Global Health Issues That You Value, And How Did You Plan For Address Them?

An unstable backbone can obstruct the re-establishment of public services in any given case; infrastructural problems are common in both the agencies and the state; and they can occur because the supporting foundations are weak and scattered. A common occurrence is a state 's’ hopes to fix several problems at a time. During the 2006 International AIDS conference, President Bill Clinton stated: "If you first develop the health infrastructure throughout the whole country, particularly in Africa, to deal with AIDS you will increase the infrastructure of dealing with maternal and child health, malaria, and TB. Then I think you have to look at nutrition, water, and sanitation. All these things, when you build it up, you 'll be helping to promote economic development and alleviate poverty." (Garrett 2010) However, existent cases of successful health care establishment have not proven economic development, like the case of Haiti in 2006, who despite combatting HIV, plummeted economically during the same period of time. (Garrett 2010)The reason why healthcare does not equal economic progress or poverty alleviation is because other conditions can still remain existent: lack of cooperative government, lack of absorptive capacity and corruption. Although, health and economy shall not be developed independently, one is not the causality of the other, health shall progress with “early detection of disease and education in principles of healthy living” (Beaglehole and Bonita 1997, 211)

1. Reflect on how your perspective of the community’s health and the national, state, and local efforts toward a healthier population

Briefly explain your public health message and justify why you believe it would promote change within your target audience

We know and hear of the issues in Africa and other developing countries all the time, there are starving and thirsty children and families living in poor

The residents of Africa are suffering from preventable, treatable, and fatal diseases everyday at a higher rate compared to developed countries. The healthcare crisis in Africa is the primary cause of all these deaths, and includes inefficient healthcare systems. Consequently, African's inefficient healthcare systems results in poor delivery of care and a shortage of health professionals. The healthcare crisis in Africa is a current issue impacting the lives of many African's who don't have the same access to resources as developed countries such as the United States. These resources can save the lives of many African's dying of preventable and curable disease, and understanding why the African continent has little access to them

I would apply the lessons learned from this article to overcome political obstacles to another health initiative such as those dealing with obesity, climate change, HIV or other public health problem:

While reading I was able to understand that there are Common Themes of Profiles, of global health activists we see in our generation today. The top three that I was able to recognize and understand a lot is the equality existed between rich and poor, and how they can come together to help one another in difficult times. Another common theme is volunteering and the need to help those who really need it and give them the support they need while also appreciating and learning from the experience. The last one is understanding their culture and being able to humble yourselves in order to understand who these people really are and the best way to help them. There are many different countries in the world that make up different cultures and

The purpose of this research paper is to discuss the water crisis in the region of Africa and how water can cause many other problems such as inadequate sanitation, poverty and diseases for the population. People living in third world countries are suffering from the water crisis that has become a major problem for the United Nations, World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, Millennium Development Goals and many of the other organizations. For some of these organizations have been successful in providing a bit more water through the years it’s still a working process. Water is essential for life, it’s not just for the body’s physical need; yet millions of people do not have access to clean water. The lack of accessible of fresh water contributes too many diseases such as HIV, AIDS, waterborne diseases, causing the death of millions of women and children annually in the region. This is making it harder for the communities to develop a safer home for their families and to improve the conditions of the country. This research paper will examine the problems, solutions and causes. How it all comes together, to contribute to this water crisis and to weather there is a solutions set by the United Nations, studies that have been conducted and other organizations, which can maybe work for the years to come. In addition, the same water problems are going to be discussed with regard to Africa for statics, examples and quotes done by the organizations in the past and

1. Provide an overall summary of your original proposal. What global health issues did you value, and how did you plan to address them? (1 paragraph)

I am disturbed that not all lives are valued equally. I cannot accept the fact that children die from preventable diseases, simply because they are born in countries with less wealth and stability. In America, we are curing cancer with a mutated poliovirus strain, but we haven’t eradicated polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We come together in crises, highly publicized earthquakes and tsunamis, but we haven’t come together to solve the problem of basic human health, a right for every person on earth. Ensuring our health is complicated and daunting and requires the mass coordination of agencies and governments to build sustainable infrastructures with local citizens in charge. I want to be part of the solution and am engaging in public health in every way I can: in the field, in the classroom, and through global health

The Angolan government has lowered the health-budget over-and-over again. With the government relying solely on its oil production, once the oil “runs out” the income of Angola will decrease rapidly. It truly does not take a large amount of new discoveries or money to prevent, easily curable, diseases such as: malaria, typhoid fever, or malnutrition. Nurses that work in any hospital of Angola should be trained, correctly. Many children are dying due to a small group of officials abusing their power to keep the money for themselves. Though there are still many technicalities, if all nations step up as one, in order to eliminate poverty and prevent deaths from curable diseases. If those with power continue to make poor decisions, the end result will not be positive. What can you do to help this

My interest stemmed from living in Lagos, Nigeria. Lagos is one of the busiest and most populated cities in Africa and as a result, there are numerous health problems affecting the population. I wanted to know why certain health problems occur and ways they could have been prevented before affecting a fraction of the population. I was interested in the plans, programs that could be put in place

The most meaningful aspects according to me of that endeavor are: the gender equality and women’s empowerment, health and population, and water and sanitation. There are more topics that are as much important, but to me those three (United Nations, 2017) have substantial needs to be addressed first. The gender equity and women’s empowerment deals with women living in third world countries, women in most of those countries are treated as possessions with no human rights. But, it does not only focus on women, it deals with all people living in poverty and less than standard living environments. The agenda for the United Nations is to ensure by 2030 “that all women and men, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other resources.” (United Nations, 2017) The United Nations follows the birth and lives of people, the 2013 report states “In seven countries located in Middle and Western Africa, under-five mortality in 2010-2015 is estimated to be greater than 150 deaths per 1,000 live births, which is more than 50 times higher than in the world’s populations with the lowest mortality levels.” ( United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division, 2013) The health and population goal is to have by 2030 universal access to health coverage, with

This is a familiar scene in the northernmost part of Ghana, which according to the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy II, suffers from extreme poverty. These northern regions have the highest levels of malnutrition and stunting among children, the highest child morbidity and mortality rates, the most recurrent cases of guinea worm and other water borne diseases, and not surprisingly, the lowest school enrollment and completion rates especially among girls.

This essay aims to investigate two distinct solutions to increase the life expectancy in the developing countries.Life expectancy is the number of years in average that a person is expected to live depending on the conditions he\she is born into. Life expectancy varies from country to country; the developing world tends to have a low life expectancy due to lack of health, clean water and economic conditions. The countries that consist of low life expectancy are majorly the Sub Sahara Africa nations. Therefore, the expected years in which a person may live based on the socio-economic condition of the country itself, such as enough health care, accessibility to clean\safe water and education. Moreover, in 2000 the United Nations created the Millennium Development Goals, which consisted of eight goals; “eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV\AIDS, environmental sustainability and global partnership for development”. However, low life expectancy issues majorly focus on child mortality, poverty and education.