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And it is no surprise that the research focuses on finding new chemical methods of managing disease — or at least symptoms 100 mg cafergot fast delivery pain medication for dog neuter. Robbins or SmithKline or Ciba-Geigy to fund research on therapies (such as nutrition) that cannot be patented and will not significantly increase their market share? For example, 44 urea, has been shown to be a much safer, simpler, less expensive and more effective diuretic than the diuretic drug, Diamox (see Urea — New Use Of An Old Agent, next chapter). There are numerous research studies proving the effectiveness, safety and diverse medical applications of herbs, yet any conventional doctor you talk to will tell you that herbal medicine is ridiculously unscientific and ineffective. For instance, the herb Cinchona was originally used for treating malaria and has been clinically proven to be just as effective as the synthetic drug quinine - and the herb is safe and non-toxic. But even though millions of pounds of Cinchona were imported for medical use into the U. Because synthetic drugs, unlike herbs or other simple medicines, can be patented and sold for much more profit. But urea itself is extremely inexpensive and non-patentable so the truly important and often astounding medical breakthroughs using simple urea in research studies have never been given proper recognition, even though the researchers themselves have often stressed its importance and made repeated but unsuccessful attempts to bring the information to the attention of the medical community. Consumers, and especially doctors, over the last 50 years have been thoroughly and completely indoctrinated with the "a drug a day keeps disease away" promotion of the drug companies, and have neglected the simpler, safer methods like natural urine or urea therapy. And like the uninformed health-care consumers that so many of us are, we believe them. On the other hand, of the more than edicin that are available to anyone at anytime off any drug store or grocery store shelf, only 1/3 of them have ever been demonstrated to be safe or effective and all are proven to have dangerous potential side effects and overdoses can even cause death. So you are not only wasting your money when you buy products with such ingredients, but you are also risking your health and that of your family. William Gilbertson, only “about 1/3 of the ingredients reviewed by the panels have been shown to be safe and effective for their intended uses. You are listened to (sometimes), examined, tested and then the doctor usually writes one or more prescriptions for you. Neither you nor, in some instances, even your doctor realices that one out of every eight prescriptions filled. Since all drugs involve risks, this lack of effectiveness means you are exposing yourself to dangers without gaining compensating benefits. In other words, balancing the benefits versus the risks, these drugs are not soft. Unfortunately, consumers in many cases are learning this error in medical thinking the hard way. The federal Food and Drug Administration, which had given approval for the human trials is investigating what went wrong. The best-known example was the tragedy of thalidomide, the tranquilizer that resulted in thousands of deformed children in Europe and Great Britain. Yet the pharmaceutical industry continues to produce and market drugs that have the potential to cause a comparable tragedy. Advertisements on television or in magazines, they say, have left the impression that there is a pill to make every pain or problem go away… But consumers may nevertheless find themselves in the doctor’s office either for complications arising from prolonged use of over-the-counter drugs themselves or for failing to recognize the [underlying] presence of a more serious illness. But one important thing we have to remember in caring for ourselves is that there is no such thing as a generalized body or a specific cause for every illness. And in reality, there is no such thing as a completely conclusive doubleblind drug study because no two people are exactly the same even if they happen to have the same disease. As a result, no double- blind drug study is ever going to be completely objective or ultimately prove how a drug will affect everyone who takes it, which is another reason why drug fatalities and unforeseen side effects occur. But the truth is that urine therapy is proven and is safe, far more so than chemical drugs. When it comes to personal health there are innumerable variables or differences in individual body chemistry, absorption rates, reactions, etc. But it is this fact that each body is so different that makes whole, natural urine so tremendously valuable as a medicine. But this vital relationship of natural components is completely lost when we extract separate urine ingredients for medical use. Medical researchers want to extract these valuable urine components so that they can convert them into drug products that can be mass-marketed to consumers.
His own health philosophy was summed up in these sentences: - Do not try to live for ever buy 100 mg cafergot fast delivery chronic pain treatment center venice fl. When comparing medicine then and now, the main differ- ence is between a profession and a trade, between a vocation which grew up in the humanist tradition and the medico- industrial complex governed by monetary gain and political 28 Healthism interests. The change was so slow that only a few shrewd observers, such as Illich, noticed it. Then economists came up with a bizarre theory, which has become widely accepted, according to which the basis of a sound economy is a continual increase in the con- sumption (that is, waste) of goods. To arouse an interest in new goods, it is important to adver- tise and to convince potential customers that they could not possibly be without them, even though they may not have realised it up until now. Once the need becomes universal, production can be defended by pointing out that it meets a need. As health services become increasingly complex, a third party interposes between the doctor and the patient - the health manager. Managers control the purchase of technol- ogy, its marketing and advertising, so that new markets can be created. Some $10 billion a year is spent on slimming (pills, books, clubs, 30 Healthism special diets). The healthy must be persuaded that feeling healthy is not the same as being healthy, otherwise they could go through their whole life without noticing how bad they were. Once healthy, but scared, health consumers start queu- ing outside, demanding their right to be let in (since health, as they were told and now believe, is their inalienable right), health producers can claim, with some justification, that they are doing their best to meet the demand, though the shortage of the demanded commodity (health, in this case) will, regret- tably, lead to some increase in price. It would seem that the two approaches are not antagonistic, since curative and preventive medicine have always been part and parcel of medical practice. However, anticipatory medicine is not the same as traditional preventive medicine which was limited mainly to vaccination against specific diseases, and the reduction of the spread of infection by maintaining a clean water supply, abattoir inspection, control of the food chain, etc. The transition from preventive to anticipatory medicine is a leap from an empirical, pragmatic approach to a theoretical and visionary one. One general practitioner, shared his unease about the new fashion of anticipatory care with the readers of the British 33 Medical Journal. There are no indi- viduals any more but an army which must be fit to discharge its military task. He believed that this kind of medicine required a completely different frame of mind from that of a traditional doctor, who listens to the patient and tries to makes sense of complex messages of fear and reported symp- toms. As an economist, Tussing naively believed that in this way diseases would be 34 prevented and health expenditure greatly reduced. As Richard Asher used to say, the only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker. What anticipatory care means in practice can be seen, for example, in the official guidelines on preventive care for a low-risk, healthy woman between the ages of 20 and 70. According to the American College of Physicians, she should visit her doctors annually and have 278 examinations, tests and counselling sessions. Note that this is recommended for a healthy woman, and does not include anticipatory care before the age of 20 and after the age of 70. It accepts evidence not according to its quality but according to its conformity with a foregone conclusion. The authors concluded: Any form of screening, including multiphasic, must be judged on the basis of its demonstrable health benefits. Since these control trial results have failed to demonstrate any beneficial effect on either mortality or morbidity, we believe that the use of general practice-based multiphasic screening in the middle-aged can no longer be advocated on scientific, ethical or economic grounds as a desirable public health measure. A fair and frank summary in plain language but even special- ists are not aware of this study, as the study is not mentioned in textbooks on screening, in government publications or in relevant epidemiological articles. On the contrary, the Government uses financial incentives (from the public purse) to entice general practitioners into participation, as agents of the state, in health screening schemes. Moreover, screening for disease has so far been largely exempted from ethical guidelines since most doctors believe that screening is a good thing and the public, believing their doctors, have not yet questioned this faith.
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Historically, laws have played a crucial role also suitable for resource- in some of the greatest achievements in public health such constrained settings as environmental control laws, seat-belt laws, warnings on cigarette packs and other tobacco control measures, and water fluoridation to reduce dental caries. Review of effective interventions Current laws relating to chronic disease have proved to be an effec- tive and central component of comprehensive prevention and control strategies. Legislation and regulations could be used control tobacco use include: more effectively to reduce the burden of chronic disease, and to protect » prohibition of tobacco advertis- the rights of people with a chronic disease. Interven- tions are grouped into three broad categories: very cost-effective, cost-effective or cost- ineffective. In 1999, the Philippines introduced major changes in tobacco control policies which have contributed to positive changes. Singapore’s smoking rate decreased The Philippines Clear Air Act of 1999 identified cigarette smoke as a pol- from an overall prevalence rate of lutant and instituted smoke-free indoor air laws. The national law allows 23% in 1977 to 20% in 1984, and to designated smoking areas in restaurants and other indoor areas, but some the lowest level ever, 14%, in 1987. This increase stimulated a to be smoke-free, improved training for students and teachers, and levied review of the situation and of the penalties for smoking. Consolidation The Tobacco Regulatory Act of 2003 seeks to increase public education of the Smoking (Control of Adver- measures, ban all tobacco advertising, strengthen warning labels on tobacco tisements and Sale of Tobacco) Act products, and prohibit sales to minors. Evidence of the success of this legislation in combination with other amendments to health warnings to interventions can be seen in the significant drop in the number of students make them more conspicuous and who reported being current cigarette smokers or using other tobacco prod- bold, extension of the prohibition ucts over the period 2000–2003. The percentage of students who had never of smoking to all air-conditioned smoked but were likely to initiate smoking in the next year also decreased, offices, and continuing educa- from 27% in 2000 to 14% in 2003. Among adolescent boys, the percentage tion programmes and progressive of current tobacco smokers declined by around a third, from 33% in 2000 increases in taxation, contributed to 22% in 2003. Among adolescent girls, the decline was similar, from 13% to a second drop in rates, to 17% in 97 in 2000 to 9% in 2003 (8). Alternatively, subsidies can be used to promote healthy choices or reduce the cost of goods and services that promote physical activity. Taxation policies can contribute effectively to the reduction of tobacco use and raise revenue for health promotion and disease prevention pro- grammes, as shown in the Australian state of Victoria and subsequently in several other countries, including Thailand. Price increases encourage people to stop using tobacco products, they prevent others from starting, and they reduce the number of ex-tobacco users who resume the habit. A 10% price increase in tobacco products has been shown to reduce demand by 3–5% in high income countries, and by 8% in low and middle income countries. Along with other tobacco control interventions, In some countries, higher prices tax increases have contributed to a 33% reduction in tobacco use have been shown to reduce (see figure below). Zambia, for example, sales of branded soft drinks dropped dramatically after prices rose. Cigarette consumption and real prices Alternatively, subsidies can of cigarettes in South Africa, 1961–2001 encourage healthier food 700 2500 Real retail price of cigarettes choices. Studies have shown, 600 Consumption of cigarettes 2000 for example, that price subsidies 500 in schools and in workplaces 400 1500 increase fruit and vegetable consumption. Providing access Over the past 10 years, the city of Bogotá, Colombia, with to exercise facilities, walking and cycle ways, almost 8 million inhabitants, has made significant progress along with compact urban planning, increase the in promoting physical activity. Safe spaces specifically opportunities for, and reduce barriers to, physical set aside for leisure activities are now provided, including activity. The city also provides parks, In the Americas, rates of walking and cycling in public aerobics classes, a 300 km network of bike paths and older neighbourhoods with high population densi- a large network of pedestrian-ways. Policies limiting the use ties, mixed land use, and well-constructed inter- of private cars have also been implemented (13). Communication Direct costs of the programme are covered largely methods range from one-to-one conversations to mass media by the São Paulo State Health Secretariat, with a campaigns and often work better together than individually.
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