Global health, analysis and perspectives

Abstract

People have so many reasons to expect a better health in future. There are advances, never seen before on applied techniques to the health field. They are solid stones to very important progress in health. Whatever, it could be many challenges to face. The quality of life is so important like adjusted life years and we have to watch changes in the future years. The life expectancy will be at least 75 years; the violence to children and harassment will be increasing; the protection ageist infectious disease will be strengthening with vaccines. The health will be affected by feeding habits and risk sexual practices. The consumption of drugs and alcohol will be a social problem. The labor risk and traumatism will representing important causes to disability and death. The populations older than 65 years will face better behavior of life but the challenge will be the prevention of the disease and disability will be a priority. A special attention is the health of women, whom suffer discrimination, if the expectancy of life is under equality, it must be with a public health politic that assurance a quality of life in the elder women too.