title: Era of globalization, emerging and re-emerging diseases and the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases.
authors.forename: Stevenson
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kuartei
mesh_terms: D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D019029:Palau; D012922:Social Change