HLTC05H3 Lecture Notes - Scalability, World Health Report, Health Equity
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Week # 1 readings chapter 1 equity, social determinants and public health programmes. Achieving greater equity in health is a goal because achieving specific global health goals and development targets without ensuring equitable distribution is pointless. There is limited documentation of experiences w/ interventions and implementation approaches to reduce or halt growing inequities in health. This shortfall is addressed by the priority public health conditions knowledge network (pphckn: focuses on practise looking at practically options for action, expand knowledge territory in a systematic way. Old problems still exist malaria, tb, hiv/aids: due to tools that have been altered by usage drug resistance, not sufficiently recognized and appropriately dealt with the inequities underlying health stats. Most problems are perpetuated by the inequities caused by the way we organize societies. Inequities fuel emergence of new public health problems and result from them. Most health systems concerned with downstream interventions but there needs to be upstream addressing of determinants of health.