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Global Health: Hypertension, Diabetes, and Obesity in London

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Discussion: Focus on Global Health
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The focus of this discussion is on Global Health, Global Burden of Disease and Global Risk Factors.
From what you have learned about global risk factors that affect burden of disease and in reviewing the World Health Statistics 2019 (Links to an external site.) and other reports by the Global Health Observatory (Links to an external site.), where do you see opportunities for improvement? Focus on one area of improvement and a specific geographic area (country or smaller area) outside the United States.
What risk factors could be targeted that address some issues highlighted in the reports and support your focus of improvement? What would be the most beneficial to the largest number of people?
What would be your recommendation for a 5 year improvement plan? Discuss the opportunities you see and challenges your recommendation might face.
What would be the social determinants of health (Links to an external site.) influenced by your recommendation? Discuss in detail.
Discussion Guidelines
Initial statement is due Wednesday, Week 3, at 23:59. Include in your title the health issue you selected and geographic area. You must post your statement before you can see other replies.
Initiate a discussion with TWO of your classmates by Friday or Saturday and no earlier than Thursday (so you can review all your peers topics).
In your discussion/responses include citations from the above resources, your texts, or journal articles to support your view point

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Global Health
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According to the World Health Organization (2019), more than 30% of global mortality is attributable to very few risks. In their view the five major mortality risks are hypertension, tobacco use, diabetes, physical inactivity and obesity. This report focuses on physical inactivity in the city of London, England, which is suffering an epidemic of hypertension, diabetes and obesity.
All these risk factors are attributable to physical inactivity and possibly poor dietary choices and there are numerous opportunities for improvement. London is endowed with numerous outdoor and indoor sports facilities that members of society can use for exercise and other forms of physical activity at virtually no cost.
However, the entity that bears the heaviest burden of the consequences of this risk factor, the England government through its National Health Serv...
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