Key Terms
What is, "social determinants of health"?
An assessment that determines whether a community or population's size is increasing or decreasing. This includes births, deaths, and migrations.
What is "demographic transitions"?
An agency developed by the United Nations whose self-claimed goal is to allow all peoples to obtain the highest level of health possible.
What is, "World Health Organization"?
A virus that was first discovered in 1976 near the African Ebola River, with several outbreaks since in the African region. However, in 2014-2016, it crossed international borders.
What is, "Ebola disease virus"?
This refers to the state of health around the world in every country, culture, and people group.
What is "Global Health"
When social determinants of health are reviewed to track what patterns exists and how these affect health outcomes.
What is, "Patterns of Care"?
An American agency that handles public health emergencies through federal resources.
What is, "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,"?
An infectious disease caused by the bacterium, "tubercle bacillus." Originally termed, "consumption," this disease is estimated to have infected a quarter of the Earth's total population.
What is, "tuberculosis"?
An initiative developed by the WHO after World War II that was defined as “essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford to maintain… spirit (underscoring) self-reliance and self-determination”
What is, "primary health care"?
An organization developed in 2014 by America that has since accrued 67 other members, all with the goal to prevent infectious disease from affecting society.
What is, "Global Health Security Agenda"?
A disease that is spread by mosquitoes who carry the Plasmodium falciparum or Plasmodium vivax parasite. There is very little efficacy with vaccine development for this disease.
What is, "Malaria"?
A collection of studies that evaluate how health disparities within a given population or community affects society.
What is "Global Burden of Disease"?
The health outcomes of a population or community over time. This includes 3 categories: era of infectious disease, era of chronic, long-term health conditions, and era of social health conditions.
What is, "epidemiological transitions"?