Global Health and The Millennium Development Goals

GLOBAL HEALTH AND
THE MILLENNIUM
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
•GLOBAL HEALTH
•Ilona kickbush (2006), director of the global health
program at the graduate institute of international and
development studies in geneva, switzerland 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.
•Koplan and associates (2009) states that global
health is an area for study, research and practice
that prioritizes health improvement and achieving
impartiality in healthcare and wellness worldwide.
•Beaglehole and bonita (2010) gave a short but
meaningful definition of global health: cooperative
research and action of international communities to
promote health for all
SOME OF THE GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVES SPEARHEADED BY
THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION INCLUDE THE
FOLLOWING:
• The global fight against communicable diseases
❑Roll back malaria.
Is a global effort to reduce the number of deaths from
malaria infection through heightened prevention tools, rapid
response to outbreaks, development of new anti-malarial
products, and effective treatment of the infection
• Specific objective:
• 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
❑Stop TB.
Stop tb is a global effort to prevent further
transmission of tuberculosis or tb around the
world. One of the programs for stop TB is the
implementation of the TB-DOTS short-course
strategy
• Objectives
• 1. To achieve universal access to high-quality diagnosis and patient-
centered treatment
• 2. To reduce the suffering and socio-economic burden associated with
TB
• 3. To protect poor and vulnerable populations from TB, TB/HIV and
multi drug-resistant – TB (MDR-TB)
• 4. To support development of new tools and enable their timely and
effective use.
❑ GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR VACCINES
AND IMMUNIZATION
•Is a global strategy which aims to strengthen children’s
immunization programs and introduce new generation
of licensed vaccines into use in developing countries
across the globe. These new vaccines which could help
reduce the number of deaths in children aged 5 years
old and below includes:
•Hepatitis B vaccine
• • Childhood meningitis vaccine
•• yellow fever vaccine
•Influenza vaccine
•Vaccine for pneumonia
THE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS,
TB, AND MALARIA
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.
GLOBAL PREVENTION AND CONTROL
OF TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL USE
• The WHO framework convention on tobacco control
(WHO FCTC) is the prime international treaty negotiated
under WHO. The WHO FCTC came into existence in
reaction to the global epidemic of tobacco use and abuse. It
reaffirms the right of every individual across the world to
the highest standard of health promoting public health
and providing new legal means for global health
cooperation
•The following summarizes the WHO FCTC provisions:
•1. Price and tax measures to reduce the demand for
tobacco, and
•2. Non-price measures to reduce the demand for
tobacco, namely:
❖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; and
❖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. Likewise, this strategy 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.
•Is a global action plan to prevent and control the
following non-communicable diseases:
cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory
diseases, cancers, and diabetes and the four shared
risk factors: unhealthy eating, physical inactivity,
tobacco use and alcohol use.
• Objectives of the action plan:
1. 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
2. To establish and strengthen national policies and plans for the
prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
3. 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
4. To promote research for the prevention and
control of non-communicable diseases
5. To promote partnerships for the prevention and
control of non -communicable diseases
6. To monitor non-communicable diseases and their
causal factors and evaluate progress at the
local, nationa,l and global levels
GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
•Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013-2020 the
“comprehensive mental health action plan 2013-2020”
Is the result of extensive research and consultations by
stakeholders, membernations, academic and non-
government centers across the globe. The mental health
action plan should be impartial, life-based, and
preventive in nature. It basically addresses the following:
• • To fight and alleviate negative trends in mental
health,
• • to improve and make mental health services
and care accessible, and
• • to prevent abuse of rights and unjust treatment
against people with mental problems, disorders,
and disabilities which are still prevalent around
the world
THE UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM’S QUICK
WINS THE UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
(UNDP) One of the undp’s intervention programs to achieve
the eight millennium development goals is called quick wins.
Quick wins are actions that can be immediately used within
the community or locale to produce effective results. If
applied continuously, quick wins could change people’s
views, and beliefs and trigger actions which could lead to
helping millions of lives and countries find their right path
towards the goals.
BELOW ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF QUICKWINS
• • Offer basic skills training of community members in

health, farming, technical-vocational, and
infrastructure.
• • Free basic health services sponsored by private
organizations.
•No school fees and free access to educational
materials and facilities in schools to ensure that all
children attend classes. This eliminates poor families’
concept that education is only for those who can afford
it. Finances can include donor assistance from
partnerships with private groups.
•• 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 to improve health and
education.
• • 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. These
includes breastfeeding, feeding programs and micronutrient
supplements like vitamin A and zinc.
•
• • Expanded access to sexual and reproductive health
information and services. These includes family
planning information campaign 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 like solar panels,
wind and geothermal generators
• . • Plant endemic trees at the community level to
provide shade, produce, watershed protection,
windbreak and timber.
PERFORMANCE TASK
• CHOOSE ONE GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVE OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND
WRITE A POEM ABOUT IT. INCLUDE THE AIMS OF THE INITIATIVE AND ITS IMPORTANCE TO
GLOBAL HEALTH.
• ACTIVITY 15: DEAR MR. PRESIDENT
• WRITE A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC
OF THE PHILIPPINES ABOUT THE PROBLEMS AND ISSUES OF YOUR
COMMUNITY AND WHY SHOULD IT BE ADDRESSED . GIVE HEALTH
INITIATIVES THAT SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED AND ACTED UPON TO
ENSURE THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF FILIPINOS AND THE
SOLUTIONS OF THAT PROBLEMS. SHARE YOUR LETTER IN CLASS.
• 1. WHY DOES THE WORLD NEED GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVES?
• 2. HOW CAN GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVES AFFECT OR IMPROVE LIVES
OF PEOPLE AROUND THE GLOBE?
• 3. HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR A STUDENT LIKE YOU TO KNOW THE
DIFFERENT HEALTH INITIATIVES?
• 4. WHY DOES A STUDENT LIKE YOU NEED TO FOLLOW AND ENGAGE
YOURSELF IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HEALTH INITIATIVES?
• 5. AS A STUDENT, HOW WILL YOU IMPART OR SHARE TO OTHER
PEOPLE ESPECIALLY IN YOUR COMMUNITY THE IMPORTANCE OF
WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED

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