Category: Global Health

Discussion 9
This week’s topic is in many ways the most important one: Ethics.
Global health presents a fraught ethical landscape, especially for people from wealthy countries who want to help those most in need (often in low and middle income countries, though we obviously have huge swathes of people in need right here in the US as well).
One widely-used approach to thinking about biomedical ethics (which you saw in last week’s reading) is based on four basic principles:
Beneficence (doing good / providing benefits)
Non-maleficence (“do no harm”)
Respect for autonomy (allowing people to make informed decisions), and
Justice (fairness)
In the messy world of global health, these principles often come into conflict, and knowing how to apply them can be complicated.
For your initial DQ response, find a global health program that interests you and consider it in light of these four principles. Do any of these principles raise any issues about the design and execution of the global health program? Are there aspects of the program that do particularly well in addressing one or more of these principles? How might the program be modified to address ethical weaknesses or enhance ethical strengths?
As always, please remember to respond to two of your classmates’ posts for your follow-on participation. Your initial post is due by the end of Thursday, and your follow-on posts by Sunday.
Resources to use
Lecture 7 – Ethics overview
Medical ethics- four principles plus attention to scope – corrected
U.S. Missionary With No Medical Training Sued After Malnourished Ugandan Children Died At Her Center _ Goats and Soda _ NPR
Initial response (50% of discussion assignment grade): A post of approximately 200-350 words that directly addresses one of the week’s discussion topics and cites appropriate evidence to support your ideas (details below).
Follow-on participation (50% of discussion assignment grade): Write two or more substantive posts in response to other students’ initial responses and cite appropriate evidence to support your ideas (details below). Substantive posts do more than say, “I agree,” or “I disagree.” They add new evidence and new insight to the discussion. Follow-on posts should generally be 100-250 words long, but shorter or longer responses are acceptable as long as they make a significant contribution to the week’s discussion.
Your initial response and follow-on discussion posts should cite evidence from sources such as journal articles, reports by governmental and non-governmental organizations, news articles, and / or class lectures. Personal correspondence with global health practitioners or personal.

evaluate two global payment systems within healthcare and address each of the following items:
Define the structure of the payment systems.
Identify risk to loss of revenue in each system.
Describe advantages and disadvantages of each system.
Identify how pay for performance can be added to each payment system
requirements :
paper should be four to six pages in length, not including the title and reference pages.
must include a minimum of four credible sources. Your paper must follow APA 7th edition requirements, as appropriate.

Human anatomy is the study of the structure and organization of the human body. It is a branch of biology that deals with the physical and functional characteristics of the human body and its various systems, organs, and tissues.

Choose a country that is having water issues.
Answer the following questions:
What is the nature and magnitude of the water problem?
Who is affected by it?
What are the risk factors for the problem?
What are the health, economic, and social consequences of the problem?
What few priority steps do you recommend be taken to address the problem, at least cost, and what is your rationale for these recommendations?

The first step in writing a research proposal is identifying a viable research question in order to fill a gap in literature and/or solve a problem. After considering what most interests you in your field of study (academic program) and conducting a preliminary examination of current research in library databases, you will develop a research question and provide a rationalization for its viability for this section of the research project. The research question will serve as the foundation of your research proposal project.
InstructionsChoose a topic on a newer or emerging topic in your field of study.
Using this FINER protocol, create a research question. Be sure it encompasses each of the following elements:
FINER Protocol for Research Questions_Deliverable 2.docx
Feasible
Interesting
Novel
Ethical
Relevant
Defend the viability and the FINER protocol of the question in a two-to-three-page paper (not including the title and reference pages).

Follow the given template to complete the risk assessment. an Example has been given.
Two files have been given, one is an example and the other file is the work file, please fill the working file as the example file. If you come any question please feel free to ask.
Choose the main company/type then a number of employee and then start filling the types of hazards to that company.

To examine in depth and through visual media a nutrient deficiency disease.
INSTRUCTIONS:
READ: Read the PPT slides for Module 4 and view any video links contained within.
CHOOSE: Choose one of the following nutrient-deficiency conditions on which to focus for this assignment: kwashiorkor, marasmus, xerophthalmia, beriberi, scurvy, goiter, pellagra, or rickets.
RESEARCH: Research your chosen condition using legitimate online resources (governmental websites, non-profit agency websites, websites of major relief agencies, scientific websites). Information from sources other than those mentioned will result in reduction in your grade.
CREATE: Create a “photo story” about your chosen condition using PPT. Create a 10-slide PPT presentation that will serve as a “visual description” of the disease you have researched. The slides should be formatted as such:
Slide 1: title slide (title of presentation, your name and course information) (5%)
Slides 2-3: Background information in your own words (not cut and paste) about the condition you chose (what is it?, how does someone develop the condition?, what happens to the person?, what area of the world is most affected?, what treatments are available?, etc…) (20%)
Slides 4-8: Photos, charts, maps, and other visual images that relate in some way to your chosen topic. Each image should include a brief written description the image. Images without a written description will not be graded. (60%)
Slide 9: A written summary of your conclusions about the topic (what is being done for prevention?, what can be done?, etc…?) (10%)
Slide 10: A list of the website used for each slide (5%)
NOTE:
Remember, the images that you chose should tell a story. You may select as many graphics as you would like, but they should adequately cover your topic. Have fun with this assignment!!
When you submit this assignment, you must submit it as a PPT or PDF file attachment. You slideshow should be designed in LANDSCAPE format.
All writing should be in your own words. If a slide contains information that is directly “cut-and-paste” from any source, that slide will not be graded and may be subject to failure of the assignment.
GRADING: This assignment will be graded based on your complete coverage of the above material using the percentages noted above. Slide design, ease of reading, slide attractiveness, and creativity will be factored into the grade.

Create an informative handout that you could distribute to the students at Kingsborough Community College explaining the following topic:
THE HEALTH OF YOUNG CHILDREN
Make sure to explain:
Leading causes of illness and death among young children globally
Risk factors for neonatal, and infants of neonatal care, causes of death
Importance of immunizations
Challenges of young children health in some counties You may create a poster, poem, song, dialogue, cartoon strip, brochure, fast fact sheet, or any other creative way to share your information.

Discussion 5
Now that you’ve learned a little bit about infectious diseases and epidemiology, you’re developing the tools you need to be an informed consumer of the news about COVID-19 and other emerging infectious diseases. Here’s your chance to put it to the test:
For this week’s initial response: Find and debunk a myth about COVID-19 or another emerging infectious disease. Use evidence and epidemiological reasoning to refute incorrect claims, and be sure to be clear about which issues are definitely wrong, and which issues are more uncertain.
For your follow-on participation: Make at least two substantive responses to your classmates, as usual.
Resources to use
Ch3 from Basic Epidemiology 2nd Edition (+ reprise of a section from Ch2)
Study Design, Precision, and Validity in Observational Studies
Initial response (50% of discussion assignment grade): A post of approximately 200-350 words that directly addresses one of the week’s discussion topics and cites appropriate evidence to support your ideas (details below).
Follow-on participation (50% of discussion assignment grade): Write two or more substantive posts in response to other students’ initial responses and cite appropriate evidence to support your ideas (details below). Substantive posts do more than say, “I agree,” or “I disagree.” They add new evidence and new insight to the discussion. Follow-on posts should generally be 100-250 words long, but shorter or longer responses are acceptable as long as they make a significant contribution to the week’s discussion.
Your initial response and follow-on discussion posts should cite evidence from sources such as journal articles, reports by governmental and non-governmental organizations, news articles, and / or class lectures. Personal correspondence with global health practitioners or personal experience may also be used, provided that other forms of evidence are also presented. You may choose whatever citation style you are most comfortable with.
For each component of the discussion assignment, you may earn a Pass (100%), a Fail (0%) or partial credit (50%). Partial credit may be earned by partially completing the assignment (e.g., posting only one follow-on response; making a substantive initial response, but failing to cite any evidence; making a substantive and useful response that is somewhat off-topic; etc.)

Prepare a report on the health equity and health disparities on the following country
* India
You can research without difficulty by searching for “health disparities in country yyy”. You will find an abundance of information and want to use first that from reports of major agencies, key NGOs that focus on equity concerns, governments, and articles in major journals.
In terms of the “what,” you should focus your report on:
*Access/coverage
*The availability of financial protection through universal insurance coverage for the poor
*Health status/outcomes
In terms of the “who,” you should focus on:
*Locational disparities
*Ethnic/racial disparities
Socioeconomic disparities