Global Health (SVUEK_110)

Upon completion of the course the students will have knowledge and will be able to:
• explain the concept of global health and its historical development, the current global health risks;
• list and compare differences between the concepts of public health, international health and global health and their main principles;
• mention and describe the key principles, goals and implementation indicators of the UN Millennium Declaration;
• list key international institutions in the field of global health and describe them briefly;
• describe the differences in healthcare systems in different regions of the world, their impact on health;
• give definitions of urbanisation, urban population and environment; list the causes of urbanisation and its impact on the health of individuals and population;
• tell about the global health problems and their determinants in maternal and child health issues, as well as about the possible solutions to problems in different countries of the world;
• mention the most common types of injuries and describe their causes and measures to reduce trauma in different regions of the world;
• give the definition of violence, tell about the classification of forms of violence and their spread in different regions of the world, and to describe the health disorders caused by violence;
• list the major non-communicable diseases in different regions of the world and their risk factors on a global scale;
• give the definitions of outbreak, epidemic and pandemic;
• identify the factors at which the infection can lead to a pandemic, tell about the most specific pandemics in the past;
• tell about the topicalities in the spread of infections in different regions of the world and to characterise the globally accepted anti-infection mechanisms.