Cure or Prevent
August 18th, 2009 | 
Author: Cure or prevent
The emergence and development of diseases related to the biopsychosocial profile of the individual, social and economic structure to which they belong, demographic and ecological processes, the dominant lifestyle and type of existing health system.
Along with the twenty-first century, suddenly has a new process, “globalization”, a “new economic order” that modifies the production and trade systems. This process is accompanied by a process of “political globalization” that conditions on countries to regional integration. In many developing countries, unemployment and “new poverty” ended up causing unforeseen changes in social structure, affecting the institutions, families and relationships.
Prevention-health
Poverty and disease, as synonymous .The reality of the Century in our country, shows the aging of the population, socio-economic crisis, family fragmentation, which is shaping a new epidemiological profile of the society, changing health indicators, such as malnutrition rate and rates of morbidity and mortality.
While decreased vaccine-preventable infections persist or come back some other infectious diseases. There is also an increase in diseases caused by environmental pollution and psychosocial problems (violence, addictions, etc.).. Coexisting diseases that generate the overconsumption of the privileged classes and those produced by the increase of the new poor. The World Health Organization has published a research paper which examines the forecasts of changes in the order of the top 10 diseases in the world from 1990 to 2020. The study focuses on health problems in terms of “disease burden, measured as years adjusted for degrees of disability. It was found in the nineties, that the most prevalent, the determined respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, perinatal and depression.
The projection indicates that by 2020, these positions are occupied by ischemic heart disease, depression, traffic accidents and cerebrovascular disease. This prediction ahead warns new changes in the epidemiological profile, with high prevalence of disabilities that result from the increase in life expectancy at birth, as well as environmental characteristics and cultural sociooeconómico expressed as changes in lifestyle.
Only a preventive medicine, proactive to events, it is possible to achieve healthier environments and changes in the way of living and aging. This consideration leads us to the certainty that the welfare or excellence in health, can not be achieved in the future only with the contribution of medicine, but with the integration of other health sciences and other disciplines that relate to education, work, security and justice.
“As a health human rights guarantees Consitución not be left solely in the hands of physicians.”
In this context, the medicine of the future must be increasingly more proactive, acting in healthy populations and risk and protective factors, creating healthier environments in the family and the community, promoting self-care, healthy lifestyles and improving environments where people live, work or recreation. Forming multidisciplinary teams and working interedisciplinarios in the report.
Finally there must be active participation of individuals and families in decisions about their health and the community.