Health Care Issues in the United States Research Assignment

Healthcare Issues in the United States
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Healthcare Issues in the United States
The leading causes of diseases and death in the United States are the chronic diseases and conditions that include cancer, stroke, arthritis, obesity and type 2 diabetes. By the year 2012, statistics shows that nearly half of the adults were diagnosed with a chronic health condition and among the infected; at least one in four adults had two chronic conditions or more (Bauer, Briss, Goodman, & Bowman, 2014). As at 2010, chronic diseases were the first seven out of ten top causes of deaths. Cancer and heart diseases were the major causes accounting for about 48% of the deaths (Bauer, Briss, Goodman, & Bowman, 2014). Obesity is also a serious problem that acts as a risk factor for many diseases such as cancer and diabetes, and in 2010, 78 million Americans were diagnosed with obesity.
There are strategies that have been put in place to combat these illnesses by the public health. These include; environmental approaches aimed at supporting health behaviours and promote healthy living, establishment o...