Transforming Human Health: Celebrating 50 Years of Discovery and Progress (2022)
Chapter: GLOBAL HEALTH
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GLOBAL HEALTH
“The pandemic brings new awareness of the social and economic risks that arise from inadequate social protection systems, unequal access to health care, and other public services and high levels of inequality, including gender, race inequality, and all the other forms we witness in the world. It can therefore open the door to the transformational changes needed to build a New Social Contract ... fit for the challenges of the 21st century.”
—António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
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U.S. Leadership in Global Health
A Global Nonprofit Health Organization for Primary Care Health Technologies
Programs to Provide HIV/AIDS Relief
Eradication of Viral Scourges
Drawing on Traditional Medicine
Founding of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Envisioning a World Without Malaria
Using Metrics to Understand Global Health
Recommendations for Improved Global Health
Combating Infectious Disease Threats
Global Development
Identification of Essential Medicines
The Importance of Primary Health Care
Defining Sustainable Development
A New Emphasis on Maternal Mortality
Toward the Global Elimination of Tuberculosis
Committing to the Millennium Development Goals
Formation of the Center for Global Development
The Burden of Surgical Disease
Adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals
Documenting Today’s Most Pressing Global Health Issues
Health Security and Disease Surveillance
Quantifying the Health Effects of Disease and Injury
Sounding the Alarm on Infectious Disease Threats
Coordinating Responses to Global Outbreaks
Efforts to Stem Antimicrobial Resistance
Outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Working Together for Global Health Security
Zika Virus and Birth Defects
Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic
Human Rights
Resettling Refugees
World Conference on Human Rights
The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health
The Responsibility to Protect
Improving the Lives of People with Disabilities
Solidifying Indigenous Rights
Government Accountability for Human Rights
The Fight for Education
Climate Change and Human Rights
