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Building a Global Prevention Network for Medical Students to Learn about Global Health

This lecture aims to teach every medical, public health, and nursing student about global health and develop a global health network for students to tackle local to global health problems. It covers the differences between global and international health research, key challenges to global health, the importance of information sharing, and the need for global networking to improve global health locally and globally.

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Building a Global Prevention Network for Medical Students to Learn about Global Health

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  1. Global HealthGlobal Health Network Supercourse Project, University of Pittsburgh Building a Global Prevention Network to Share Knowledge and Wisdom

  2. Mission of this lecture • Teach every medical, public health and nursing student in the world about global health • Develop a global health network for students to tackle local to global health problem.

  3. International Health International health refers to the interlocking and interrelated health status of people throughout the world and to efforts to improve the health of all people of every country. Last, Foege

  4. Global health is an important new term, and an important new concept. The Institute of Medicine refers to global health as "health problems, issues, and concerns that transcend national boundaries, may be influenced by circumstances or experiences in other countries, and are best addressed by cooperative actions and solutions."

  5. Why should medical students learn about global health • As of today, medical schools have very few lectures on global health is their curricula • Health is becoming a global problem, with chronic diseases being a number one killer around the globe • By learning more about global health research, medical students will be better equipped to face the challenges of their unique profession

  6. What should medical students know about global health • Know the differences between global and international health research • Identify key challenges to global health • Recognize the importance of information sharing in the area of global health • Recognize the importance of preventive activities in improving global health • Recognize the need for global networking to improve global health locally and globally

  7. Local health International health Global health

  8. Smallpox vaccination: the case of global health effort in disease eradication

  9. Most important problems of global health today • Communicable, maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions • Noncommunicable diseases • Injuries

  10. There are many challenges to global health with different professionals emphasizing different diseases. Interdisciplinary approaches are needed to ease the burden of both communicable and non-communicable diseases

  11. Digital divide: gap between haves and have nots One of the biggest global health challenges is access to information

  12. The importance of knowledge, learning, innovation, and IT “The most fundamental resource in modern economy is knowledge and, accordingly, the most important process is learning” Lundvall, Bengt-Åke (1992) National Systems of Innovation. Towards a Theory of Innovation and Interactive Learning. Pinter, London and New York, pp. 342

  13. University of Khartoum, Sudan Last Biomedical Journal 1990 Cuttington University, Liberia

  14. How can you become involved with Global Health?  The Supercourse SUPERCOURSE-global library of lectures on prevention and public health, shared for free by the best faculty in the world. www.pitt.edu/~super1

  15. Education in Medicine and Public Health Biomedical Research Circle of Learning

  16. Global Health Information Sharing: Supercourse CD/DVD Distributed to over 10,000 individuals around the globe

  17. Conclusion • Global health is important, as similar conditions plague people in developed and developing countries alike • Life expectancy in the 20th century was improved due to successes in global health efforts • Medical students need to know more about global health research and form networks to share important global health knowledge

  18. Additional Readings Open Source http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec6921/index.htm Supercourse and Disaster Management Training http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec21601/index.htm Social Epidemiologic Methods in International Population Health and Health Services Research http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec17561/index.htm Principles of Research Synthesis http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec9611/index.htm

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