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Globalization, Global Health, and Disaster [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2015 The importance of Globalization and its effect on global health often becomes highlighted during disasters, as in the case of a large scale earthquake or the emergence of a new infectious disease. If a disaster occurs in low and middle income countries, such countries often do not have the capacity to handle an immediate response in terms of rescue ...
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Emerging Global Health Crisis of Our Times- Climate Change [PDF]
, 2020 The progress of the human race over the last 200 years is unprecedented in recent history. Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and consumerism have made lives easier for humankind. Still, these changes come at a very high price.
Anwer, A. (Ammar)
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The President’s Global Health Initiative [PDF]
, 2010 The U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI) represents the Obama administration’s new strategy for international development assistance in health. With a pledge of $63 billion over six years, GHI aims to fund PEPFAR and a set of broader global health issues (
Gostin, Lawrence O., Mok, Emily A.
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Is global health really global? [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2013 This editorial is based on a keynote address given at the International Conference on Global Public Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka, in December 2012. It accompanies a set of papers which were also presented at the conference. So far, these papers describe a range of global health issues, from the health status of the United Arab Emirates through to social ...
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Global Public Goods and Global Health [PDF]
, 2012 The repair rate on electron beam welded diaphragm hasn’t been at the desired level at Siemens SIT for several years. An improvement program the past five years has reduce the repair rate from 60% to 12-15% but the goal of 5% repair rate hasn’t been met ...
Gartner, David
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The Next WHO Director-General’s Highest Priority: a Global Treaty on the Human Right to Health [PDF]
, 2016 Amidst the many challenges facing the next WHO Director-General, the new WHO head should find WHO’s foremost priority in its most important constitutional pillar: the right to health. The centerpiece of this endeavor should be leadership on the Framework
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013 Global health reflects the realities of globalization, including worldwide dissemination of infectious and noninfectious public health risks. Global health architecture is complex and better coordination is needed between multiple organizations. Three overlapping themes determine global health action and prioritization: development, security, and ...
Patricia M. Simone +3 more
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Global Health Solidarity [PDF]
Public Health Ethics, 2016 For much of the 20th century, vulnerability to deprivations of health has often been defined by geographical and economic factors. Those in wealthy, usually 'Northern' and 'Western', parts of the world have benefited from infrastructures, and accidents of geography and climate, which insulate them from many serious threats to health. Conversely, poorer
Peter G. N. West-Oram, Alena Buyx
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Global Health Security in an Era of Global Health Threats [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011 To the Editor: Global health security is the protection of the health of persons and societies worldwide. It includes access to medicines, vaccines, and health care, as well as reductions in collective vulnerabilities to global public health events that have the potential to spread across borders.
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Zika Virus and Global Health Security [PDF]
, 2016 Americans are largely apathetic about the risks of Zika virus and Congress cannot agree on preparedness funding. Strategies to counter the spread of Zika by the World Health Organisation (WHO) grossly underestimate the disease’s impact.
Gostin, Lawrence O. +1 more
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