Nursing 1060A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Global Health, Preterm Birth, Sub-Saharan Africa
9 Dec 2016
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Many factors that operate in terms of creating health. Global health authors state that what were talking about is the health of the whole planet. Provincial: lets make healthy change happen document, provincial action plan. National: canada"s top 5 in 5, increasing the percentage of primary care practices offering after hours care, increasing chronic disease case management and navigational capacity in primary care. Who 10 facts on the state of global health. Life expectancy at birth has increased globally by six years since 1990. However there are around 6. 6 million children under the age of five who die each year due to malnutrition largely, issue about providing formula instead of breastfeeding and medications, vaccinations, clean drinking water and sanity. Preterm birth is the leading killer of babies world wild, 1 in 10 babies are born pre term and the complications related to a pre term birth cause more than a million deaths each year.
