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Into Rome – (Adnkronos Health) – The world of science calls for the creation of a National Commission on public health

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Into Rome, August 29 (Reuters Health) – ‘Sos health’ in the United States. So much so that researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University launched the journal ‘Science’ an appeal to President Barack Obama, an invitation to “remove the veil of ignorance public” and to deal with a pressing question: why ‘health status America and ‘the last places among the nations most’ rich? The world of science therefore calls for the government to mobilize and create a National Commission on the health of Americans. The researchers emphasize the importance of this commitment to ensure ‘that the country is beginning to reverse the decline of the health of its inhabitants. This is not ‘a challenge that can’ be left to private organizations, warn Ronald Bayer and Amy Fairchild, both professors of social and health sciences. “The state of health of Americans and ‘a social problem that requires social solutions” show. Here, according to experts, and ‘play more’ of the U.S. health care system, which fails to provide necessary care to millions of Americans. “There ‘the need’ to brave public policies that move beyond the ‘individual behavior to address the fundamental causes of disease,” the researchers are convinced. A report dated January 2013 the U.S. National Research Council and Institute of Medicine classifies the United States last among the Nations of the same level in terms of health status, and compares unfavorably with 17 countries in almost all stages of life of the inhabitants. The report, entitled ‘The health of the United States in an international perspective: life more’ short and worse health ‘, emphasizes that the main causes are socio-economic and highlights the categories in which you have the worst results. Here then is that the United States has more ‘h igh rates of adverse birth outcomes, heart disease, injuries from road traffic accidents and violence, sexual diseases and lung diseases. Still, Americans lose more ‘years of life due to alcohol and drug use; the States have the most’ high mortality ‘child among high-income countries and the second most’ high incidence of AIDS and ischemic heart disease. Finally, for decades the United States has recorded the most ‘high rate of obesity’ in children and adults, as well as ‘diabetes aged 20 years of age’ on. “Too many studies have been published documenting the serious health inequalities within the United States – say Bayer and Fairchild – now not only inequalities are more ‘bigger than ever for a century now, but we see that the United States does worse than other countries. We fear that this report, as others in the past, end up in the trash. Only resolute action by the President could stop it. “

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