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What are the three primary reasons we study global health?
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Moral concern, impacts everyone, and economic factors
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What does the Global Burden of Disease measure?
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Disease around the world
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What does the Global Burden of Disease do?
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Compares disease across countries and tries to find a solution
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Define the Social Justice Imperative
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Seeks to channel resources to the people that need them the most, recognizing that those dying prematurely from preventable disease in the largest numbers are the poorest people in the world
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What are three groups of people who have fewer rights than other groups of people?
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Women, refugees, and displaced people
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What is a communicable disease?
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An infectious disease that is spread from person to person or from an animal
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What is a noncommunicable disease?
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An infection that is not directly passed from another person
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What are the primary social causes of poor health?
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Poverty, war/conflict, poor political structure, and weather/climate change