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  2. Health in Libya - Wikipedia

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    There has been a crisis in the health system in Libya since the Libyan Revolution in 2011. Prior to the Libyan Revolution health training, rehabilitation, education, housing, family issues, disability and old-age benefits were all regulated by "Decision No. 111" (dated December 9, 1999) of the General People's Committee on the Promulgation of the By-Law Enforcement Law No. 20 of 1998 on the ...

  3. Healthcare in Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    It’s a health care system that was designed by the government of the United Republic of Tanzania to help lessen the burden of access to health services on an individual by pooling of resources together and hence risk sharing. It’s a system which started off by enrolling only public servants with monthly deductions directly from their salaries.

  4. Socialized medicine - Wikipedia

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    Opponents of reform invoke the term socialized medicine because they say it will lead to health care rationing by denial of coverage, denial of access, and use of waiting lists, but often do so without acknowledging coverage denial, lack of access and waiting lists exist in the U.S. health care system currently [89] or that waiting lists in the ...

  5. International health - Wikipedia

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    The World Health Organization (WHO) is the international body primarily responsible for regulating and governing health-related policies and practices across nations. While the WHO uses various policies and treaties to address international health issues, many of their policies have no binding power and thus state compliance is often limited.

  6. Geopolitics - Wikipedia

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    Topics of geopolitics include relations between the interests of international political actors focused within an area, a space, or a geographical element, relations which create a geopolitical system. [4] Critical geopolitics deconstructs classical geopolitical theories, by showing their political or ideological functions for great powers.

  7. Health security - Wikipedia

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    Health security is a concept or framework for public health issues which includes protection of national populations from external health threats such as pandemics. [ 4 ] Four types of security may be considered in this context: biosecurity ; global health security; human security ; and national security .

  8. Global health - Wikipedia

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    Pandemic prevention is the organization and management of preventive measures against pandemics. Those include measures to reduce causes of new infectious diseases and measures to prevent outbreaks and epidemics from becoming pandemics. It is not to be mistaken for pandemic preparedness or mitigation (e.g. against COVID-19) which largely seek to mitigate the magnitude of negative effects of ...

  9. World Health Organization - Wikipedia

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    The agency advocates for universal health care coverage, engagement with the monitoring of public health risks, coordinating responses to health emergencies, and promoting health and well-being generally. [10] The WHO is governed by the World Health Assembly (WHA), which is composed of its 194 member states.