Case study: Newborn and child health—Resuscitation
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Case study: Newborn and child health—The operating room
The baby was handed to the birth attendants while the surgery was completed.The baby was not crying and had a limp tone that did not respond to stimulation. The labor and delivery RN measured the HR at 56bpm. apply Return to Nasir’s introduction Continue with the case
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Case study: Newborn and child health—Introduction
21-year-old Nasir Ali arrived at the small hospital in her rural home in Somalia.She was in her first pregnancy with regularly occurring contractions. Her pregnancy to date had been relatively unremarkable.Nasir did have several bouts of fevers that were assumed to be malaria based on previous experience with the illness. The traditional healer in her […]
Case study: Determinants of health—Recovery
After recovering from a bio-prosthetic valve replacement, Jean Baptiste returns to rural Haiti. Doug and Sandy are grateful for your assistance. They ask you to travel with them for a one-week trip to Bon Samaritain, Haiti, where Jean Baptiste lives with his parents. You decide to go with them on the trip. Doug and Sandy […]
Case study: Determinants of health—Diagnosis
The patient has severe rheumatic mitral valve insufficiency. This could have been prevented with penicillin to treat his initial strep throat infection. Through a translator, Jean Baptiste tells you that he could not see a doctor when he had a sore throat. The underlying cause was untreated strep pharyngitis. This could largely have been prevented […]
10. Non-communicable diseases
With improvements in survival to adulthood, improved economic and political states, and development of global markets of food and products has come changes to human behavior, exposure, and risks. As morbidity and mortality from communicable diseases has fallen, death from cardiovascular diseases and cancer have become the most common causes of death of adults in […]
9. Communicable diseases
We’ve all just lived through a pandemic. A global, life-changing, system-changing pandemic. Outside of world-wide conflict, it’s hard to think of something other than communicable diseases that have such a direct impact on the global population. Historically, the field of global health emerged from the study of “tropical diseases”—mostly infectious in nature that were of […]
8. Newborn and child health
As you may have noticed so far, children are a key population in the study and work of global health. In many ways, the health of children in a population/country/region acts as an indicator. Health and lives of children are intricately linked to economic access and particularly susceptible to the effects of poverty and inequalities. […]
7. Women’s and maternal health
Women, as a group, experience unique health problems by nature of their position in society. Historically, women have been subject to unjustifiable discrimination and unequal opportunities in wealth; and given inextricable links between wealth/poverty and health, they experience unequal health problems. In many places, women’s most important role is functional creation and maintenance of the […]