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 Identifying substantive health threats is constructed by definitions of health, considerations of determinants of health, magnitude, seriousness as well as media and moral panics about health threats.

 Epidemiological transition has changed global patterns from infectious diseases at the start of the twentieth century to chronic diseases in the twenty-first century and this pattern is predicted to continue.

 Health threats in the twenty-first century will require global action around the major determinants of health such as poverty, inequity, climate change and population growth.