Examples of World Health Organization in the following topics:
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- The World Health Organization defines gender as socially constructed ideas about behaviors, actions, and roles characteristic of each sex.
- The World Health Organization (WHO) defines gender as the result of socially constructed ideas about the behavior, actions, and roles characteristic of each sex.
- Further, gender equality plays a central role in education as well as in reproductive and maternal health.
- Kathaleen Sikes, a Navy nurse, listens to a young woman during a routine check-up at the Couva District Health Facility in Trinidad and Tobago.
- Examine the role gender plays in health care and healthy lifestyles, especially for women
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- Different classes have different levels of access to treatment and encounter different mental health stressors.
- The World Health Organization defines mental health as "a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community. "
- Members of different social classes often hold different views on mental health.
- Similarly, different social classes have different levels of access to mental health interventions and to information about mental health.
- Define mental health and explain why it is regarded as a socially constructed concept
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- World health research considers global patterns of interaction between people, products, money and information as they affect health trends.
- World (or global) health as a research field emerged out of this necessity and lies at the intersection of the medical and social science disciplines, including the fields of demography (the study of population trends), economics, epidemiology (the study of the distribution of health events in a population), political economy, and sociology.
- Historically, global health studies rose to prominence in the 1940s, after World War II reconfigured geopolitical alignments and international relations.
- In 1948, the member states of the newly formed United Nations gathered together to create the World Health Organization (WHO).
- Maternal health is one of the priorities of global health organizations, such as the World Health Organization.
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- HIV/AIDS is a major health problem in many parts of the world, and is considered a pandemic—a disease outbreak which is present over a large area and is actively spreading.
- In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that there are 33.4 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS, with 2.7 million new HIV infections per year and 2.0 million annual deaths due to AIDS.
- South Africa has the largest population of people with HIV of any country in the world, at 5.9 million.
- South and Southeast Asia is the second most affected region in the world.
- Based on these studies, the World Health Organization has recommended male circumcision as a method of preventing female-to-male HIV transmission.
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- The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and does not consist only of the absence of disease or infirmity" (source) Though this is a useful definition, some would consider it idealistic and non-realistic because using the WHO definition classifies 70-95% of people as unhealthy.
- Healthcare is one of the world's largest and fastest-growing industries, consuming over 10 percent of gross domestic product of most developed nations.
- In 2000, health care costs paid to hospitals, doctors, diagnostic laboratories, pharmacies, medical device manufacturers and other components of the health care system, consumed an estimated 14 percent of the gross national product of the United States, the largest of any country in the world.
- For the G8 countries (eight of the most developed countries in the world) the average is about nine percent.
- Importantly, this may be due to the United States' interesting position as - since The Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 - a private, for profit system of managed care rather than a public good non-profit system of health promotion.
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- Disparities in health services play out based on different systems of stratification, such as gender.
- The World Health Organization defines gender as the result of socially constructed ideas about the behavior, actions, and roles a particular sex performs.
- There are a number of ways in which health disparities play out based on different systems of stratification.
- Researchers also find health disparities based on gender stratification.
- Examine the role gender plays in health care services, particularly for women
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- HIV/AIDS is a major health problem in many parts of the world.
- The disease is a major health problem in many parts of the world, and is considered a pandemic; a disease outbreak that is not only present over a large area but is actively spreading.
- In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that there are 33.4 million people worldwide with HIV/AIDS; 2.7 million new HIV infections are reported per year along with two million annual deaths due to AIDS.
- Furthermore, only 0.5% of pregnant women attending urban health facilities are counseled, tested or receive their test results.
- Again, this proportion is even lower in rural health facilities.
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- This section discusses the costs of healthcare and the different approaches to health care that have been taken by governments around the world.
- Two types of health insurance have developed in modern society: private health insurance (or free-market) models and publicly funded health insurance models.
- Health Maintenance Organizations or (HMO) types of health insurance are often criticized for excessive cost-cutting policies that include accountants or other administrators making medical decisions for customers.
- An alternative to private health insurance and the free-market approach to health care is publicly funded health care.
- This approach to health care is the most common and popular among developed (and developing) nations around the world today.
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- Thus, applied sociologists took findings from pure research and applied them to solving real-world problems.
- Outside the academic world, sociologists apply their skills in a variety of settings.
- Outside of the corporate world, sociology is often applied in governmental and international agencies such as the World Bank or United Nations.
- Or a sociologist might work for the United Nations to research global health trends and the efficacy of current public health initiatives.
- Examples of NGOs include Oxfam , Catholic Relief Services , CARE International , and Lutheran World Relief .
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- Two types of health insurance exist in modern society, private health insurance and publicly funded health insurance.
- This type of health care is the most common and popular in almost every developed and developing nation in the world, except the United States.
- A premium is the amount a policy-holder or his sponsor (e.g. an employer) must pay to a health plan to purchase health coverage.
- Modern, scientific medicine is the most effective contributor to the health of humans in the world today.
- Discuss the use of both private and public health insurance and the implications for society's overall health