The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances-Magazine 3

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.