Globalization, the flow of information, goods, capital, and people across political and geographic boundaries, allows infectious diseases to rapidly spread...

divides globalization into three major areas: economic globalization, cultural globalization, and political globalization. The word globalization was used...

A pandemic (/pænˈdɛmɪk/ pan-DEM-ik) is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or...

The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) is a comprehensive regional and global research program of disease burden that assesses mortality and disability...

at least one vector borne disease. Airborne disease Asymptomatic carrier Fomite Globalization and disease Insect vectors of human pathogens Insect vectors...

in boldface are ongoing. Pandemic portal Globalization and disease – Overview of globalization and disease transmission History of smallpox – Impact...

for Tropical Diseases Tropical medicine Infectious disease Neglected diseases List of epidemics Waterborne diseases Globalization and disease Farrar, Jeremy;...

A disease is a particular abnormal condition that adversely affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due...

Coeliac disease (British English) or celiac disease (American English) is a long-term autoimmune disorder, primarily affecting the small intestine, where...

bacteria, protozoa, and rickettsia, and spread of vector-borne diseases, see also globalization and disease and wildlife disease: Encroachment on wildlife...

infectious diseases is the reduction of the prevalence of an infectious disease in the global host population to zero. Two infectious diseases have successfully...

strokes, heart diseases, cancers, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, cataracts, and others. NCDs may...

lost due to disease or years lived with disability/disease. One DALY can be thought of as one year of healthy life lost, and the overall disease burden can...

in underdeveloped regions. Black Death in England Flagellant Globalization and disease Declining temperatures following the end of the Medieval Warm...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under...

Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system that affects both the motor system and non-motor...

Crohn's disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that may affect any segment of the gastrointestinal tract. Symptoms often include abdominal...

is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the broad, interdisciplinary subject of globalization: Globalization (or globalisation) – processes...

"First globalization" is a phrase used by economists to describe the world's first major period of globalization of trade and finance, which took place...

Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network (GIDEON) is a web-based program for decision support and informatics in the fields of Infectious...

disease is a disease that affects a small percentage of the population. In some parts of the world, the term orphan disease describes a rare disease whose...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels. CVDs constitute a class of diseases that includes: coronary artery diseases (e.g...

Program ran a "Disease X dummy run" to simulate a global pandemic by Disease X, for its 150 participants from various world health agencies and public health...

globalization is skepticism of the claimed benefits of globalization. Many of these views are held by the anti-globalization movement. Globalization has...

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) or hoof-and-mouth disease (HMD) is an infectious and sometimes fatal viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, including...

Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia...

well as the origins of future new pathogens." Disease X Epidemiological transition Globalization and disease Pandemic prevention Paules CI, Eisinger RW,...

Globalization and Health is a peer-reviewed open-access public health journal from BioMed Central that covers the topic of globalization and its effects...

An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population...