Lecture Global Health Flashcards
1
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What is Global Health
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- Improving Health
- Understanding of Global burden of disease
- More than controlling epidemics
- Ensuring equitable
2
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Top 10 causes of Death (Global North vs South)
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Global North non-communicable diseases like stroke, heart diseases, cancer etc.
Global South communicable diseases like Diarrhea, AIDs, lower respiratory diseases, Malaria
3
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Prevention and strenghtening health systems in Global South
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- low share of spending on health systems
- low on resources
- higher burden of diseases
- conflicts or disasters setting further challenge situation
- non-available of R&D infrastructure
4
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Development Assistance for Health
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- Financial and in-kind contributions from channels of assistance
- DAH aims to achieve either country-specific health improvements or to finance research and development, disease surveillance, monitoring and evaluation, and data collection.
- “… all flows for health from public and private institutions whose primary purpose is to provide development assistance to low-income and middle-income countries
5
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DALYs
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Disability-adjusted life years. (graph between DAH and DALYs)
- “country allocation of DAH is driven by many considerations, including income, burden of disease, political stability, and historical and political relations between specific donors and recipient countries”
6
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DAH as an enabler
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- better health better lives
- healthier children lower fertility
- countries move from recipient tot aid givers
- low cost innovation - simple solution to complex problems (pumps against water-worms)
- equitable access
7
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Prevention is key
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- vaccines
- clean water
- access to schools
- access to primary care
- safe motherhood
