Global health focuses on understanding healthcare in an international and interdisciplinary context. It includes the learning, research, and practice of medicine for improving health and healthcare equity for populations worldwide.
In this course, you will explore major global health challenges and their impacts on healthcare delivery systems. But, before you start examining these aspects of global health, it’s time to introduce yourself to your peers and your instructor.
In your initial post, address the following:
What role do you currently play or plan to play in healthcare and healthcare systems? What significance does your role have on a healthcare team?
How is your worldview of the “right to healthcare” informed by the scholarly evidence and your professional role? As much as possible, try to fairly, objectively, and briefly characterize consensus views related to this topic, while acknowledging areas where opinions diverge.
Support any claims that you make with scholarly sources from the literature.
In response to two peers, address the following about their roles in global health and priorities:
Support or critique your peers’ claims with your own investigations into the literature. Do you agree with your peers’ characterization of the “right to healthcare”? How do their individual worldviews differ? Support any claims that you make with scholarly sources from the literature.
Share an example from your discipline that lends support to your perspective. How does your example demonstrate the needs or the disparities associated with this issue?
