Essay On Global Health Development

In addition to being the largest nation in Africa, Nigeria is one of the most populous nations in sub-Saharan Africa with 178 million people (World Bank n.d). With approximately 50% (World Bank, n.d.) of the population living outside the urban cities, Nigerians experience barriers to accessing health care in the remote rural areas. Furthermore, the high percentage of Nigerians living in poverty, 70% (NationMaster, 2015), provides for financial problems

When analyzing the global health care crisis, one should pay particular attention of the problem from both the macro and micro scale. Overlooking either side of the issue wastes both valuable time and resources during an era that cannot afford such loss. Some argue that health care is a fight that politicians must win to enact change. Others say the crisis is simply another economic matter that will eventually resolve itself under the theories of supply and demand. When we look at these explanations without seriously considering the issues that arise in the microcosm, we expose ourselves to moral hazard. In Banker to the Poor (1), Nobelaureate Muhammad Yunus describes how a great deal of change can result from looking at the problem from a

Namaste class here in our first units’ discussion board we are exploring the statistics included in the article “Focus on Public Health: Is your Lifestyle Healthy” that is in our assigned reading this week. We are ascribed to ponder over some of the results that are likely to come from the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study over the next 10 to 20 years.

I would love the opportunity to become a Global Health Fellow because it would allow me to delve deeper into social and political aspects of what causes people’s access, or lack of it, to adequate health care. As a pre-med MCDB major, a majority of the classes that I have the opportunity to take at Yale are dictated by the MCAT, Yale’s distributional requirements, and the extensive MCDB major. Global Health Fellows are granted priority enrollment into courses that would allow me to explore different aspects of myself and the world by looking at the real-world applications of challenges and answers that intrigue me instead of constantly examining deep cell biology. After being fed certain classes for being pre-med and not being awarded the

Health is a complex concept, and global health adds to this complexity. When I think of health as a concept, I view it as being absent of disease. This understanding is a very biomedical approach to health and is a very narrow viewpoint of health. According to the World Health Organization (1948), health is defined as a “state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (a cited by Jacobsen p. 2). This definition does give a better understanding of what health is from a broader perspective. At the University of Victoria’s Global Health class, I have become to understand better the WHO’s definition and that it is linked to the social determinants of health. In this paper, I will reflect and analyze the learning that occurred for myself while taking the Global Health class, and how this knowledge has helped my nursing practice evolve at the local and international level.

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Over the last two decades, Nigeria's healthcare system has deteriorated as a result of political instability, corruption and a mismanaged economy. Large parts of the country lack even basic healthcare provision, making it difficult to establish HIV testing and prevention services

Global health refers to all aspects of a system concerning health. It takes into account history and political economy to help us understand "the skewed distributions of wealth and illness around the globe" (Farmer). Medical anthropologists studying in this field analyze the contributions by such factors and work to solve health problems with "an interdisciplinary approach" (Farmer). Describing the forces that cause millions each year to fall ill to Malaria, a preventable and treatable disease, requires what Farmer calls a biosocial approach – analyzing how changing social structures that transcend national and other administrative boundaries affect health (Farmer).

The features that are important for world health are important us all. One billion people, throughout the world, live on with less than $1 a day. This is staggering. In some countries, you may have one doctor per 50,000 population, and almost no services at all in rural areas. Worldwide children are malnourished and have open sores. Overseas, in underdeveloped countries, people are dying of preventable diseases like tuberculosis, aids, and malaria in numbers that render researchers slack-jawed. There are no boundaries anymore, we're just one short flight away from being exposed to every infectious disease possible. Global health issues are not slowing down, instead they're accelerating.

This study allows for the doctors in the region of Africa to track four main untreatable diseases. They can assess the disease at different stages and figure out where to implement interventions. New studies can eventually allow for these diseases to be

There is a compassion gap in the first world. Although many believes human beings are all entitled to human dignity, they easily fail to recognize that human lives on the other side of globe are equally precious. The first world leaders still struggle to take a responsibility to appropriately intervene and protect human lives at risk. Through years of studying International Relations in college, I have learned about the politics of human rights. As my knowledge in civil wars and terrorism increased, I became more compelled to address neglected injustice and victims of human rights violations. Eventually, my focus shifted to transnational issues centered on victims of the conflicts, refugees and asylum seekers. I saw my fellow classmates learning and realizing the need and value of defending human rights, but many of them moved on and failed to act on their compassion. However, I became involved in multiple local community organizations and student organizations related to issues of global health and human rights. For example, I was a Hike to Help Refugees Campaign coordinator at Iowa United Nations Association and a director of recruitment at University of Iowa Students for Human Rights. Both experiences furthered my understanding of human rights advocacy at the local level, developed my leadership skills. Moreover, the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights has awarded an opportunity spend a summer interning with the Global Aid Network in 2015. As a result of the

Throughout my academic and professional career, I have developed skills that would be beneficial as a Gates Foundation Fellow and support the global health work that the organization is implementing. By majoring in sociology and earning a Masters of Public Health degree, I am trained to analyze health care issues with a population and systems-level perspective which is essential in global health practice. Having the opportunity to work in Hawai’i where the ethnic make-up varies significantly from the continental U.S. has afforded me a glimpse into working on health policy issues aimed at different populations with different cultures and customs that impact their health behaviors. I have evolved existing and developed new analytical skills while working in an epidemiological function within a state department of health (DOH) and while working on health economic-related projects with the state’s DOH. Furthermore, I have developed and demonstrated leadership skills through my experience as a Gates Millennium Scholar and the president of the Hawai’i Chapter of the Gates Millennium Scholars Alumni Association.

The reasonable question posed is if the movement of people, food and manufactured goods has such a bad impact on our health, should we take steps to reduce that movement? I don’t believe that is a realistic answer. With international travel on a far greater scale than imaginable a hundred years ago, reducing that flow now would be near impossible.

"The failure to engage in the fight to anticipate, prevent, and ameliorate global health problems would diminish America's stature in the realm of health and jeopardize our own 
health, economy, and national security, " stated by The Institute of Medicine. Global health refers to health phenomenon that transcends across national borders. For instance, global health would address predicaments such as: infectious and insect-borne diseases that can spread from one country to another. Thus, global health should be addressed by collaborative actions and solutions. On the other hand, countries tend to focus on other essential issues that are occurring in the present day and therefore, overlook the global health issue. Some issues that countries

The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD) is also on the rise and projected to have surpassed infectious diseased as the leading cause of death in Africa by 2030 . The projected increase in the burden of disease due to NCDs is driven by the improving scial conditions, rapid urbanisation, environmenta issues like air pollution, changes in lifestyle and diets including increase in consumption of alcohol and tobacco. In low-resourced countries, increased health-care costs due to NCDs such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes or chronic lung diseases drives households into