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Jun 3, 2021 · Introduction. Debate around a common definition of global health (GH) has seen extensive scholarly interest within the last two decades. In 2009, a widely circulated paper by Koplan and colleagues aimed to establish ‘a common definition of global health’ as distinct from its derivations in public health (PH) and international health (IH). 1 They rooted the definition of PH in the mid-19th ...
Health crisis. A health crisis is an emergency situation or complex health system that affects the public in one or more geographic areas from a particular locality to encompass the entire planet. Health crises generally have significant impacts on community health, loss of life, and on the economy. They may result from disease, industrial ...
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Acute health emergencies affect millions of people around the world each year. As the climate crisis accelerates, the risks of emerging infectious diseases, extreme weather events and large-scale migration of populations will increase, potentially devastating weak health systems. The rapid detection, verification, assessment and communication ...
May 18, 2021 · Abstract. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the second pandemic of the twenty-first century, with over one-hundred million infections and over two million deaths to date. It is a novel strain from the Coronaviridae family, named Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2); the 7th known member of the coronavirus ...
- Saad I. Mallah, Omar K. Ghorab, Sabrina Al-Salmi, Omar S. Abdellatif, Tharmegan Tharmaratnam, Tharme...
- 10.1186/s12941-021-00438-7
- 2021
- Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob. 2021; 20: 35.
Dec 15, 2022 · The world has lived through an extraordinary global health threat, the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to nearly 20 million deaths, staggering economic losses, a generational decline in human capital, and the first decline in global life expectancy since 1950 (the first year when UN estimates were published).1–4 Another major threat, climate change, now has broad scientific, political, and social ...
Apr 7, 2020 · The call for “Working Together to Build a Community of Shared Future for Mankind” requires us to improve people’s health across the globe, while global health development entails a satisfactory answer to a fundamental question: “What is global health?” To promote research, teaching, policymaking, and practice in global health, we summarize the main points on the definition of global ...
As of 31 December 2020, COVID-19 had infected over 82 million people and killed more than 1.8 million worldwide. But preliminary estimates suggest the total number of global “excess deaths” directly and indirectly attributable to COVID-19 in 2020 amount to at least 3 million, 1.2 million higher than the official figures reported by ...
