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Global Health
Global Health
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For the United States, distinctions between domestic and international health problems are losing their usefillness and cart be mislead85
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Of cntical importance, the United States interventions to diagnose and treat should lead Tom its strengths in medidisease, as well as for access to cat science and technology. The report effective ways to prevent disease calls on the federal government to esand promote good health.
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The spread of HIV, the emergence The result is a humamtanan crisis of new diseases, and the resurwith broad social arid economic An- gence of diseases once thought to plications. Emerging Infections: Mi- be under control are together crobial Threats to Health in the causing almost half ofall deaths United States (1992)
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medical care communities in detecting arid managing infectious disease outbreaks and monitoring the prevalence of endemic diseases. The report promotes early prevention as a cost-effective and crucial strategy for maintaining public health in the United States arid worldwide, arid it presents an action plan for enhancing surveillance systems, fostering vaccine and drug development, improving methods for controlling the organisms that spread disease, promoting public education aimed at behavioral change, expanding research alla training, and strengthening the U.S.
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As a blueprint for eliminating TB in the United States, the report details a number of intertwined steps that involve all levels of government, international agencies, as well as the private sector. Underlying these steps, there must be a concerted effort to build and sustain the public and political support necessary to ensure that sufficient resources are made available for what must be a long-lasting effort.
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HEALTH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have reached epidemic proportions in developing countries.
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a tion of Micronutrient Deficiencies: variety of profound effects, Tools for Policymakers and Public including premature death, blindHealth Workers (1998) provides a con- ness, stunted growth, mental retardation, learning disabilities, public health workers to improve pre- generally poor health, and low vention programs globally.
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The report highlights strategies and interventions to be considered by local, national, and international policymakers In bringing these successes to more arid more people in the developing world. INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE The United States has close ties with six island junsdictions in the Pacific Basm, and the health and well-being of their citizens is of considerable Amencan interest.
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Global Health weaknesses of the reglows health-related systems and details a strateg~c plan for improving the islanders' health. The plan has four components: adopting and supporting a system of community-based primary care and preventive services, improving coordination within and between the jurisdictions and the United States, increasing community involvement and investment in health care, and promoting the education and training of the local health care workforces.
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