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WHO definition of health.
"Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity" World Health Organization (WHO) 1948
Public Health
The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and
mental health and efficiency through organized community efforts toward a sanitary
environment.
Public Health Interventions
The control of community infections; the education of the individual in principles of personal
hygiene; the organization of medical and nursing service for the early diagnosis and treatment
of disease; and the development of the social machinery to ensure to every individual in the
community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health.
Global Health
Health problems, issues and concerns that transcend national boundaries and may best be
addressed by cooperative actions.
Why is Global Health important?
Diseases are not limited by national boundaries
Understand the progress that has already been made
Understand the challenges that still remain
Significant health disparities among groups
Link between health and development
Millennium Development Goals (MDG's)
Explicit statement of goals for development efforts, set in 2015.
MDG Goal 1
Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty
, MDG Goal 2
Achieve universal primary education
MDG Goal 3
Promote gender equality and empower women
MDG Goal 4
Reduce child mortality
MDG Goal 5
Improve maternal health
MDG Goal 6
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
MDG Goal 7
Ensure environmental sustainability
MDG Goal 8
Develop a global partnership for development
Morbidity
Sickness or any departure, subjective or objective, from a psychological or physiological state of
well-being.
Mortality
Death
Disability
Temporary or long-term reduction in a person's capacity to function.
Injury
Include road traffic injuries, falls, self-inflicted injuries, and violence, among other things.
Communicable Disease
Illnesses caused by a particular infectious agent that spread directly or indirectly from people to
people, animals to people, or people to animals.
Non-communicable Disease
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WHO definition of health.
"Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity" World Health Organization (WHO) 1948
Public Health
The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and
mental health and efficiency through organized community efforts toward a sanitary
environment.
Public Health Interventions
The control of community infections; the education of the individual in principles of personal
hygiene; the organization of medical and nursing service for the early diagnosis and treatment
of disease; and the development of the social machinery to ensure to every individual in the
community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health.
Global Health
Health problems, issues and concerns that transcend national boundaries and may best be
addressed by cooperative actions.
Why is Global Health important?
Diseases are not limited by national boundaries
Understand the progress that has already been made
Understand the challenges that still remain
Significant health disparities among groups
Link between health and development
Millennium Development Goals (MDG's)
Explicit statement of goals for development efforts, set in 2015.
MDG Goal 1
Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty
, MDG Goal 2
Achieve universal primary education
MDG Goal 3
Promote gender equality and empower women
MDG Goal 4
Reduce child mortality
MDG Goal 5
Improve maternal health
MDG Goal 6
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
MDG Goal 7
Ensure environmental sustainability
MDG Goal 8
Develop a global partnership for development
Morbidity
Sickness or any departure, subjective or objective, from a psychological or physiological state of
well-being.
Mortality
Death
Disability
Temporary or long-term reduction in a person's capacity to function.
Injury
Include road traffic injuries, falls, self-inflicted injuries, and violence, among other things.
Communicable Disease
Illnesses caused by a particular infectious agent that spread directly or indirectly from people to
people, animals to people, or people to animals.
Non-communicable Disease
