Nursing 3310A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Disease Burden, World Health Organization, Essentialism
11 Jan 2018
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Health in a global context: course description, explore and analyze the many contextual factors that influence the health of individuals and populations in regions of the world with limited resources. What we will learn today: what we mean when we talk about (cid:498)global health(cid:499), the history of global health internationally, the determinants of global health, culture and cultural competency, why this matters to canadian nurses. Merry (2012) suggests that for nurses, global health should be grounded in the understanding of health as what: the absence of disease, a fundamental human right, an economic good, a limited resource. Is global health defined differently than (cid:494)international health(cid:495) or (cid:494)public health(cid:495): no clear consensus on the terms and the terms have often been combined international public health. International health: disease burden, vs, global health, social, political, economic, and environmental contexts of health, this is similar to public health, but not bounded to any borders of a nation.
