HEALTH

• HEALTH : GLOBAL HEALTH

  • Rose in popularity along with the rise of globalization 
  • Global health pertains to various health issues, concern, and trends across the worlds (Ilone Kickbush, 2006)
  • An area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide (Koplan and Associates, 2009) 
• Promote gender equality


  Equal representation of men and women
• Developing countries particularly in Africa and Asia suffer from extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieve universal primary education

  Educating all children
• Programs and policies help to reduce child mortality

  Programs and policies that help reduce child mortality
• Adopting healthy sanitary practices and ensuring immunization of children

  Maintaining cleanliness and immunizing children
• Improve maternal health

  Improving mother's health
• Ensure environmental sustainability

  Assuring people to live healthier and enjoy clean environment
• Eight Millennium Development Goals
• Education

  Educating people
• Ensuring proper nutrition for their family

  Providing food and nutrition for families
• Poverty and hunger leads to severe malnutrition and damage and affects health
• Producing more jobs

  Creating jobs
• Equal representation of men and women

  Equal representation of men and women
• Emerging and re-emerging diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria, influenza and other diseases

  Diseases that are emerging or re-emerging like HIV/AIDS, malaria, influenza and other diseases
• Strengthening local and national health programs and policies

  Strengthening health programs and policies
• Develop a global partnership for development

  The United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, and governments work together to make sure there is a fair trade
• GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVES

  Global initiatives promotes collaborative action for sustainable development through stakeholder engagement, content, and high-level, multi-stakeholder forums by sharing knowledge and best practices, and calling on stakeholders to take action, they address some of the greatest challenges facing the world

  • World Health Organization (WHO) 
  • United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
  • The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 
  • Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)
• ROLL BACK MALARIA

  Efforts to reduce the number of deaths from malaria infection through prevention tools, rapid response to outbreaks, development of new antimalarial products, and effective treatment
• GLOBAL PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL USE

  Implementation of the WHO framework convention on Tobacco control (WHO FCTC) to reduce demand for tobacco through price and tax measures
• GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR VACCINES AND IMMUNIZATION

  Strategy to strengthen children’s immunization programs and introduce new licensed vaccines in developing countries
• GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR MENTAL HEALTH

  Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013-2022 to fight mental health issues, improve accessibility to mental health services, and prevent abuse of rights against people with mental problems
• STOP TB/TUBERCULOSIS

  Efforts to prevent transmission of tuberculosis worldwide, including the implementation of the TB-DOTS short-course strategy
• Global efforts against communicable diseases

  • ROLL BACK MALARIA
  • STOP TB/TUBERCULOSIS
  • GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR VACCINES AND IMMUNIZATION
  • THE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TB, AND MALARIA
  • GLOBAL PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL USE
  • GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
  • GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
• THE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TB, AND MALARIA

  Funding project to prevent, reduce, and mitigate the negative impacts of diseases
• GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

  Action plan to prevent and control non-communicable diseases