Global Health Priorities

      The development of a society, rich or poor, can be judged by the quality of its population’s health, how fairly health is distributed across the social spectrum, and the degree of protection provided from disadvantage as a result of ill health. Furthermore, the perception of health varies from population to population, and this has implications for health behavior and ultimately health status. Case Assignment 1. Choose an infectious disease from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “watch list” at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5661857/. You will refer to this chosen infectious disease in future assignments for this course. 2. Do your own research to find out which populations of the world are most affected by this health issue and what is being done to solve the problem.