Vaccination Protects Against Influenza.
US strength officials would like every American superannuated 6 months and older to get a flu vaccine, and on Thursday they produced statistics they deliberate should convince everyone to get vaccinated. "In the 2012-2013 flu season, vaccinations prevented at least 6,6 million cases of flu-associated illness. They also prevented some 3,2 million kith and kin from whereas their doctor and 79000 hospitalizations," Dr Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a c noontide press briefing. The benefits of vaccination seen in 2012-2013 were greater than the CDC had seen before and were attributable to the harshness of the season.
So "Last year was a relatively stiff season. Even with those hospitalizations prevented, there were still about 381000 flu-associated hospitalizations. This is higher than we have seen during many flu seasons". During the end flu season, there were some 31,8 million influenza-associated illnesses and 14,4 million doctors visits for flu, according a CDC communication in the Dec 13, 2013 exit of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Frieden said the best way to be protected from the flu is to be vaccinated.
Yet only 40 percent of Americans elderly 6 months and older had been vaccinated by early November. Flu across the boondocks is picking up and even greater activity is predicted in the coming weeks. Increased prevalence has been seen in the Southeast and in some states beyond that area. "We know that it will increase in the coming weeks and months, but we cannot augur where and when and how severe this year's flu season will be.
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Thursday 9 January 2020
Sunday 5 January 2020
Trends In The Treatment Of Diabetes In The US
Trends In The Treatment Of Diabetes In The US.
More than 50 percent of Americans could have diabetes or prediabetes by 2020 at a rate of $3,35 trillion over the next decade if simultaneous trends continue, according to unique analysis by UnitedHealth Group's Center for Health Reform & Modernization, but there are also usable solutions for slowing the trend. New estimates show diabetes and prediabetes will narration for an estimated 10 percent of total health care spending by the end of the decade at an annual expenditure of almost $500 billion - up from an estimated $194 billion this year. The report, "The United States of Diabetes: Challenges and Opportunities in the Decade Ahead," produced for November's National Diabetes Awareness month, offers reasonable solutions that could put salubrity and life expectancy, while also saving up to $250 billion over the next 10 years, if programs to prevent and oversight diabetes are adopted broadly and scaled nationally. This figure includes $144 billion in dormant savings to the federal government in Medicare, Medicaid and other public programs.
Key solution steps allow for lifestyle interventions to combat obesity and prevent prediabetes from becoming diabetes and medication device programs and lifestyle intervention strategies to help improve diabetes control. "Our fresh research shows there is a diabetes time bomb ticking in America, but fortunately there are common-sensical steps that can be taken now to defuse it," said Simon Stevens, executive vice president, UnitedHealth Group, and chairman of the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform & Modernization. "What is now needed is concerted, national, multi-stakeholder action. Making a foremost consequences on the prediabetes and diabetes rash will require health plans to engage consumers in new ways, while working to imbrication nationally some of the most promising preventive care models. Done right, the human and economic benefits for the land could be substantial".
The annual health care costs in 2009 for a person with diagnosed diabetes averaged approximately $11,700 compared to an common of $4,400 for the remainder of the population, according to new data worn out from 10 million UnitedHealthcare members. The average cost climbs to $20,700 for a soul with complications related to diabetes. The report also provides estimates on the prevalence and costs of diabetes, based on fitness insurance status and payer, and evaluates the impact on worker productivity and costs to employers.
Diabetes currently affects about 27 million Americans and is one of the fastest-growing diseases in the nation. Another 67 million Americans are estimated to have prediabetes. There are often no symptoms, and many occupy do not even recollect they have the disease. In fact, more than 60 million Americans do not positive that they have prediabetes. Experts predict that one out of three children born in the year 2000 will bloom diabetes in their lifetimes, putting them at grave hazard for heart and kidney disease, nerve damage, blindness and limb amputation. Estimates in the turn up were calculated using the same model as the widely-cited 2007 study on the national cost burden of diabetes commissioned by the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
More than 50 percent of Americans could have diabetes or prediabetes by 2020 at a rate of $3,35 trillion over the next decade if simultaneous trends continue, according to unique analysis by UnitedHealth Group's Center for Health Reform & Modernization, but there are also usable solutions for slowing the trend. New estimates show diabetes and prediabetes will narration for an estimated 10 percent of total health care spending by the end of the decade at an annual expenditure of almost $500 billion - up from an estimated $194 billion this year. The report, "The United States of Diabetes: Challenges and Opportunities in the Decade Ahead," produced for November's National Diabetes Awareness month, offers reasonable solutions that could put salubrity and life expectancy, while also saving up to $250 billion over the next 10 years, if programs to prevent and oversight diabetes are adopted broadly and scaled nationally. This figure includes $144 billion in dormant savings to the federal government in Medicare, Medicaid and other public programs.
Key solution steps allow for lifestyle interventions to combat obesity and prevent prediabetes from becoming diabetes and medication device programs and lifestyle intervention strategies to help improve diabetes control. "Our fresh research shows there is a diabetes time bomb ticking in America, but fortunately there are common-sensical steps that can be taken now to defuse it," said Simon Stevens, executive vice president, UnitedHealth Group, and chairman of the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform & Modernization. "What is now needed is concerted, national, multi-stakeholder action. Making a foremost consequences on the prediabetes and diabetes rash will require health plans to engage consumers in new ways, while working to imbrication nationally some of the most promising preventive care models. Done right, the human and economic benefits for the land could be substantial".
The annual health care costs in 2009 for a person with diagnosed diabetes averaged approximately $11,700 compared to an common of $4,400 for the remainder of the population, according to new data worn out from 10 million UnitedHealthcare members. The average cost climbs to $20,700 for a soul with complications related to diabetes. The report also provides estimates on the prevalence and costs of diabetes, based on fitness insurance status and payer, and evaluates the impact on worker productivity and costs to employers.
Diabetes currently affects about 27 million Americans and is one of the fastest-growing diseases in the nation. Another 67 million Americans are estimated to have prediabetes. There are often no symptoms, and many occupy do not even recollect they have the disease. In fact, more than 60 million Americans do not positive that they have prediabetes. Experts predict that one out of three children born in the year 2000 will bloom diabetes in their lifetimes, putting them at grave hazard for heart and kidney disease, nerve damage, blindness and limb amputation. Estimates in the turn up were calculated using the same model as the widely-cited 2007 study on the national cost burden of diabetes commissioned by the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
Friday 20 October 2017
The Number Of People With Dementia Increases
The Number Of People With Dementia Increases.
The tons of hoi polloi worldwide living with dementia could more than triple by 2050, a new report reveals. Currently, an estimated 44 million males and females worldwide have dementia. That number is expected to go as far as 76 million in 2030 and 135 million by 2050. Those estimates come from an Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) procedure brief for the upcoming G8 Dementia Summit in London, England.
The projected thousand of people with dementia in 2050 is now 17 percent higher than ADI estimated in the 2009 World Alzheimer Report. The further policy brief also predicts a swerve in the worldwide distribution of dementia cases, from the richest nations to middle- and low-income countries. By 2050, 71 percent of men and women with dementia will live in middle- and low-income nations, according to the experts.
The tons of hoi polloi worldwide living with dementia could more than triple by 2050, a new report reveals. Currently, an estimated 44 million males and females worldwide have dementia. That number is expected to go as far as 76 million in 2030 and 135 million by 2050. Those estimates come from an Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) procedure brief for the upcoming G8 Dementia Summit in London, England.
The projected thousand of people with dementia in 2050 is now 17 percent higher than ADI estimated in the 2009 World Alzheimer Report. The further policy brief also predicts a swerve in the worldwide distribution of dementia cases, from the richest nations to middle- and low-income countries. By 2050, 71 percent of men and women with dementia will live in middle- and low-income nations, according to the experts.
Monday 15 December 2014
Hairdressers Against AIDS
Hairdressers Against AIDS.
Could the inhibiting of HIV infection and AIDS be a comb, fuzz ball and blow-dry away? That's the idea behind an innovative new national outreach effort, Hairdressers Against AIDS, which got its fling Tuesday at the United Nations in New York City, up ahead of Dec 1, 2010, World AIDS Day. The initiative - described as "one of the largest HIV/AIDS mobilization campaigns in US history" - has tresses mind giant L'Oreal joining forces with nonprofits such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria (GBC). The object is to empower America's 500000-plus locks stylists to use the relationships they have with millions of clients for salon-based chats on the how, why and what of HIV.
So "Today there is no vaccine," distinguished GBC president and CEO John Tedstrom, speaking to 500 hairdressers who'd gathered at the UN for the launch. "There is no cure. We're getting there. But today there is only information. The more we talk, the more we educate, the more we stave off the plate of this epidemic," Tedstrom explained.
And "You'll dream of millions of people hearing about HIV from community that they know," he said. "They'll be hearing effective time-tested messages about HIV prevention, and they'll be able to embezzle those messages back to their personal relationships. And then whether it's a mom talking to her daughter or a girlfriend talking to her boyfriend, it doesn't matter. We'll be able to have an matured conversation about HIV and erotic health".
Using hair-care professionals to get health messages out to the masses isn't a novel idea. Recent studies have shown, for example, that swart men can be motivated by barbershop messages to improve their blood lean on or get educated about their risk for prostate cancer. And the US launch of Hairdressers Against AIDS is just the up-to-date extension of a global HIV awareness effort that's already in place in 30 countries throughout the world.
Could the inhibiting of HIV infection and AIDS be a comb, fuzz ball and blow-dry away? That's the idea behind an innovative new national outreach effort, Hairdressers Against AIDS, which got its fling Tuesday at the United Nations in New York City, up ahead of Dec 1, 2010, World AIDS Day. The initiative - described as "one of the largest HIV/AIDS mobilization campaigns in US history" - has tresses mind giant L'Oreal joining forces with nonprofits such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria (GBC). The object is to empower America's 500000-plus locks stylists to use the relationships they have with millions of clients for salon-based chats on the how, why and what of HIV.
So "Today there is no vaccine," distinguished GBC president and CEO John Tedstrom, speaking to 500 hairdressers who'd gathered at the UN for the launch. "There is no cure. We're getting there. But today there is only information. The more we talk, the more we educate, the more we stave off the plate of this epidemic," Tedstrom explained.
And "You'll dream of millions of people hearing about HIV from community that they know," he said. "They'll be hearing effective time-tested messages about HIV prevention, and they'll be able to embezzle those messages back to their personal relationships. And then whether it's a mom talking to her daughter or a girlfriend talking to her boyfriend, it doesn't matter. We'll be able to have an matured conversation about HIV and erotic health".
Using hair-care professionals to get health messages out to the masses isn't a novel idea. Recent studies have shown, for example, that swart men can be motivated by barbershop messages to improve their blood lean on or get educated about their risk for prostate cancer. And the US launch of Hairdressers Against AIDS is just the up-to-date extension of a global HIV awareness effort that's already in place in 30 countries throughout the world.
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