This document discusses global health trends, issues, and concerns. It outlines the role of the World Health Organization in developing global health leadership. It also describes various global health initiatives aimed at addressing issues like tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and mental health. Finally, it provides details on the 8 Millennium Development Goals set by the UN, which include eradicating poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability, and developing a global partnership for development.

1. HEALTH TRENDS,
ISSUES and
CONCERN
GLOBAL LEVEL

2. 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.
- Ilona Kickbush (2006)
- an area for study, research and practice that prioritizes health improvement
and achieving impartiality in healthcare and wellness worldwide.
- Koplan and Associates (2009)

3. WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
The primary international body responsible for developing
leadership in health, setting norms and standards and
providing health support among nations around the world.

4. GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVES
These are programs and projects which help address global
health issues, concerns and trends.
- Stop TB
- Roll Back Malaria
- Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS
- Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan
- Global Strategy To Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol

5. 8 Millenium Development Goals (MDG)
These are goals set by the United Nations for its member
nations to be fulfilled on an agreed span of time to be
evaluated and counter-checked under world standards.
United Nation created MDG In 2000 in effort to improve life in
developing regions by 2015

6. 8 MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT
GOALS (MDG)

7. 1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
Some key suggestions to eradicate poverty and hunger are:
 Education
 Promoting gender equality
 Producing more jobs
 Investing more in agriculture
Strengthened nutrition programs for children and infants

8. 8 MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT
GOALS (MDG)

9. 2. Achieve Universal Primary Education
Children who receive primary education are more likely to:
 Marry and have their own families at a later stage in life
 Practice family planning and have fewer children
 Know rights, responsibilities and civic obligations
 Seek employment and sustain personal and family needs
 Have decreased risk of getting sexually transmitted
infections like HIV/AIDS

10. 8 MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT
GOALS (MDG)

11. 3. Promote Gender Eqaulity and Empower
Women
Gender equality can be achieved through:
 Early childhood development intervention
 Promotion of women’s political rights and involvement
 Improved reproductive health programs and policies
 Education and integrating gender equality in school
curriculum

12. 8 MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT
GOALS (MDG)

13. 4. Reduce Child Mortality
Strengthening local and national programs is one way to
reduce child mortality.
This includes:
 Immunization programs
 Assuring the survival and better health of mothers
 Improving reproductive health programs and policies
 Better nutrition program for infants and children.

14. 8 MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT
GOALS (MDG)

15. 5. Improved Maternal Health
- Not only about mother’s health but also involves the
health and wellness of the family.
- Maternal health also helps eradicate other problems like
poverty, gender inequality, decreased workforce, lower
birth deaths, and disability of women.

16. 5. Improved Maternal Health
Some ways to improve maternal health include:
 Improved and proper nutrition of mothers.
 Teaching the benefits of birth spacing and small family
size.
 Educating young boys and girls about the importance of
maternal health.
 Better and improved access to hospital care.

17. 8 MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT
GOALS (MDG)

18. 6. Combat HIV/AIDS Malaria and Other
Diseases
Some ways to combat diseases include effective prevention, treatment
and care like:
 Improved housing conditions
 Increased access to anti-malarial medicines
 Promoting safer sex behavior and preventive education for all
 Promoting Tuberculosis (TB) screening of HIV/AIDS persons and
 TB – Directly Observed Treatment Short (TB-DOTS) Course therapy
 Promoting the use of insecticide-treated nets to fight mosquito- borne
diseases.

19. 8 MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT
GOALS (MDG)

20. 7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Some of the benefits of a sustainable environment are:
 Cleaner air and environment
 Clean, environment-friendly, and renewable energy
 New and aspiring jobs and business in energy

21. 8 MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT
GOALS (MDG)

22. 8. Global Partnership For Development
Some benefits of global partnership are:
 Expanded international trade agreements
 Improved access to affordable medicine.
 Reduced poverty through government debt relief grant
 Developed information and communication technology
(ICT)

23. Activity 1 – Present and Future
PRESENT
GLOBAL HEALTH
ISSUES AND
CONCERNS
FUTURE
Communicable
Diseases
Tobacco and
Alcohol Use
Mental Health