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Globalization and Health - WHO
www.who.intmilestones in studying the relation between globalization and SDH over the period 1987-2005, and then show that because globalization comprises multiple, interacting policy ... is the promotion of health equity, which is defined in the literature as “the absence of disparities in health (and in its key social determinants) that are systematically
Health and Globalization
www.globalization101.orgMongol horsemen carrying infected fleas brought bubonic plague from northern Burma to Eastern Europe, and then rats helped carry the disease throughout the ... U.S. policy makers require adequate and timely information about the occurrence of infectious disease worldwide. The threat of political instability—which can be defined as war, ethnic ...
Health and Globalization
www.globalization101.orgNile fever, human monkeypox, dengue, tuberculosis, and malaria are reemerging as well.5 Other well-known, historic infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, are also unfortunately making a comeback; in the United Kingdom, which had almost completely eradicated tuberculosis from the British Isles by 1953, about 9,000 new cases of the disease are