What Is Global Health
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Introduction[edit | edit source]
The concept of Global Health has been defined in various ways. Beaglehole and Bonita (2010) define Global Health as, “collaborative trans-national research and action for promoting health for all.” [1] It has also been defined as, “an area for study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide. Global health emphasises transnational health issues, determinants and solutions; involves many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences and promotes inter-disciplinary collaboration; and is a synthesis of population-based prevention with individual-level clinical care.” [2] Global health actions may be in response to some of the world's major health burdens such as injury and non-communicable disease (cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases), which occur in various magnitudes across many countries, regardless of level of development. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Definitions[edit | edit source]
Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC)defines global health as “health issues and concerns that transcend national borders”, and that “require a collective (partnership-based) action”.
Background[edit | edit source]
see: Timeline of Global Health
The role of Physiotherapy in Global Health[edit | edit source]
According to WHO 2011 reports more than 1 billion people worldwide are estimated to live with a disability. Also the report says that the prevalence is greater in resource poor countries to high income countries. These have the potential to benefit from physiotherapy services.
Canadian physiotherapists may have a unique and expanding role to play in global health work (Alappat et al., 2007). There are many ways that physiotherapists can participate in global health work beyond direct patient care, extending into activities such as advocating for and developing rehabilitation programmes (Alappat et al., 2007). Also that physiotherapists are increasingly involved within the international trend to implement Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) as a strategy for sustainable and effective development of the health and social sectors.
But the question prevails on what skills, knowledge and qualities must physiotherapists possess in order to do ethical and effective global health work?
Summary[edit | edit source]
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- ↑ Beaglehole R, Bonita R. What is global health? Glob Health Action. 2010; 3: 10.3402/gha.v3i0.5142.fckLRPublished online 2010 Apr 6.
- ↑ Koplan JP, Bond T, Merson M, Reddy K, Rodriguez M, Sewankambo N. Towards a common definition of global health. Lancet. 2009;373(9679):1993–5.
- ↑ Beaglehole R, Ebrahim S, Reddy S, VoÛte J, Leeder S, on behalf of the Chronic Disease Action Group. Prevention of chronic diseases: a call to action.fckLRLancet. 2007; 370: 2152–57.
- ↑ Geneau R, Stuckler D, Stachenko S, McKee M, Ebrahim S, Basu S, Chockalingham A, Mwatsama M,fckLRJamal R, Alwan A, Beaglehole R. Raising the priority of preventing chronic diseases: a political process. Lancet. 2010; 376: 1689–98.
- ↑ Noncommunicable diseases factsheet. World Health Organization. Available at http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs355/en. Last accessed 01/05/2016.
- ↑ Global Health Division. What is the definition of global health? Accessible at http://www.physioghd.com/about-us/definitionofglobalhealth. Last accessed 01/05/2016.
