Global Health

Question 1

What are the critical global health questions?

Answer 1

1. How trade agreements affect peoples health
2. What is the impact of urban planning on health and wellbeing
3. Does migration represent a threat to health
4. In what ways will climate change affect our health
5. What are the challenges of an aging population
6. Whose voice counts in global governance

Question 2

Define global health

Answer 2

The widely accepted definition:
With justice and human rights as its foundation, Global Health is an area for study, research and practice that places apriority on improving people’s health and achieving health equity for all people world-wide.

It should not be confused with International Health which focuses on developing countries and foreign aid.

Question 3

Explain the influencers of global health

Answer 3

Global Health is not just about diseases, It also involve:
Food and nutritional cultures and trends- these can be risky as they can propel the spread of some nutritional-related diseases
Girls Education and adult literacy- can lead to lower child mortalities
Poverty- can keep people from affording basic needs such as housing, food and shelter, education and access to healthcare.
Poverty is root-cause of many diseases globally

Question 4

What is globalisation?

Answer 4

Globalisation refers to the growing interdependence of the world’s economies, cultures and populations, brought about by cross-border trade in goods and services, technology, and flows of investment, people, and information.

Question 5

What is urbanisation?

Answer 5

Urbanisation refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas , and ways in which societies adapt to this change.

Sometimes rural areas are not rural areas in real sense- Shifting from Africa (Rural) to Europe (Urban)

Question 6

List the drivers of globalisation and urbanisation

Answer 6

Industrialisation
Commercialisation
Political instability
Climate change

Question 7

Explain the impacts of globalisation and urbanisation

Answer 7

Can impact on the environmental system in a variety of ways, including:
1. Habitat loss
2. Introduction of invasive species to crops, animals and humans
3. Stresses the existing social services and infrastructure
4. Rise in delinquency e.g drug abuse, crime, street adults and children, prostitution
5. Alterations in cultures, diet and religion

Question 8

Explain the roles of global health in-depth

Answer 8

1. Global Health tries to establish and understand the underlying causes of the Global Health issues and establish whether they are social, cultural, economic, environmental, political, behavioural or biological factors.
2. Global Health looks for transboundary solutions that cross between disciplines, sectors and societies and ask people to implement them jointly
3. Global Health focusses on the entire human population as a global community and devises strategies that help the global community to work together in order to stay healthy and safe
4. Global Health believes that everybody should be concerned about the well-being of their fellow humans and that we should all take responsibility for the health issues no matter of where they occur or who is affected-(Health Justice for all)

Global Health is in fact, in line with the Salutogenisis and Quality of Life Model of health

Question 9

Briefly dictate the salutogenisis and quality of life model of health

Answer 9

Aaron Antonovsky father of Salutogenesis.

In contrast to the medial term pathogenesis, salutogenesis focuses on factors supporting health.
A theory to guide health promotion.
“Health is not a condition that one introspectively feels in oneself. Rather, it is a condition of being involved, of being in the world, of being together with one’s fellow human beings, of active and rewarding engagement in one’s everyday tasks”