Global Health Vocab
A severe influenza pandemic that infected one-third of the world's population (500 million) and killed 50 million people worldwide, lasting from 1918-1919.
What is the Spanish Flu?
Organization established in 1945, to succeed the League of Nations, aiming to maintain international peace and security after World War II.
What is the United Nations?
A treatment to increase immunity to a certain disease.
What is a Vaccination?
Conducting negotiations, building alliances, and managing relationships between sovereign states through peaceful means.
What is Diplomacy?
The buffer (safe) zone established along the border of North and South Korea after the war.
What is the DMZ? (Demilitarized Zone)
Global pandemic of bubonic plague that peaked in Europe between 1347 and 1351, killing an estimated 75–200 million people.
What is the Black Plague/ Black Death/ Bubonic Plague? (Any of these options will work)
A military alliance established in 1949 made up of 32 European and North American countries dedicated to mutual defense
What is NATO?
This is a disease that only affects a small, localized area
What is an Epidemic
Communist citizens in South Vietnam who fought against the South Vietnamese government and the US.
Who were the Viet Cong?
The latitude line chosen as the border between North and South Korea after WWII.
What is the 38th Parallel?
The relative frequency of deaths within a population (death rate).
What is Mortality?
Formal penalties or restrictive measures used as a primary tool of foreign policy
What are Sanctions?
This is a place in America where the water is too dirty to drink without getting people sick?
What is Flint, Michigan?
This global organization is most commonly involved in coordinating international responses to pandemics and health emergencies
What is the WHO? (World Health Organization)
Which organization or country has Ukraine been trying to join since 2015?
What is NATO?
The study of how diseases start, spread, and change.
What is Epidemiology?
The formal act of a country claiming and taking control of a territory that was previously part of another country
What is Annexation?
These diseases are non-infectious, chronic conditions arising from genetic, lifestyle, or environmental factors that cannot spread.
What are Noncommunicable Diseases?
The process of restoring broken relationships, friendship, or trust between individuals, groups, or nations after conflict.
What is Reconciliation?
These diseases are contagious illnesses spread between people or animals from bateria or viruses.
What are Communicable Diseases?
This term means; a large enough proportion of the population is immune, so disease spread is limited, protecting those who are not immune
What is Herd Immunity?
The belief that if one country in Southeast Asia fell to communism, surrounding countries would also fall.
What is the Domino Theory?
This is the country we learned about where the access to water is scarce.
What is Bolivia?
This is the economic ideology that caused the United States to intervene in both the Korean War and the Vietnam War
What is Communism?
This is the name of the reservation that the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)
What is Standing Rock?