Explain the influence of altruistic organizations on health and health care practices associated with a global health care issue

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CRITERION: Explain the influence of altruistic organizations on health and health care practices associated with a global health care issue.

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Describes the role of altruistic organizations with regard to health and health care practices, but does not associate it to a global health care issue.

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You need to define the role of an altruistic organization, name specific organizations dedicated to the prevention of communicable diseases and consider the outcome of being without the organizations.

Communicable Diseases

Just about a billion people were living below the poverty line by the year 2013, a fact that has had a far-reaching effect on global health, with each year millions of these people suffering and dying from preventable communicable diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and diarrhea. The suffering associated with these diseases that mainly affected poor people are easily avoidable but somewhat neglected as evidenced by the fact that OECD development assistance committee members are spending 0.31% of their GNI on foreign aid (Smith, 2015). The profile inspires the focus on global health and development to weed out skepticism on the influence on longer-term world future. The rule of thumb for heuristics has been used in this paper to focus attention on essential problems neglected by others and evidence-based interventions. Quantitative estimates have also been utilized to look into the studies which estimate the interventional cost-effectiveness using empirical data from randomized control trials.