HSCI 160 Lecture 1: Week 1
1 Mar 2018
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Course overview & expectations: textbook: 2nd edition (only diff is statistics are more updated in 3rd ed) How to contact: email ktairyan@sfu. ca with subject line "hsci 160, canvas or skype if not urgent (for the latter set up an appointment, etc etc. Lots of gray areas in global health, so it"s important to have an open mind. Let"s look at stats: www. worldometers. info, births today: (cid:1006)(cid:1009)7,(cid:1007)(cid:1007)(cid:1007) (cid:894)as of (cid:1008)p(cid:373) today(cid:895) a(cid:374)d it keeps goi(cid:374)g up (cid:271)y the (cid:373)illise(cid:272)o(cid:374)d. Why study global health: there"s been more important progress in life expectancy - global population more healthier than. Prevention is the essence of why we need to study global health & explore its efforts. Hence why global health issues are unique: e. g. Start with one as an example: 1% of health workers/hr workers deal with 25% that make up global diseases (africa, sea, and eastern mediterranean, size of bubble is how much we spend on health services.
