U.S. intelligence and global health/Related Articles

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Public health [r]: Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level ^[e]
- International public health [r]: Add brief definition or description
Epidemiology [r]: The branch of demography that studies patterns of disease in human or animal populations. ^[e]
Health policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
Intelligence (information gathering) [r]: The practice of finding information on opponents, or potential opponents. ^[e]
- Medical intelligence [r]: Techniques involved in determining the public health of a country, so the physical characteristics of leaders and workers are understood, as well as local hazards to foreigners entering the country or regions of it ^[e]

Cholera [r]: A life-threatening gastrointestinal infections disease caused by Vibrio cholerae, with a high mortality rate from dehydration unless treated, usually with oral rehydration therapy ^[e]
Hepatitis [r]: Inflammation of the liver. ^[e]
Human immunodeficiency virus [r]: Add brief definition or description
Lower respiratory infection [r]: Add brief definition or description
Malaria [r]: A tropical infectious disease, caused by protozoa carried by mosquitoes, which is the world's worst insect vector-borne disease ^[e]
Measles [r]: Highly contagious infection of the respiratory system, and maculopapular skin rash, caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus. ^[e]
Polio [r]: Add brief definition or description
Severe adult respiratory syndrome [r]: Add brief definition or description
Sexually transmitted disease [r]: Infections that are transmitted through exchange of semen, blood, and other body fluids or by direct contact with the affected body areas of infected people. ^[e]
Tuberculosis [r]: Infectious disease of humans and animals caused by the tubercle bacillus and characterized by the formation of tubercles on the lungs and other tissues of the body. ^[e]
Viral hemorrhagic fever [r]: Illnesses that are caused by five distinct families of RNA viruses: the Arenaviridae, Filoviridae, Bunyaviridae, Togaviridae, and Flaviviridae, characterized by fever and bleeding disorders that can all progress to high fever, shock and death in extreme cases. ^[e]

Chatham House [r]: A U.K. based think tank concerned with international economics, climate and energy matters, and international security ^[e]
United States Public Health Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Centers for Disease Control [r]: A major center of epidemiologic research and clinical support in epidemics, considered a world resource although part of the United States Public Health Service, located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA ^[e]
World Health Organization [r]: United Nations' agency for health, focussing on the control and prevention of diseases, and the support for international health programs. ^[e]