Global Health Dictionary

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Prevalence
What is prevalence? Prevalence is the proportion of people in a population who have a disease or health condition, either at a particular time or over a period of time. Because it is a proportion, its value is between 0 and 1, where 0 means no one has the...
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Prevalence

What is prevalence? Prevalence is the proportion of people in a population who have a disease or health condition, [...]

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Emerging disease

What is it? Emerging diseases are those that appear for the first time in the human population or whose incidence [...]

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Microplastics

What are microplastics? Microplastics are solid plastic particles that are insoluble in water and measure less than five millimetres (<5 [...]

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Maternal immunisation

What is maternal immunisation? Maternal immunisation is a preventative strategy involving the vaccination of pregnant women to protect both [...]

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Antibiotic

What is an antibiotic? An antibiotic is a medicine used to treat infections caused by bacteria. It works by [...]

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Dengue

What is Dengue? Dengue is a viral disease transmitted by infected mosquitoes of the genus Aedes, common in tropical and [...]

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