HIST 249 Chapter Reading - course pack: HIST 249 Chapter Reading: HIST 249 Chapter : Theodore Brown Reading
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International health: focus on the control of epidemics across the boundaries between nations. Intergovernmental: relationships between governments of sovereign states with regard to the policies and practices of public health. Global health: consideration of the health needs of people of the whole planet above the concerns of a particular nation. Global: associated with the growing importance of actors beyond their governmental or intergovernmental organizations and agencies. This could be the media, international foundations, non-governmental organizations. International, intergovernmental and global do not have to be mutually exclusive, instead they can be complementary. The who is an intergovernmental agency that exercises international functions and wants to improve global health. The global malaria eradication program was launched by who in the mid-1950s. Globalization of public health: new paradigm of globalization as the process of increasing economic, political and social interdependence as integration as capital goods, persons, concepts, images and ideas and values that cross state boundaries.
