The centers for Disease Control and prevention in atlanta, georgia, thency responsible for monitoring the Health Status of the american people. Stephen ostroff cdc functions as the doctor for the community or for the public at large, and so we monitor Health Status in a much broader sense. Our job is to watch the health of the american public, and when we see disturbances in the health of the american public, when we see diseases, our job is to try to figure out why they occur and how to both control them but more importantly, to prevent them. People often ask why this large Public Agency is located in atlanta instead of the nations capital. We are the only major Government Agency that is not headquartered in washington, dc, and both the fact that were not in washington as well as the date that we were established, tells you something about our history. In 1946, troops were returning home from europe and the pacific after world war ii. The joy of their return was tempered by Public Hea
Narrator the use of illicit drugs is increasing in many parts of the world, especially in urban areas. And arising from this increase are a host of social and health relatedroblems connected with drug abuse. One is, of course, the risk associated with the abuse aspect, especially of injecting drugs and risk of infection; the criminality which is associated, and the violence which is associated with e of drugs; and then, of course the Mental Illness that appears to result also from prolonged drug use or even sometimes shortterm drug use. The populations that are most affected are poor populations and nority populations. Narrator the specter of poverty hovers in the background of the drug world, but it is far from its only setting. Drug use is as familiar to suburbia and the corridors of big business as it is on threets. The reality is drug addiction infiltrates all segments of humanity. The main common feature that we see across different types of addiction is really a commonality in ch
Of the american people. Stephen ostroff cdc functions as the doctor for the community or for the public at large, and so we monitor Health Status in a much broader sense. Our job is to watch the health of the american public, and when we see disturbances in the health of the american public, when we see diseases, our job is to try to figure out why they occur and how to both control them but more importantly, to prevent them. People often ask why this large Public Agency is located in atlanta instead of the nations capital. We are the only major Government Agency that is not headquartered in washington, dc, and both the fact that were not in washington as well as the date that we were established, tells you something about our history. In 1946, troops were returning home from europe and the pacific after world war ii. The joy of their return was tempered by Public Health concerns about what might be arriving with them. Would their homecoming also reintroduce diseases that had been eras
Oh, goody. One, two, three, four, five, six. Aging is the pattern of life changes that occur naturally as people grow older. Contrary to popular belief, aging does not begin the moment you find your first gray hair, nor does it begin at 65. Some changes begin at birth and continue until death, others begin at maturity, and end at death. The physiological changes that come with aging are a natural phenomenon and unavoidable. Unfortunately. Human bodies are a bit like american cars, they have planned obsolescence. Our genetic blueprint makes sure that we grow old enough to have children, but once thats been done, theres relatively little selection. And so as we grow older, our parts begin to wear out. In essence, we begin to rust. Narrator during youth, when lung capacity is the greatest, muscles the firmest, motor skills quickest, endurance at its peak, the body enjoys its finest years. But after the age of about 30, the body begins an inexorable decline. Although it will still be decad
Oh, goody. One, two, three, four, five, six. Aging is the pattern of life changes that occur naturally as people grow older. Contrary to popular belief, aging does not begin the moment you find your first gray hair, nor does it begin at 65. Some changes begin at birth and continue until death, others begin at maturity, and end at death. The physiological changes that come with aging are a natural phenomenon and unavoidable. Unfortunately. Human bodies are a bit like american cars, they have planned obsolescence. Our genetic blueprint makes sure that we grow old enough to have children, but once thats been done, theres relatively little selection. And so as we grow older, our parts begin to wear out. In essence, we begin to rust. Narrator during youth, when lung capacity is the greatest, muscles the firmest, motor skills quickest, endurance at its peak, the body enjoys its finest years. But after the age of about 30, the body begins an inexorable decline. Although it will still be decad