HLTB16H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Triage, Exponential Growth, Bioterrorism
18 Aug 2018
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Identify how global health fits within public health: 2. Describe the implications of world population growth and climate change on population health: 3. Individual or population: global health: embraces both prevention in population and clinical care of individuals, public health: focuses on prevention programs of populations, 4. Access to health: global: health equity among nations and for all people is a major objective, public: health equity within nation or community is major objective, 5. Range of disciplines: global: highly interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary within and beyond health sciences. E. g. law, economics, history, engineering, biomedical and environmental sciences, and public policy: public: encourages multidisciplinary approaches, particularly in health and social sciences. Journalism is a tool to communicate complex public health issues in an accessible way for the general public. Impact of articles on reader can translate into action that could lead to global health policy changes: population growth and climate change, public health issue, populations dynamic models predict how pop.
