R????????????????????EAd the info carefully and follow the steps by steps dont miss anything, dont write big words use easy words It have 2 parts but should be one page and they are relate to each other part1 Global health as a wicked problem STEP 1: Explore the Rx for survival documentary and its materials. There is a TASK worksheet for these steps. 1.1 Finish watching Rx for Survival and then complete and submit the response notes assignment (described below look at this worksheet before you start watching)) Rx for Survival is a multi-part (6 hour) documentary that aired in 2005 on USA public television. Here is how the producers describe it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psfkl_j_7JQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULKJjX16t3M&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrOioJJNB4M&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=756fWV5YTgU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=756fWV5YTgU&feature=youtu.be About the Rx for Survival Project During the twentieth century, the world lived through a golden era in public health: vaccines were discovered, diseases were cured, and the average life expectancy rose by many years. In recent decades, however, this stunning progress has declined dramatically. Although life expectancy remains high in developed nations, in many countries of the developing world it has actually fallen. The march to better world health has been slowed by the emergence of new and devastating diseases such as AIDS, SARS and West Nile virus, by microbial resistance to many modern drugs and by a global travel network that can turn a local disease into an international outbreak in a matter of hours. Recognizing the impact of both the slow down in medical advances and the speeding up of new and stronger diseases, the award-winning documentary team of WGBHs NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions, Inc., has co-produced a groundbreaking multimedia project to address what makes us sick, what keeps us healthy and what it would take to give good health the upper hand. For our purpose in this course, you can organize your viewing in several ways your choice. you can watch all of the selected excerpts from the official website (this is the quickest option if you are short on time) Whichever viewing option you choose, click through the website section why global health matters (the case study links are optional). You might already know these points. If thats the case, remember, for this course your objective is to observe and note what is being said about global health. What is being conveyed by the words used? Who is the intended audience, and what type of persuasion does this audience need? If youve not heard arguments about why global health matters before, its fine to focus for now on absorbing the information. Now click on the Deadly Diseases section. READ the section on HIV/AIDS READ the section on Diarrheal Diseases Youll need to have this background info for later in the course. Then, have a rueful laugh as you read the one on Influenza. North America is currently experiencing a major Avian flu epidemic (so far it has not jumped to humans . . .) but when this material was created in 2005 there was a lot of campaigning for pandemic preparedness going on, given the expectation that it was a question of when, not if, a newly-evolved zoonotic virus would cause a disruptive global pandemic. And we all know what happened in 2020 with SARS-cov-2 (covid-19). If you want, you can also look at this interesting piece discussion: the next Pandemic? Choose one more of the other sections to read through. Now you have two kinds of background information: IN????????????????????FORMATION about the diseases and health problems that typically fall under global health, and a sense of the ways governments and agencies try to address them: the programs, the techni
ques, the challenges. A SAMPLE of rhetoric and representation about global health. You have a feel for tone and imagery. You have observed framing devices: how a problem is delineated and what then is a solution. You have seen how the people who need help are depicted, and how the people who provide the help understand what they are doing. Rx for Survival is one example; it uses some imagery that is common, and pervasive. Notice it. By noticing this version of global health, you will later be able to better notice other ways global health is presented, and made real. PART2 Global History of Public Health LOBAL HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH: ENTANGLEMENTS OF MONEY AND POWER This week we learn to appreciate the historical-specificity of global health in the present by understanding the past. (In week 4 we will circle back to continue this work). What is public health? You can look up a definition of the term, but we can also say that public health is something that came into being through a long history of changing social, commercial, and governmental arrangements. Public health came about within and as a part of the emergence of modernity (as a social formation) in tandem with capitalism. But groups of people have aways, in all cultures and times, paid attention to sickness and bodily suffering in their communities. And have taken actions to help others. (In fact, we know the Neanderthals and other hominids were doing this before homo sapiens evolved). If you zoom out, then, this history of public health can be seen as one way among many humans organize themselves collectively to secure and maintain well-being for themselves and each other. My Oxford English Dictionary phone app defines public health as: The health of the population as a whole, especially as monitored, regulated, and promoted by the state The term also refers to the field of expert knowledge that engages in the project of tending to the publics health. So when did this way of thinking about the health of a population as a whole start taking shape? And why? What was the context? When, how and why did the state start getting involved? Posing these types of questions is a technique in anthropology called making the familiar strange. So . . . lets get some information about the past. STEP 1: We start with the recent past. World War II was a turning point in the twentieth century that re-organized how Europe and the USA engaged with many other parts of the world. It was after WW II that people started talking in terms of development. In rough terms, before WW II there was colonial medicine doing public health in colonies in Africa, Asia, and (neocolonially) Latin America. After WW II, public health became a duty of newly independent governments in former colonies, assisted by development aid as international health. Read: Packard, Randall (1997) Visions of Postwar Health and Development and Their Impact on Public Health Interventions in the Developing World. International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge. F. Cooper and R. Packard, eds. Pp. 93-118. Berkeley: University of California Press. Task worksheet #03 guides your note taking on this piece. (Randall Packard is a historian of medicine specializing in southern Africa). STEP 2: Read: (look at Task worksheet #04 first so that you have a guide there is a lot of information in this reading) Birn, A-E, Pillay, Y and TH Holz (2017) The Historical Origins of Modern International (and Global) Health in Textbook of Global Health. Oxford scholarship online so 5 thing and they all should be in one page but make sure u say which one is wh????????????????????ich 1)Reading-study-task steps 2)01 Rx for survival 3)03 packard 4)04 Birntxt1 5)second Reading/ study /task steps