Summary of the week
You are nearing the end of the first week of this short course. Over the period we have looked at what public health is and your role in it. This …
Course: Public Health and Nursing: Drive Public Health Promotion
How does all this impact on my everyday role?
We have begun to explore a number of issues that we hope have started you thinking about public health and what being involved in public health may mean for your …
Data on the Global Burden of Disease
In the last 200 years, there has been an increase in life expectancy, a halving of the proportion of the world’s population living in poverty, and a decrease in the …
Global burden of disease
In the next two steps we explore the changes that have taken place in the global burden of disease. By exploring the data we will support you in identifying what …
Globalisation And Public Health
Globalisation is increasingly important to, and an interlinked feature of, public health. Many of today’s health problems are of a global nature and related closely to the challenges associated with …
Global change
This is one definition of globalisation: ‘… the movement across national boundaries of people, ideas, money, goods and services, which results in the world becoming politically, economically and culturally interconnected …
The causes of the causes
The following poem describes and challenges us to think about the complex web of interrelated factors or conditions that influence health and well-being. Why is Jason in the hospital? ‘Why …
What exactly is public health?
What is public health? It is important first of all to unravel what the term ‘public health’ means as it is a complex concept with a range of different meanings …
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Public Health and Nursing: Drive Public Health Promotion