Cholera in the Context of Global Health Inequities

Cholera is caused by bacteria and is usually spread by dirty water. It leads to serious diarrhea and losing a lot of water. If cholera is not treated, it can kill within hours, even in people who were healthy before.In developed countries, cholera is almost completely gone thanks to modern sewage and water cleaning. But … Read more

Children Healthcare: Access and Barriers

Traditionally, children’s health has not been given much thought separate from adult health. Views on adult health have changed from focusing on illness and death to looking at more general parts of health, but child-specific issues have mostly been left out. This part gives us a new way to think about and define children’s health. … Read more

Global Perspectives on Child Growth

Child growth and development can be broadly defined as a typical pattern of changes that occur over time from infancy to adolescence to allow children to understand and interact with the world around them. Kids’ bodies change as they get older, and some of those changes are their height and weight going up. Your hair grows, your … Read more

Chemical Safety Breaches

Hazardous Chemical incidents are the unintentional release of one or more hazardous substances which could harm human health or the environment. Chemical hazards are systems where chemical accidents could occur under certain circumstances. Such events include fires, explosions, leakages or releases of toxic or hazardous materials that can cause people illness, injury, disability or death.The … Read more

Public Health Response to Chikungunya

Chikungunya (CHIKV) is a virus that spreads to people through mosquito bites — specifically, through the Aedes aegypti mosquito and Aedes albopictus mosquito. Chikungunya infection happens when a mosquito with the virus bites a person. The virus doesn’t spread from person to person through bodily contact or saliva, although blood transmission may be possible. The … Read more