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WEEK 10 GLOBAL HEALTH Flashcards

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What is Globalization?

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Process where people are becoming more connected through:
- increased economic intergration
- communication
- cultural diffusion

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Globilization has promoted advances in:

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Technology, science, communication, and cross-national interdependencies

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________________ outcomes can occur between populations within countries due to globalization

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Unbalanced outcomes can occur between populations within countries due to globalization

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Becasue of globalization, there has also been an increase in ________________ when it comes to ____________ to societal resources and oppertunities they afford

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Becasue of globalization, there has also been an increase in disparities when it comes to access to societal resources and oppertunities they afford

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What is Global Health?

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  • The study, research, and practice that places priority on improving health and achieving equity for all people worldwide
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What are areas of healthcare that understand and address the effects of globalization?

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  • Public health
  • International health
  • Global health
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What is a common concern of global health?

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  • Preventing disease
  • Promoting health for communities and whole populations
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Comparing Global, International, and Public Health: Geographical Scope

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  • GH: Issues that directly affect health of all people in the world
  • IH: Health issues of resource constrained countries (not ones own country)
  • PH: Health issues that shape health of a community, entrie country, within geographic boundary of that country
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Comparing Global, International, and Public Health: Level of cooperation

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  • GH: needs cooperation of countries around the world, as well as across various sectors within government
  • IH: require bi-national cooperation
  • PH: does not require global cooperation, as interventions occur within individual countries only
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Comparing Global, International, and Public Health: Focus on Individual or Population

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  • GH: both, improving health of all people
  • IH: both, but scope of solutions is limited to countries working together
  • PH: populaiton level within a country
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Comparing Global, International, and Public Health: Access to health

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  • GH: primary objective is health equity among nations for all people
  • IH: resouce righ assisting resource-poor countries
  • PH: promoting health equity within and between communities within geographic boundary of a country
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What is disease burden?

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  • The number of years lost due to disease
  • Can be measured by financial cost, mortality, morbidity, or other indicators
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What are the trends in global burden of disease?

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  • Increase global trade and travel can faciliate the rapid spread of diseases worldwide
  • Nurses need to understand the basc strategies for detecting, controlling, and preventing infectious diseases and managing chronic diseases globally
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What are Contemporary Issues in Global Health?

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  • Cost containment
  • Lack of basic healthcare access
  • SDoH
  • Advanced innovation
  • Lack of healthcare providers/strains on the healthcare system, due to refugee crises, fast-moving disease, patterns of opioid use
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What impacts new and re-emerging infections?

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  • Growth in population size
  • Aging population
  • Ease of travel
  • Urbanization
  • Climate change
  • Need to build capacity for early detection and timely response
  • Viral and bacterial:
  • Unpredictable, potential to spread quickly with high morbidity
  • Antibiotic resistant strains
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What is the importance of maternal, newborn, and child health?

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  • It is a key marker for overall health status of communities and societies
  • Show global inequities, as these rates are higher in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
  • Prevention can occur with access to appropriate health care
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What are the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals?

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  • 17 Goals that are solution oriented rather than research oriented
  • The main goal is to stimulate governments, UNs, and public towards the discovery of practice solutions to the greatest challenges of sustainable development
  • Poverty has the biggest impact on health globally
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What does it mean for nurses to be global citizens?

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  • To look past the dominant emphasis on individual care (as it is commonly disconnected from social, economic, political, and cultural contexts)
  • Engage critically and reflexively with social, historical, and political issues
  • Develop capacity to identify tensions between personal, professional, and global interests
  • Work from the perspective that people’s experiences of health and illness are culturally and geographically located

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