Global Health Notes
6/20
What is Health? * Well-being according to cultural standards. * Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being * Much more than treating current illness or disease * Health is multidimensional * Age, sex, cause, loss of function, QOL (Quality of Life)
How do we measure health? * Diseased/Not diseased * Healthy/Not healthy * Continuous outcome * A range of states from health to illness * Hard to find an equivalency * Epidemiologic indicators: infant mortality (or historical indicator)
What is public health? * Analysis of populations * Examples- Screening in school, vaccines
What is Global Health? * Antibiotics resistance * Women’s Health
Why are they important? * Health is our human right so why would we neglect it * Ethical/moral consideration * The government should care because it’s linked to economic growth & social progress
6/24
* Fertility linked to mortality through life expectancy * Main determinants: natural pathogens (ex: the black death) * Global Health * Major shift in patterns of health, disease, and causes of death * Shift from infectious disease mortality to non-communicable diseases * Cardiovascular disease * Injuries * Cancers* * Infant mortality: per one year, per 1,000 babies born * Perinatal infections are the leading cause of children’s death in developing countries * GDP is enough alone to predict populations
6/25
* Vector- theoretically the vector doesn’t suffer from the disease * Paul Farmer* Medical anthropologist * Two articles will be tested on EID’s*** * Patz- higher biodiversity the lower EID’s
6/27
* Number of diseases increase as people become more civilized * Causes are population size and density
7/8 (Need To know Diseases) * Listeriosis * Malaria * Protozoon- can see through a
What is Health? * Well-being according to cultural standards. * Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being * Much more than treating current illness or disease * Health is multidimensional * Age, sex, cause, loss of function, QOL (Quality of Life)
How do we measure health? * Diseased/Not diseased * Healthy/Not healthy * Continuous outcome * A range of states from health to illness * Hard to find an equivalency * Epidemiologic indicators: infant mortality (or historical indicator)
What is public health? * Analysis of populations * Examples- Screening in school, vaccines
What is Global Health? * Antibiotics resistance * Women’s Health
Why are they important? * Health is our human right so why would we neglect it * Ethical/moral consideration * The government should care because it’s linked to economic growth & social progress
6/24
* Fertility linked to mortality through life expectancy * Main determinants: natural pathogens (ex: the black death) * Global Health * Major shift in patterns of health, disease, and causes of death * Shift from infectious disease mortality to non-communicable diseases * Cardiovascular disease * Injuries * Cancers* * Infant mortality: per one year, per 1,000 babies born * Perinatal infections are the leading cause of children’s death in developing countries * GDP is enough alone to predict populations
6/25
* Vector- theoretically the vector doesn’t suffer from the disease * Paul Farmer* Medical anthropologist * Two articles will be tested on EID’s*** * Patz- higher biodiversity the lower EID’s
6/27
* Number of diseases increase as people become more civilized * Causes are population size and density
7/8 (Need To know Diseases) * Listeriosis * Malaria * Protozoon- can see through a