Glossary
- Social Determinants of Health: Social, environmental, and economic influences on a individual's health
- Public Health Surveillance Systems: The collection of data from public health systems and analyze it for the purpose of understanding health risks and providing information to the public if there are risks
Medical Practices:
- Traditional Medicine: holistic practice that uses knowledge passed down to treat patients through herbal, spiritual, and physical means
- Herbal Medicine: herbs and plants used for medical purposes
- Western Medicine: evidence-based and relies on symptoms and signs of injury and disease for treatment
Outbreaks:
- Ebola: an infectious and frequently fatal disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding, spread through contact with infected body fluids by a filovirus (Ebola virus), whose normal host species is unknown
- HIV (human immunodeficiency virus): is a virus that attacks cells that help the body fight infection, making a person more vulnerable to other infections and diseases
- AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome): a syndrome caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), with ensuing compromise of the body's immune system
Other Problems:
- Counterfeit drug/medication: drugs that contain no active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), an incorrect amount of API, an inferior-quality API, a wrong API, contaminants, or repackaged expired products
- Black market: an economy that functions through illicit trade, and can include both legal and illegal goods
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