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    Public health aims to promote health and prevent disease through organized community efforts. The leading health indicators include physical activity, tobacco use, substance abuse, sexual behavior, mental health, injury rates, immunization levels, and access to healthcare. Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disorder that destroys memory and thinking skills. The most common early symptom is difficulty remembering recent events or conversations. While the causes are not fully understood, age is the greatest risk factor and lifestyle modifications may help reduce risk. A 2020 report estimated over 5 million Indians over age 60 had dementia.

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    Public health aims to promote health and prevent disease through organized community efforts. The leading health indicators include physical activity, tobacco use, substance abuse, sexual behavior, mental health, injury rates, immunization levels, and access to healthcare. Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disorder that destroys memory and thinking skills. The most common early symptom is difficulty remembering recent events or conversations. While the causes are not fully understood, age is the greatest risk factor and lifestyle modifications may help reduce risk. A 2020 report estimated over 5 million Indians over age 60 had dementia.

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    Public health aims to promote health and prevent disease through organized community efforts. The leading health indicators include physical activity, tobacco use, substance abuse, sexual behavior, mental health, injury rates, immunization levels, and access to healthcare. Alzheimer's disease is a progressive brain disorder that destroys memory and thinking skills. The most common early symptom is difficulty remembering recent events or conversations. While the causes are not fully understood, age is the greatest risk factor and lifestyle modifications may help reduce risk. A 2020 report estimated over 5 million Indians over age 60 had dementia.

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    PUBLIC HEALTH

    What is public health?

    Public health promotes and protects the health of


    people and the communities where they live,
    learn, work and play.
    BY WHO: Public Health is defined as “the art and
    science of preventing disease, prolonging life and
    promoting health through the organized efforts of
    society”
    What Are the Leading Health Indicators? 

     Physical Activity
     Overweight or underweight
     Tobacco Use Substance
     Abuse Responsible
     Sexual Behavior
     Mental Health Injury and
     Environmental Violence
     Quality Immunization
     Access to Health Care
    Alzheimer’s disease
    What is Alzheimer’s disease?
    Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder that slowly destroys
    memory and thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to
    carry out the simplest tasks. The disease is named after Dr.
    Alois Alzheimer.  most people with the disease — those
    with the late-onset type symptoms first appear in their
    mid-60s. Early-onset Alzheimer’s occurs between a person’s
    30s and mid-60s and is very rare. Alzheimer’s disease is the
    most common cause of dementia among older adults.
    (Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning — thinking, remembering, and
    reasoning — to such an extent that it interferes with a person's daily life and
    activities.)
    Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease:
    • Memory loss
    • Poor judgment leading to bad decisions
    • Taking longer to complete normal daily tasks
    • Repeating questions
    • Inability to communicate
    • Weight loss
    • Loss of bowel and bladder control
    • Inability to learn new things
    • Difficulty with language and problems with reading, writing, and working
    with numbers
    • Difficulty organizing thoughts and thinking logically
    • Shortened attention span
    • A common cause of death for people with Alzheimer’s disease is
    aspiration pneumonia. This type of pneumonia develops when a
    person cannot swallow properly and takes food or liquids into the
    lungs instead of air.
    Causes of Alzheimer’s disease :
    • The exact causes of Alzheimer's disease aren't fully understood. But at
    a basic level, brain proteins fail to function normally, which disrupts
    the work of brain cells (neurons) and triggers a series of toxic events.
    Neurons are damaged, lose connections to each other and eventually
    die.
    • Scientists believe that for most people, Alzheimer's disease is caused
    by a combination of genetic, lifestyle and environmental factors that
    affect the brain over time.
    • Less than 1% of the time, Alzheimer's is caused by specific genetic
    changes that virtually guarantee a person will develop the disease.
    These rare occurrences usually result in disease onset in middle age.
    • The damage most often starts in the region of the brain that controls
    memory, but the process begins years before the first symptoms. The
    loss of neurons spreads in a somewhat predictable pattern to other
    regions of the brains. By the late stage of the disease, the brain has
    Prevention :

    • Alzheimer's disease is not a preventable


    condition. However, a number of lifestyle risk
    factors for Alzheimer's can be modified.
    Evidence suggests that changes in diet,
    exercise and habits  steps to reduce the risk of
    cardiovascular disease — may also lower your
    risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and
    other disorders that cause dementia.
    2020 REPORT BY ARDSI :
    According to Alzheimer's & Related Disorders
    Society of India (ARDSI) It is estimated
    that 5.3 million people above the age of 60
    have dementia in India in 2020.

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