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Demographic and epidemiologic transitions
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Progressive improvement in health from a global perspective.
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Determinants of health:
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Factors that affect outcomes of health status, such as physical environment, social environment, health behaviors, and individual health, as well as broader factors such as access to health services and overall health policies and interventions.
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Global burden of disease:
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The importance of risks to health and their outcomes in different demographic populations and social settings.
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Global health:
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An area for study, research, or practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity for all people worldwide. Global health emphasizes transnational health issues, determinants, and solutions, involves many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences, and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, and is a synthesis of population-based prevention with individual-level clinic care"
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Health indicators:
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Descriptors of the general health of a nation that are grouped into four categories: morbidity and mortality, risk factors, health service coverage, and health system resources.
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Risk factors:
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Personal habits and behaviors, social, and environmental conditions, or inborn or inherited characteristics that are known to affect a health-related condition which could be alleviated or managed.
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Public health:
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Ensuring that every person in the community has a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health. This involves the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts.
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Global health encompasses
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the behavioral and environmental risk factors of a community, which are influenced by politics, economics, and culture.
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Monitoring health indicators and ensuring the inclusion of vulnerable and invisible populations
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will improve packaged interventions to affect health outcomes.
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Global burden of disease is a term that
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reflects the health of a nation and the level of opportunity to improve health
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The Sustainable Development Goals
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framework for achieving improved global health and outcomes. Nurses should participate in both policy and leadership working toward meeting the SDGs.
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The road map to achieving health relies
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on the participation of all individuals and nations to address the basic needs of clean drinking water, sanitation, and alleviating poverty.
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Education is the key to
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improving the community environment, which, in turn, will improve health.
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Health worker migration increases
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burden of care for a society and results in the need to shift tasks primarily to nurses and community health workers.