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Compare and contrast the 5 leading causes of death in a diverse population of your choice with the 5 leading causes of death in the population in which you belong. Are there any cultural factors that influence the difference in leading causes of death between these two populations?
Discuss how your knowledge of cultural factors between these two populations can relate to your area of discipline.
Expectations:
One page, 3 Cited sources from required reading.
Required Reading:
Somerville, MA. (1998). Making health, not war--musings on global disparities in health and human rights: a critical commentary by Solomon R. Benatar. American Journal of Public Health: Vol. 88, No. 2, pp. 301-303. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.88.2.301. Retrieved from http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/A...
Benatar, SR. (1998). Global disparities in health and human rights: a critical commentary. American Journal of Public Health: Vol. 88, No. 2, pp. 295-300. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.88.2.295. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC150820...
Gostin, LO. (2007). Meeting basic survival needs of the world's least healthy people: toward a Framework Convention on Global Health. Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 96, 2008, 96, 331-392. Retrieved from http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journal... (Read pages 336- 344)
Lock, K, Pomerleau, J, Causer, L, Altmann, DR, & McKee, M. (2005). The global burden of disease attributable to low consumption of fruit and vegetables: implications for the global strategy on diet. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 83(2), 100-108. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC262381...
Kelly, B. B., Narula, J., & Fuster, V. (2012). Recognizing Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease and Related Chronic Diseases. Mount Sinai Journal Of Medicine, 79(6), 632-640. doi:10.1002/msj.21345
Mathers, CD, & Loncar, D. (2006). Projections of global mortality and burden of disease from 2002 to 2030. PLoS Medicine, 3(11), e442. Retrieved from http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.13...
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