HSS 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sustainable Development Goals, World Health Organization, Neglected Tropical Diseases
22 Nov 2018
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The constitution of the world health organization (who) defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity . A diversity of medical, behavioural, social, economic, environmental, and other interventions can help people make. Want to live longer but also have the quality of the life be good. Say not to live till 100 and be sick every other week. It would be better to live till 75 and be sick only once in a while progress towards . Graph b: the first period of the baby"s life, their always sick. It could be malnutrition, malaria, std"s, etc. and eventually die because they can"t take it anymore: prof believes that even if life is short, the quality of that life should be good. Global health refers to the collaborative actions taken to identify and address transnational concerns about the exposures and disease that adversely affect human populations.
