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    continue to boost, weight increase and obesity are posing a rising threat to certain well-beings in countries all over the world. Obesity, now confirmed as a nationwide endemic by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is likely to get worse and amplify over time. “The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts there will be 2.3 billion overweight adults in the world by 2015 and more than 700 million of them will be obese” (Obesity: in Statistics, 2008, 2nd Statement). It is definite that

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    The World Health Organization created a fact sheet about family planning and the it said that “an estimated 225 million women in developing countries would like to delay or stop childbearing…”(Family) These women across the world could have a huge variety of reasons to not want to go through childbirth. Some of these reasons could be to ”prevent pregnancy-related health risks in women, reduce adolescent pregnancies, or reduce infant mortality” as summarized from a World health Organization.(Family)

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    The World Mental Health Organization (WHO) define mental health as “A state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community.” There are many factors that go into what categorizes a person as “at risk”. According to the National Institute for Mental Health, an at-risk person is one that a person that has demonstrated or expressed the

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    The world health organization (2014) have states the importance of finding successful interventions to prevent child obesity as the rates has been raising dramatically in the past few decades. WHO has highlighted some of the aspects which may contribute in obesity in children, including environment, food choice (such as HFSS), and mother’s health during pregnancy (gestational diabetes), parent’s acknowledge, marketing (targeting children) and digitalized world (encourage inactivity and sedentary

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    In today 's world, obesity has reached epidemic proportions – so much it has become a global epidemic. Coined 'globesity ' by the World Health Organization, obesity has more than doubled since the 1980s, and today more than 1.5 billion adults are considered overweight (1). Junk food comprises nearly one-third of the Standard American Diet while fresh fruits and vegetables make up only a mere 10 percent (2). In his news article 'Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables ', New York Times columnist

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    2014). Tuberculosis, or more commonly known as TB, is more prominent in developing countries with 80% of Asian and African countries testing positive for tuberculosis (Abbas AK, 2007). India currently has the most cases of TB in the world (World Health Organization, 2009). There are a few types of TB such as common, partial drug resistant and drug resistant. The disease that will be focused on today is common tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is as old as mankind. It was first officially recognised by

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    there is still a lot of unsightly statistics that paint a picture of uncertainty regarding its eradication. HIV is incurable, The only relief comes in the form of ARVs which help the body adapt to the weakened immune system. Globally, the World Health Organization, puts the numbers at over 100 million people and most of them in developing countries. A terrible scourge indeed and a relevant disease to analyze closely. A virus by definition is is an intracellular parasite with either a RNA or DNA genome

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    mandated to be reported to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 25 different states using a structured confidentiality report system (Prejean et al., 2011). With this provided system, the Global Programme on AIDS and the World Health Organization (1995) later concluded a total of 10,000 new cases develop each day. The CDC (2015) describes HIV as an infection

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    The World Health Organisation came up with 10 social factors known as the Social Determinants of Health (SOH) which helps people determine decisions about their health. Stress is a determinant of health that causes problems in the Otara community. People worry about whats for dinner and how bills are going to be paid due to the low employment rate and housing costs. They also worry that they cant go see the doctor due to the lack of accessibility which are examples caused by social and psychological

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    The World Health Organization (WHO) was established in 1948 by the United Nations, serving as a specialized agency to coordinate international health and public health problems (Wilkinson & Marmot, 2003, p. 4). Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, and O'Grady (2016) states that health is created where people live, work, and play; therefore being more dependent on one’s zipcode rather than one’s genetic code (p. 2). One of the goals of the WHO is to create a healthier nation which requires that the factors that

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