HLTH-4780 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Global Health, Essential Medicines, Bioterrorism
Document Summary
Global health law is a field that encompasses the legal norms, processes, and institutions. 233-281: describe and discuss what global health law involves. needed to create the conditions for people throughout the world to attain the highest possible level of physical and mental health. Because global health serves their national interests, and helping the most disadvantaged is ethically the right thing to do the most disadvantaged is ethically the right thing to do. Global climate change creates fertile conditions for the propagation of disease vectors and. International commerce exposes consumers to the risks of contaminated food, drugs, and. Global marketing by tobacco companies and food industry conglomerates mold population. Bioterrorism is also an omnipresent threat, as individuals and groups intent on political. Governments have no choice but to pay close attention to health hazards beyond their. In regions with extremely poor health, economic decline is almost inevitable. Countries with extremely poor health become unreliable trading partners without the capacity.
