Business: Healthcare Administration: Globalization: Health Issues

From Globalization: Encyclopedia of Trade, Labor, and Politics
Health-care issues are inherently global issues. Disease and pollution are not contained by national borders, and knowledge gained about healthy living in one locale may be shared and at least partly applicable in another. The hallmarks of globalization—the movement of peoples, goods, information, and ideologies—all inform and are in turn informed by notions of public health.

Process of conferring immunity to infectious disease by artificial methods, in other words making someone not liable to catch a disease. The most widely used technique is vaccination (see vaccine). Immunization is an important public health measure.

From Globalization: Encyclopedia of Trade, Labor, and Politics
WHO conducts various types of activities that aim at the “attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health” (Article 1, WHO Constitution), where “health” is defined as “not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” but “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being” (Preamble).

Most serious of all the sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). It is caused by the retrovirus human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and is transmitted in body fluids, such as blood, saliva, semen, and vaginal secretions.

Clitoridectomy especially as a cultural rite sometimes with removal of the labia that is now outlawed in many nations including the U.S.

Process of conferring immunity to infectious disease by artificial methods, in other words making someone not liable to catch a disease. The most widely used technique is vaccination (see vaccine). Immunization is an important public health measure.

Infectious parasitic disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes, marked by periodic fever and an enlarged spleen.

Condition resulting from a defective diet where certain important food nutrients (such as proteins, vitamins, or carbohydrates) are absent.

Contagious, wasting disease caused by any of several mycobacteria.

Because women are physically weaker than men and because the majority of women around the world live in societies where power resides in the hands of men, females of all ages remain vulnerable to violence.