PUB 655 Topic 1 DQ 1 : Defining Poverty And Global Health

PUB 655 Topic 1 DQ 1 : Defining Poverty And Global Health

Reply Ajikwaga

I agree with you that global health is public health that requires similar training and research methods. I join you in refuting the statement that global health is a separate discipline that requires specific training and research. Global health and public health services have the same purposes of protecting the well-being and health of communities, with a significant emphasis on preventing diseases and illnesses among large groups of people (Turcotte-Tremblay et al., 2020). Public health and global health also involve different activities and education, disease prevention, child wellness, disaster relief, addressing health care, and access to clean water, among other functions. A conclusion can therefore be made that global health is public health on a global scale. The same principles and main functions that public health utilizes are therefore the same principles and functions that global health seeks to achieve on a global scale. Global Health does not require specific training and research because scholars can rely on the research methods and data and the specific training from public health in specific countries (Chen et al., 2020). Utilizing the foundation of public health global-health involves always working tirelessly across the globe to ensure that there is clean water to drink for all communities’ higher quality of air to breathe more nutritious food to eat and various services to promote human health such as through enhancing access to vaccines and promoting physical activity. The functions of global health, therefore, originated from specific public health efforts in different countries (Kyobutungi et al., 2021). I also support your argument that public health events are those that affect specific countries, while a global health event is one that affects several countries at the same time. Some of the current challenges being experienced currently in the world related to covid-19 have therefore been from treating the pandemic as a public health event facing specific countries as opposed to a coordinated approach that views the pandemic as a global health event.

References

Chen, X., Li, H., Lucero-Prisno, D. E., Abdullah, A. S., Huang, J., Laurence, C., Liang, X., Ma, Z., Mao, Z., Ren, R., Wu, S., Wang, N., Wang, P., Wang, T., Yan, H., & Zou, Y. (2020). What is global health? Key concepts and clarification of misperceptions. Global Health Research and Policy, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41256-020-00142-7

Kyobutungi, C., Robinson, J., & Pai, M. (2021). PLOS Global Public Health, charting a new path towards equity, diversity, and inclusion in global health. PLOS Global Public Health, 1(10), e0000038. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000038

Turcotte-Tremblay, A. M., Fregonese, F., Kadio, K., Alam, N., & Merry, L. (202