Global Health
an area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide. Global health emphasizes transnational health issues, determinants and solutions involves many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences, and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration; and is a synthesis of population-based prevention with individual-level clinical care
Why Global Health:
understand the progress that has been made, the remaining challenges, significant health disparities among groups, diseases are not limited by national boundaries
Globalization
process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide
The process by which regions, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of ideas via communication, transportation and trade
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flow of pathogens, people, migrantsb get increased hewlth risks