Public health concerns are no longer confined by geographic areas as international travel and trade easily transcend national borders. For example, pandemics, tobacco use, health care access, and non-communicable diseases (such as diabetes, obesity, and asthma), present major challenges to our world population. Global health is highly interdisciplinary in nature with legal, medical, economic, and social aspects and an evolving role for international law.
1964 poster from the CDC and the Alaska Division of Public Health (via Wikimedia Commons).
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