Global Health

Global health is an area of study and practice that places high priority on improving health and health equity for all people around the world. Global health issues transcend national boundaries and governments. They call for actions on the global forces that determine the health of the world’s people.

In the news archive

Below are links to articles about global health from our news archive.

Immigrant health

• Attending to the health of immigrant children
• Helping immigrant children succeed
• The immigrant paradox

Children's health in developing countries 

• After the floods: Water-borne and vector-borne diseases
  
• Children’s health more vulnerable to global climate change
  
• Early surgery for eye cancer can be lifesaving
  
• More midwives means drop in mortality rates
  
• New hope for babies born to mothers with HIV
  
• Paediatric residents experience challenges caring for children in South Africa
• The hidden pandemic: Non-communicable disease in the developing world

Mental health in immigrants and children in developing countries

• Children’s mental health: A major challenge for developing countries

Education in developing countries

• Empowering girls the key, says UN
• Higher education levels in women mean lower child mortality
• Primary education in India

Health A-Z

Health care for immigrants and children in developing countries

• Immunization schedule
• Immunization "catch-up" for children who are not fully immunized

Conditions that may affect immigrants and children in developing countries 

• Anemia
• Cleft lip and cleft palate
• Dehydration
• Diarrhea
• Failure to thrive
• Fever in a returning traveller
• HIV
• Infection in newborn babies
• Intestinal parasites
• Malaria
• Measles
• Pertussis
• Pneumonia
• Rubella
• Scarlet fever
• Tetanus
• Typhoid fever

Mental health in immigrants and children in developing countries

• Depression
• Psychological effects of disaster on children

For a more comprehensive listing of health-related topics and conditions, see our "Health A-Z." To better serve the multicultural population in Canada and around the world, we have translated information on a number of topics into different languages such as Arabic, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), French, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil and Urdu.