10 Global Health Threats According to the World Health Organization and Your Female Health
- Air Pollution: Responsible for affecting your circulation and your oxygenation. These have effects on our cycles, our reproduction, our hormones, and eventually our vaginal health.
- Noncommunicable Diseases: Diabetes, Heart Disease and Cancers: female cancer rates are no exception, and they have been rising except for the vaccine preventable cancer of the cervix
- Influenza Pandemic: It is coming, we are not sure when, be mindful and participate when possible in health system readiness.
- Fragile Health: In third world this is due to famine and lack of care, in our world its due to obesity and smoking and other threats to our basic immune fighting ability
- Antibiotic Resistance: Every infection from a simple UTI, to a bacterial vaginal infection could play a role in the constant and heavy use of antibiotics that eventually contributes to resistance
- Ebola and other rare diseases: Be aware as you travel and be sure to report travel to your primary care physician
- Weak and not comprehensive primary heath: Guidelines that eliminate certain routine parts of your visit were never intended to have you stop going to your primary
- Vaccine hesitancy: The fewer people vaccinated, the greater the risk for all of us, even if we have had our vaccines as they are not 100% protective, but rely on the greatest percentage of the population being vaccinated as possible. If you are pregnant, and as you get older, if you already have chronic viral conditions like herpes, if you have diabetes, you will be at greater risk of more severe illnesses from preventable illnesses that have returned. See us to see if your immunity needs to be tested.
- Dengue fever. 40% of the world is at risk, be aware when you travel, particularly if pregnant.
- HIV: This can be tested for, and before you have a new sexual partner, you both should have current testing.
