3. Factors affecting health in 21st Century
๏ Poverty, health inequalities and growing disparities of
outcome
๏ Poor distribution of health workforce and brain drain
๏ Ageing and the growth of cities
๏ Infectious diseases, and increasing noncommunicable
diseases, injuries and violence
๏ Global environmental threats to human survival
๏ New technologies: information, eHealth, biotechnology
๏ Partnerships between the private and public sectors and
civil society
๏ Increasing number of trainees in affluent nations seeking
to benefit worldโs destitute
๏ Globalization of trade, travel and spread of values and
4. Health in Sustainable Development
Planning
๏ Environmental factors are a major contributor to health,
illness and death
๏ Age-old public hazards occur with new environment and
development problems
๏ Problems are often simultaneously local and global
๏ Urban growth has exposed populations to serious
environmental hazards while straining capacity of health
system
๏ Fundamental factors include inadequate attention to health
in development policy and practice, lack of coordinated
management and insufficient inter-sectoral collaboration
6. Panama in the World (2000)
Income per capita vs. Life Expectancy at Birth
World Nation
Panamanian District
L.E. โ Panama country avg.: 74.4 years
Sources:
World GDP per capita 2000: Development Data Group, The World Bank. 2008. 2008 World Development Indicators Online. Washington, DC: The World Bank; World Life Expectancy at Birth 2000-2005 : Population
Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, 2007. World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision. New York: United Nations.
Panama Real Income per capita & Life Expectancy at Birth 2000: Direcciรณn de Estadรญstica y Censo de la Contralorรญa General de la Repรบblica, con el Apoyo de Naciones Unidas (UNDP). 2004. Sistema Integrado de
Indicadores para el Desarrollo โ Repรบblica de Panamรก (http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/dec/sid/)
7. Panama in the World (2000)
Income per capita vs. Life Expectancy at Birth
World Nation
Panamanian District
55.5 years L.E. โ Panama country range 75.3
Sources: years
World GDP per capita 2000: Development Data Group, The World Bank. 2008. 2008 World Development Indicators Online. Washington, DC: The World Bank; World Life Expectancy at Birth 2000-2005 : Population
Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, 2007. World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision. New York: United Nations.
Panama Real Income per capita & Life Expectancy at Birth 2000: Direcciรณn de Estadรญstica y Censo de la Contralorรญa General de la Repรบblica, con el Apoyo de Naciones Unidas (UNDP). 2004. Sistema Integrado de
Indicadores para el Desarrollo โ Repรบblica de Panamรก (http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/dec/sid/)
16. Global health
๏ Is the health of populations in a global context
๏ Transcends perspectives and concerns of individual
countries
๏ Global political and economic impact often emphasized
๏ It is about worldwide improvement of health, reduction
of disparities, and protection against global threats that
disregard national borders
๏ Global platforms tend to address global health in
approaches aimed at poverty; equity is not fully
understood, operationalized or prioritized
17. Potential areas of collaboration
๏ Health information gathering beyond epidemiological
surveillance
๏ Health innovation and research to support long-term
goals of the Panama Canal Authority
๏ Health planning within a sustainable development
framework
๏ Human capacity development
๏ Knowledge and information society
๏ Cross border cooperation
18. ๏ Healthy life is an outcome of sustainable
development, as well as a powerful and undervalued
means of achieving it. We need to see health both as
a precious asset in itself, and as a means of
stimulating economic growth and reducing poverty. -
Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland
Director-General Emeritus, WHO.