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The European Journal of Public Health 2005 15(1):3-5; doi:10.1093/eurpub/cki134
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European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 15, No. 1, © European Public Health Association 2005; all rights reserved

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Public health challenges in a globalizing world*

Gro Harlem Brundtland**

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Public health challenges are no longer just local, national or regional. They are global. They are no longer just within the domain of public health specialists. They are among the key challenges to our societies. They are political and cross-sectoral. They are intimately linked to environment and development. They are key to national, regional and global security.

Historically, disease in other places was seen as an impediment to exploration, and a challenge to winning a war. Cholera and other diseases killed at least three times more soldiers in the Crimean War than the actual conflict. Malaria, measles, mumps, smallpox and typhoid felled more combatants than did bullets in the American civil war. And the Panama Canal went over-schedule because of "tropical" diseases – then unknown, untreatable and often fatal.

Today on that front, there are very few unknowns. Globalization has connected Bujumbura to Bombay, and Bangkok to Boston. In an . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Hiv/Aids
 

   Sars
 

   An unsafe world
 

   Investing in health
 

   International co-operation
 

   The challenge of unhealthy life-styles
 

   Conclusions
 

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