HEALTH REVIEWER- 3RD QUARTER
GLOBAL STRATEGY TO REDUCE THE
GLOBAL HEALTH – rose in popularity along with
the rise of globalization.
Both terms improved public awareness of
vulnerabilities and shared responsibilities among
people for the different injustices in the world.
- Pertains to various health issues,
concerns, and trends which go beyond
national boundaries and call for global
initiatives for the protection and
promotion of people’s health across the
world. –Ilona Kickbush (2006).
- An area for study, research and practice
that prioritizes health improvement and
achieving impartiality in healthcare and
wellness worldwide. –Koplan and
Associates (2009).
- Diverse health issues.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION – The
primary international body responsible for
developing leadership in health, setting norms
and standards and providing health support
among nations around the world.
GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVES – These are
PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS which help
address global health issues, concerns and
trends.
GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVES:
1. STOP TB
2. ROLL BACK MALARIA
3. GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT HIV/AIDS
MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES
4. FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON
TOBACCO CONTROL
5. COMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH
ACTION PLAN
6.
HARMFUL USE OF ALCOHOL
7. GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR THE
PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF
NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
QUICK WINS – UNDP or United Nations
Development Program intervention program
which refers to actions that can be immediately
used within the community or locale to produce
effective results.
- Quick impact initiatives
- A quick win is an improvement that is
visible, has immediate benefit, and can
be delivered quickly after the project
begins.
8 MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDG)
- These are goals set by the United
Nations to be fulfilled on 2015
- This was created in 2000 to improve life
in developing regions by 2015
1. ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND
HUNGER – Key suggestions are:
Education, Promoting gender equality,
Producing more jobs, Investing more in
agriculture, and Strengthened nutrition
programs for children and infants.
2. ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY
EDUCATION – if this are attained,
children are most likely to: Marry and
have their own families at a later stage in
life, Practice family planning and have
fewer children, Know rights,
responsibilities and civic obligations,
Seek employment and sustain personal
and family needs, and Have decreased
risk of getting sexually transmitted
infections.
3. PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND
EMPOWER WOMEN – this can be
achieved through: Early childhood
development intervention, Promotion of
women’s political rights and involvement,
Improved reproductive health programs
and policies, and Education and
integrating gender equality in school
curriculum.
4. REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY – This
includes: Immunization programs,
Assuring the survival and better health of
mothers, Improving reproductive health
programs and policies, and Better
nutrition program for infants, and
children.
5. IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH – Ways
to improve maternal health: Improved
and proper nutrition of mothers,
Teaching the benefits of birth spacing
and small family size, Educating
youngsters about the importance of
maternal health, and Better and
improved access to hospital care.
6. COMBAT HIV OR AIDS, MALARIA AND
OTHER DISEASES - this includes:
Improved housing conditions, Increased
access to anti-malarial medicines,
Promoting safer sex behavior and
preventive education for all, Promoting
screening and TB-DOTS course therapy
(TB – Directly Observed Treatment
Short) and Promoting the use of
insecticide-treated nets to fight mosquito-
borne diseases.
7. ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY – Benefits: Cleaner air
and environment, Clean, environmental-
friendly and renewable energy, New and
aspiring jobs and business in energy and
Increased access to sanitation.
8. GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR
DEVELOPMENT – Benefits: Expanded
international trade agreements, Improved
access to affordable medicine, Reduced
poverty through government debt relief
grant and Developed information and
communication technology or ICT.
10 GLOBAL HEALTH TRENDS, ISSUES AND
CONCERNS
1. TUBERCULOSIS – Commonly known as
TB. Tubercle Bacillus is a bacterial
infection that can spread through the
lymph nodes and bloodstream to any
organ in your body. Mostly found in the
lungs.
2. DRUG USE AND ABUSE – A patterned
use of a drug in which the user
consumes the drug in amounts that are
harmful to themselves or others.
3. HIV/AIDS – It is transmitted primarily via
unprotected sexual intercourse, blood
transfusions, needles, and from mother
to child delivery or breastfeeding.
4. NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE – Can
refer to chronic diseases which last for
long periods of time and progress slowly.
(Diabetes, Cancer, Asthma, Heart
Disease, Kidney Failure and Stroke)
5. COMMUNICABLE DISEASE – Infectious
disease (Ringworm, Ebola Virus, HIV,
STD, Flu, and Measles)
6. CLIMATE CHANGE – A change in global
or regional climate patterns attributed
directly or indirectly to human activity.
(Global Warming)
7. MENTAL HEALTH – It is a level of
psychological well-being and the
absence of a mental disorder.
8. IMMUNIZATION AND VACCINES –
Effective use a small amount of a
weakened virus or bacteria, or bits of lab
made protein that imitate the virus in
order to prevent infection by the same
virus or bacteria which can trigger your
body to create anti bodies.
9. ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO ABUSE –
Excessive consumption of alcohol and
tobacco.
10. MALARIA OR OTHER VECTOR-BORNE
MALARIA – Causes fever, fatigue,
vomiting and headache or in severe
cases, it can cause yellow skin, seizures,
coma or death.
Vectors are living organisms that can
transmit infectious diseases.