NURSING 4H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Millennium Development Goals, International Health, 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake And Tsunami
21 Feb 2017
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Unit 1: introduction to the study of global health. Developing countries: set of low and middle income countries; doesn"t imply that they are actually in the process of developing. Brics countries: brazil, russia, india, china, south africa. The g20: canada, us, mexico, brazil, argentina, germany, britain, france, italy, turkey, saudi arabia, south. Africa, russia, india, china, japan, south korea, indonesia, australia, eu (netherlands and spain are invited: the world"s leading industrialized and emerging economies, make up 85% of the gross world product, and 2/3rds of its population. International health: the study of the health (diseases and their causes) of populations living in low-income countries. New millennium has brought a renaissance in aid (debt relief initiative, the millennium development. Goals, several successful disease eradication efforts, and serious attempts to improve the quantity and effectiveness of foreign aid) Growing popular interest in international health issues (g8 summit, developing world debt)
