paths, and child safety and booster seats(Koppaka,2011).
They were giving birth used to come with a lot of risk to mothers and their newborn babies over a long period. The death rate was reduced at a high percentage after improving maternity and the infant’s health. This significant impact was driven by improving nutritional standards, better living standards, easy access to health care, surveying, and monitoring the diseases(Koppaka,2011).
Iron Triangle
The iron triangle is a concept that explains that access, cost, and quality cannot all be improved at a time. It explains that improvement in one side leads to a decrease in maybe one of the other two. This is true in health care methods because the current health care deliveries and finances have expanded. It means that efficiency can play an essential role in achieving a positive outcome in different aspects of health care. William Kissick was the first to introduce this concept in health to his book Medicine Dilemmas. It presented an idea in three areas of health care that are competing: patients’ access, quality services, and the cost of delivering health care services. For example, when the medics get to move to this ideal, they are closer to providing value to the health care model. Therefore, it has influenced the common term called value-based care(Delarande,2019).
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Delarande, S.(2019).The Iron Triangle of Health Care: Access, Cost, and Quality.
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Bryant, J.H.(2020).Public Health.
Britannica.
Koppaka, R.(2011).Ten Great Public Health Achievements.
Researchgate.