Global Nursing HealthGlobal Nursing Health

World Health OrganizationCollaborating Centre, University of Pittsburgh

2011 the year of Global Health

The Universal The Universal Declaration Declaration

of Human Rights of Human Rights

“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family.”

  UN, 1948

What is Health 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 healthGlobal 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 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 Nurses from around the world world

Florence Nightingale - English nurse, English nurse, writer and statisticianwriter and statistician

Darya Mikhailova – First First Russian Russian

military nurse military nurse Rufaida Al-

Aslamia First First

Muslim nurse Muslim nurse

GloCalGloCal Health ( Health (GloGlobal to bal to LoLocalcal))

One for all and all for one

Nursing and global Nursing and global health in the internet health in the internet

ageageQuestion: 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 Nursing and global health in the internet health in the internet

ageage 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: The Supercourse: Internet bringing us closer Internet bringing us closer together through learning together through learning

about global healthabout global health

THE SUPERCOURSE is a global library of lectures on prevention and public health, shared for free by the best faculty in the world.

www.pitt.edu/~super1

Nursing Supercourse emerged from Supercourse to improve the global teaching of prevention.

http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/Nursing/nursingsupercourse.htm

Global nursing healthGlobal nursing health

Nurses form the biggest proportions of health care professionals with 28 nurses and midwives compared to 2 physicians per 10,000 population (WHO, 2009)

Nurses are currently underutilized for global health and public health education.

Global nursing healthGlobal 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 healthNurses and global health

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-to-date. Our lectures are driven by the global health trends.

Nursing, public health, and Nursing, public health, and medicine: parts of the same puzzlemedicine: parts of the same puzzle

Global Health PrioritiesGlobal Health Priorities

Control of:Noncommunicable diseases

Communicable, maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions

Injuries

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

10 leading causes of death around the world

(WHO)

Chronic disease Chronic disease prevention prevention

Chronic disease Chronic disease prevention and prevention and management : Multi management : Multi language approachlanguage approach

Disaster Nursing Disaster Nursing Supercourse: Multi Supercourse: Multi language one goallanguage one goal

Mobile Global HealthMobile Global Health

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

ConclusionConclusion

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 Ardalan IranSunita Dodani US/PakistanJesse Huang ChinaRonald LaPorte USMita Lovalekar US/IndiaFaina Linkov US/UkraineEric Marler US Nicholas Padilla MexicoKawkab Shishani Jordan/USFrancois Sauer USEugene Shubnikov Russia

Ali SoniJesse

RonFaina Mita

NicholasEric

Francois Eugene

Kawkab

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.