Health MDG

• it states that global health pertains to various health issues, concerns, and trends which go beyond national boundaries and call for global initiatives for the protection and promotion of peoples’ health across the world.
• Global health


  Various health issues, concerns, and trends which go beyond national boundaries and call for global initiatives for the protection and promotion of peoples' health across the world
• The United Nations Millennium Development Goals are eight targets that all 191 UN Member States have agreed to achieve by 2015.
• The United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000 commits world leaders to fight discrimination against women and children, disease, hunger, poverty, illiteracy, and environmental degradation.
• Suggestions to eradicate poverty and hunger

  • Education
  • Promoting gender equality
  • Producing more jobs
  • Investing more in agriculture
  • Strengthened nutrition programs for children and infants
  • Support and protection of developing and vulnerable countries during crises
• Benefits of education for children

  • Marry and have their own families at a later stage in life
  • Practice family planning and have fewer children
  • Know rights, responsibilities and civic obligations
  • Seek employment and sustain personal and family needs
  • Have decreased risk of getting sexually transmitted infections like HIV/AIDS
  • Support and protection of developing and vulnerable countries during crises
• Ways to achieve gender equality

  • Early childhood development intervention
  • Promotion of women's political rights and involvement
  • Improved reproductive health programs and policies
  • Education and integrating gender equality in school curriculum
  • Improved women's access to work and strengthened labor policies for women
  • Support and protection of developing and vulnerable countries during crises
• Ways to reduce child mortality

  • Immunization programs
  • Assuring the survival and better health of mothers
  • Improving reproductive health programs and policies
  • Better nutrition program for infants, children and mothers
• Ways to improve maternal health

  • Improved and proper nutrition of mothers
  • Teaching the benefits of birth spacing and small family size
  • Educating young boys and girls about the importance of maternal health
  • Better and improved access to hospital care especially obstetrics-gynecology, prenatal and postnatal care
• Ways to combat diseases

  • Improved housing conditions
  • Increased access to anti-malarial medicines
  • Promoting safer sex behavior and preventive education for all
  • Promoting Tuberculosis (TB) screening of HIV/AIDS persons and TB - Directly Observed Treatment Short (TB-DOTS) Course therapy
  • Promoting the use of insecticide-treated nets to fight mosquito-borne diseases
• Benefits of a sustainable environment


  • Cleaner air and environment
  • Clean, environment-friendly, and renewable energy
  • New and aspiring jobs and business in energy
  • Increased access to sanitation
• Benefits of global partnership

  • Expanded international trade agreements
  • Improved access to affordable medicine
  • Reduced poverty through government debt relief grant
  • Developed information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure
• One of the benefits of globalization to the world is the development and improvement of various health initiatives initiated by different nations and governments to address health issues and concerns.
• Global health initiatives


  Programs set in motion by the United Nations through the World Health Organization and in partnership with the World Bank which targets specific health problems including but not limited to emerging and re-emerging diseases, climate change, environmental sanitation, mental health, tobacco regulation, and alcohol use
• Roll Back Malaria


  1. To enable and to increase the capacity of caregivers to recognize malaria promptly and take early appropriate action

  2. To empower service providers by imparting adequate knowledge, skill and capacity which enable them to respond to malaria illness appropriately

  3. To create an enabling environment for implementation
• Objectives of Stop TB

  • To achieve universal access to high-quality diagnosis and patient-centered treatment
  • To reduce the suffering and socio-economic burden associated with TB
  • To protect poor and vulnerable populations from TB, TB/HIV and multi drug-resistant – TB (MDR-TB)
  • To support development of new tools and enable their timely and effective use
• New vaccines introduced by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization

  • Hepatitis B vaccine
  • Childhood meningitis vaccine
  • Yellow fever vaccine
  • Influenza vaccine
  • Vaccine for pneumonia
• The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria is a funding project rather than an initiative. Nevertheless, it helps in the prevention, reduction, and mitigation of the negative impacts of the three diseases to humanity which contributes to the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals.
• WHO FCTC provisions


  • Price and tax measures to reduce the demand for tobacco
  • Protection from exposure to tobacco smoke
  • Regulation of the contents of tobacco products
  • Regulation of tobacco product disclosures
  • New packaging and labeling of tobacco products
• WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)


  Prime international treaty negotiated under WHO in reaction to the global epidemic of tobacco use and abuse, reaffirming the right of every individual to the highest standard of health promoting public health and providing new legal means for global health cooperation
• WHO FCTC provisions


  • Price and tax measures to reduce the demand for tobacco
  • Non-price measures to reduce the demand for tobacco
• Non-price measures to reduce the demand for tobacco

  • Protection from exposure to tobacco smoke
  • Regulation of the contents of tobacco products
  • Regulation of tobacco product disclosures
  • New packaging and labeling of tobacco products
  • Education, communication, training and public awareness
  • Demand reduction measures concerning tobacco dependence and cessation
  • Tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship
• Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol


  Recognizes the close ties between the harmful use of alcohol and the socio-economic development of a nation, and builds and supports other global health initiatives like the global strategy for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
• Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases


  A global action plan to prevent and control cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, cancers, and diabetes and the four shared risk factors: unhealthy eating, physical inactivity, tobacco and alcohol use
• Objectives of the Action Plan

  • To raise the priority accorded to non-communicable disease at global and national levels and to integrate prevention and control of such diseases into policies across all governments
  • To establish and strengthen national policies and plans for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
  • To promote interventions to reduce the main shared but preventable risk factors for non-communicable diseases: unhealthy eating, physical inactivity, tobacco use, and harmful use of alcohol
  • To promote research for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
  • To promote partnerships for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
  • To monitor non-communicable diseases and their causal factors and evaluate progress at the local, national and global levels
• Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020


  Result of extensive research and consultations by stakeholders, member nations, academic and non-government centers across the globe, addressing fighting and alleviating negative trends in mental health, improving and making mental health services and care accessible, and preventing abuse of rights and unjust treatment against people with mental problems, disorders, and disabilities
• UNDP's Quick Wins


  • No school fees and free access to educational materials and facilities in schools
  • Children are provided with free school meals and take-home rations using locally produced food
  • Regular annual deworming for all school children especially in impoverished areas
  • Provision for poor farmers of affordable supplies of soil nitrogen and other soil nutrients
  • Design community nutrition programs for pregnant, nursing mothers and children below five years of age
  • Offer basic skills training of community members in health, farming, technical-vocational, and infrastructure
  • Free basic health services sponsored by private organizations
  • Expanded access to sexual and reproductive health information and services
  • Distribution of free, effective and efficient insecticide-treated bed nets to families especially in malaria and dengue-endemic areas
  • Active national and local campaigns to reduce violence against women and children
  • Reform and enforce legislation protecting and empowering women's and children's rights
  • Empowering women to play an important role in formulating and monitoring poverty reduction strategies, programs and policies
  • Allowing government-owned hospitals, health centers, schools and other social service institutions free access to electricity, water, sanitation and internet using sustainable and renewable energies
  • Plant endemic trees at the community level to provide shade, produce, watershed protection, windbreak and timber
• Global health initiatives are programs and projects which help address global health issues, concerns, and trends
• Global health is a new trend in which the World Health Organization addresses health concerns in cooperation with member-nations and private international organizations as partners
• The United Nations formulated the eight millennium developmental goals in the year 2000 so that nations across the world can reduce poverty and hunger, promote universal education for all and gender equity, reduce mortality among children, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDs, malaria, and other communicable diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, and develop global partnership in addressing global problems
• Global health initiatives led by the World Health Organization

  • Stop TB
  • Roll Back Malaria
  • Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
  • Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
  • Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan
  • Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol
  • Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases
• Poverty is the state of living below economic and social standards.