Title: Global Health Global Health Network Supercourse Project, University of Pittsburgh
1Global HealthGlobal Health Network Supercourse
Project, University of Pittsburgh
- Building a Global Prevention Network to Share
Knowledge and Wisdom
2Mission of this lecture
- Teach every medical, public health and nursing
student in the world about global health - Develop a global health network for students to
tackle local to global health problems.
3The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Everyone has the right to a standard of living
adequate for the health and well being of himself
and his family, including food, clothing, housing
and medical care. - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
4International Health
- International health refers to the
interlocking and interrelated health status of
people throughout the world and to efforts to
improve the health of all people of every
country. - Last, Foege
5Public health, medicine, and nursing parts of
the same puzzle
6Global health is an important new term, and an
important new concept. The Institute of Medicine
refers to global health as "health problems,
issues and concerns that transcend national
boundaries, may be influenced by circumstances
or experiences in other countries, and are best
addressed by cooperative actions and
solutions."
7Why should medical students learn about global
health
- As of today, medical schools have very few
lectures on global health in their curricula - Health is becoming a global problem, with chronic
diseases being a number one killer around the
globe - By learning more about global health research,
medical students will be better equipped to face
the challenges of their unique profession
8What should medical students know about global
health
- Know the differences between global and
international health research - Identify key challenges to global health
- Recognize the importance of information sharing
in the area of global health - Recognize the importance of preventive activities
in improving global health - Recognize the need for global networking to
improve global health locally and globally
9Local health International health
Global health
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11Smallpox vaccination the case of global health
effort in disease eradication
12Most important problems of global health today
- Communicable, maternal, perinatal and nutritional
conditions - Noncommunicable diseases
- Injuries
13- There are many challenges to global health with
different professionals emphasizing different
diseases. - Interdisciplinary approaches are needed to ease
the burden of both communicable and
non-communicable diseases
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15Digital divide gap between haves and have
nots One of the biggest global health challenges
is access to information
16Problem Information sharing
- Important challenge to global health in the 21st
century. - Potential Solution WWW
17The importance of knowledge, learning,
innovation, and IT
- The most fundamental resource in modern economy
is knowledge and, accordingly, the most important
process is learning - Lundvall, Bengt-Åke (1992) National Systems of
Innovation. Towards a Theory of Innovation and
Interactive Learning. Pinter, London and New
York, pp. 342
18Education is the most powerful weapon which you
can use to change the world. Nelson
Mandela
19Latest Biomedical Journal 1990
Cuttington University, Liberia
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21One of the Solutions The Supercourse
www.pitt.edu/super1
- THE SUPERCOURSE is a global library of lectures
on prevention and public health, shared for free
by the best faculty in the world.
22Circle of Learning
23Global Health Information Sharing Supercourse
CD/DVD
Distributed to over 10,000 individuals around the
globe
24Forming a network
25Conclusion
- Global health is important, as similar conditions
plague people in developed and developing
countries alike - Life expectancy in the 20th century was improved
due to successes in global health efforts - Medical students need to know more about global
health research and form networks to share
important global health knowledge
26Organizations working in the area of global health
- World Health Organization, the Pan American
Health Organization, the World Bank, UNICEF, UN
High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN
Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, CARE International, the Global Health
Council, and many others
27Supercourse Core
28Additional Readings
- Open Source http//www.pitt.edu/super1/lecture/le
c6921/index.htm - Supercourse and Disaster Management Training
http//www.pitt.edu/super1/lecture/lec21601/index
.htm - Social Epidemiologic Methods in International
Population Health and Health Services Research
http//www.pitt.edu/super1/lecture/lec17561/index
.htm - Principles of Research Synthesis
- http//www.pitt.edu/super1/lecture/lec9611/index.
htm