The application of strategic management theory in global public health: towards a model of health determinants, health status and interventions

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Jonathan Foster-Pedley ◽  
Len Lerer
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
Global Public Health

Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
Law And Ethics ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Development Goals

This opening volume of the Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health showcases the breadth of public health in terms of the range of topics that are covered and the number of disciplines on which public health now draws. The scope of public health has continued to evolve and a strong public health base will be a key to meeting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals that relate to both the need for health improvement and for a reduction in inequalities in health. The contributions in this volume provide an introduction to the development of public health as a discipline in countries at different stages of development and give a detailed overview of areas of critical importance. It covers this over three sections: the development of the discipline of public health, determinants of health and disease, and public health policies, law, and ethics.

Globalization

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-79
Author(s):  
Kelley Lee
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Cognitive Changes ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Changing Patterns

Globalization, defined as the closer interconnectedness of human societies across national borders and geographies, through a mixture of spatial, temporal, and cognitive changes, is having wide-ranging impacts on public health. This interconnectedness is characterized by restructuring of the world economy, increased population mobility, and advances in information and communication technology, all of which can have profound impacts on health determinants and outcomes. Contemporary globalization creates new opportunities to enhance human health and well-being, but can also be a potential source of negative externalities. In addition, the costs and benefits to health from globalization have been inequitably distributed. A ‘global public health’ approach seeks to better understand the changing patterns of health and disease, and their determinants, arising from globalization, and the interventions needed to effectively manage them. This requires greater attention to achieving collective action, underpinned by legal and regulatory frameworks, across populations and societies to tackle transboundary health determinants and outcomes. More effective global health governance, in turn, will contribute to more sustainable forms of globalization.

scholarly journals 1.D. Workshop: Food and water insecurities in a warming climate: What role for Public Health?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
Public Health Community ◽  
Water Supplies ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Health Community

Abstract Food and water are fundamental environmental health determinants. They are necessities of life, such that shortfalls in ready access in sufficient quality and quantity precipitate poor health, failure to thrive, susceptibility to disease, and if not rectified, ultimately lead to death. Archeological and historical records testify that large scale interruptions to food and water supplies trigger widespread social upheaval and when driven by systematic inequities in distribution, can overthrow governments. The desperation to secure survival is deep-seated. Competition for scarce resources, mass migration and conflict further generate environmental damage, disruptions to social cohesion, and can also herald novel challenges to health and wellbeing. Climate change is accelerating and with it, increasing intensity of extreme events such as heatwaves, droughts, fires, storms and floods. These interrupt food and water supplies and income generation. Unless transformative and rapid reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions can be achieved, and achieved promptly, the global population will be forced to confront escalation in shortfalls. Will wealthy nations accommodate the needs of the global disadvantaged? Exposure of agricultural sectors to climate extremes is already reversing gains made towards ending malnutrition and achieving SDG1: Reducing global hunger and malnutrition. Global water insecurity is also intensifying. A perfect storm is looming with accelerated global warming against a backdrop of rapid population growth and existing challenges in ensuring water and food security for all. The combination of lethal heat extremes and intensifying insecurities in these basic human needs threatens to make many homelands uninhabitable. Humanity is creating a Climate Change Emergency, which translates to a Global Public Health Emergency. It is thus incumbent upon the world's public health community to move beyond engagement in this climate change crisis. We must step up and take leadership to protect the health of all. Is the PPRR risk management model: Prevent, Prepare, Respond and Recover, the way forward? Workshop participants will have the opportunity to hear from a panel of three public health experts from the World Federation of Public Health Association to gain a deep understanding of the relationship pathways between climate change and these accelerating health threats. Recent global disasters events will illustrate the diversity and extent of this unfolding crisis. Examples of promising Public Health Response solutions will highlight what can be achieved by applying a coordinated public health lens. This interactive session elicits audience involvement through facilitated Question and Answer discussion. Following the panel presentations, the Q&A session will enable workshop participants to explore how better engagement of the public health sector can serve to help ameliorate the risks, and build resilience through Climate Change PPRR. Key messages Interruptions to food and water security generate disease, famine, conflict and in severe circumstances mass migration, disproportionately harming the global disadvantaged, and ultimately everyone. Climate change risks food & water security and thus threatens human wellbeing. Observed effects will dramatically escalate. The global public health community must engage to protect health.

scholarly journals ZIKA Virus Disease as Public Health Emergency and Ethics

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Rhyddhi Chakraborty ◽  
Edmond Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Virus Infection ◽  
Zika Virus ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Zika Virus Infection ◽  
Status Of Women

This paper argues that Zika virus infection has its ethical implications beyond the reproductive health of women. It claims that Zika virus infection like public health emergency exposes the underlying health determinants and health status of women. Therefore, ethical mitigation of Zika like public health emergencies should consider these underlying health determinants and health status of women. For, undermining and overlooking these underlying determinants and health status of women, during the public health emergencies, enhance the health inequities. The recent Zika virus infection in Brazil has triggered different ethics consultation and has prompted to outline ethical recommendations. However, the recommendations have either focused on the reproductive health of women or on the core strategies of public health emergency. Considering this as a gap in perspective to prepare for Zika like public health emergencies, this paper argues that it is the underlying holistic health of women, precisely, health capability, which should be given due ethical consideration. Finally, the paper concludes highlighting the fact that focusing on the holistic health of the women during Zika like public health emergencies and beyond can bring in long-term benefits for global health equity.

Life Lessons of the Pandemic ”Covid - 19”

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 469-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhagyashri Vijay Chaudhari ◽  
Priya P. Chawle
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Lifetime History ◽  
The People ◽  
Life Lessons

“A lesson learned the hard way is a lesson learned for a lifetime.” Every bad situation hurts; however, it sure does teach us something a lesson. In the same manner of a new lesson for Human lifetime, history is observing 'The Novel COVID-19 ’, a very horrible and strange situation created due to fighting with a microscopic enemy. WHO on 11 February 2020 has announced a name for new disease as - 19 and has declared as a global public health emergency and subsequently as pandemic because of its widespread. This began as an outbreak in December 2019, with its in Wuhan, the People Republic of China has emerged as a public health emergency of international concern. is the group of a virus with non-segmented, single-stranded and positive RNA genome. This bad situation of pandemic creates new scenes in the life of people in a different manner, which will be going to be life lessons for them. Such lessons should be kept in mind for the safety of living beings and many more things. In this narrative review article, reference was taken from a different article published in various databases which include the view of different authors and writers on the "Lessons to be from Corona".

Application of Inherent Risk of Contagion (IRC) framework & modelling to aid local Covid-19 response & mitigation: Viewpoint (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmi Zakariah ◽  
Fadzilah bt Kamaluddin ◽  
Choo-Yee Ting ◽  
Hui-Jia Yee ◽  
Shereen Allaham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Vulnerable Population ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Inherent Risk ◽  
Transmission Area ◽  
Current Outbreak ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

UNSTRUCTURED The current outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the novel coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 has been a major global public health problem threatening many countries and territories. Mathematical modelling is one of the non-pharmaceutical public health measures that plays a crucial role for mitigating the risk and impact of the pandemic. A group of researchers and epidemiologists have developed a machine learning-powered inherent risk of contagion (IRC) analytical framework to georeference the COVID-19 with an operational platform to plan response & execute mitigation activities. This framework dataset provides a coherent picture to track and predict the COVID-19 epidemic post lockdown by piecing together preliminary data on publicly available health statistic metrics alongside the area of reported cases, drivers, vulnerable population, and number of premises that are suspected to become a transmission area between drivers and vulnerable population. The main aim of this new analytical framework is to measure the IRC and provide georeferenced data to protect the health system, aid contact tracing, and prioritise the vulnerable.

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