BMED 271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Green Belt Movement, Food Security, Wangari Maathai
17 Sep 2017
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Health can be promoted in four social conditions: availability of health services, safe working conditions, adequate housing, nutritious foods. Who created on april 7, 1948: unite nations made the universal declaration of human rights on december. Global health as a discipline based off of 4 factors: decision making based on data and evidence, population focused, not individual focus, goals towards social justice and equity, emphasis on prevention and not curative care. Section 2: social determinants of health (sdh: encompasses daily aspects of life such as community, medical system, work, and human-made environments. Prevention split between two types: upstream aims to treat the cause of a health issue, downstream aims to treat the health issue once it is introduced. Gap minder video: hans rosling says the for a population to become rich and healthy, they need to acquire four things, time, trade, peace, green technology.
