Cure, prevent or promote? Watch Professor Hans Rosling explain the different roles …
Cure, prevent or promote? Watch Professor Hans Rosling explain the different roles of a health system. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
What will be the health innovations of the future? Listen to Asli …
What will be the health innovations of the future? Listen to Asli Kulane explain how mHealth can be used to improve health outcomes. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
HIV is one of our newest diseases, discovered in the early 1980s. …
HIV is one of our newest diseases, discovered in the early 1980s. From being a disease with no cure, it is now a disease that people who have access to drugs live with chronically. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
What determines our health? Why does life expectancy differ so much from …
What determines our health? Why does life expectancy differ so much from country to country, or even from one group to another in the same country? Well, there is no easy answer to these questions. There are many factors that play a part in determining the well-being of the population, or even of an individual. In global health, we call these factors determinants of health. Determinants of health interact with each other, and influence our health status is in numerous ways, in turn influencing our well-being, morbidity, mortality, and life expectancy. As you already know, the first and most important health determinant is income. Income of an individual or a household, but also income of the country a person lives in. Other important health determinants are education, access to water, diet, environment and many more. In this presentation we will look closer at how health determinants determine an individual’s health, and how different health determinants interact with each other.
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No matter what your area of interest is, you need to know …
No matter what your area of interest is, you need to know how to evaluate your subject, how to measure it. Global health is measured using something we call health indicators. To understand how a population in a country, or in a region, or even a part of a city is doing, you need to know its health indicators. How long do people live in this country? How many children die before they reach their fifth birthday in this city? What is the weight of children and adults in the northern part of the country? How many women die in childbirth in the country? Once you have looked at these numbers and compared them with other populations, you can make sense of the health situation of a population. In this lecture you will some basic health indicators, and also how the data is collected. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
When researchers have spent years on finding evidence for a solution to …
When researchers have spent years on finding evidence for a solution to a health problem, it is not enough for this solution to reach people. Health policy, that is getting policy and decision makers on board to translate evidence into action must also take place. Learn more about it here. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
Different countries have different health systems, and some are better at providing …
Different countries have different health systems, and some are better at providing care for their population than others. Learn about the differences in this lecture. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
In the past 100 years deaths from natural disasters have decreased by …
In the past 100 years deaths from natural disasters have decreased by more than half, despite a more than 4-fold population growth during the same time. What is it that we have learnt? Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
What is maternal mortality? Maternal mortality is the risk of a mother …
What is maternal mortality? Maternal mortality is the risk of a mother to die when she is pregnant. It's the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. This number has decreased enormously in the past century or decades, but the differences between countries are huge. Why do some expecting mothers end up on the road to death, and some on the road to survival? What is needed to read the SDG 3.1, to lower maternal mortality ratio to 70 in the world? For an introduction to why mothers die, and what can be done to prevent these deaths, take a look at this video. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
In Ethiopia there are 0.5 psychiatrists per million people, whereas in Sweden …
In Ethiopia there are 0.5 psychiatrists per million people, whereas in Sweden there are 200 per million people. Does that mean each psychiatrist in Ethiopia has to see 400 times more patients per day? To learn more abot global mental health, please watch this lecture. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
As fewer children die, more people grow up to become adults, or …
As fewer children die, more people grow up to become adults, or even ol, the global burden of disease is changing from infections to Non-communicable diseases. Which diseases are they, and what do they have in common? Is it a good or abad thing that they are increasing worldwide? Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
The newborn or neonatal period relates to children during the first 28 …
The newborn or neonatal period relates to children during the first 28 days of life. This session will explore how really simple and low cost interventions at high coverage could save the life of a large proportion of newborn children. During the past two decades, we have seen a dramatic improvement in child survival. In 1990, almost 13 million children died every year. Today, this number has reduced by more than half to below six million. This is the result of an increasing number of people gaining access to clean water, vaccination, education, nutrition, and health care. Learn more by watching this video. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
Good nutrition is crucuial to achieve good health in all ages, but …
Good nutrition is crucuial to achieve good health in all ages, but especially in the youngest ones. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
You must know the basic facts about the world population in order …
You must know the basic facts about the world population in order to grasp global health. You need to know where people live in this world, how the world population is changing based on the number of babies born per woman, on average, in the world as a whole and in the different regions. And finally, you must learn how, why, and when the fast population growth in the world will come to an end during this century. Please look at this video with five video clips where this is explained. And if something is surprising to you, please look twice. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
TB is one of the oldest known diseases (since antiquity at least), …
TB is one of the oldest known diseases (since antiquity at least), and it is estimated that a quarter of the human population is infected by the bacteria that causes TB. Not everyone gets TB though. Learn more about this fascinating disease and old companion of humans here. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
How do you test a new vaccine in the middle of the …
How do you test a new vaccine in the middle of the biggest Ebola outbreak the world has experienced? Hear Dr. Yap Boum tell more about how it was done. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
Pneumonia still kills almost a million children each year, making it the …
Pneumonia still kills almost a million children each year, making it the biggest child killer. Most of its victims are less than 2 years old. Learn more about pneumonia and how to prevent it here. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
Diarrheal diseases are easy to prevent, but is still one of the …
Diarrheal diseases are easy to prevent, but is still one of the biggest child killers. In the past few years there has been a reduction in diarrheal deaths, in part thanks to the new Rota vaccine. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
Even though malaria cases have gone down in the past 20 years, …
Even though malaria cases have gone down in the past 20 years, the battle is still not won, and in some places there's a backlash. There is also the threat of drug resistance that can revert this positive trend. Learn more about our third biggest child killer - malaria. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
Vaccination is one of the main successes in public health. Learn more …
Vaccination is one of the main successes in public health. Learn more about common childhood vaccinations, both old and new. Get transcript for video here: https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/module/58789/overview
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