The price for public schools is on a faster rate than Private schools.

Summary:

This article is about how the price of public schools, is growing faster that the price at private schools.  Public schools are run by the government and Private schools are run by themselves.  This is a trend around every region of the country, but is  increasing the most in the western part.  Over the past decade the western part of the country has an average increase of public schools at 86%.  It is now am average 0f 20,000 average tuition for public schools in the west, which is now over 4,000 dollars more than it was 5 years ago.   The raise in price has occurred because of the migration of people moving to the west.  Private schools are also on the rise, but the rate is far less rapid as the public schools.

Analysis:

After looking at this article I am not surprised to see that public school are on a more rapid rise that private school.  over the past couple of years I knew that there was a major migration to the western part of the country, but had no idea that it was this rapid.  The migration has an affect on the educational cost, as well as the nation as a whole.  This has a major effect also for college students around the nation.  Any student that wants to go to a public university has to know that they will be paying more and more each year.  Private Universities tuition isn't at as high of a rate as public schools, but with how much money it cost to go to a private university, there might not be that much of a difference in price in the future.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/12/the-price-of-college-is-rising-faster-for-public-schools-than-private-ones/

Blog #4: Infectious Disease Increasing

Summary: Societal health concerns are beginning to quickly become more of a global health risk. Infectious disease are becoming more and more of a problems and not only affects the population but also the economy and the world as a whole. About 80 percent of nations are not prepared to tackle, treat and stop infectious diseases that turn into a pandemic. Cancer along with other particular disease are another epidemic that still does not have a vaccination or cure. Sadly, a third of these deaths are preventable if the nation was able to properly educated and facilitate their civilians. The most common types of cancer are lung, breast, colorectal, liver as well  as stomach. These types of cancer are most common in developing countries. Cervical cancer which is actually preventable with a HPV vaccination is the number four cause of cancer death in women world wide. The reason for women dying of a preventable type of cancer is due to lack of screening and treatment in areas that are not as developed as needed. 

Analysis: Unfortunately health can become a type of luxury in particular countries around the world. Some developing countries do not have the resources to be able to reach out to it’s civilians and help prevent and diagnose infectious diseases and cancers that could be a threat. When comparing a developed country to a less developed one would be that 35 women out of 100,000 received a diagnoses of cervical cancer whereas a developed country there would be 7 out of 100,000. It is important to raise awareness that many of the disease that men and women are dying from are in fact preventable and undeveloped countries may need to seek assistance from those that are developed. 

http://guardianlv.com/2014/02/global-health-concerns-are-much-more-than-infectious-disease/

Diabetes Drugs Safe

Officials of the Food and Drug Administration and the European Medication agency published their concerns about diabetes drugs on an annual joint paper. The announced the popular drugs unsafe and could cause pancreatic inflammation. The drugs that increase a hormone activity to control blood sugar, including Onglyza, Victoza, and Januvia, make millions of dollars in the market in sales. Both of the agencies have collective effort to show the link between the drugs use and their damages. A study that supported this situation was done by Dr. Peter C. Butler, from the University of California, Los Angles. Many of Dr. Butler critics claimed that his conclusion was not supported and asked for the analyses to be public. After a little tension between those asking for more research and those seeing little need for concern both the European agency and the FDA announced that there was no concern regarding the safety of the drugs. The agencies have also announced that more data will be collected and that concerns regarding pancreatic inflammation were already written in the labels of the drugs.

Diabetes’ percentage is around the world and percentage in developed countries such as the US and those in Europe are very high. McDonaldization and other social factors that caused the world to move faster, Diabetes is becoming a trend and almost a common disease in families. Regardless of the factors or causes of diabetes, its cure is one around the world. This alert of and ‘unsafe’ medicine is scary and causes the sick to feel worst. Diabetic people are dependent on the medicine and no substitutions are currently unavailable: to know that your medication can cause further and more serious illness is something that affects part of the population worldwide. Further and deeper studies should be done regarding all diabetes’ drugs available in the market.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/27/health/us-and-european-regulators-call-popular-diabetes-drugs-safe.html?ref=health

Where is the food?

Burkina Faso: Food Shortages Leave Families on the Brink of Crisis

Within this article it talks about how the Sahel, a band of countries spanning the north of Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea is going through a huge crisis of where their food to put on the table will be coming from next. Also in the days, months, years before the food shortages started happening the Sahel had high rates of malnutrition among this region already. It mentions, “ Burkina Faso is among the ten poorest countries in the world according to the UN Human Development Index”. Burkina Faso is a country in West Africa, which it is also in the Sahel region. Throughout this country, almost a third of children under the age of five are affected by chronic malnutrition and ten percent encounter acute malnutrition. Within Burkina Faso, the Burkinabe Red Cross has made a major impact on the citizens. They started many community nutrition committees. These committees help release pressure on health centers that screen for malnutrition and provide education to mothers by informing them on the best ways to use the available resources. With these committees providing the same care as the health centers, more mothers are reached in time and more lives are saved. Along with the Burkinabe Red Cross, the Belgian Red Cross has been working also with the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO). These larger organizations have been able to go into villages, which are isolated, and help those who have been hit by this disaster.

Reading this article there was nothing that I had seen that was bad. You have a country that is doing anything that they can to educate and help the people who live there to turn around this crisis. To know that the rates have reduced significantly shows that these organizations know what they are doing. They are not throwing options at the people that are out of the ordinary and leaving them out to dry. It shows that the organizations and the government of the country care about their people and are there always to help them. With this help lives are saved.

Kayla Howard

Submitted: February 22, 2013 12:50pm

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201302221008.html