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YouTube - What is Global Health- Is an area for study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health
and achieving equity for all people worldwide.
- Not to be confused with international health focuses on developing countries
and foreign aid.
- Global health isn't just about infectious diseases it’s also about:
- fast food culture → Contributes to obesity, diabetes, and heart
disease
- Poverty → Keeps people from affording basic housing, food,
education, and health services
- Flows of money, technology that have implication on our health
- Thanks to the entire population as one global community. It seeks for it’s community
to work together to stay healthy no matter age, race, colour etc.
Lecture Global Health Jeannie Deveraux
What is Global Health
- International and interdisciplinary context.
- Study, research, and practise of medicine; focus on improving health and health care
equity
- Considers the world as one community
- Justice and Human rights
- Every human is a sentient being regardless of Age, race, sex, or status
- Every human is deserving of free health care regardless of age, race, sex, or status
Global Health Focus
- Primary focus is the root cause of disease: contaminated water
- Discrimination
- Correcting injustice will correct inequality and ill-health
- Collaboration of disciplinaries
Determinants of Health
- Range of factors that influence the health status of individuals or population
- Health is determined by complex interactions between social and economic factors,
the physical environment and individual behaviour.
- They all have an impact on each other.
- We cannot blame people for having poor or good health.
- Individuals are unlikely to be able to directly control many of the determinants
of health.
- Determinant
- Income and social status
- Educations
- Physical environment
- Social support networks
- Employment
- Measures to clarify different types of jobs and the threat of
unemployment affect health
, - Health child development
- Opportunities provided to young children are a crucial in shaping
lifelong health and development status
- Biology and genetics
- Health services
- Gender
- Mechanisms, processes, and actions that can be taken to reduce
gender-based inequalities in health by examining different areas
- Personal Health
- Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
- Means assessing the health impact of policies, plans and projects in diverse
economic sectors.
- Contributes to policy making about alternatives and improvements to prevent
disease/ injury and to actively promote health.
- To compromise or neglect an effective plan in the determinants of health
contribute to the Burden of Disease
- Global Burden of Disease
- Incorporates:
- The prevalence of a given disease or risk factor
- Relative harm it causes
- Calculate through DALY
- Disability Adjusted Life Years
- Measures health gaps, not expectancies
- The difference between a current situation and an ideal
situation
- Everyone lives up to the age of the standard life expectancy,
and in perfect health
- DALY
- Measures the overall of disease expressed as the cumulative number of
years lost due to ill-death, disability, or early death
- Years lived with disability + Years of lost
- Future Burden of Disease in the NL (2040)
- Increase in mental disorders and diseases of the nervous system.
- An increase in burden of disease due to arteries
- Pandemic
- Disease that is spreading in multiple countries around the world at the same
time
- Pathogenic virus
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WHO Foodborne diseases: Global burden
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