2011 the year of Global Health
Global Nursing Health
World Health Organization
Collaborating Centre, University of Pittsburgh
The Universal Declaration
of Human Rights
“Everyone has the right to a standard of
living adequate for the health and wellbeing of himself and of his family.”
UN, 1948
What is Health
“Health is not only the absence of
infirmity and disease but also a state of
physical, mental and social well-being.”
WHO
International health
“International health is a subspecialty
that relates more to health practices,
policies and systems...and stresses
more the differences between countries
than their commonalities.”
The Global Health Education Consortium
Global health
“Is an area for study, research, and
practice that places a priority on
improving health and achieving equity
in health for all people worldwide.”
Koplan et al., 2009
Nursing view of health
“…observation and experience will teach
us the ways to maintain or to bring
back the state of health. It is often
thought that medicine is the curative
process…. nature alone cures.”
Florence Nightingale, 1860
Nurses from around the world
Florence Nightingale - English nurse, writer and
statistician
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Darya Mikhailova – First Russian
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military nurse
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Rufaida Al-Aslamia
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First Muslim nurse
GloCal Health (Global to Local)
One for all and
all for one
Nursing and global health in the
internet age
Question: What is the best tool to educate the
global nursing workforce while utilizing
fewer resources?
Answer: A solution is to have a well
structured content written in a language
that does not require use of any advanced
technology, as demonstrated in the
Supercourse.
Nursing and global health in the
internet age
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Nursing Supercourse is an important
educational tool for bringing global
health training into the Nursing
schools and for building a nursing
surveillance network.
The Supercourse: Internet
bringing us closer together through
learning about global health
www.pitt.edu/~super1
THE SUPERCOURSE is a global
library of lectures on prevention
and public health, shared for free
by the best faculty in the world.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/Nursing/nursingsupercourse.htm
Nursing Supercourse emerged
from Supercourse to improve
the global teaching of
prevention.
Global nursing health
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Nurses form the biggest proportions of
health care professionals with 28 nurses and
midwives compared to 2 physicians per
10,000 population (WHO, 2009)
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Nurses are currently underutilized for global
health and public health education.
Global nursing health
It is estimated that there are 11 million nurses
around the world (ICN, 2000), what if there
was a way to utilize this huge workforce for
global disease prevention education
Nurses and global health
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Nurses are known to be THE most trusted
health professionals by public
Nurses address health as a continuum
Health promotion and prevention are the
foundational to nursing practice
Nursing Supercourse is a global network of
nurses. We aim to improve global health and
prevention through collaboration. Nursing
students are not getting adequate training in
global health. We can change that by sharing
lectures that are evidence based and up-todate. Our lectures are driven by the global
health trends.
Nursing, public health, and medicine: parts of
the same puzzle
Global Health Priorities
Control of:
 Noncommunicable diseases
 Communicable, maternal, perinatal
and nutritional conditions
 Injuries
10 leading causes of death
around the world (WHO)
Cause of death
Death in Millions Percent of Death
Coronary heart disease
7.20
12.2
Stroke and other
cerebrovascular diseases
5.71
9.7
Lower respiratory infections
4.18
7.1
Chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease
3.02
5.1
Diarrheal diseases
2.16
3.7
10 leading causes of death
around the world (WHO)
Cause of death
Death in Millions Percent of Death
HIV/AIDS
2.04
3.5
Tuberculosis
1.46
2.5
Trachea, bronchus, lung
cancers
1.32
2.3
Road traffic accidents
1.27
2.2
Prematurity and low birth
weight
1.18
2.0
Chronic disease prevention
Chronic disease prevention and
management : Multi language
approach
Disaster Nursing Supercourse:
Multi language one goal
Mobile Global Health
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New venue in outreaching consumers
Informing health recipients about health
services
Health education tool to promote health
There are many challenges to global
health with different professionals
emphasizing different diseases.
Interdisciplinary approach is needed to
ease the burden of both communicable
and non-communicable diseases
Conclusion
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Global nursing health is important, as
similar conditions in developed and
developing countries alike
Life expectancy in the 20th century was
improved due to successes in global health
efforts
All students need to know more about global
health research and form networks to share
important global health knowledge
Ali
Soni
Jesse
Ali Ardalan
Sunita Dodani
Jesse Huang
Ronald LaPorte
Mita Lovalekar
Faina Linkov
Eric Marler
Nicholas Padilla
Kawkab Shishani
Francois Sauer
Eugene Shubnikov
Faina
Mita
Ron
Iran
US/Pakistan
China
US
US/India
US/Ukraine
US
Mexico
Jordan/US
US
Russia
Nicholas
Francois
Kawkab
Eric
Eugene
How do you join this
global effort?
•Visit www.pitt.edu/super1/
•Send this lecture to as many people you
know
•Teach at least 1 slide about global health.
•Contact us at super1@pitt.edu for other
opportunities.