1st Meeting Flashcards
(15 cards)
MDG meaning
Millennium development goals
MDG focusses on…
Infrastructure, human capital & human rights
MDG established after the…
UN millennium summit in 2000
193 UN member states signed their commitment to..
Achieve these goals by 2015
MDG CONTAINS
- Reduce child mortality
- Promote gender equality
- Improve maternal health
- Achieve universal primary education
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Ensure environmental sustainability
- Develop a global partnership for development
8 Combat HIV/AINDS, malatria, and other diseases
FCTC
World health organization framework convention on tobacco control
Leading cause of preventable death globally?
Consumption of tobacco
FCTC ASSEMBLY?
2003 under article 19
GAVI
Global alliance for vaccine and immunizations
CDC
Centers for disease control and prevention
PCS
Philippine cancer society
Immunization
A person is made immune to an infectious disease. This is administered through a vaccine.
Vaccination fact
One of the most successful and cost effective health investments in the history of medicine
Vaccines help children
Achieve higher cognitive abilities
Global health initiatives
Stop tb
Roll back malaria
Global fund to fight HIV/AIDS
Centers for disease control and prevention
Global alliance for vaccines and immunizations