Poverty, Hunger, and Development
An approach that defines poverty as the inability to participate in defining aspects of society such as access to healthcare.
What is social exclusion?
The concept of meeting present demands for development without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
What is sustainable development?
When a person willfully decides to cross an international border often based on economics and opportunity.
What is voluntary migration?
The use of bacteria, bacterial toxins, or viruses to kill people.
What are biological weapons?
This organization is a United Nations specialized agency and is the principal institution of global health governance.
What is the World Health Organization?
Target-based, time-limited aims created by the UN such as reducing the number of people living on less than $1.90 a day.
What are Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
A idea that if there is a likelihood of environmental damage, banning an activity shouldn't require definitive scientific proof.
What is the precautionary principle?
A person who has crossed international borders to seek protection, but whose application for refugee status is still undecided.
What is an asylum seeker?
When a country has all the necessary infrastructure, material, and technical capabilities to create a nuclear weapon but hasn't done so.
What is latent nuclear capacity?
Official development assistance that funds global health initiatives.
What is development assistance for health (DAH)?
The idea that the cause of hunger is due to the inequalities that are a functional component of the capitalist socio-economic order.
What is the entitlement explanation of hunger?
The two traditional environmental concerns before globalization.
What is conservation of natural resources and damage caused by pollution?
Forced mobility as a result of land or territory becoming contested spaces causing people to be evicted and losing their property.
What is development-induced displacement?
The idea that having a single nuclear warhead is sufficient to deter attack or conflict.
What is existential deterrence?
The process by which a health issue traverses politics as normal to acquire security status.
What is securitization of health?
A belief developed in the 1980s that global welfare would be maximized through liberalization of trade, finance, and investment.
What is the Washington Consensus?
The 2015 international treaty that aims to limit global temperature increases to under 1.5˚C.
What is the Paris Agreement?
The country that currently has the highest number of internally displaced persons?
What is Sudan?
The increase in size of a country's nuclear arsenal by a country that is already in possession of nuclear weapons.
What is vertical proliferation?
The interconnected relationship between war and disease and the increase of world trade and economic globalization.
What are the reasons why health became a global issue?
The recent global crisis that increased the existing deep divide between rich and poor states.
What is the Covid-19 pandemic?
A 1997 international agreement involved the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by developed countries, facilitated by flexibility mechanisms including emissions trading.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
A European Union law that forces asylum seekers to request asylum in the first European country they arrive in.
What is the Dublin III Regulation?
A treaty signed by the US, UK, and Soviet Union that restricted them to underground nuclear tests instead of tests in the atmosphere, outer space, or underwater.
What is the Partial Test Ban Treaty?
The actors who will have greater power in international relations as a result of the medicalization of security.
What are scientists and pharmaceutical companies?