In this article I’m going to talk about the public health innovations
that have been of support to Health area to improve people's life. Mortality
rates in the world fell more rapidly, specifically in United States during 19th
and early 20th Centuries than any other period of the history. This decline
coincided with an epidemiological transition and the mortality “penalty”
associated with living in urban areas. There is little evidence and unresolved
debate about what caused these improvements. It is believe that the causal is
the influence of clean water technologies in filtration and chlorination on
mortality in major cities during the early 20th Century.
In these cases exogenous
variation in the timing and location of technology adoption is used to identify
these effects. Thanks to technology was found that clean water was responsible
for nearly half of the total mortality reduction in major cities. We can see
that the mortality rate due to technology is reduced. A simple good water
management saves lives. This is only possible with the help of technology. Also,
in the 20th Century, infectious diseases accounted for a big part of deaths in
American cities. In 1900, waterborne diseases accounted for nearly one quarter
of reported infectious disease deaths in major cities. In the next decades,
waterborne disease mortality fell dramatically. The only disease killing more
people at the turn of the century “tuberculosis” had already declined
enormously by the time drugs to combat it were developed and distributed.
Without a doubt clean water technologies are likely the most important
public health intervention of the 20th Century. The first municipal system
water in the United States was built in Philadelphia at the 19th Century.
Benjamin Latrobe completed the Philadelphia’s water system. He draw water
primarily from the Schuylkill River with supplemental water from others rivers.
Many large cities followed in Philadelphia’s footsteps. Early municipal water
systems helped to prevent significant outbreaks of infectious diseases. During
the 1880s, many cities expanded and built new garbage collection. So, after
this creation many cities were benefited.
Other health improvements are the digital innovations. Makes possible
for consumers to use portable devices to access their medical information and
monitor their vital signs. For the first time we can be digitized. We can be continuously
monitoring each heartbeat, moment-to-moment blood pressure, body temperature,
oxygen concentration in the blood, glucose, brain waves and mood. All things
that make us "tick". We now have the technology to digitize a human
being in highest definition. In ways that most people thought would not be
possible.
All these health improvements help the medical areas to combat the
highest mortality rates. First with the creation of the good management of
water, like good chlorination and filtration, that avoids the infectious
diseases. Second the power to digitize humans. It is believe that is the most
important health improvements. With these advances, Doctors can give an early
diagnosis and save many lives.
