Chapter 1 Flashcards
Why study global health?
- Understand the progress that has been made so far
- Understand remaining challenges of global health
- it’s easier for diseases to spread
- link between health and development
- we live in a globalized world
A state of complete mental, physical and social well being. It is not the absence of disease or injury
health
The science of preventing disease, promoting health and efficiency, educating communities, organizing medical services, and development of social practices to ensure a standard of living adequate for good health
public health
What are the key tenants of public health?
prevention, respect for human rights, developing community health, evidence-based
The scientific goal of developing individual services for the diagnosis, treatment and care for individual patients
medicine
What does public health consider to be it’s strongest resource for prevention?
vaccines
Areas where global health has failed
disparities in acess to medical services, life expectancy, social justice goals
The scientific study of world wide health improvement that focuses on transnational efforts, solutions, determinates and issues related to health and beyond.
global health
Protection of colonialist from tropical disease
global health 1.0
wealthier countries helping countries with less
global health 2.0
Collective action, shared risks and shared responsibilities to health
global health 3.0
How to classify countries
by incomes level based on gross national income
a factor that may lead to the development of a disease or an injury
risk factor
diseases that cannot be passed from person to person by an infectious agent
noncommunicable disease
disease that can be spread by an infectious agent
communicable disease
How is poor health related to development?
poor health can cause children to not reach their full potential and diminish the economy of a country
Why is global health needed?
some problems can only be solved with a global approach
A health campaign to immunize children in a community. This is an example of what?
public health
guiding factors of public health
prevention, respect for human rights, commitment to developing community health, evidence-based, taking account of a wide range of values, beliefs and culture and building collaborations in the community
guiding principals of global health
use a global perspective, cooperative action, interdisciplinary approach, multilevel interventions and comprehensive health policies and financing
creating a program to help undernutrition among children in South Asia and Africa is an example of what?
global health
Important issues in global health
impact of the environment, how countries manage their health systems, search for new technologies, globalization, epidemiological changes
the integrative effort of multiple disciplines to attain optimal health for all animals, humans and the environment
one health
the achievement of the highest attainable standard of living worldwide.
planetary health
World bank country income groups
low income, lower middle income, upper middle income, high income
17 global goals that focus on improving the well being of humans, animals and the environment
sustainable development goals
SDG that has a direct link with global health
goal 3: good health and well-being
SDG that have an indirect link with global health
- no poverty
- zero hunger
4 quality education - clean water and sanitation
When are the SDGs supposed to achieved by?
2020 or 2030
8 goals related to improving the health care of the world
Millennium development goals
Who and when created the small pox vaccine?
Edward jenner, 1798
When did eradication of small pox become a goal and why
1959, a form of the vaccine that did not need refrigeration was created and reusable needs
What techniques did the small pox eradication team use to get people vaccinated?
training villagers, heard immunity, ring vaccination, using pre-existing social circles to find people
when was small pox eradicated?
1980
What makes small pox unique and easy to vaccinate against?
spreads directly between people, easy to tell who has it, no reservoirs, survivors gained lifetime immunity, became infectious when symptoms showed
What was unique about the small pox eradication team?
small team responsible, often only one person in charge of each country’s efforts, flexible individuals
What are the 8 MDGs?
- Eradicate poverty and hunger
- universal primary education
- gender equality
- reduce child mortality
- reduce maternal mortality
- combat HIV/AID
- develop global partnership
- environmental protection
