This talk begins with Meri Koivusalo’s overview of populism’s influence on public health activities, pandemic control and health promotion. She will discuss broader questions of populism and public health. Lynda Gilby will follow with a discussion on far-right populism, gender, and sexual and reproductive health and rights and work in more detail. Nationalism has been associated with resurgence in far-right populism, which emphasises “traditional family values and gender roles”. Lynda Gilby will focus on global governance, sharing findings from her research on how UN negotiations and high-level meetings, such as on UHC, have continued to be subject to efforts to replace references to SRHR with conservative language emphasising traditional, heteronormative family values and how these efforts have impacted on SRHR text in UN documents.

With the toll of the global COVID-19 pandemic approaching 3 million deaths in 192 countries and new and dangerous variants emerging constantly, the need for concerted global action has never been greater. This calls for not only a thoughtful public health approach but also diplomacy to bring coherence from the range of disparate and self-interested national responses. This is not the first time global health diplomacy has been called for: from the smallpox eradication program to Millennium Development Goals and more recently efforts to unify global health security, understanding and agreement between nations requires an appreciation for the political as well as the epidemiological aspects of response to these societal challenges. This talk will provide a brief history of global health diplomacy in the era of globalisation and discuss the challenges and opportunities posed by 21st century pandemics.

As the former US representative on the Executive Board of the World Health Organization and assistant secretary of health for global affairs during the Obama administration, Dr Nils Daulaire has practiced global health diplomacy at the highest levels. At present, Dr Daulaire is a Senior Visiting Scholar at the Arctic University of Norway/UiT and at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Building capacity to address issues of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights is considered by many development actors as a cornerstone in promoting sustainable and equitable development. Lund University, through the Division for Social Medicine and Global Health (SMGH), has been engaged with this work for the past decade. This session will provide an introduction to the methods used, and some highlights from the ongoing programmes.
Presentation is by Jack Palmieri, Social Medicine and Global Health, Lund University.

Presentation by Stefan Swartling Peterson, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.
Tropical Medicine was the origin of today’s Global Health, which is now increasingly under debate. There is the “decolonize” debate, but also the failure to overcome the “implementation gap” - whereby a majority of maternal child deaths today could be prevented with existing knowledge. In this talk, Stefan Swartling Peterson will sketch the evolution of Global Health as a discipline, and share thoughts on what a transformation to “Glocal, Sustainable Health” could look like.

This module is designed for postsecondary instruction.  The intention is to give an understanding of radiation safety from an occupational use standpoint.  It will aid the participant in gaining a comprehensive understanding of the principles and practices of occupational safety.  By the end of the lesson, the learner should be equipped to identify potential hazards, implement safety measures, and ensure compliance with relevant regulations to protect workers against the harmful effects of radiation.  This is one part of a unit that is being written on physical agent safety.

Students will engage in problem-based learning to determine the cause of a described disease and find published sources that will help develop a treatment protocol. (The wrinkle is that students will not have the same access to information.)

Our Supersized Kids: Childhood Obesity

Childhood obesity is a crippling crisis of supersized proportions. During the past four decades, obesity rates have soared among all ages, but no more so than in children ages 6 to 11. Today, nearly a third of our children and adolescents are overweight or obese. And the numbers continue to rise.

KSPS's Our Supersized Kids delves into the issues causing the childhood obesity epidemic in the Pacific Northwest and around the country and what’s being done about it. Families struggling with obesity are profiled along with successful programs.

Use the video segments and discussion questions to help students explore the major causes of the childhood obesity epidemic and what can be done about it. Visit KSPS Education for additonal educator resources.

https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/our-supersized-kids-childhood-obesity/our-supersized-kids-childhood-obesity/

Overview

Childhood obesity is a crippling crisis of supersized proportions. During the past four decades, obesity rates have soared among all ages, but no more so than in children ages 6 to 11. Today, nearly a third of our children and adolescents are overweight or obese. And the numbers continue to rise.

Our Supersized Kids delves into the issues causing the childhood obesity epidemic in the Pacific Northwest and around the country and what’s being done about it. Families struggling with obesity are profiled along with successful programs.

Grades: 3 and up

Subjects: Nutrition, Childhood Obesity, Health, Fitness

Standards: This learning resource guide is aligned to the Washington State K-12 Learning Standards for Health and Physical Education.

· Standard 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
· Standard 2: Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.
· Standard 4: Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
· Standard 5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.
· Standard 7: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Introductory lecture to 11th semester (international semester) in Medicine. General introduction to the concept of global health, and the importance of culture. Global health = local health, migrants health as an example

Introductory lecture to 11.semester (international semester) in Medicine. General introduction to the concept of global health, and the importance of culture. Global health = local health, migrants health as an example

Part one in the series Paradise under Pressure/ Paradis under pres: https://paradis-under-pres.simplecast.com/

Plastic bottles are impossible to avoid when travelling for vacation to southern countries. In Zanzibar, thousands of plastic bottles are sailed in from the mainland every day. They float as waste everywhere on beaches, streets, and in between bushes, trees and tall grass.
In this episode, we will meet Aziza Biubwa of the State University of Zanzibar, a researcher in waste management, Justin Madho, who works for the waste company Zanrec and Sjani Müggenburg, director of Ozti East Africa - a company that has made furniture plastic screw cap.

Danish:
Plastikflasker er umulige at undgå, når du holder ferie i syden. På Zanzibar bliver tusindvis af plastikflasker hver dag sejlet ind fra fastlandet, men som affald flyder de overalt på strande, gader, og imellem buske, træer og højt græs.
I denne episode skal vi møde Aziza Biubwa fra State University of Zanzibar, som forsker i affaldshåndtering, Justin Madho, som arbejder for affaldsfirmaet Zanrec og Sjani Müggenburg, som er direktør for Ozti East Africa – et firma der har fundet ud af at lave møbler af plastikskruelåg.

In this syllabus from Fall 2022, Dr. Kaden Paulson-Smith provides bibliographic citations and annotations for resources used in place of a traditional textbook. These resources include a combination of freely available resources; research, articles, and chapters supplied by the UWGB Libraries; and fair use of traditionally copyrighted materials. Course topics include: States; Civil Society; Social Identities and Culture; Global Inequality; Development; Democracy and Representation; Human Rights; War and Conflict; Migration; Global Health; and Climate Change.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Depression is a global public health issue—one battled not only at home and in the clinic, but also in the workplace. In the United States alone, major depressive disorder is associated with an annual loss of 225 million workdays and more than $36 billion. While treatment should be designed to relieve depression symptoms, it should also help patients recover their social functioning, which includes their capacity to perform at work. Unfortunately, little information exists on how treatment duration or discontinuation affects impaired work functioning in people with depression. Now, a large-scale analysis of workers in Japan is helping researchers understand that relationship. The findings urge close collaboration between occupational health practitioners and psychiatrists in treating patients with impaired work functioning. Researchers surveyed more than 33,000 workers from 13 companies in Japan, all of them in manufacturing—an industry linked to a high overall occupational health risk..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Setting out to better understand the potential barriers limiting female involvement in sports, a recent study found that for adolescent girls, social aspects of sports clubs – such as positive and welcoming environments – were the most important factors in determining participation. Physical activity is a vital part of a healthy lifestyle. But an estimated 80% of adolescents worldwide do not meet minimum exercise recommendations. With benefits ranging from weight management to reducing the risks of cancer to improving mental health, this lack of activity is contributing to a global health crisis. Recently, much focus has been given to sports participation by young girls. This research has uncovered a troubling trend: girls are less active than their male counterparts. And this trend only becomes more pronounced with age..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Poverty in IndiaPoverty is the deprivation of food, shelter, money and clothing when people can’t satisfy their basic needs. Poverty can be understood simply as a lack of money or more broadly in terms of barriers to everyday human life.According to David Kurten , Poverty also involve social disintegration and environmental degradation which he describe as forming the threefold human crisis in the world today.Poverty is the other economic  problem facing most  of the nations in the world. There is no unique definition of poverty.Types  Of  PovertyAbsolute Poverty : (Destitution) It refers to the state  of severe deprivation of basic human needs. Relative Poverty : It is defined contextually as Economic inequality in location or society in which people live. Facts And Figures ·        The World Bank estimated that,          1)  Around 1.29 billion people were in absolute poverty in 2008.   2) About 400 million people in absolute poverty in India and 173 million people in china.3) Sub- Sahara an Africa at 47% had the highest incidence rate of absolute poverty in 2008.4) Between 1990 and 2010, about 663 million people moved above the absolute poverty level.5)  Every year 11 million children living in poverty die before their 5th birthday.6)  1.02 billion people go to bed hungry every night. ·        The World bank’s “Voice of the poor” , based on research with over 20,000 poor people in 23 countries, identifies a range of factors which poor people identify as part of poverty are :·        Precious livelihoods     ·         Excluded location·         Gender relationship·         Lack of security·         Problems in social relationship·         Weak community organization·          Limited capabilities Poverty line·        The poverty threshold  or  poverty line  is the minimum level of income  deemed adequate in a given country.·        In practice, like the definition of poverty, the official or common understanding of the poverty line is significantly higher in developed countries than in developing countries.·        The common international poverty line has in the past been roughly $1 a day. In 2008, the World Bank came out with a revised figure of $1.25 at 2005 purchasing-power parity (PPP).·        Determining the poverty line is usually done by finding the total cost of all the essential resources that an average human adult consumes in one year.·        The largest of these expenses is typically the rent  required to live in an apartment, so historically, economists have paid particular attention to the real estate market and housing prices as a strong poverty line affecters. Characteristics of Poverty Effects of poverty also be causes and creating a “Poverty cycle” operating across  multiple levels, individual, national, global.   1)Health : one third of deaths are due to poverty related causes.According to the World Health Organization, hunger  and malnutrition  are the single gravest threats to the world's public health and malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor to child mortality , present in half of all cases.Almost 90% of maternal deaths during childbirth occur in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, compared to less than 1% in the developed world.·        Hunger : Rises in the living cost making poor people less able to afford items. Poor people spend  most of the portion of their budget on to food than richer person.·        Education : Poor children are suffering from hunger, irritability,headache,viral infection, colds. It is safe to state that children who live at or below the poverty level will have far less success educationally than children who live above the poverty line.·        Poor children have a great deal less healthcare and this ultimately results in many absences from the academic year.·        Additionally, poor children are much more likely to suffer from hunger, fatigue, irritability, headaches, ear infections, flu, and colds. These illnesses could potentially restrict a child or student's focus and concentration.Housing : Poverty increases the risk of homelessness. Slum-dwellers, who make up a third of the world's urban population, live in a poverty no better, if not worse, than rural people, who are the traditional focus of the poverty in the developing world , according to a report by the United Nations. There are over 100 million street children worldwide.5) Violence: According to the reports, many women become victims of trafficking. The most common form of which is Prostitution as a mean of survival and economic desperation. Deterioration of living conditions can often compel children to abandon school in order to contribute family income.E.g. Slavery and human trafficking. Significance·        The most common method of measuring and reporting poverty is the headcount ratio, given as the percentage of population that is below the poverty line.·        One of the undesirable features of the headcount ratio is that it ignores the depth of poverty; if the poor becomes poorer, the headcount index does not change.·        Poverty gap index provides a clearer perspective on the depth of poverty.Poverty Reduction·        Increasing supply of basic needs.·        Increasing supply of food and other goods.·        Increasing supply of healthcare and education,water and energy utilities.·        Removing constraints on govt. services·        Reversing brain drains.·        Controlling overpopulation.Poverty in IndiaPoverty in IndiaPoverty is the deprivation of food, shelter, money and clothing when people can’t satisfy their basic needs. Poverty can be understood simply as a lack of money or more broadly in terms of barriers to everyday human life.According to David Kurten , Poverty also involve social disintegration and environmental degradation which he describe as forming the threefold human crisis in the world today.Poverty is the other economic  problem facing most  of the nations in the world. There is no unique definition of poverty.Types  Of  PovertyAbsolute Poverty : (Destitution) It refers to the state  of severe deprivation of basic human needs. Relative Poverty : It is defined contextually as Economic inequality in location or society in which people live. Facts And Figures ·        The World Bank estimated that,          1)  Around 1.29 billion people were in absolute poverty in 2008.   2) About 400 million people in absolute poverty in India and 173 million people in china.3) Sub- Sahara an Africa at 47% had the highest incidence rate of absolute poverty in 2008.4) Between 1990 and 2010, about 663 million people moved above the absolute poverty level.5)  Every year 11 million children living in poverty die before their 5th birthday.6)  1.02 billion people go to bed hungry every night. ·        The World bank’s “Voice of the poor” , based on research with over 20,000 poor people in 23 countries, identifies a range of factors which poor people identify as part of poverty are :·        Precious livelihoods     ·         Excluded location·         Gender relationship·         Lack of security·         Problems in social relationship·         Weak community organization·          Limited capabilities Poverty line·        The poverty threshold  or  poverty line  is the minimum level of income  deemed adequate in a given country.·        In practice, like the definition of poverty, the official or common understanding of the poverty line is significantly higher in developed countries than in developing countries.·        The common international poverty line has in the past been roughly $1 a day. In 2008, the World Bank came out with a revised figure of $1.25 at 2005 purchasing-power parity (PPP).·        Determining the poverty line is usually done by finding the total cost of all the essential resources that an average human adult consumes in one year.·        The largest of these expenses is typically the rent  required to live in an apartment, so historically, economists have paid particular attention to the real estate market and housing prices as a strong poverty line affecters. Characteristics of Poverty Effects of poverty also be causes and creating a “Poverty cycle” operating across  multiple levels, individual, national, global.   1)Health : one third of deaths are due to poverty related causes.According to the World Health Organization, hunger  and malnutrition  are the single gravest threats to the world's public health and malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor to child mortality , present in half of all cases.Almost 90% of maternal deaths during childbirth occur in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, compared to less than 1% in the developed world.·        Hunger : Rises in the living cost making poor people less able to afford items. Poor people spend  most of the portion of their budget on to food than richer person.·        Education : Poor children are suffering from hunger, irritability,headache,viral infection, colds. It is safe to state that children who live at or below the poverty level will have far less success educationally than children who live above the poverty line.·        Poor children have a great deal less healthcare and this ultimately results in many absences from the academic year.·        Additionally, poor children are much more likely to suffer from hunger, fatigue, irritability, headaches, ear infections, flu, and colds. These illnesses could potentially restrict a child or student's focus and concentration.Housing : Poverty increases the risk of homelessness. Slum-dwellers, who make up a third of the world's urban population, live in a poverty no better, if not worse, than rural people, who are the traditional focus of the poverty in the developing world , according to a report by the United Nations. There are over 100 million street children worldwide.5) Violence: According to the reports, many women become victims of trafficking. The most common form of which is Prostitution as a mean of survival and economic desperation. Deterioration of living conditions can often compel children to abandon school in order to contribute family income.E.g. Slavery and human trafficking. Significance·        The most common method of measuring and reporting poverty is the headcount ratio, given as the percentage of population that is below the poverty line.·        One of the undesirable features of the headcount ratio is that it ignores the depth of poverty; if the poor becomes poorer, the headcount index does not change.·        Poverty gap index provides a clearer perspective on the depth of poverty.Poverty Reduction·        Increasing supply of basic needs.·        Increasing supply of food and other goods.·        Increasing supply of healthcare and education,water and energy utilities.·        Removing constraints on govt. services·        Reversing brain drains.·        Controlling overpopulation. 

On December 7, 1941, Imperial Japan attacked a US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Pre-existing racial tensions and “yellow peril” hysteria magnified as the American public grew increasingly suspicious of Japanese Americans and uncertain of their loyalty. They were regarded as potential spies and anti-Japanese propaganda quickly spread. Then, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry (two-thirds of whom were US citizens) were forced to evacuate from their homes and report to assembly centers. From there, they were moved to one of ten internment camps, or War Relocation Centers, located in remote areas of seven states—California, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, and Arkansas.For the next three years, Japanese Americans acclimated to life behind barbed wire and under armed guard. Uprooted from their lives, they found themselves in strange and uncomfortable environments. They had to adapt to their new situation by adjusting to new living conditions, attending new schools, and finding inventive ways to pass the time. They attempted to maintain a sense of normalcy by attending religious meetings and by finding employment.This exhibition tells stories of everyday lives in Japanese Internment camps during World War II. It was created as part of the DPLA’s Digital Curation Program by the following students as part of Dr. Joan E. Beaudoin's course "Metadata in Theory and Practice" in the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University: Stephanie Chapman, Jessica Keener, Nicole Sobota, and Courtney Whitmore.

This casebook, now in its second edition, is a collaboration of over 90 individuals with expertise and training in public health pharmacy. A total of 54 chapters are presented, covering a broad array of topics relevant to pharmacy applications of public health. These topics include, but are not limited to, cross-cultural care, health literacy and disparities, infectious disease, health promotion and disease prevention, medication safety, structural racism, advocacy/policy analysis, chronic disease, women’s health, rural health, travel medicine and more. The book is designed to allow educators/students to choose chapters of interest as they feel suited, as each chapter is independent from the others. Each chapter contains learning objectives and an introduction to the topic, followed by a case and questions. The chapter closes with commentary from the authors and patient-oriented considerations for the topic at hand.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"With the COVID-19 pandemic causing a global health crisis, accurate diagnosis is critical. Diagnosing acute disease relies on RT-PCR tests measuring the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in the sampled material but in patients with suspected COVID-19 with a negative RT-PCR result, measuring anti-viral antibodies can help clinicians identify infected individuals. Antibody testing can also determine if someone was previously infected and help to measure the prevalence of the virus in a community. A new study characterizes an assay measuring total antibodies – combined IgA, IgM, and IgG isotypes – against SARS-CoV-2. The assay, ECLIA, specifically measures antibodies against the S1 subunit of the viral spike, which carries the virus’s receptor binding domain. Researchers in Liechtenstein evaluated ECLIA in a population with 125 cases of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and 1159 individuals without evidence of COVID-19. The results showed a test sensitivity of 97.6%, while the specificity was 99.8%..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"With the global health crisis of COVID-19 having widespread effects on economies and communities, understanding environmental factors that affect the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 is critical. Following up on a previous study demonstrating that removing shoes indoors may lower the COVID-19 mortality rate, researchers in Japan evaluated the correlation of a unique metric with COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. Tatami is a type of straw mat used for flooring in traditional Japanese-style rooms. Because people customarily remove their shoes before entering tatami rooms researchers used the density of tatami stores in a locale as a proxy for the cultural practice of shoe removal. They found that while COVID-19 morbidity and mortality increased with population density there was a negative correlation between the number of tatami stores per 100,000 people – and therefore the likelihood of shoe removal – and the number of COVID-19 cases ..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Review of Disease Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles
https://drive.google.com/open?id=11lpay5-E75noIMq2Bok5rD0Z2FjiHSaJcMFKVLewkbg

Learn from the experience of the Netherlands-based “Room for the River” program devising sustainable river and delta solutions in times of climate change.

With a long history of disasters and years of dealing with the challenges posed by water, the Netherlands has accumulated essential knowledge about water management and specifically of rivers. This course will share with you this knowledge gleaned over more than a decade under the Dutch government’s “Room for the River” program, started in 2007. The goal of this program was to manage higher water levels in rivers, while restoring the river’s natural flood plain in places where it is least harmful in order to protect those areas that need protection. All this in the context of the changing characteristics of rivers in times of climate change.

While the practical experience gained from this program is derived from cases in the Netherlands, it also applies to other countries that build their social, ecological and economic prosperity on what rivers bring them. It will be most beneficial for water managers, river engineers, landscape designers and policy makers who seek more knowledge surrounding analysis, design and development of river and delta solutions.

The specific skills gained in this course are in the design of engineering interventions; stakeholder analysis and balancing economic benefits with safe living conditions, ecological quality and attractive landscapes. You will also understand the impact of climate change and will be introduced to approaches to deal with the long-term dynamics and uncertainties that rivers bring.

We offer you the opportunity to learn from our experiences and apply it on your own river and we also aim to learn from you. The course is structured as an exchange, with a strong focus on analysis and design.