Health in the United States

Health in the United States may refer to:

• Health care in the United States
• Health insurance in the United States, and its coverage
  • Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, Indian Health Service, Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
• Medical centers in the United States
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• National Institutes of Health
• Osteopathic medicine in the United States
• Medical education in the United States
• Public health emergency (United States)
• Ayurveda in America

Infectious disease

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) remain a major public health challenge in the United States. CDC estimates that there are approximately 19 million new STD infections yearly. The two most commonly reported infectious diseases with 1.5 million total cases (2009) are chlamydia and gonorrhea. Adolescent girls (15–19 years of age) and young women (20–24 years of age) are especially affected by these two diseases.^[1]

Chlamydia

Chlamydia remains the most commonly reported infectious disease in the United States. There were more than 1.2 million cases of chlamydia (1,244,180) reported to CDC in 2009, the largest number of cases ever reported to CDC for any condition.^[1]

Gonorrhea

There were 301,174 reported cases of gonorrhea in 2009 (10 percent less than in 2008)— making gonorrhea the second most commonly reported infectious disease in the U.S. In 2009, the gonorrhea rate for women was slightly higher than for men.^[1]

Syphilis

In 2009, there were 13,997 reported cases of primary and secondary syphilis — the most infectious stages of the disease — the highest number of cases since 1995 and an increase over 2007 (11,466 cases).^[1]

Specific outbreaks, plaques, and epidemics in the United States

• Foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States

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