Summary WGU D619 Global Health Task 1|
Advocacy Statement from the World Health
Organization: Special Initiative for Mental
Health | Latest Update with complete
solutions.
What is Global Health? - ANSWER - The spread of HIV, ebola outbreaks, and influenza have all brought
attention to this
Justice and human rights as its foundation. Study, research and practice dedicated towards achieving
health equity all around the world. NOT international health which focuses on developing countries and
international aid. Transportation and trade have increased the spread of disease. People of different
cultures, religions, and ethnicities have to work together.
It's also about poverty, education in young girls and mortality rates, obesity and food availability, the
flow of goods, knowledge, money, technology, etc that have implications on our health.
Engineers, teachers, business men, and many other professions working together to create healthier
environment. We should all care about our fellow neighbor's health regardless of where they are from
or who they are
How do trade agreements affect health? What is the impact of urban planning? Does migration
represent a challenge to health? In what ways will climate change affect health? What are the
challenges for aging pop.? Who's voice counts in health organizations?
UK Government: Health is Global - ANSWER - "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...Global health recognizes health is
determines by problems, issues, and concerns that transcend national boundaries."
Really focuses on "global aspect"
,Merson et al - ANSWER - Global Health is the application of the principles of public health to problems
and challenges that affect low and middle income countries and to the complex array of global and local
forces that influence them
*This definition is a little more restrictive. Even though aid is geared towards lower class individuals,
diseases transcend borders (Zika, influenza, obesity). This def brings up the definition of public health--Is
all global health public health or is all public health global health?
Koplan et al. - ANSWER - Main Points: equity in health, transnational health, many disciplines and
collaboration, both local clinical care and community prevention efforts
Definition:
Global health is an area of study, research, and practice that places priority on improving health and
achieving equity in health for all people worldwide.
Global health emphasizes transnational health issues, determinants, and solutions; involves many
disciplines within and beyond health sciences and promotes collaboration. It's a synthesis of population
based prevention and individual-level clinical care (ex. Paul Farmer)
Carlos del Rio (Chair of Global Health Department) - ANSWER - Reiterates Koplan's idea of what global
health is
-Addresses socio-contextual determinants
-Interdisciplinary, systems-oriented, collaborative, based in partnership
-incorporates clinical care
-transnational
Public Health "without a passport"
Millennium Development Goals and Health (WHO 2000-2015) - ANSWER - -Eradicate extreme poverty
and hunger (you could attempt to reduce the poverty in large countries and therefore reduce the global
poverty rate)
-Achieve universal primary education
, -promote gender equality and empower women
-reduce child mortality
improve maternal health
-combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
-ensure environmental sustainability
-global partnership for development
Health in the SDG Era (Sustainable Development Goals) 2015-2030 - ANSWER - Goal 1. End poverty in all
its forms everywhere
Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
*Separated poverty and hunger into two categories
Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for
all
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls (Gender inequality is still deeply
entrenched, as manifested in the slow progress in women's representation in political life, in decision-
making within their own households, and in the violence, most often with impunity, that women and
girls face in all societies. )
Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment
and decent work for all
Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns (sound management of chemical
wastes in the environment)
Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice
for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels (end abuse, trafficking and
exploitation of children; provide legal identity for all)
Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable
development
Advocacy Statement from the World Health
Organization: Special Initiative for Mental
Health | Latest Update with complete
solutions.
What is Global Health? - ANSWER - The spread of HIV, ebola outbreaks, and influenza have all brought
attention to this
Justice and human rights as its foundation. Study, research and practice dedicated towards achieving
health equity all around the world. NOT international health which focuses on developing countries and
international aid. Transportation and trade have increased the spread of disease. People of different
cultures, religions, and ethnicities have to work together.
It's also about poverty, education in young girls and mortality rates, obesity and food availability, the
flow of goods, knowledge, money, technology, etc that have implications on our health.
Engineers, teachers, business men, and many other professions working together to create healthier
environment. We should all care about our fellow neighbor's health regardless of where they are from
or who they are
How do trade agreements affect health? What is the impact of urban planning? Does migration
represent a challenge to health? In what ways will climate change affect health? What are the
challenges for aging pop.? Who's voice counts in health organizations?
UK Government: Health is Global - ANSWER - "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...Global health recognizes health is
determines by problems, issues, and concerns that transcend national boundaries."
Really focuses on "global aspect"
,Merson et al - ANSWER - Global Health is the application of the principles of public health to problems
and challenges that affect low and middle income countries and to the complex array of global and local
forces that influence them
*This definition is a little more restrictive. Even though aid is geared towards lower class individuals,
diseases transcend borders (Zika, influenza, obesity). This def brings up the definition of public health--Is
all global health public health or is all public health global health?
Koplan et al. - ANSWER - Main Points: equity in health, transnational health, many disciplines and
collaboration, both local clinical care and community prevention efforts
Definition:
Global health is an area of study, research, and practice that places priority on improving health and
achieving equity in health for all people worldwide.
Global health emphasizes transnational health issues, determinants, and solutions; involves many
disciplines within and beyond health sciences and promotes collaboration. It's a synthesis of population
based prevention and individual-level clinical care (ex. Paul Farmer)
Carlos del Rio (Chair of Global Health Department) - ANSWER - Reiterates Koplan's idea of what global
health is
-Addresses socio-contextual determinants
-Interdisciplinary, systems-oriented, collaborative, based in partnership
-incorporates clinical care
-transnational
Public Health "without a passport"
Millennium Development Goals and Health (WHO 2000-2015) - ANSWER - -Eradicate extreme poverty
and hunger (you could attempt to reduce the poverty in large countries and therefore reduce the global
poverty rate)
-Achieve universal primary education
, -promote gender equality and empower women
-reduce child mortality
improve maternal health
-combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
-ensure environmental sustainability
-global partnership for development
Health in the SDG Era (Sustainable Development Goals) 2015-2030 - ANSWER - Goal 1. End poverty in all
its forms everywhere
Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
*Separated poverty and hunger into two categories
Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for
all
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls (Gender inequality is still deeply
entrenched, as manifested in the slow progress in women's representation in political life, in decision-
making within their own households, and in the violence, most often with impunity, that women and
girls face in all societies. )
Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment
and decent work for all
Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns (sound management of chemical
wastes in the environment)
Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice
for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels (end abuse, trafficking and
exploitation of children; provide legal identity for all)
Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable
development
