How the Condition of Society Against Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis, a name that gives the condition related to “porous bone“, is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as decreased bone mineral density, making its fragility and inadequate mechanical support function. This disease is a serious public health problem, affecting one in three women and one in eight men after age 50.
Unlike other ailments “silent”, this results in high costs to the health sector since, according to data from the National Center for Gender Equity and Reproductive Health, in a year is $ 730 million required to meet the 36 thousand 500 fractures femur that occur as a result, coupled with a cost of 15 thousand dollars on average that are intended to restore the bones of each person.
Clearly, osteoporosis is a debilitating disease that causes high costs to the Health sector in Mexico and all caused by a lack of knowledge. Although, knowing her condition is the main tool that is who have osteoporosis, since according to the Ministry of Health, eight out of ten women who have the disease do not know.
The high rates recorded worldwide in the last ten years produced a huge concern, which led to the development of research to include alternative treatments and to incorporate preventive programs, whose purpose is “to raise awareness about precautions and risks.
In Mexico, 5.4 million women suffer from osteoporosis diagnosed, according to the Ministry of Health and INEGI, however the number may be much higher since it is known that osteoporosis is underdiagnosed in all countries of the world, so that awareness about the disease and the better availability of diagnostic methods for the next five years that number will increase so signicant (over one million 200 thousand new cases at least.