Global Health Terminology
Any attribute, characteristic or exposure of an individual that increases the likelihood of developing a disease or injury
What is a risk factor?
This Seattle Based ex-couple started one of the world’s largest private aid organizations.
Who are Bill and Melinda Gates?
An infectious bacteria disease characterized by the growth of nodules (tubercles) in the tissues, especially the lungs.
What is tuberculosis?
An infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020.
What is COVID-19?
This is the full name of GlobeMed Middlebury's current partnership organization.
What is Conservation Heritage-Turambe?
Conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.
What is a social determinant of health?
An international organization whose mission is "to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair." Founded by Paul Farmer in 1987.
What is Partners in Health?
A virus that attacks the body's immune system. If not treated, it can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
What is HIV?
The acronym for the United Nations Children's Fund.
UNICEF
This is the website URL in which you can access information about our partner, CHT.
What is www.forgorillas.org?
Refers to having a disease or a symptom of disease, or to the amount of disease within a population. Commonly confused with mortality.
What is morbidity?
An international humanitarian group dedicated to providing medical care to people in distress, including victims of political violence and natural disasters. The populations the group assists typically lack access to or adequate resources for medical treatment. The group was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize for Peace.
What is Doctors Without Borders?
A parasitic disease spread through the bite of a female anopheles mosquito.
The United States Government agency for international development.
What is USAID?
The Program Director for our partner organization, CHT.
Who is Valerie Akuredusenge?
A term referred to a disease that is “natural to, prevalent within, and confined to a particular area.” We hope COVID-19 will reach this stage soon.
What is endemic?
Established in the United Kingdom in 1919, this organization works to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts. Middlebury alumn, Charles MacCormack, was president of this organization from 1993 through 2011.
What is Save the Children?
A highly contagious, viral disease that causes fever and red rashes on the skin. Declared eliminated from the United States in 2000 by the WHO.
What is measles?
This institution, with its headquarters in Geneva, is the United Nations’ specialized agency for addressing world health issues.
What is the WHO (World Health Organization)?
The district in which our partner, CHT, operates. This is one of Rwanda's most mountainous districts. It is divided into 15 sectors, and its capital city is Ruhengeri.
What is the Musanze District?
A set of broad-based development goals and accompanying targets that the global community established in 2015.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
The largest humanitarian network in the world with a presence and activities in almost every country. Its mission is to "help those who suffer, without discrimination, whether during conflict, in response to natural or man-made disasters, or due to conditions of chronic poverty."
What is the international Red Cross network?
A disabling and life-threatening disease spread from person to person, infecting an individual's spinal cord, and causing paralysis.
What is polio?
The difference between the age at which one died and the highest life expectancy known for people that age.
What is YLL (Years of Life Lost)?
CHT's mission is to educate and support the local communities living near this particular Rwandan park. CHT works to ensure that people in this specific area live in harmony with mountain gorillas, and their habitat.
What is Volcanoes National Park?