Question

ESSENTIALS & PRACTICE IN GLOBAL HEALTH NURSING

Describe some of the current challenges in global health.

Describe the Millennium Development Goals and their relation to global health.

Identify how globalization has affected global health and the global economy.

Describe the major organizational actors in global health and the foci of their global health efforts.

Discuss the value of cooperation in addressing global health problems.

Answer 1

Ans. The current challenges in global health

Some of the current challenges in global health are infectious diseases like HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, obesity, malaria and sexually transmitted disease.

The rise of these diseases also has been driven by major factors such as tobacco use, physical inactivity, the harmful and excess use of alcohol, unhealthy diets, pollution, and contaminations etc.

Other challenges that rise to these risks are lower education rates, unawareness, high birth rates death rates and high infant mortality rates, poor infrastructures, low access to healthcare.

The Millennium Development Goals and their relation to global health

Goal 1. Eradicate poverty and hunger

Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education

Goal 3. promote gender equality and empower women

Goal 4. Reduce child mortality

Goal 5. improve Maternal Health

Goal 6. combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases

Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability

Goal 8. Develop a global partnership for development

Globalization has affected global health and the global economy

Globalization is associated with direct and indirect effects on health. Increased pathogen flows whether it is the risk of drug-resistant tuberculosis or pandemic influenza, the movement of people leads transport of pathogens from one place to another.

Increasing trade is good for economic opportunities but it also leads to globalization of health risks such as risks which include tobacco, alcohol and trade in health services, these can leads to diseasessuch as tuberculosis, liver disease etc.

The major organizational actors in global health and the foci of their global health efforts

The traditional actors on the global health stage are National Health Ministries and the World Health Organization (WHO) are now being joined a greater variety of civil society followed by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), private firms, professional association, public private partnerships which focuses on research, policy, and education.

The value of cooperation in addressing global health problems

Cooperation among countries can be an effective tool to strengthen, share and accelerate health development within countries and across regions.

It also involves creating, planning, implementing, transferring and sharing knowledge and experiences to improve global health problems among the countries.

The objective of development cooperation is to focus on national ownership and alignment with national plans and priorities for improving global health.