Nursing 1060A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Médecins Sans Frontières, International Health, Primary Healthcare
20 Dec 2015
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Who definition of health: sense of responsibility for health of global population, not the absence of disease, makes up several domains including emotional, mental, and spiritual health. Declaration of alma-ata: primary health care approach. Key strategy in how health care systems are developed. Ottawa charter (1986: first international meeting in health promotion, promoting primary prevention. Ensure access to adequate income, food, education, and shelter. Research, study, and practice: priority in achieving health equity. Health inequity causes many preventable diseases: local, national, and international perspective of sdoh, interdisciplinary approach, views at population health level, not individual. Comparison of public health, global health, and international health. Public health: a system set in place to prevent disease and promote health focused on a population, broadly applied set of services/measures, ex. Vaccination is a good example of a public health measure: ex. Looks at safe water supply: benefit individuals, however are targeted to populations, focused on health in countries other than one"s own, ex.
