Silent epidemic

The article, “Silent Epidemic”, is referring to the dropout rate. According to Bridgeland, Diluilo, and Morrison, “There is a high school dropout epidemic in America. Each year, almost one third of all public high school students and nearly one half of all blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans fail to graduate from public high school with their class. Many of these students abandon school with less than two years to complete their high school education” (Bridgeland, Diluilo, Morrison, 2006). Students

The Silent Epidemic in America Obesity is a growing problem and concern in American households today. However it cannot be narrowed down to one main problem. The most prominent underlying issues are psychological and environmental. These issues in turn create deteriorating health and economic problems degrading one’s self-esteem. Psychological Reasoning and Roles Psychological issues normally involve food being used as a comfort for some stressor that has become present in the person’s life

wrong drug or dosage. These complications are slowly rising, and becoming known as a “silent epidemic.” This "silent epidemic" can appear in a variety of situations – when a person is prescribed the wrong medication for his or her medical condition or age, the right medication in the wrong dose, or two or more medications that interact with dangerous, unintended side effects ("When Medicine Hurts: The Silent Epidemic”). Medication error is a

Osteoporosis is a progressive silent disease that affects the quality of the bone, due to the decrease in bone mineral density , the bone becomes more porous and fragile, and the risk of fracture will increase , osteoporosis has no signs or symptoms , and people may not know that they have the disease until their bone becomes so weak that a sudden strain, fall will causes a bone to break, , the fractures that related to the osteoporosis cause pain, Disability, reduce mobility, long-term disability

Every 9 seconds in the U.S. a woman is assaulted or beaten. Domestic violence is a serious problem not only in the U.S., but across the globe. It is known as the silent epidemic because so many victims, majority women, suffer in silence. According to statistics, 85% of domestic violence victims are women. Additionally, statistics show that one in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime and that an estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate

standards. The shortage of space and the lack of sanitary systems allowed Cholera to take hold of Britain. Water pollution lead to the infection of the lower class and an entire area could receive the disease form a single source. Previous to the first epidemic, medical professionals understood very little about the spread of disease and how to handle conditions as serious as when Cholera arrived. Victims were often wrongly diagnosed and attempts to quarantine were met with resistance from merchants who

illness. One example of such illness is Hepatitis C (HCV). Hepatitis C is a severe disease of the liver. It is caused by the Hepatitis C virus (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2015). As a result, Hepatitis C has been termed a silent epidemic (CDC, 2015). This is because a lot of individuals have Hepatitis C and don’t even realize they have the infection (CDC, 2015). As the infection begins to progress over time, it could cause acute issues to the liver (CDC, 2015). Those issues could

Why is PTSD such a silent epidemic? Men and women of all ages can experience PTSD as well as other symptoms of mental illness, usually after a traumatic event that they have experienced. PTSD can be chronic or acute and often has other symptoms associated with diagnoses, treatment is often delayed or overseen because of the lack of medical research needed to properly diagnose. PTSD does not usually start to show symptoms until after the event may happen, which can happen soon after or it can start

The story takes place during an epidemic outbreak that spread rapidly as well as vigorously. Steven Johnson begins the book in London during the nineteenth century (1854). The book discusses the contaminated conditions in England. More than two million people were living within a 10 mile radius. In particular, he starts by painting a picture of the lower class. He calls them rag-gatherers, deredgermen, bone-pickers, myud-larks, night soil men, and more. The main character in the story is a man

Prescription drug abuse, now known as the “silent epidemic,” is spreading rapidly in the United States, so who’s to blame? This essay will argue that oftentimes, pharmaceutical companies are responsible for luring the opioid dependent population, and more often than not, causing their deaths. It is their greed that over powers the true meaning of medicine. One would think that millions of dollars in profits would be enough. However, considering it is a multibillion dollar industry, apparently not