Test 1 Flashcards
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Define global health
The area study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide
Define global inequity
Is systematic produced by social norms, policies, and practices that tolerate or actually promote the unfair distribution of and access to power, wealth, and other necessary social resources
Define structural violence
The social arrangements that put individuals and populations in harm’s way
These arrangements/barriers are structural because they are embedded in the political and economic organization of our social world; they are violent because they cause injury to people
Define global nursing
Is the use of evidence-based nursing process to promote sustainable planetary health and equity for all people.
Global health nursing considers the social determinants of health, includes individual and population-level care, research, education, leadership, advocacy and policy initiatives.
Describe the difference between global and planetary nursing
Global - nurses’ role in global health efforts with a focus on SDOH, respect for human dignity, and cultural diversity
Planetary - broader possibilities for engagement in planetary health initiatives
What are five general responsibilities of global health nurses
- direct care delivery
- health promotion and prevention
- coordinating efforts and increasing interprofessional cooperation
- advocacy and policy development
- leadership
List the five components of the global health approach
- priority on a population-based and preventative focus
- concentrations on poorer, vulnerable, and underserved populations
- multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches
- emphasis on health as a public good
- stakeholder participation
Define social justice
Social justice refers to the fair and equitable distribution of resources, opportunities, and privileges within a society.
It aims to address and correct systemic inequalities and injustices based on factors such as race, gender, class, sexual orientation, disability, and other identity markers. Social justice promotes the idea that everyone should have equal access, while also seeking to dismantle oppressive structures that perpetuate discrimination and marginalization.
Define epidemiology
Study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems
What are the 4 key aspects of epidemiology?
- Health phenomena
- Population
- Distribution
- Determinants
Define disability adjusted life years (DALYs)
Quantifies the burden of disease due to disability
The gap between current health status and an ideal health situation where the entire population lives to an advanced age, free of disease and disability
What does one DALY equal?
One lost year of healthy life
What are 3 critiques of DALYs?
- Lack a clear picture of global burden of diseases, leading to estimations
- DALYs are neoliberal - they focus on productivity and are created from a capitalist lens (western economic approach
- Measured from a distance - they are vague and don’t look at specifics within a country
What is the purpose of DALYs?
Draw attention to diseases that cause morbidity but may not cause mortality
Define the epidemiological transition
Accounts for the replacement of infectious diseases by chronic diseases over time due to expanded public health and sanitation
What are the four assumptions of the epidemiological transition?
- Mortality is a fundamental factor in population dynamics, increases in populations are caused by declines in mortality rates, fertility rates are tied to previously experienced decreases in mortality
- The transitions cause a long-term shift in mortality patterns, with a decline in communicable disease and an increase of noncommunicable diseases
- The epidemiological transition appears first in health and disease patterns among children and women, but it does not alter the social class differential
- All countries and populations experience epidemiological transition
What is the first phase of the epidemiological transition called?
The age of pestilence and famine
What 3 things is the first phase of the epidemiological transition marked by
- Transformation of hunter-gather societies to agrarian societies
- Increase of infectious and zoonotic diseases
- Dietary deficiencies
What 3 things is the first phase of the epidemiological transition characterized by
- High and fluctuating mortality rates - close living quarters, animal waste, contaminated water, sick livestock, and reliance on crops/animal sources may influence mortality rate
- Variable life expectancies, low average lifespan
- Periods of population growth that are not sustained - periods of robust food may result in more babies, but starvation may result in high mortality and low reproduction
What countries currently exist in the first phase of the epidemiological transition?
Central Replubic of Africa
What is the second phase of the epidemiological transition called?
Age of receding pandemics
What 4 components is the second phase of the epidemiological transition marked by?
- Explanation of this transition are complex changes in the relationships in the classic matrix of agent, host, and environment; socioeconomic, political, and cultural changes
- Generally countries experience urbanization
- More advancements in medicine
- Improved living conditions, sanitary water sources, better food safety
What 2 components is the second phase of the epidemiological transition characterized by?
- Declining mortality rates as a result of fewer epidemics - social changes result in less infectious diseases and more communicable diseases
- More sustained population growth
What countries are currently in the second phase of epidemiological transition?
Latin America, Central Africa, and Central Asian