ZSA Global Health
Global health is collaborative trans-national re-
search and action for promoting health for all.
- Individual health WHO: Health is a state of
complete physical, mental and social well-be-
ing and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity.
- Public health: the science and the art of pre-
venting disease, prolonging life, and promoting
physical health and mental health and effi-
ciency through organized community efforts
toward a sanitary environment; the control of
community infections; the education of the individual in principles of personal hy-
giene; 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 ev-
ery individual in the community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance
of health.
- Global health: implies a global perspective on public health problems. Critical
conceptes are:
- The determinants of health
- The measurement of health status
- The importance of culture to health
- The global burden of disease
- The key risk factors for different health conditions
- The demographic and epidemiologic transitions
- The organization and functions of health systems.
Global health is collaborative trans-national re-
search and action for promoting health for all.
- Individual health WHO: Health is a state of
complete physical, mental and social well-be-
ing and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity.
- Public health: the science and the art of pre-
venting disease, prolonging life, and promoting
physical health and mental health and effi-
ciency through organized community efforts
toward a sanitary environment; the control of
community infections; the education of the individual in principles of personal hy-
giene; 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 ev-
ery individual in the community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance
of health.
- Global health: implies a global perspective on public health problems. Critical
conceptes are:
- The determinants of health
- The measurement of health status
- The importance of culture to health
- The global burden of disease
- The key risk factors for different health conditions
- The demographic and epidemiologic transitions
- The organization and functions of health systems.
