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Global Nursing Health. 2011 the year of Global Health. World Health Organization Collaborating Centre, University of Pittsburgh. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Global Nursing Health 2011 the year of Global Health World Health Organization Collaborating Centre, University of Pittsburgh
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family.” UN, 1948
What is Health “Health is not only the absence of infirmity and disease but also a state of physical, mental and social well-being.” WHO
International health “International health is a subspecialty that relates more to health practices, policies and systems...and stresses more the differences between countries than their commonalities.” The Global Health Education Consortium
Global health “Is an area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide.” Koplan et al., 2009
Nursing view of health “…observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process…. nature alone cures.” Florence Nightingale, 1860
Nurses from around the world Florence Nightingale - English nurse, writer and statistician DaryaMikhailova – First Russian military nurse Rufaida Al-Aslamia First Muslim nurse
GloCal Health (Global to Local) One for all and all for one
Nursing and global health in the internet age Question: What is the best tool to educate the global nursing workforce while utilizing fewer resources? Answer: A solution is to have a well structured content written in a language that does not require use of any advanced technology, as demonstrated in the Supercourse.
Nursing and global health in the internet age Nursing Supercourse is an important educational tool for bringing global health training into the Nursing schools and for building a nursing surveillance network.
The Supercourse: Internet bringing us closer together through learning about global health THE SUPERCOURSE is a global library of lectures on prevention and public health, shared for free by the best faculty in the world. www.pitt.edu/~super1
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/Nursing/nursingsupercourse.htm Nursing Supercourse emerged from Supercourse to improve the global teaching of prevention.
Global nursing health • Nurses form the biggest proportions of health care professionals with 28 nurses and midwives compared to 2 physicians per 10,000 population (WHO, 2009) • Nurses are currently underutilized for global health and public health education.
Global nursing health It is estimated that there are 11 million nurses around the world (ICN, 2000), what if there was a way to utilize this huge workforce for global disease prevention education
Nurses and global health Nurses are known to be THE most trusted health professionals by public Nurses address health as a continuum Health promotion and prevention are the foundational to nursing practice
Nursing Supercourse is a global network of nurses. We aim to improve global health and prevention through collaboration. Nursing students are not getting adequate training in global health. We can change that by sharing lectures that are evidence based and up-to-date. Our lectures are driven by the global health trends.
Nursing, public health, and medicine: parts of the same puzzle
Global Health Priorities Control of: Noncommunicable diseases Communicable, maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions Injuries
Chronic disease prevention and management : Multi language approach
Mobile Global Health New venue in outreaching consumers Informing health recipients about health services Health education tool to promote health
There are many challenges to global health with different professionals emphasizing different diseases. Interdisciplinary approach is needed to ease the burden of both communicable and non-communicable diseases
Conclusion Global nursing health is important, as similar conditions in developed and developing countries alike Life expectancy in the 20th century was improved due to successes in global health efforts All students need to know more about global health research and form networks to share important global health knowledge
Jesse Faina Mita Soni Ali Kawkab Ron Ali Ardalan Iran Sunita Dodani US/Pakistan Jesse Huang China Ronald LaPorte US Mita Lovalekar US/India Faina Linkov US/Ukraine Eric Marler US Nicholas Padilla Mexico Kawkab Shishani Jordan/US Francois Sauer US Eugene Shubnikov Russia Eric Nicholas Francois Eugene
How do you join this • global effort? • Visit www.pitt.edu/super1/ • Send this lecture to as many people you know • Teach at least 1 slide about global health. • Contact us at super1@pitt.edu for other opportunities.