Analysis Of Rx For Survival

Rishi Manchanda, a Doctor in South Central Los Angeles, states in his performed Ted Talk,“What makes us sick? Look upstream” that “We can all invest in making sure that we improve the allocation of resources upstream, but at the same time work together and show that we can move healthcare upstream. We can improve health where it begins.” We can work together and mirror where our health should be, not where doctors want us to be. “We simply need a healthcare system that moves beyond just looking at the symptoms that bring people into clinics, but instead actually is able to look and improve health where it begins,” Manchanda states, “And where health begins is not in the four walls of a doctor's office, but where we live and where we work, where we eat, sleep, learn and play, where we spend the majority of our lives.” Manchanda suggests that improving our health is more than just being put on a medication. Better health is improving our daily surroundings and furthering each day in a healthy way: it will make moving upstream a much easier concept.

We live in a country where all children go to school to gain an education and 25% of them will go onto receive some type of college degree. Compare this to low-income countries, in which children are 16 times as likely to die prior to their fifth birthday (Nickitas, Middaugh & Aries, 2016). Beyond the lens of our smartphones, Facebook friends and Nike sneakers is a world full of desperate people wishing to have enough food to eat for today. Many parts of the world lack sanitation, safe housing, sparse medical care and no medication. The global health issue are everyone’s problems not only for the sake of altruism but, with the increase in global travel for routine business and pleasure, dangerous pathogen are no longer confine by boarders. The Ebola outbreak four years ago, proved the necessity of a global solution to global health issues. The collaborative practice of several world health agencies and economically developed countries along with the use of volunteers, statistical updates, the latest literature and practices kept this outbreak mostly contained to its region of origin and the death toll to approximately 11,000 people (mainly in West Africa) (WHO,

With the focus on these five areas, Governments in each country are creating health systems that aim to provide services that are affordable, equitable and accessible. To achieve a sustainable health system, cooperation and participation of all health care providers is vital. This will work towards WHO’s goal of achieving “better health for all”

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would become the central point-of-contact within the national government in responding to incidents. Since formation in 1979, FEMA’s core missions were to enhance the government’s ability to survive a foreign attack, and to assist state and local authorities in disaster response (Carafano, 2005). And while the two core missions seem heterogenous in scope at times from an outside perspective, the biggest difference between the two tasks is duration. A man-made disaster may be over in a matter of minutes as compared to a hurricane lasting several days, but in both instances the road to recovery is long. In order to streamline response and recovery in either scenario, FEMA was reorganized with new directives to support comprehensive emergency management practices (CRS, 2006). Today, FEMA provides the standard approach and guidance that many local communities may not have due to funding, training, and

The emergency events caused by infectious disease, natural or anthropogenic causes with the potential to overwhelm or otherwise disrupt routine local capacities due to their timing, scale or unpredictability should be communicated properly and routinely which requires rapid knowledge transfer and uptake (Khan et al., 2017, p. 2).

In the summer of 2014, as a part of the Global Medical Brigades, I visited and stayed at a small village in Nicaragua for 11 days. While visiting Nicaragua, I was really astonished by the lack of health care as well as, the lack of any health system in particular. Families did not have access to any type of medicine, unless they lived in the village and had money to spend. However, this was not the case for many of the families in the village so several of them suffered and fell ill to diseases and infections. Also, the water was not very clean and access to clean water, once again, could only be found in cities. About 50% of the population lives in poverty in which 85% of this population struggle to live on more than one-dollar daily (Balint 1999). Several communities are limited in their access to basic health services because of poor road infrastructure, which makes transportation and trade tremendously difficult. Historically, each step forward that Nicaragua has taken in the realm of development has been counteracted with a step back in the form of a revolution, natural disasters, repealing of funding for governmental projects or foreign aid. The focus of my research is observing and recording the factors that contribute to the high mortality rate of the Nicaragua populations and how these challenges can be combatted and resolved. My paper will discuss the inaccessibility of health care and why it is difficult to reach among populations that live in poverty and rural

Selective application of the framework’s structures and procedures is also possible to account for differing factors in incidents and the resources available. Partnerships between government agencies at the local and federal level, private sector entities, communities and individuals become of the utmost importance in this design. They all play a key part, with each entity’s roles and responsibilities supplementing the group effort in realizing the mission. This system also allows for the development of a unified command. With the integration of all levels of the community, maintaining coordination and cohesion is also necessary. One command would permit for concentrated effort and proper allocation of skills and resources towards the common goal (National Response Framework Second Edition,

FEMA response to disastrous incident have improve drastically from the beginning of time. After each incident, organizations such as FEMA learned from previous incidents in what steps to take when it comes to dealing with Natural Disasters incidents. After Hurricane Sandy incident, “Communities are building back stronger and becoming more resilient for the future through collaborative partnerships between state, local and federal agencies” (N.D., 2015). Due to past Natural Disaster the government and other organizations had learned that it is best to come together and work as a team to provide assistance to those who were victims of the Natural Disaster incident. Since there were many organizations and they all had a different obligation. A

The year 2017 has seen a plethora of deadly disasters. Disasters, natural or man-made, are extremely disturbing events that cause hardship, suffering, injury, and death. A disaster can be detrimental to human societies and their way of life. Natural disasters, such as hurricanes, mudslides, and wild fires can cause everlasting changes to humanity, biomes, and the planet. Likewise, man-made events, such as war, terrorist attacks, or toxic spills can be just as damaging. One job of the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) is to insure that humanitarian aid is provided to relieve the pain and suffering caused by all types of disasters. In addition, saving lives by utilizing our resources is the main goal of the UN. Norman Borlag once stated, “The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.” Therefore, the issues that will be addressed using the $50,000,000 plus anonymous contribution will involve providing humanitarian aid to disaster torn areas in order improve the standard of living and preserve human dignity. This is the most important dilemma facing the international community today.

There is no universal fix to the complexities of each country and what they face with regards to their health care needs. Health care is a fundamental need among all peoples. Each country will have to work on solving the disparities that exist in access of care, funding of care, and availability of care. Because we now find ourselves facing the dilemma of fighting many infectious diseases once thought to be under control, we must work with all countries around the world. Every country faces the potential of an outbreak of a disease like SARS or a terrorism strike involving biological or chemical agents. Global initiatives to improve the health of nations across the board regardless of resources in these nations will benefit all. We need to continue with consistent and comprehensive measures to ensure health equity to all (Williams & Torrens, 2010).

The speaker Ella Watson-Stryker presents the speech “Promoting Global Public Health and Social Justice: Reflections From the Front Line”. She mainly talks about her experience in against the deadly disease-Ebola. There were no medicine and no cure for Ebola at that time, and the surrounding environment was full of fear and hostile. Before that, she introduces the importance of social justice by the example of religion rituals. Different religions have their own rituals; however, there are horrible things happen, but we can do nothing because we need to respect religion rituals. There are other diseases like Ammonia, which is a disease can be prevented. However, there are people still died because of the lack of awareness; in order

FEMA is, however, a ‘response’ group rather than a prevention group. What we are advocating here is that a committee is formed to specifically target the poor and provide them with preventive knowledge against disasters. Thus, this committee might be formed under the funding of the local government or even under FEMA, but must be a separate and independent entity that can focus on its own function. The committee is to be composed of both educators and experts in the field of disaster preparedness and it will create a program by which people living under the poverty line can participate with very minimal cost (or ideally free of charge). The goal is not to ‘provide’ the preparedness equipment, the goal is that after engaging in the program, participants will now know what to do and what to have in order to become more resilient. In order to reach as many people as possible, the same task force shall work effectively advertising the program around the town or city they are working in. Finally, the relationship between the committee and their ‘graduated’ participants must not end with the program. Continuous updating of information and useful practices must occur in order to ensure that people had the best information at

It is important to recognise that public health problems are complex and can be vast in magnitude. By nature health affects all populations, and therefore health leadership and management must consider chain reactions into economic and social problems, as well as direct health outcomes.

Global health is defined as “health problems, issues, or concerns that transcend national borders” (Institute of Medicine, 1997, p. 2). Koplan (2009) proposed a new definition for global health which he described as an “area for study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide” (para, 7). Global health emphasizes transnational health issues, determinants, and solutions from an interdisciplinary perspective and blends population health and clinical care.

Although volunteers for Medecins Sans Frontiers are commonly stationed in various countries with a dire healthcare worker shortage, regions with refugee camps and internally displaced persons are also a focus for this organization. Refugees and internally displaced persons often come from war torn regions and live in close confines with poor sanitation and limited resources. These living situations become a breeding ground for diseases and other health issues like malnutrition, yet the individuals lack access to any sort of healthcare. The organization also responds quickly when regions suddenly experience an increased need for healthcare, for example in times of an epidemic or a natural disaster. Medecins Sans Frontiers’ involvement across its varying regions and their attempt to address a broad spectrum of healthcare truly show how altruistic the organization is to individuals regardless of race, gender, or religion.