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By
Crystal Westmoreland
Jennifer Whisenhunt
Robyn Baldridge
* Define Global Health
* Identify four diseases related to Global Health
concerns
* Discuss Global Health Goliaths
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* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpygXxaSh
uU&feature=related
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* Global Health is defined as “those health issues
that transcend national boundaries and
governments and call for actions on the global
forces that determine the health of people”
(Beaglehole, 2010, p. 1)
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* HIV/AIDS
* Influenza
* Malaria
* Tuberculosis
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Human Services, n.d.)
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* Gross Malnutrition
* Lack of clean drinking water
* Oversight of treatable infectious
* Hygiene and sanitation
* Basic medical care deficiencies
* Access to immunizations
* Little use of epidemiology and
* Antibiotic resistance
* Lack of emergency services
* Traditions that impede
diseases
disease monitoring methods
shortcomings
* Extreme poverty and lack of
population control
healthcare delivery
* Health education
insufficiencies
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* Beaglehole, R., & Bonita, R. (2010). What is
global health?. Global Health Action, 31-2.
doi:10.3402/gha.v3i0.5142
* United States Department of Health and
Human Services. (n.d.) Global health topics.
Communicable diseases. Retrieved from
http://www.globalhealth.gov/global-healthtopics/communicable-diseases/index.html
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