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Globalization and Global Health [PDF]
International Journal of Technoethics, 2015 Globalization shrinks the world. The world watches on television people dying of hunger or in extreme poverty conditions. Every year, 8 million children die before they reach the age of 5 from preventable diseases. “Exotic illnesses” cease to be so exotic, they can cross borders easily.
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Global standards for global health in a globalized economy! [PDF]
International Journal of Public Health, 2015 The global health community is dedicated to end unnecessary, preventable and treatable inequities in the global health status (Koplan et al. 2009). Its research community provides the scientific evidence needed for policy making toward this goal. An overwhelming global scientific literature leaves no doubts: anthropogenic air pollution is one of the ...
Künzli, N., Joss, M. K., Gintowt, E.
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Globalization and Global Innovations [PDF]
, 2011 One of the main phenomena to which societies are confronted and that has influenced all aspects of social life of people living in the earth is globalization. Globalization is a multifacet phenomenon which leads to disappearance of the borders between economic, social, cultural and political relations and shapes a modern relation and communication ...
Hassan Danaeefard, Tayebeh Abbasi
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Global Challenges: Global Health [PDF]
Global Challenges, 2015 [Image: see text]
John-Arne Røttingen, Steven J. Hoffman
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The Global in Global Health is Not a Given [PDF]
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017 The process of globalization is commonly espoused as a means for promoting global health. Efforts to “go global” can, however, easily go awry as a result of lack of attention to local social, economic, and political contexts and/or as a result of commercial and political imperatives that allow local populations to be exploited. Critical analysis of the
Ian Kerridge +4 more
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GLOBALIZATION PHENOMENON AND GLOBALISM
, 2023 This article describes the fact that in modern times the world has changed significantly as a result of the active integration of all aspects of the life of society that have occurred in the last hundred years and has become a holistic whole organism. As a consequence, it is stated that serious changes began to occur in the social consciousness of some
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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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Strategies to ensure the welfare of street children
Journal of Medical Sciences, 2015 Street children refer to a vulnerable section of children who lives on the street in the absence of any guidance of a responsible person, to ensure their own or their family′s survival.
Saurabh RamBihariLal Shrivastava +2 more
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Are we eating the world's megafauna to extinction?
Conservation Letters, 2019 Many of the world's vertebrates have experienced large population and geographic range declines due to anthropogenic threats that put them at risk of extinction. The largest vertebrates, defined as megafauna, are especially vulnerable.
William J. Ripple +9 more
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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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