rom the Rosling video and Gapminder’s Ignorance Project website:
Answer the three questions at the start of the video, and compare your answers with those given by the US, Swedes, and the chimps? How did you do?
As a nurse leader make two recommendations on ways to address misconceptions about global health and emerging health issues.
What is the stated purpose for the Ignorance Project?
What parallel can be drawn between this project and healthcare projects?
From Dr. Brilliant’s video:
What were the keys to eradicating smallpox?
How can public health measures discussed by Dr. Brilliant be applied to a current global health issue?
Listen or watch John Barry, author of The Great Influenza (2004) interview with Major Garrett
Podcast: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/historian-john-barry-coronavirus-white-house-response/
Video: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/the-great-influenza-author-john-m-barry-on-the-takeout-5292020/
Answer the following questions (pls note that this interview was done before vaccines but still worthwhile info.):
a. What are the two greatest learnings from the 1918 influenza pandemic?
b. What is one of the biggest oversights in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic?
c. What is the biggest tragedy of COVID in the US?
d. What is the major symptom difference between the 1918 Spanish Flu and COVID-19?
e. What could the US have done to mitigate COVID-19 fatalities?
f. What is the one positive factor of the COVID-19?
4. Identify two root causes why Central American children and families are exiting their countries for the US?
5. a. Name at least three experiences Dr. Farmer has had to lead him to the belief that health care is a human right?
b. What are the outcomes that will be achieved if Dr. Farmer’s goal of refashioning the world is achieved?
6. Answer the following from Dr. Besser’s video:
Name three reasons why the PMTCT program outlined in the Besser video was founded?
Which barrier did Dr. Besser find most difficult to address?
How did his program plan to address this barrier?
