Dan Davis Global Health Maupin

Global Health Priorities

1. Write a brief paragraph that outlines your overarching philosophy concerning global health problems and solutions. What do you think is the best approach to spending global health funding? Global health funding is a very controversial subject and many people have different views on how money should be spent. My philosophy is that Global Health Funding should be used to research and cure diseases that cause the most fatalities in the world. Focusing on fixing immediate concerns is important, but I believe finding longterm prevention of diseases and parasites is more beneficial to humanity. If we focus on fighting diseases around the world, we can feel safer about the future, knowing that we have the resources to stop the spread of diseases, and a cure to these illnesses all together. 2. Identify 7-10 global health priorities that you consider to be important and are consistent with your philosophy. Justify each priority with a short statement that summarizes research findings from studies or data. Priority: Stopping the Spread of HIV/AIDS Statement: HIV/AIDS has become the leading cause of mortality and the single most important contributor to the burden of disease among adults aged 1559 years. (World Health Org., 2013). Global Health Funding could help reduce the spread of these diseases to healthy adults and children. Funding may also help increase life expectancy and reduce child mortality rate.

Priority: Childhood Obesity Statement: Global Health Funding can be used to create community programs to help promote healthy lifestyle. Funding could also be used to help open up gyms, playgrounds, and sports fields during non-school hours so more children can play safely. (CDC, 2013) Priority: Breast Cancer Statement: Global health funding can be used to invest in electronic health records in health clinics so women can get proper and timely fallow care. Funding can also be use to create public-private partnerships to work with health care systems and health insurance companies to help educate women and their doctors about timely, high-quality breast cancer care.(CDC, 2013)

Priority: Reduce child mortality rate Statement: Global Health funding can help reduce the child mortality rate, especially in developing countries. Developed countries have already made improvements, but places such as sub Saharan regions suffer from child mortality tremendously. According to the World Health Organization A baby born in Sierra Leone is three and a half times more likely to die before its fifth birth- day than a child born in India, and more than a hundred times more likely to die than a child born in Iceland or Singapore.(World Health Org.)

Priority: Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke Statement: Global health funding can be use to provide resources to all 50 states to address chronic diseases, including heart disease and stroke. (CDC, 2013) With the help of funding we can continue to prevent nearly 17 million strokes in upcoming years Priority: Food Safety Statement: We can use funding to help insure the quality of food we are consuming at home, in school, and out in public. Global Health Funding can help develop stricter safety standards. Government funding can increase and improve inspections in the US and abroad.(CDC, 2013)

Priority: Mother To Child transfer of HIV Statement: Every year, approximately 370,00 babies are born with HIB(CDC, 2013). Global Health funding can help reduce this number. It can be use to educate and screen women, especially those in sub Saharan regions.

Priority: Global Immunization Statement: With the help of Global Health funding we can continue to achieve and sustain several global immunizations initiatives(CDC, 2013). Some examples of this would be the eradication polio, global reduction in measles, ending meningitis in Africa, and more.

3. Write a short summary (1 paragraph) of how you would spend $100 billion addressing global health issues. Identify your main issue(s), target population(s), and specific action(s). I would split up my $100 billon in few different ways. HIV/AIDS, is now the worlds leading cause of death in adults aged 1559 years, killing almost 5000 men and women in this age group, and almost 1000 of their children, every 24 hours in subSaharan Africa (World Health Org., 2013). Considering that I would donate $70 billon dollars to aids research, so developing countries, mostly sub-Saharan African regions can

reduce their child mortality rate, and increase life expectancy. I would donate 10 billion to send volunteer groups to these developing countries, to raise awareness about aids with hopes of reducing the amount of deaths. I would like to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS from mother to child by educating and screening infected women in these regions. I would use the other 20 billion to reduce childhood obesity. In effort to reduce the childhood obesity rate Id use the money to donate to schools, and public programs to implement more physical education, serve healthier foods in cafeterias, and raise awareness about living a healthy lifestyle.

Reference List World Health Organization. (2013). Todays Challenges. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/mtct/en/ CDC. (2013). Progress on Childhood Obesity. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/VitalSigns/ChildhoodObesity/ CDC. (2013). Breast Cancer. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/BreastCancer/index.html CDC. (2013). Making Food Safer To Eat. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/VitalSigns/Foodsafety/index.html

CDC. (2013). Preventable Deaths from Heart Disease and Strokes. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/HeartDisease-Stroke/index.html World Health Organization. (2013). Child Mortality. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/mtct/en/ CDC. (2013). Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Syphilis Globally. Retrieved from. http://www.cdc.gov/winnablebattles/Mother-to-ChildTransmission/ CDC. (2013). Global Immunization. Retrieved from. http://www.cdc.gov/winnablebattles/globalimmunization/index.html