Prostate Cancer:A Public Health Problem

Neurocysticercosis a public health problem

Neurocysticercosis is a parasitic disease of the central nervous system that constitutes a public health problem in endemic regions. Here, we present a patient with epilepsy and cognitive impairment due to neurocysticercosis. A public health intervention could eradicate this disease in endemic regions such as Ecuador.

Hypertension – a Public Health Problem

Hypertension, considered a “silent murder”, is the largest social problem in developed countries and in a large number of developing countries. Despite of known efficacy and affectivity of various preventive and control measures, including the pharmacological ones, hypertension will continue, for decades, representing one of the largest health challenges and high cost disease for individuals an...

Composting: A Public Health Problem

Eliminating onchocerciasis as a public health problem.

Onchocerciasis as a disease of public health significance, which affects people of 35 countries in Africa, America and the Arabian Peninsula (Figures 1 and 2) did not receive much attention until after World War II. By then the blindness produced by onchocerciasis had been fairly well described in studies from west and central Africa, and the transmission of Onchocerca volvulus by Simulium flie...

Violence: news on a public health problem.