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Title: Global Health Global Health Network Supercourse Project, University of Pittsburgh


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Global HealthGlobal Health Network Supercourse
Project, University of Pittsburgh
  • Building a Global Prevention Network to Share
    Knowledge and Wisdom

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Mission 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 problem.

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International 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

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Global 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."
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Why should medical students learn about global
health
  • As of today, medical schools have very few
    lectures on global health is 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

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What 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

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Local health International health
Global health
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Smallpox vaccination the case of global health
effort in disease eradication
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Most important problems of global health today
  • Communicable, maternal, perinatal and nutritional
    conditions
  • Noncommunicable diseases
  • Injuries

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  • 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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Digital divide gap between haves and have
nots One of the biggest global health challenges
is access to information
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The 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

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Last Biomedical Journal 1990
Cuttington University, Liberia
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How can you become involved with Global Health? 
The Supercourse
  • SUPERCOURSE-global library of lectures on
    prevention and public health, shared for free by
    the best faculty in the world.

www.pitt.edu/super1
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Circle of Learning
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Global Health Information Sharing Supercourse
CD/DVD
Distributed to over 10,000 individuals around the
globe
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Conclusion
  • 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

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Additional 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
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