Malignant melanoma

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 297-303
Author(s):  
Charlotte Sidebotham
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Malignant Melanoma ◽  
Skin Lesions ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Favourable Prognosis ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Pigmented Skin Lesions ◽  
Early Primary

Melanoma affects people at a younger age than other cancers, and can rapidly become fatal if not detected. Thus, pigmented skin lesions can cause concern in both doctors and patients. If discovered in the early primary stages, melanomas have a favourable prognosis. Over the last few decades, the incidence of melanoma has significantly increased, and is fast becoming an urgent public health concern. This article aims to shine a light on this dangerous adversary.

scholarly journals Study of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the State of Campeche (Yucatan Peninsula), Mexico, over a period of two year

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirsha Pamela Hernández-Rivera ◽  
Omar Hernández-Montes ◽  
Adelaido Chiñas-Pérez ◽  
Juan Miguel Batiza-Avelar ◽  
Gustavo Sánchez-Tejeda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis ◽  
Leishmania Species ◽  
Skin Lesions ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Leishmania Braziliensis ◽  
Leishmania Mexicana ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Important Public Health ◽  
Mexican Strains

Objective. To study cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), in the Calakmul municipality of the Campeche State, during two years. Materials and methods. Individuals with skin lesions were evaluated. Aspirates taken from the lesions were cultured, PCR was performed to diagnose the Leishmania species. Results. The culture detected 42% of the samples. PCR diagnosed CL in 76% of the samples; of those 38% were from children and 62% from adults. 89% of the patients were infected with L. mexicana; 14.4% with Mexican strains of L.mexicana; 7% with L. braziliensis; 3.6% with L. mexicana and L. braziliensis. The most affected villages with CL were Dos Lagunas Sur with 12.3%, La Mancolona with 6.5% and La Guadalupe with 2.2% of prevalence, respectively. After the treatment with Glucantime, 96% of the patients were healed. Conclusion. CL is an important public health concern in Calakmul, and the parasite causing it belongs to Leishmania mexicana and Leishmania braziliensis complexes.

Reframing Fatness: Critiquing ‘Obesity’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethan Evans ◽  
Charlotte Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Policy Language ◽  
Religious Imagery ◽  
Fat Bodies

Over the last twenty years or so, fatness, pathologised as overweight and obesity, has been a core public health concern around which has grown a lucrative international weight loss industry. Referred to as a ‘time bomb’ and ‘the terror within’, analogies of ‘war’ circulate around obesity, framing fatness as enemy.2 Religious imagery and cultural and moral ideologies inform medical, popular and policy language with the ‘sins’ of ‘gluttony’ and ‘sloth’, evoked to frame fat people as immoral at worst and unknowledgeable victims at best, and understandings of fatness intersect with gender, class, age, sexuality, disability and race to make some fat bodies more problematically fat than others. As Evans and Colls argue, drawing on Michel Foucault, a combination of medical and moral knowledges produces the powerful ‘obesity truths’ through which fatness is framed as universally abject and pathological. Dominant and medicalised discourses of fatness (as obesity) leave little room for alternative understandings.

European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption: the ESAC programme

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (32) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Antimicrobial Consumption ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Major Public Health Concern

Resistance to antimicrobials has become a major public health concern, and it has been shown that there is a relationship, albeit complex, between antimicrobial resistance and consumption

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