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Concepts and Organizations

Public Health
From Global Social Issues: An Encyclopedia
Public health is a wide-ranging field of health care that involves numerous policies, medical specialties, and efforts, all aimed at understanding, preventing, and managing disease and promoting better health outcomes among individuals, communities, population cohorts, nations, global regions, and the entire world.
Immunization: Topic Page
Process of conferring immunity to infectious disease by artificial methods, in other words making someone not liable to catch a disease. The most widely used technique is vaccination (see vaccine). Immunization is an important public health measure.
World Health Organization
From Worldmark Global Health and Medicine Issues
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the agency of the United Nations (UN) that is responsible for public health. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the WHO has offices around the world and employs over 8,000 people in total, including medical doctors, epidemiologists, and public health experts.

AIDS: Topic Page
Most serious of all the sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). It is caused by the retrovirus human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and is transmitted in body fluids, such as blood, saliva, semen, and vaginal secretions.
Female Genital Mutilation: Topic Page
Clitoridectomy especially as a cultural rite sometimes with removal of the labia that is now outlawed in many nations including the U.S.
Immunization: Topic Page
Process of conferring immunity to infectious disease by artificial methods, in other words making someone not liable to catch a disease. The most widely used technique is vaccination (see vaccine). Immunization is an important public health measure.
Malaria: Topic Page
Infectious parasitic disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes, marked by periodic fever and an enlarged spleen.
Malnutrition: Topic Page
Condition resulting from a defective diet where certain important food nutrients (such as proteins, vitamins, or carbohydrates) are absent.
Tuberculosis: Topic Page
Contagious, wasting disease caused by any of several mycobacteria.
Violence Against Women: Topic Page
Because women are physically weaker than men and because the majority of women around the world live in societies where power resides in the hands of men, females of all ages remain vulnerable to violence.