| Brain drain | The immigration to the United States and other industrialized nations of skilled workers, professionals, and technicians who are desperately needed in their home countries.
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| Culture-bound syndrome | A disease or illness that cannot be understood apart from some specific social context.
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| Curanderismo | Latino folk medicine, a form of holistic health care and healing.
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| Environmental justice | A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
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| Health | As defined by the World Health Organization, a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
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| Holistic medicine | Therapies in which the health care practitioner considers the person's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual characteristics.
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| Human ecology | The area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their environment.
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| Incidence | The number of new cases of a specific disorder that occur within a given population during a stated period.
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| Infant mortality rate | The number of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births in a given year.
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| Morbidity rate | The incidence of disease in a given population.
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| Mortality rate | The incidence of death in a given population.
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| Prevalence | The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
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| Sick role | Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
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| Social epidemiology | The study of the distribution of disease, impairment, and general health status across a population.
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