scholarly journals Globalisation, Public Health and COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-70
Author(s):  
Rajendra Karkee
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Global Health ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Economic Policies

Public Health is the collective action for sustained population-wide health improvement. There are various factors that can affect the health of a population. These factors are often summarised as social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental factors. Along with these classical factors, there is another emerging factor in 21st century; that is globalisation. Globalisation and ‘Global Health’ has become an important aspect of public health to be known by a public health graduates Not only transmissions of diseases across borders are threat but also economic policies, politics, trade treaties, expansion of multination companies and consumption of foods affect health worldwide.

scholarly journals What Will it Take to Address the Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance?

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J. Hoffman ◽  
Kevin Outterson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Antibiotic Resistance ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Global Threat ◽  
Economic Tools

Of the many global health challenges facing the world today, only a small number require global collective action. Most health challenges can be fully addressed through action at local, regional or national levels.What kind of actions must be taken to address the global threat of antibiotic resistance (ABR)? What legal, political and economic tools might be needed to achieve this level of action?In March 2015 the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation convened a workshop in Uppsala, Sweden to address these questions in partnership with the Global Strategy Lab, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (JLME), the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and ReAct — Action on Antibiotic Resistance. Eleven concise articles were commissioned to explore whether ABR depended on global collective action, and if so, what tools could help states and non-state actors to achieve it.

Vaccines of the 21st Century and Vaccinomics: Data-Enabled Science Meets Global Health to Spark Collective Action for Vaccine Innovation

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 523-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vural Ozdemir ◽  
Tikki Pang ◽  
Bartha M. Knoppers ◽  
Denise Avard ◽  
Samer A. Faraj ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Global Health ◽  
21St Century

Environmental and Climate Change Initiatives in Nursing Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Phyllis Eide ◽  
Tamara Odom-Maryon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Human Health ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Change Initiatives

Climate change has been labeled the greatest threat to public health and to global health in the 21st century. Addressing climate change has also been reframed as the greatest opportunity for global health in the 21st century, providing a more proactive lens through which to plan and implement actions. Significant climate change impacts to human health are numerous and mounting, including the direct effects of heatwaves, thermal stress and changed frequency or intensity of other extreme weather events. Climate change has been termed a complex public health issue affecting all areas of nursing practice dealing with individuals, families, communities, and the national health arena, and is therefore deserving of inclusion into nursing curricula throughout the entirety of prelicensure coursework. Nursing education programs that include this content will better prepare future nurses to face projected environmental challenges to human health.

scholarly journals Alcohol marketing versus public health: David and Goliath?

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Madden ◽  
Jim McCambridge
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Health ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Alcohol Policies ◽  
Alcohol Marketing ◽  
The World ◽  
David And Goliath

Abstract Background Alcohol harms are rising globally, and alcohol policies, where they exist, are weak or under-developed. Limited progress has been made since the formulation of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Strategy in 2010. WHO is seeking to accelerate progress in implementing international efforts to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. The threat to global health posed by tobacco is well understood by policy communities and populations globally; by contrast alcohol is much less so, despite available evidence. The competition for epistemic authority Global alcohol corporations have sought to become trusted sources of advice for policy makers and consumers, while continuing to grow their markets. Evidence-informed public health messaging faces formidable competition from transnational corporations as the worlds of corporate and political communications, social and mainstream media become increasingly linked, presenting new opportunities for corporate actors to shape global health governance. Alcohol messaging that uses means of persuasion tied to industry agendas does not tell a clear story about commercial determinants of health, and does not contribute to health improvement. On the contrary, the basic tenets of an evidence-informed population-based approach are denied and the policy measures supported by high quality evidence are being opposed, because they are inimical to commercial interests. A David and Goliath metaphor for this state of affairs, which seems to fit at first glance, may unwittingly reinforce the status quo. Conclusion Public opinion on alcohol and policy issues varies across time and place and can be influenced by dedicated public health interventions. Alcohol marketing dominates people’s thinking about alcohol because we currently allow this to happen. Greater ambition is needed in developing countermarketing and other interventions to promote evidence-informed ideas with the public. Alcohol policies need to be further developed, and implemented more widely, in order to arrest the growing burden of alcohol harms across the world.

scholarly journals Insights from the classroom

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-16
Author(s):  
Marni Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
School Of Public Health ◽  
Student Training

A novel approach to expand ing student training in graduate masters of public health is to incorporate ethnographic methodological training, both observation and fieldwork, into courses teaching students about structural and environmental factors impacting on health outcomes. One such course is offered at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, where a course entitled ‘Structural Approaches in Global Health’ has both extended students’ prior methodological training, while also harnessing students’ insightful observations from their fieldwork and analysis of the New York City public health landscape.

Building Capacity for Collective Action to Address Population Health Improvement Through Communities of Practice: A Distance-Based Education Pilot

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 21S-27S ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina R. Welter ◽  
Beth-Anne Jacobs ◽  
Elizabeth Jarpe-Ratner ◽  
Sophie Naji ◽  
Kelsey Gruss
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
Action Learning ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Strategic Learning

Improving population health requires a comprehensive array of interventions across individual, organizational, and community levels. Integrating primary care and public health strategies through partnerships is one type of intervention. Workforce development can facilitate this type of integration; however, models and modalities of workforce training primarily focus on individual skill building and may not build the capacity needed for collective action. A collaborative and strategic learning approach, communities of practice, fosters primary care and public health integration to address population health. A Health Resources and Services Administration–funded multistate regional Public Health Training Center (PHTC), the Great Lakes PHTC, undertook an action learning process to develop and pilot a workforce development initiative to promote ongoing learning toward shared goals. Great Lakes PHTC facilitated 11 discussions throughout the region with a total of 100 participants from primary care and governmental public health communities to better understand perceptions, gaps, barriers, and opportunities for integration and training. Findings indicated that a regional, coordinated model to workforce development provided a process for improved, ongoing learning that uncovered gaps in adapting distance-based approaches that can be addressed in future programming efforts. In addition, the process revealed that addressing population health issues through integrated partnerships requires training beyond content and discipline that incorporates multiple modalities and models.

Building Capacity of the Public Health Education Workforce Through Partnerships: The Global Health Disparities CD-ROM Project

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Mark Tomita
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
State University ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Prevention Services ◽  
The Usa

The Global Health Disparities CD-ROM Project reaffirmed the value of professional associations partnering with academic institutions to build capacity of the USA public health education workforce to meet the challenges of primary prevention services. The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) partnered with the California State University, Chico to produce a CD-ROM that would advocate for global populations that are affected by health disparities while providing primary resources for public health educators to use in programming and professional development. The CD-ROM development process is discussed.

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