Just as Garrett predicted the outbreak and resurgence of several communicable diseases, including the Ebola virus, in her New York Times bestseller The Coming Plague , she once again uses her reporting skills, traveling around the world, to expose risks in world globalization and the dire state of many health systems. A dynamic speaker with a captivating and informative multi-media presentation, Garrett forces her audiences to rethink our public health system with a frank sense of urgency. Visit Garrett's website . Public health systems are among the first government functions to suffer under societal stress. Examples given supporting this assertion are contemporary India, all the former Soviet nations, and central Africa, all based on first hand observation.
Wealth gap exacerbates public health stress.
Public health systems are the first government functions to suffer under a severe wealth gap. Today, however, globally and in the United States specifically, we are witnessing a record wealth gap, which poses a serious threat to public health. Public health versus over-used individualized medicine approaches to populations Western models of individualized medicine are too costly and offer little benefit in terms of life expectancy. They fail to address the fundamental roots of bad health in poor countries such as un-clean water, lack of vaccines, etc. Growing antibiotic-resistant diseases need desperately to be addressed and will pose a serious health problem in the future.