Global Health
This organization, founded in 1948, directs and coordinates international health within the United Nations system.
What is the World Health Organization?
This nonprofit organization works with low-income communities in Latin America and Africa to provide medicine, education, and community development.
What is MEDLIFE?
This term refers to the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.
What are social determinants of health?
This ethical principle requires healthcare providers to respect a patient’s right to make their own decisions.
What is autonomy?
This is the most abundant element in the human body by mass.
What is oxygen?
This global pandemic, declared in March 2020, was caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2.
What is COVID-19?
MEDLIFE stands for Medicine, Education, and this final word meaning improvement of living conditions.
What is Development?
Access to this basic necessity significantly reduces waterborne diseases.
What is clean water?
Providing care that respects patients’ cultural beliefs and practices is known as this type of competence.
What is cultural competence?
This continent has the youngest median age in the world.
What is Africa?
This measure, often abbreviated as “LE,” refers to the average number of years a person is expected to live.
What is life expectancy?
These trips organized by MEDLIFE allow students to provide mobile clinics and infrastructure support abroad.
What are Service Learning Trips (or Mobile Clinics)?
This factor, often linked to income and job opportunities, strongly predicts health outcomes.
What is education?
This ethical principle means “do no harm.”
What is nonmaleficence?
This vitamin, produced when skin is exposed to sunlight, helps regulate calcium.
What is Vitamin D?
Diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis are commonly grouped under this category of illnesses that spread from person to person.
What are communicable diseases?
A key focus of MEDLIFE projects includes building staircases, water systems, and this basic sanitation structure.
What are bathrooms (or latrines)?
Living in areas with high pollution can negatively affect this body system, especially causing asthma.
What is the respiratory system?
In global health work, this practice ensures communities are partners rather than passive recipients of aid.
What is community engagement?
This country is home to the Amazon Rainforest, the largest tropical rainforest in the world.
What is Brazil?
This international declaration, adopted in 1978 in present-day Almaty, emphasized “Health for All” and established primary health care as the key to achieving global health equity.
What is the World Health Organization’s Alma-Ata Declaration?
Beyond mobile clinics, this core MEDLIFE initiative focuses on long-term solutions like building staircases, water systems, and community centers to address systemic poverty.
What are MEDLIFE’s Development Projects?
According to the World Health Organization, these non-medical factors—including housing, education, income, and access to clean water—are responsible for much of health inequity worldwide.
What are social determinants of health?
This four-principle framework in biomedical ethics—autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice—was popularized by Tom Beauchamp and James Childress.
What is principlism?
This country is home to the Galápagos Islands, which helped inspire Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection.
What is Ecuador?