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Global Health: by Nina Ureke & Tendere Nchoroko

The document discusses the global health goal of the Healthy People 2020 initiative. The goal aims to improve public health and strengthen national security through global disease detection, response, prevention, and control strategies. This goal is important because the health of the U.S. population can be affected by public health threats or events across the globe. The global health goals also affect different cultural groups, religious groups, and age groups in both positive and negative ways by influencing their perceptions of health and approaches to disease treatment.

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Global Health: by Nina Ureke & Tendere Nchoroko

The document discusses the global health goal of the Healthy People 2020 initiative. The goal aims to improve public health and strengthen national security through global disease detection, response, prevention, and control strategies. This goal is important because the health of the U.S. population can be affected by public health threats or events across the globe. The global health goals also affect different cultural groups, religious groups, and age groups in both positive and negative ways by influencing their perceptions of health and approaches to disease treatment.

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GLOBAL HEALTH

By Nina Ureke & Tendere Nchoroko


Introduction
 According to Dreher, et al, (2016), Healthy
People 2020 is an initiative of the United
States Department of Health and Human
Services that is set out through various
health objectives for the United States to
achieve over a period of time with the sole
purpose to help groups and stakeholders
in the health sector to develop programs
to improve health of all its citizens.
Definition of the goal
 In regards to the goal on global health,
Smith, (2012), quotes its definition from
the Healthy People 2020 website “To
improve public health and strengthen U.S.
national security through global disease
detection, response, prevention, and
control strategies.”
Describe why this goal is important
 The goal on global health is important in
this initiative because the health of the
U.S. population can be affected by public
health threats or events across the globe.
To control and avert such emerging
diseases which threaten public health is
the reason as to why this goal is
important (Smith, 2012).
Describe How this goal affect culture,
age groups or religious groups etc
Global health goals are vast and are set out
to affect cultural groups, religious groups and
different age groups around us in both
positive and negative ways.
It affects a cultures perceptions of health,
illness and death, beliefs about causes of
disease, approaches to health promotion,
how illness and pain are experienced and
expressed, where patients seek help, and the
types of treatment patients prefer.
References
 Dreher, M. C., Skemp, L. E., & Lehmann, S. P.
(2016). Healthy places, healthy people: A
handbook for culturally informed community
nursing practice. Indianapolis, IN : Sigma
Theta Tau International.
 Smith, C. M. (2012). Community/public
health nursing practice - health for families
and population. Elsevier - Health Sciences
Div.
 Kathryn H. Jacobsen (2013). Introduction to Global Health,
Second Edition. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
pp. 404. ISBN‐13:9781449688349. ISBN‐10:1449688349
 www.HealthyPeople2020.gov

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