HSCI 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Participatory Democracy, Cultural Relativism, Cosmopolitanism
9 Aug 2018
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Hsci 327 w2 readings & lecture: ethics and global health. Initiatives to serve political and commercial interests but also caught up in rivalries between major powers (who, 1948) Global health: the goal of improving health for all people in all nations by promoting wellness and eliminating avoidable disease, disabilities, and deaths improving health in low and middle-income countries. Placing priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide; global health emphasizes transnational health issues, determinants, and solutions interdisciplinary collaboration: synthesis of population-based prevention with indvl-level clinical care. Because stated goals typically include reducing health inequities and achieving health for all reflecting roots in public health and the influence of the human rights agenda. Political economy of health: indvl, family, community, national, international level. Understanding how to evaluate different courses of action and their social consequences in a given situation.
