Global health is something that is rarely talked about among regular civilians. It is something that most of us think that we know when we only know a small part of what global health means, what it takes to accomplish it and what we as a nation are doing to promote it. After taking the Global Health Policy Quiz, I have come to realize that there is a lot for me to learn about global health its policies, strategies and spending. From the 10 questions that were asked, I answered 4 incorrect questions. I got off to a bad start by answering the first question incorrectly right off the bat. The question was “What percentage of the U.S. federal budget is spent on global health activities?” I honestly thought that we spent more than 25% on global health. I came to this conclusion because I …show more content…
I learned that the U.S. spends less than 1% in global health activities with most the funds going to programs to help with HIV/AIDS. The fact that we only spend 1% of our federal budget in global health was surprising, I thought the percentage was higher since we have global health programs that are implemented in over 60 countries. I have always thought of our nation as a giving and caring nation that brings aid to under developed countries in an effort to not just protect our country but to also help the population of those countries to care and help themselves. With our nation being the single largest donor to address global health challenges it is important that we continue to increase our efforts in protecting our nation and helping other nations do the same. As we help other countries to develop
Marble, A. (2010). Reforming the Global Health System: Lessons from Asia: An interview with Nigel Crisp
I have chosen the Global Health Pathway to further analyze the essential theme from a practical point of view and to recognize vital connections and relations with the coursework I have taken at Santa Clara University. The fundamental theme of the pathway emphasizes on the universal enhancement of public health, lowering inequalities, and prevention of chronic diseases. The overarching connection between the Global Health Pathway theme and the coursework I have taken is fundamentally providing global awareness of public health issues from a socioeconomic, environmental, and biological perspective to the general public. Courses such as Public Health Science 1: Human Health and Disease and Biology 179: Cancer Biology can illustrate a vital connection with the pathway theme. For example, Public Health Science 1: Human Health and Disease course focuses on the improvement of avoiding preventable diseases by designing specific interventions to target certain chronic diseases that are impacting a specific population. The course relates to the Global Health Pathway theme by highlighting multiple public health issues from a socioeconomic viewpoint and environmental perspective by providing awareness to the general population and finding solutions to prevent public health issues. In addition, the Biology 179: Cancer Biology course concentrated on the molecular perspective behind cancer and the processes in acquiring the disease. The course emerges with the Global Health Pathway theme by learning preventable processes to combat cancer and providing awareness to individuals from a biological perspective to prevent one in developing the disease. Both courses introduce a phenomenon of providing awareness of a certain public health issue to the ...
While the moral backing for public health in its current state may be sound, what many researchers fail to understand is that the many moral failings of its predecessors that color the legacy of public health internationally and at home. As discussed in the chapter “Colonial Medicine and its Legacies” within the textbook Reimagining Global Health arranged by Paul Farmer, before the conception of global health there was international health which sought to distribute health as a good horizontally across international, political lines. Under the framework of international health, public health workers became agents of a cold war enmeshed in the fiscal, geopolitical, and territorial struggles between two hegemons rather than the holistic value of community health. While international health as a framework has largely been abandoned, much of its rhetoric can be found within our current framework of public health such as the enumeration of certain parts of the world as "1st world", "2nd world",
In the U.S., employers are required by law to offer health insurance to employees. Taking heed of the perspective of both individuals (employee and employee), let us discuss the recent implications of this policy. Could this policy be considered effective?
Global Health Initiative (GHI) is an approach to the U.S. global health policy that seeks to strengthen, streamline, and increase the efficiency of existing U.S. global health programs(GHI 2011). There are seven guiding principles of the GHI: (1) Focusing on women, girls and gender equality; (2) Sustainable country-owned programs; (3) Health systems strengthening; (4) Promoting global health partnership; (5) Integration; (6) Research and innovation; and (7) Improve metrics, monitoring and evaluation(GHI 2011)
Studies had shown that, racial disparities, political and socioeconomic status are one of the most determinants of the use of preventive services. Whereas, public programs of international development agencies during this period were also targeting means of eradicating specific diseases such as malaria, cholera, yaws, smallpox, influenza, cancer and the like. After several years of investment in the vertical interventions, preventable diseases remained a major challenge. Therefore, the international health agencies including experts around the globe began examining other alternative approaches to health improvement which brought ‘’health for all’’ through World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to practioners and the global health planners at the International conference on primary health care in Alma Ata in Kazakhstan. Relative to this, the conference also intended to revolutionize and reform previous health
The first reasons to think that foreign aid should be spend is that “Aid saves lives” which is clearly illustrated by the researches conducted. Compare 1990 to 2010, as a result of aid in vaccines and health, there was a decrease in number of children who died from illness of pneumonia and diarrhoea (BBC). For example, in Botswana, the foreign aid fund had provided a test of HIV for pregnant mothers and therefore decrease the amount of newborn babies which catches HIV. Furthermore, in Bangladesh, there is a 62% drop in death rate for the under five children, the aid fund allows the government to be able to afford “vaccines and trained the midwives”.
There are people who think the billions we spend in foreign aid should be used in the United States, helping out with the educational system, the homeless and the elderly. However, we are helping families in need overseas and countries that are developing. Foreign Aid helps build alliances with other countries because we lend economic and military assistance. Afghanistan receives the most foreign aid and it started receiving a lot after 9/11. The United States actually tripled the amount it was sending to help with the rising terrorism problem in Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s economy was also very poor. Another example is how we are helping Israel with their war against Palestine. Foreign aid is being used to help in developing countries. Providing foreign aid to these countries helps builds our allegiance with them. This country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, so it’s in our nature to help others in need, especially those who are affected by a natural disaster. The foreign aid helps out with humanitarian reasons. The United States wants other countries to lean towards democracy rather than communism so they “grease the wheels” by providing foreign aid to other countries. It helps the United States because we buy and sell with all these countries we provide foreign aid too. It also helps the global economy because we are injecting money into it. I think that the benefits we receive from providing foreign aid is worth it and we should keep providing foreign aid to other countries.
When someone gets sick or injured they expect to receive medical care, whether it be as a public or private practice. We tend to think that most everyone has some type of health insurance to cover the expensive costs of medical care but in reality there are many who cannot afford such. The universal challenge has been how to get medical coverage for everyone around the world, but is this ideal too radical? Each country has its own pros-and-cons with health care plans. The United States, among others, have just recently reformed our own. There are many types of medical coverage around the world that still face the endless rising costs, as well as the lack of accessibility to public and/or private health care. Here, we will look at other countries to see how the medical coverage models they have adopted have helped improve their own health care and how these same models could potentially improve our own.
There are many inequities in this global world; should there be such gross inequities in the health of people around the world? We hear words like health gap, health care inequality and sustainability. What can be done to eliminate the health gap, health care inequities and maintain sustainability? The World Health Organization (WHO) and other organizations, private and public are working towards eliminating these disparities. Healthy People 2020 are one such goal that has achieved considerable progress in attaining sustainability in the pursuit of global health goals (Gostin et al., 2013). The health gap can be minimized through health strategies. Among them are essentials for all in this global world; clean air, water, healthy food and adequate housing with hygienic living conditions. Primary, secondary, tertiary prevention and care services should be available to all who seek health care services.
Introduction: Disparities in health and health care have been a long standing challenge in the global community. Although they are taking place in some regions of developed countries, they are in fact, a primary concern for populations in developing countries. Health and health care disparities refer to circumstances in which a certain population lack the access of quality health care services and facilities, and ultimately expose them to various threats in the environment. Threats such as highly lethal pandemics from infections diseases (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria) leave large populations vulnerable to death. Factors that lead to this inequity is the country’s poverty, lack of infrastructure, lack of awareness, etc.
According to the article What is Malaria, Malaria is a disease of the blood caused by the plasmpdium parasite (2017). Malaria is transmitted by a bite from a female mosquito leading the parasite to enter the body as stated by WHO (November, 2017). The parasite travels to the liver where it begins to multiply eventually making its was into the blood stream. Once the parasite enters the blood stream, it blocks the capillaries the lead to the brain (What is Malaria, 2017).
London, England. The.. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine n.d., Session 5: The role of the state. in global health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England. Ricci J.
“Perhaps more than anything else, novels let us escape the prison of our skulls to get inside someone else’s head and experience a reality that is, as the name of the form suggests, completely and colorfully novel” (Aziz, “What Novels Teach Us”). In their classrooms, students sit in their courses ready to listen and learn. Honors students dig deep into their curriculum in order to reach their full potential. Books help prepare the students for future success. Reading is a teacher of important life lessons such as understanding other cultures, coping skills, empathy, and self-acceptance.
This report is based on the major and specific global health problems in the world. Global health refers to the health of all people in the world which concerns about the health issues that go beyond the borders of each country due to the globalization ( Dyar & Costa, 2013). As well as health issues are referred to the health problems created due to this globalization.