Lab 1: Porifera

A complete state of physical, social, and mental well-being. Not merely just the absence of disease or infirmity

The science and art of preventing disease/illness; prolonging life; and promoting physical and mental health and efficiency through organized community efforts to achieve a sanitary environment; control of community infections; education and hygiene; the organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis of disease; and the development of social machinery to ensure capacity in the community to maintain health

An area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide; global health emphasizes transnational health issues, determinants, and solutions, involves many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences, and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration; and is a synthesis of population based prevention with individual-level clinical care

Physical or mental weakness

The entirety of the population

Promoting hand washing, promoting helmet use, screening for health problems, feeding programs for poorly-nourished

Low birthweight, violence against women, HIV/AIDS, heart disease increases, etc.

Industrialized, capitalist countries that fall within Western European and US sphere of influence; have market economies

Canada's North, slums in the USA, etc.

Synonym for First World

Those within the former Soviet Union's sphere of influence; have planned economies

Poland and Cuba

The Cold War

Low UN development index (parts of Africa, Latin America, and Asia), have developing economies (highly disliked term)

First

Lack industrial infrastructure, poorest Third World nations

Indicates that the majority of countries in the world are Third World countries

Synonym for the last three terms

Not a precise term - controversial, developed = relatively high income per capita, developing = relatively low income)

$995 or less

$996 to $3,896

$3,896 to $12,055

$12,056 or above

Gross national income per person

The integrative effort of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals, and the environment

Planetary health is the achievement of the highest attainable standard of health, wellbeing, and equity worldwide through judicious attention to the human systems—political, economic, and social—that shape the future of humanity and the Earth's natural systems that define the safe environmental limits within which humanity can flourish. Put simply, planetary health is the health of human civilization and the state of the natural systems on which it depends

'One Health' is focused on the interconnectedness of the environment, human, and animal healthiness. However, 'Planetary Health' is focused primarily on environmental health of the Earth and moreover how that affects human and animal well-being

The World Bank

1966, and 2 million

30%

Blindness and/or deep-pitted scars

US woman (with NO medical) runs a clinic for malnourished Ugandan children

NO - not productive, not specific, can be viewed as more of a vacation than an actual constructive aiding "trip"

The SAME country they're advising

One country exercising power over another, whether through settlement, sovereignty, or indirect mechanisms of control

A practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another...The practice of colonialism usually involved the transfer of population to a new territory, where the arrivals lived as permanent settlers while maintaining political allegiance to their country of origin

Helped and harmed (settlers bringing diseases with them or being exposed to new ones)

Justify

1. Indigenous peoples seen as diseased and/or dirty
2. French strategist in 1933: "the physician, if he understands his role, is the most effective of our agents of penetration and pacification" eg. students engaging in "Rescue Missions"

People using medicine in order to convert faith, eg. people viewing hospital visits as an opportunity to convert patients towards Christianity

1948 - little infrastructure post WWII resulting in hindered health systems, etc.