Global Health

Question 1

What is global health

Answer 1

Global health refers to health issues where the determinants circumvent, undermine or are oblivious to the territorial boundaries of states, and are thus beyond the capacity of individual countries to address through domestic institutions.

Question 2

What is international health

Answer 2

International health relates to health practices, policies and
systems in countries other than one’s own and stresses more
the differences between countries than their commonalities.

Question 3

How is global stewardship emerging

Answer 3

Shared threats
Global communications
Global commitments

Question 4

Communicable diseases

Answer 4

Any condition which is transmitted directly or indirectly to a
person from an infected person or animal through the agency of
an intermediate animal, host, or vector, or through the inanimate
environment
Spreads very quickly without acknowledging borders

Question 5

Health transition

Answer 5

Involves
Demographic changes
Epidemiological changes

Question 6

Chronic disease

Answer 6

One that requires ongoing medical care, limits what they can do and likely lasts longer than a year

Question 7

Maternal mortality

Answer 7

20 million have pregnancy related illness
500000 die from childbirth or pregnancy
1 in 12 in Africa
1 in 4000 in Europe

Question 8

Affects beyond individual health

Answer 8

Ill health handicaps not only people but economies and development
HIV/AIDS leads to 1% a year reduction in GDP economic growth in some sub-Saharan African countries
South Africa: HIV/AIDS may depress GDP by as much as 17% over the next
decade.
Malaria is responsible for a ‘growth penalty’ of up to 1.3% per year in some African countries - substantial differences in GDP between countries with and without malaria
TB costs the average patient three or four months of lost earnings, which can represent up to 30 percent of annual household income

Question 9

Objectives of health systems

Answer 9

Improving the health of the population they serve;
Responding to people’s expectations;
Providing financial protection against the costs of ill-health

Question 10

Funding of healthcare

Answer 10

1. direct or out-of-pocket payments,
2. general taxation to the state, county or municipality,
   3.social health insurance,
3. voluntary or private health insurance, and
4. donations or community health insurance.

Question 11

Millennium development goals

Answer 11

End poverty and hunger
Universal education
Gender equality
Child health
Maternal health
Combat HIV and AIDS
Environmental sustainability
Global partnership

Question 12

Post 2015 universal agenda

Answer 12

• 1. Leave no one behind. Ending extreme poverty, in all its forms.
     • 2. Put sustainable development at the core integrate the social, economic, and environmental, dimensions of sustainability,
• 3. Transform economies for jobs and inclusive growth
• 4. Build peace and effective, open and accountable institutions for all.
     • 5. Forge a new global partnership - new spirit of solidarity, cooperation, and mutual accountability