Public Health Future: Analysis of Global Health Issues and Trends

This report examines the future of public health, expressing a pessimistic outlook due to increasing global challenges. It highlights rising health disparities, inadequate healthcare systems, and the impact of unhealthy lifestyles, leading to high mortality rates and chronic diseases. The report discusses the shortage of healthcare workers in developing countries, the impact of poverty on public health, and the lack of preparedness for future pandemics. It emphasizes the need for stakeholders to take directive measures to improve health outcomes globally, referencing works by Beck (2018) and O’Neill et al. (2017) to support the analysis of these challenges. The report concludes that the current trajectory requires significant interventions to ensure a positive future for global public health, highlighting the urgency of addressing these issues.

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Opinion On the Future Public Health
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Globally, it is the role of public health to improve sanitation, control diseases, provide
immunizations to children below five years and ensure the safety of food and also the water
supply. But considering the global challenges of the 21st century, I feel pessimistic because there
is no future direction of global public health. This is because today, the challenges in public
health have grown broader. The health disparities have increased, and more complex problems
have increased in this sector. This means the public health landscape has been crowded globally,
and the overall care is not taken care of. More health issues have raised, and hence, the
stakeholders aren’t providing any solutions to the health issues. Unhealthy lifestyle has increased
globally, and hence there are high mortality rates due to this issue because of the poor health due
to this their early childhood obesity, which was not experienced before. The policies and goals
implemented are not well-taken care and that why most of the countries, for example, Australia
they are experiencing a gap (O’Neil et al., 2017).
Chronic diseases have become more evident in many societies, and hence, these have
created a more significant burden in most of the countries globally. Most of the skilled workers
leave the countries which they trained in to join the well-developed countries because they will
be paid well. This means in most of the developing countries, there is a shortage of health
workers, and hence, the care essentials are to well provided. In most of the countries, the health
care services are inadequate; accordingly, most of them cannot manage the high population
growth hence increased mortality rates. Most of the developing countries globally are faced with
poverty; therefore, this means that there is a high growth of slums, which leads to poor health
systems in the area. There is inadequate surge capacity to cope with the next influenza pandemic;
this implies that still high mortality rates will be received due to the epidemic. According to all

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this, the future of the public health is moving in the wrong direction, and in this, the stakeholders
should take the directive measures so that positive health outcomes will be experienced globally
(Beck, 2018).

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References
Beck, U. (2018). Twenty observations on a world in turmoil. John Wiley & Sons.
O’Neill, B. C., Kriegler, E., Ebi, K. L., Kemp-Benedict, E., Riahi, K., Rothman, D. S., ... &
Levy, M. (2017). The roads ahead: Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways
describing world futures in the 21st century. Global Environmental Change, 42, 169-180.