The general level of health among individuals is expected to decline in the future compared to current standards. In this essay, we will discuss how the overall quality of people’s health is going to increase in the coming years due to advancements in medical technology, artificial intelligence, and wearable devices.
Advancements in medical technology and artificial intelligence are likely to significantly improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illnesses because they bring with them more sophisticated machines and algorithms that can help doctors spot signs of disease in their early stages or even before they appear. For example, artificial intelligence is now being used to help doctors predict cancer by finding suspicious patterns in the corporal scans or medical history of the patients. This is possible because machines can be trained on a large corpus of data that will take doctors years to learn.
Wearable devices are another area that is becoming more and more popular when talking about health and well-being. Devices like smartwatches can improve the overall quality of health in individuals by keeping track of sleep hours, heart rate, and calories consumed, number of steps, among others. Nowadays, people are more aware and interested in improving their health, influencers, celebrities, brands, and ads are playing an important role in promoting good habits. Allowing the users to manage this data daily, creates a need on the individual to pick more healthy habits because what gets measured, gets improved and also because humans tend to copy their role models.
In conclusion with the increasing accessibility of top-notch and advanced technologies such as wearable devices and artificial intelligence to the general public, the overall well-being of society is likely to improve because these technologies allow diseases to be treated in the early stages increasing the success rate, design specific treatments plans suited to the individual and keeping track of their state of health daily.