Global Health

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Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Globalization of health is evolving dramatically spurred on by the globalization of trade and commerce, migration of peoples, and advances in communication. These changes are having a significant impact on health and health care. Multiple diseases, as influenza, emerging in a local site but then are transmitted at a global or pandemic proportion with a few short weeks or months. International travel and the migration of populations across countries can lead to the introduction of diseases or conditions previously unheard of or noted in only small numbers.