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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian organization helping people in countries of the greatest need. Usually focusing on assisting underdeveloped countries, they deliver emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or suffer exclusion from health care. This goal is astonishing, since numerous countries are dealing with devastation due to war or overall lack of resources. Nevertheless, with the history and background of this organization, they are doing a phenomenal job at accomplishing it. Operating mostly on donations, the organization tries to garner attention by informing the public of what they do and why it is important in making their mission possible.

“Without a lifespan view of women’s health… we are unlikely to be successful in advancing women’s health” (Woods 2009, pg. 400). A Global Health Imperative (2009) by author Nancy Fugate Woods explains the issues about health status and opportunities for the health of girl-children world-wide, which includes sex and gender disparities. Girl and women’s health is important, but just not as important as men’s health. Woods gives example of women’s health issues that are extremely serious. “Health issues or problems that occur predominantly in women are breast cancer and menopause” (Woods 2009, pg. 400). Women all over the world have the risk of getting breast cancer, HIV and Aids. Women that are affected by these diseases in some countries may

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the principal government agency in the United States working to improve the health of all Americans despite their economic, social and educational status. HHS has identified three national goals of global health, including strengthen health care, advance scientific knowledge and innovation, and advance the health, safety and well-being of Americans (Secretary, 2014). The first goal to strengthen healthcare refers to HHS's push in making health insurance affordable for all Americans. This will increase access to preventative care as well as ensuring assess to high quality, culturally competent care. This goal focuses on improving transitions in care across the continuum, which in

2. Has the UN ever intervened in a conflict involving this nation? If so, where and how?

The World Health Organization (WHO) was established in 1948 by the United Nations, serving as a specialized agency to coordinate international health and public health problems (Wilkinson & Marmot, 2003, p. 4). Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, and O'Grady (2016) states that health is created where people live, work, and play; therefore being more dependent on one’s zipcode rather than one’s genetic code (p. 2). One of the goals of the WHO is to create a healthier nation which requires that the factors that challenge or promote health be addressed; these factors are known as the social determinants of health or the core determinants of health (Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, & O'Grady, 2016).

The World Health Organisation came up with 10 social factors known as the Social Determinants of Health (SOH) which helps people determine decisions about their health. Stress is a determinant of health that causes problems in the Otara community. People worry about whats for dinner and how bills are going to be paid due to the low employment rate and housing costs. They also worry that they cant go see the doctor due to the lack of accessibility which are examples caused by social and psychological circumstances related to stress. An increase in stress can affect the cardiovascular and immune system which can increase the risk of infection, diabetes, hypertension, heart attack, stroke and depression which has an impact on an individuals health.

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Fundación para la Salud Visual Infantil: Providing Permanent Eye Care to children in underserved communities in Latin America (FPLSVI) was founded in 1995 by Natalie Johnson and Isabel Rodriguez to provide permanent eye care access to children in underserved areas of Central and South America. The mission statement of this organization is “to provides permanent professional eyecare to visually impaired children in underserved communities in Latin America”. From our experience and available human, financial and technical resources, FPLSVI will successfully implement Improving Childhood Sight Program (ICSP) within the cost and timeframe previously described on this gran application.

The past decade is likely to be hailed as a period of unprecedented activism for global health in international affairs. This particular brand of activism is characterised by unparalleled amounts of monetary aid, last totalling a sum of US$31.3 billion in

Attention Getter: Have you ever wondered what would life be like if there were no responses to disease outbreaks? Every day we are exposed to microorganisms that may or may not be fatal to our health. Imagine getting an Eagle Alert saying that there has been a recent outbreak of Ebola in the Hattiesburg area. What would you do? It is not up to use to handle the situation but it is up to the World Health Organization (WHO) to respond to a terrifying event such as that.

Pakistan, like many international countries, contains a plethora of healthcare delivery complications when providing services to its citizens. This is immensely concerning for the international community because Pakistan is the 5th most populous country in the world, and the largest land mass in the Eastern Mediterranean. Littered with an array of different terrains, climates, and features, Pakistan’s land mass is approximate 800,000 square km. Geographically, Pakistan divides its providences into five large and one small, with an additional three territories. The providences are listed below in sizes from smallest to largest: Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakhtunkhwa, Khyber, Balochistan, Sindh, and Punjab. (see fig. 1)

When reading Natalie’s post about the CDC’s work with UNICEF, it brought about thoughts of the importance of collaboration between various countries and health-based organizations. I believe that these collaborations are crucial if the human race is to maintain and/or improve overall global health. From this, I conducted further research on various inter-professional collaborations and discovered how beneficial global partnerships are towards global health. This is because these partnerships assist with the implementation of various global health policies and other health-based initiatives that enable this maintenance and improvement (CDC, 2015).

There are high costs for poverty stricken nations tackling uncorrected refractive errors. The impact of blindness of a country can amount to $42 billion in 2000. 2 This large sum will be very difficult to set aside and invest in eye health in developing countries. When eye health is left untreated this will often increase the cost of repairing eye health issues which furthers the cycle of decreasing eye health care. Therefore, it is ideal for developing countries to highly invest in quality eye care as soon as they can afford to train health

TYPE A PROJECT--MSF is a neutral and impartial humanitarian organization that aims first and foremost to provide high-quality medical care to the people who need it the most. It does not promote the agenda of any country, political party, or religious faith, and, as such, endeavors to communicate its history, background, and capabilities to all parties in a given situation so that it may gain the necessary access to populations in need..On any given day, more than 30,000 doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and other qualified professionals working with MSF can be found providing medical care around the world..In 2012, MSF medical teams carried out more than 8.3 million outpatient consultations; delivered more than 185,000 babies; treated more than 1.6 million people for malaria; treated nearly 350,000 severely and moderately malnourished children; provided some 284,000 people living with HIV/AIDS with antiretroviral therapy; conducted more than 78,000 surgeries, and vaccinated 690,000 against measles and 496,000 against meningitis

Worldwide, approximately 1.3 billion people do not have access to affordable and efficient healthcare and out of those who have access, almost 170 million are forced to spend around 40 % of their income on medical treatment (Asante et al,2016).In low and middle income countries (LMICs), the major constraint to the access of healthcare is financial burden, where out-of-pocket payments (OPP) contribute to approximately 50 % of total health expenditure (WHO, 2010). As a result, in these countries there is high probability of many households being pushed into poverty due to high medical expenses (McIntyre,2006).The matter of concern in LMICS is that poor and disadvantaged groups of population do not have access to adequate quality of healthcare.For instance, according to WHO (2010) up to 20 % of women in rich population are more likely to have a birth attended by skilled health worker than a poor woman. Therefore, taking an action to address health inequities faced in these countries would save up to 700,000 women.

Due to low budget allocations to the health sector in Pakistan, the public health sector faces many challenges to provide quality health care to a diverse population. The health care cost in both private and public sector is pushing vulnerable population groups further into a poverty trap (Rehman et al, 2014). Parents of under 5 year children are usually compel to seek care at expensive private hospitals due to lack of trust and uncaring attitudes at government hospitals (Rehman et al, 2014).