The document discusses several global health issues and initiatives. It begins by explaining that health issues are a priority for the UN, which established the WHO to coordinate efforts between countries. Global health refers to cross-border health concerns requiring international cooperation. The Millennium Development Goals, established in 2000, aimed to reduce poverty and improve health outcomes by 2015 through initiatives on topics like education, gender equality, disease prevention, and environmental sustainability. Global health initiatives pool resources to address specific problems worldwide and set standards for acceptable health across varying environments and economies. Specific initiatives discussed include fighting communicable diseases, alcohol/tobacco control, and improving mental healthcare access.

1. HEALTH
(3RD QUARTER)

2. GLOBAL
HEALTH ISSUES:

3. Health issues globally are among the
priority concerns of the United Nations. It thus
designated the World Health Organization to
serve as lead agency tasked to direct and
coordinate with all member nations regarding
leadership, supervision, technical support and
education on matters about health, which affects
many countries-including the Philippines.

4. The term “global health” rose
in popularity along with the rise of
globalization. Both terms improved public
awareness of vulnerabilities and shared
responsibilities among people for the
different injustices in the world.

5. Ilona Kickbush (2006) - director of the
Global Health Program at the Graduate Institute of
International and Development Studies in Geneva,
Switzerland states that global health pertains to
various health issues, concerns, and trends which go
beyond national boundaries and call for global
initiatives for the protection and promotion of
peoples’ health across the world.

6. GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES:
THE MILLENNIUM
DEVELOPMENT GOALS

7. Millennium Development Goals
◦Millennium Development Goals are developed in the
year 2000 when different countries under the
leadership of United Nations created a bold plan to
reduce global poverty in various dimensions by 2015.
◦ A series of plans by the United Nations.

8. MILLENNIUM
DEVELOPMENT
GOALS

9. Millennium Development Goals
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education.
3. Promote Gender equality and empower Women.
4. Reduce Child Mortality
5. Improve Maternal Health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and other diseases
7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability
8. A global partnership for development

18. Global Health Initiatives
◦Global Health Initiatives are programs designed to
pool financial resources to address specific health
problems worldwide.
◦It sets an acceptable standard of health for all people
of the world, considering the varied and possibly
extreme environmental, economic, and health.

19. GLOBAL HEALTH
INITIATIVE: THE GLOBAL
FIGHT AGAINST
COMMUNICABLE
DISEASES

23. GLOBAL HEALTH
INITIATIVE: ALCOHOL
AND TOBACCO
CONTROL

27. RA 10586:
Anti-Drunk and Drugged Driving Acts
of 2013
◦Individuals who are caught driving under the
influence of alcohol or drugs.
◦Punishments: confiscation of driver’s license and
fine from 20,000 to 30,000.

28. GLOBAL HEALTH
INITIATIVE: MENTAL
HEALTH

30. Misconceptions
◦People with Mental health issues who sees a
psychiatrist are weak or crazy.
◦ Mental service creates mores damage to their health.
◦ Mental illness isn’t real and it’s all in your head.
◦ Mental illness is a sign of weakness.
◦ There is no cure for mental illness.
◦ Youth do not suffer from mental illness.

31. RA 11036:
Philippine Mental Health Act of 2014
◦It aims to integrate Mental health services in the
national healthcare program to ensure that poor can
have access to quality mental health services and
medicine.

32. October 10 is World Mental
Health Day.