scholarly journals Scientists, do it like Al Gore

2008 ◽  
Vol 07 (04) ◽  
pp. E
Author(s):  
Pietro Greco
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Drug Resistant ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
Hiv Aids ◽  
Al Gore

Human health has currently to face a growing series of global issues. From the spread of HIV/AIDS to a fresh outbreak of tuberculosis, increasingly drug-resistant, the world is witnessing a return, mostly unexpected, of infectious diseases. At the same time, the economic growth in many regions of the globe is generating a sort of “epidemics of wellbeing diseases”: obesity, diabetes, heart disease.

Special Issue on "Immunomodulatory and therapeutic approaches against infectious diseases"

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Lavkush Dwivedi
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Immune Stimulation ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Major Constraint ◽  
The World ◽  
Insight Into

Infectious diseases and consequent immune imbalancesare major constraint in human health managementthroughout the world. However, in recentdecades enormous efforts have been made to elucidatethe immunomodulatory approaches againstinfectious diseases. Immunomodulation is a therapeuticapproach in which we try to intervene inauto regulating processes of the defense system toadjust the immune response at a desired level.The present special issue on cutting edge issues inImmunomodulation like Immune stimulation, Immunesuppression, Immune potentiating and immunereinforcement summarizes our current understandingof this complex mosaic. The accompanyingselection of recent articles from across theworld provides further insight into this topic. 

A Disease Called Poverty: The Sickness Dismantling Global Health Equity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Foran ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Health Equity ◽  
Hiv Aids

HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria are considered the “big three” infectious diseases in global health. These illnesses alone account for nearly 3 million deaths every year, ravaging communities and countries around the world (National Center for Biotechnology Information, 2021). While this number alone is staggering, it is even more notable to observe exactly who is getting sick from these diseases. 95% of all AIDS victims, 98% of the world’s TB cases, and over 90% of the deaths from Malaria occurred in developing countries (National Center for Biotechnology Information, 2021).

America and Africa

2003 ◽  
Vol 102 (664) ◽  
pp. 195-199
Author(s):  
Salih Booker ◽  
William Minter ◽  
Ann-Louise Colgan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
New Models ◽  
Hiv Aids

Africa's issues are global issues—hiv/aids, human development, new models for economic growth, peace, and democracy. Worldwide consciousness of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has even forced its way into the pages of a United States president's State of the Union address. In practice, however, priorities are being set by another agenda, a war agenda.

Bush's Global Agenda: Bad News for Africa

2001 ◽  
Vol 100 (646) ◽  
pp. 195-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salih Booker
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
International Peacekeeping ◽  
Global Agenda ◽  
Hiv Aids

Today's ‘global’ issues, from HIV/AIDS to global warming, and from trade policies to the failure of international peacekeeping, have their most immediate and devastating consequences in Africa. … These vital challenges must be addressed in Africa, in solidarity with Africans, if they are not to overwhelm the world.

scholarly journals Effects Of Climate On Human Health (On The Example Of Bukhara Region)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (05) ◽  
pp. 132-135
Author(s):  
Gulshan Subhonovna Khalimova ◽  
◽  
Anvar Nusratovich Nematov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
Sharp Drop ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Climatic Features

This article focuses on the effects of climate on human health. There is information about the diseases that affect the health of the local population due to the climatic features of Bukhara, as well as scientific research in this area. Human health is one of the most important issues for every period of society’s development. Indeed, the level of health and literacy of the population living in the region determine the state of development of any country. These two indicators reflect the role of states in the world community and their socio-economic potential. Each season is distinguished in terms of its natural features by the outbreak of certain diseases or the temporary cessation of some of their vital activities. In particular, due to a sharp drop in temperature in winter, infectious diseases are reduced, while in humans, due to sudden changes in temperature, colds increase. This, in turn, leads to the opposite.

scholarly journals The impact of diseases on economic growth: the case of Viet Nam

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 428-437
Author(s):  
Pham Thanh Thai ◽  
Nguyen Thanh Le
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Least Squares Method ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
World Health ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Hiv Aids

The spread of diseases is a global challenge which affects life expectancy, productivity and economic growth. A healthy workforce has a faster acquisition of new knowledge to apply it to production and maintains high productivity, thereby promoting economic growth. On the contrary, a disease-infected workforce may have a low level of productivity, high expenses for disease treatment, insufficient health and finance to acquire new knowledge and as such, slowing down the economic growth. This study examines the implications of major infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, dengue, malaria and tuberculosis on the economic growth of Vietnam. The cointegration regression model with the ordinary least squares method is applied in the estimation procedure on a time series dataset obtained from World Bank, World Health Organization, UN and the Ministry of Health of Vietnam from 1986 to 2016. The results indicate that the number of new patients of any major infectious disease is negatively related to per-capita income. In particular, a 1% increase in the number of new patients with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, dengue and malaria leads to a decrease of 0.022%, 0.095%, 0.015% and 0.057% in yearly income, respectively. These findings have significant policy implications in terms of improving the effectiveness of the prevention of infectious diseases, protection of public health so as to boost the economic growth of the country. In addition, the results also provide add to the current literature evidence of the relationship between public health and economic growth in Vietnam.

scholarly journals Biobanks – serum and cells – human and animals

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Lynda Wright
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Cell Lines ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Emerging Infectious Diseases ◽  
Infectious Agents ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
The World

The Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL), CSIRO is a high-containment facility and a vital part of Australia's national biosecurity infrastructure. AAHL closely collaborates with veterinary and human health agencies globally, as approximately 70 per cent of emerging infectious diseases in people originate in animals. The facility is designed to allow scientific research into the most dangerous infectious agents in the world and contains a large collection of serum and cell lines.

The Rough Topography of Human Health

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harm De Blij
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Lower Priority ◽  
Tropical Environments ◽  
The World ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Persistent Poverty ◽  
Hiv Aids

If we made a map of the world showing locales with prevailing good public health as mountains and areas with poor health as valleys, the resulting global topography would look rough indeed. The unequal distribution of health and well-being across the world is matched by inequities of health within individual countries, even inside regions and provinces. Whatever the index, from nutrition to life expectancy, from infectious disease to infant mortality, the geography of health displays regional variations that add a crucial criterion to the composite power of place. If it is obvious that the medical world is not flat, the question is whether the landscape of human health is flattening out. Certainly health is a matter of natural environment, cultural tradition, genetic predisposition, and other factors, but power has a lot to do with it as well. In general, the poorest and weakest on the planet are also the sickest. The fact that, in the twenty-first century, 300 million people suffer from malaria and more than one million (mostly children) die every year has as much to do with figure 1.1 as it does with tropical environments and adapting vectors. The rich and medically capable countries of the core never sustained a coordinated campaign to defeat (or at least contain) malaria, a disease of the periphery of much lower priority than maladies of the mid-latitudes. Medical research in the United States and elsewhere did produce treatments for victims of the deadly HIV/AIDS pandemic that has taken more than 25 million lives over the past three decades, most of them in Subsaharan Africa, but those costly remedies are reaching far too few sufferers outside the global core. The obvious link between persistent poverty and endemic disease, so evident from virtually any medical-geographic map of the global periphery, was one of the key factors that spurred all 191 members of the United Nations in 2002 to sign the UN Millennium Declaration, among whose eight Development Goals are the reduction of child mortality, the eradication of extreme poverty and associated hunger, and the defeat of major diseases, including malaria and HIV/AIDS.

Antimicrobial resistance: the 70-year arms race between humans and bacteria

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Laure Bañuls ◽  
Thi Van Ahn Nguyen ◽  
Quang Huy Nguyen ◽  
Thi Ngoc Anh Nguyen ◽  
Hoang Huy Tran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Resistant Bacteria ◽  
Drug Resistant ◽  
Drug Resistant Bacteria ◽  
The World

Antimicrobial resistance started to become a human health issue in the 1940s, following the discovery of the first antibiotics. The golden age of antibiotics (the 1950s through 1970s) marked the beginning of the arms race between humans and bacteria. Antimicrobial resistance is now among the greatest threats to human health; occurring in every region of the world and with the potential to affect anyone, anywhere. We describe the main mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance, as well as how the bacteria evolve into “superbugs.” We detail the role of human activities on the emergence and spread of highly drug-resistant bacteria. Currently, data to identify the specific causes, and to establish the baseline in low-income countries, are lacking. Because of the continual increase of multidrug resistance, the situation is urgent. The chapter ends with a view to the future, with a discussion of the specific problems of low-income countries and initiatives taken.

scholarly journals Global strategy and targets to reach end the global tuberculosis epidemic

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (08) ◽  
pp. 1498
Author(s):  
Yousef Veisani ◽  
Ali Delpisheh ◽  
Salman Khazaei
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
The World ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

Tuberculosis (TB) has the second highest death rate in the world among infectious diseases after HIV/AIDS (Wei et al., 2016). TB epidemic is more important than it was supposed to be (Raviglione and Sulis, 2016). In 2015, 10.4 million new cases were occurred worldwide, among these, 5.9 million (56%) were male, 3.5 million (34%) were female, and 1.0 million (10%) of them was the child. It should be noted that 1.2 million (11%) of all new TB cases were occurred in people that living with HIV (PWLH). Although tuberculosis deaths are declined by about 22% between 2000 to 2015, still is remained among top 10 causes of death in 2015 (Uplekar et al., 2015; WHO, 2016).

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