Health Initiatives

• Global health initiatives are programs set in motion by the United Nations through the World Health Organization and in partnership with the World United Nations through the World Bank which targets specific health problems including but not limited to emerging and re-emerging diseases, climate change, environment sanitation, mental health, tobacco regulation and alcohol use.
• Roll back malaria is a global effort to reduce the number of deaths from malaria infection through heightened prevention tools, rapid response to outbreaks, development of new anti- malarial products, and effective treatment of the infection.
• Stop TB is a global effort to prevent further transmission of tuberculosis or TB around the world. One of the programs is the implementation of the TB-DOTS short-course strategy.
• The global alliance for vaccines and immunization is a global strategy which aims to strengthen children's immunization programs and introduce new generation of licensed vaccines into use in developing countries across the globe. These new vaccines which could help reduce the number of deaths in children aged 5 years old and below
• Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria is a funding project rather than an initiative. Nevertheless it helps in the prevention, reduction, and mitigation of the negative impacts of the three diseases to humanity which contributes to the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals.
• WHO Framework Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) Convention international treaty negotiated under WHO. came into existence in reaction to the global epidemic of tobacco use and abuse. It reaffirms the right of every individual across the world to the highest standard of health promoting public health and providing new legal means for global health cooperation.
• Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol recognizes the close ties between the harmful use of alcohol and the socio- economic development of a nation. Likewise, this strategy builds and supports other global health initiatives like the global strategy for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.
• Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases is a global action plan to prevent and control the following non-communicable diseases: cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, cancers, and diabetes and the four shared risk factors: unhealthy eating, physical inactivity, tobacco use and alcohol use.
• The "Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020" is the result of extensive research and consultations by stakeholders, member- nations, academic and non-government centers across the globe. The mental health action plan should be impartial, life-based, and preventive in nature
• The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) works with different nations and organizations to withstand crises, empower lives and improve the quality of life for all.
• One of the UNDP's intervention programs to achieve the eight millennium development goals is called Quick Wins. Quick Wins are actions that can be immediately used within the community or locale to produce effective results. If applied continuously, this could change people's views, and beliefs and trigger actions which could lead to helping îmillions of lives and countries find their right path towards the goals.
• AIDS means Acquired Immune-Deficiency Syndrome. It is a serious and most often fatal communicable disease of the immune system transmitted through body fluids like blood, plasma and mucous usually by blood transfusion, sexual contact, and use of contaminated syringe
• Alcohol A gateway drug which depresses the central nervous system. It is an active ingredient in beverages like brandy, beer, rum and wine
• Cancer malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell reproduction. It may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood
• Cardiovascular disease, disease of the heart and blood vessels
• Childhood meningitis is a communicable disease characterized by inflamed meninges (the tissues that surround the brain and spinal cord) caused by bacteria with symptoms like headache, nausea, fever, and stiff neck
• Communicable disease is any disease transmitted from one person to another by direct or indirect contact
• Diabetes a non-communicable disease characterized by abnormally high blood sugar levels with symptoms like excessive urination and persistent thirst
• Health issue is any of the important statements in health that is in dispute and must be settled
• Health trend is any general tendency to change in health concepts, information, skills, and values
• Hepatitis is a inflammation of the liver caused by a micro-organism or a toxin
• HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, which causes the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
• Hypertension a disorder in the artery which makes blood pressure abnormally high
• Gender the attributes which distinguishes a person on the basis of reproductive roles
• Global health is the health of the world as a whole; the area of study, research and practice which gives priority on improving and achieving equal health for all people worldwide
• Global health initiative a program or strategy which addresses global health issues, concerns, and trends
• Immunization the act of making a person immune from certain diseases
• Influenza an acute communicable disease characterized by high fever that lasts for days, nausea, body pains, and fatigue that lasts for days
• Information and communication technology

  the integration of information and communication technology with the use of media like computers and other telecommunication devices
• Malaria a commuhicable disease caused by plasmodium parasites transmitted through mosquito bites; characterized by chills and fever
• Malnutrition

  insufficient or excessive intake of food and nutrients; inability to absorb food properly
• Maternal health

  the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum period.
• MDG

  also known as the Millennium Development Goals: are eight goals of the United Nations to address global health issues and concerns
• Mosquito-borne disease

  a communicable disease transmitted by mosquitoes
• Multi-drug-resistance a condition enabling disease-causing micro-organisms

  to resist drugs and medicines
• Non communicable diseases are disease not transmitted through direct or indirect contact and non infectious
• Non renewable energy is a energy from a source that is not sustainable as it takes billions of years to form; e.g. fossil fuels like oil, coal, and natural gas
• Obstetric gynecology a branch of medical science which specializes in treating diseases of the female reproductive organs and delivering babies
• Pneumonia disease of the respiratory system characterized by inflammation of the lungs caused by bacteria, virus, or irritants
• Postnatal occurring after birth or delivery