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Hey Pho,
I agree that developing mutually respectful relationships with partners in LMIC settings is a significant barrier to expanding faculty development programming. I believe this will help elevate a lot of lack trust and difficulty that are usually found in the health field. In the other hand, I think this may be hard to accomplished because of the differences in people opinion and wants.
Hey Nikki,
I like how you detailed the career development program that can be implemented to help improve community health worker and how increasing role from both domestic and international perspective can help stabilizes those career. Proving people with lasting education and training will help grow careers and ensure those skills are able to be passed on to new workers. Lasting, increasing financial compensation for community will help improve health workers career prospects.
Question 1: What additional elements would be necessary for universal health coverage to be effective?
Several elements are necessary for universal health coverage to be effective. First, a robust healthcare infrastructure with sufficient facilities and trained personnel is essential. Second, equitable access to healthcare services, ensuring that all populations, including marginalized groups, can receive care, is critical. Third, sustainable financing mechanisms must be in place to support the healthcare system without causing financial hardship to individuals. Lastly, effective health information systems and data management are needed to monitor health outcomes and inform policy decisions.
Question 2: What actions could improve community health workers career prospects?
To improve community health workers’ career prospects, several actions can be taken. First, providing formal training and certification can enhance their skills and professional credibility. Second, establishing clear career pathways with opportunities for advancement can motivate and retain them. Third, offering competitive salaries and benefits would ensure financial stability and job satisfaction. Lastly, integrating community health workers into the broader healthcare system can enhance their roles and recognition, improving their career prospects.
What barriers exist to expansion of faculty development programming in LMIC (low and middle income) settings?
Multiple Barries of development programming in LMIC can help improve those community settings. The lack of financial resources and funding to support those development would be the most difficult Barries. In addition, limited access to up-to-date educational technology and infrastructure hampers effective implementation. Thirdly, there may be a shortage of trained personnel to deliver faculty development programs. Fourthly, cultural and language differences can pose significant challenges to program delivery and acceptance. Lastly, there might be institutional resistance to change and a lack of recognition of the importance of faculty development, hindering efforts to expand these programs.
Which habit of exemplary clinical teaching is translatable to education in LMIC (low and middle income) settings? Can you provide an example of effective implementation from your own experience?
One habit of exemplary clinical teaching that is translatable to education in LMIC settings is the practice of providing immediate, specific, and constructive feedback to learners. This habit is crucial for reinforcing correct practices and addressing areas that need improvement, promoting continuous learning and professional development. Having session with medical students to help them debrief regarding their patient interactions, and decision-making processes. By doing this consistently, students were able to understand their strengths and areas for improvement, which significantly enhanced their learning experience and clinical competence. This practice also encouraged a culture of open communication and continuous improvement, which is essential for high-quality medical education in resource-constrained environments.
Hey, Pho,
I agree that background focus should be a center in healthcare to help reduce cross-culture barriers. Being able to communicate with patients and ensure they understand what is happing will help eliminate miscommunication and misunderstanding from everyone. I also understand how increasing humanitarian access and protection will reduces the consequences of complex emergencies resulting from wars.
Question 1: What actions can healthcare educators take to help their learners to reduce cross-cultural barriers?
Healthcare educators can help their learners reduce cross-cultural; Barries by developing a curriculum that goes beyond simple educational about cultural differences. They can focus on second-order insights to encourage behavioral change and address socio-economic-political effects of health. They should also undergo practices exercise to explore their own biases and understand diverse perspective. Last, incorporating lessons from different discipline will help facilitate well-rounded understanding of culture.
Question 2: What prevention interventions could best help reduce consequences of complex humanitarian emergencies resulting from wars?
Less developed countries are more vulnerable to disasters due to large populations of vulnerable individuals, limited response capacity, and weak health systems. These inequalities in health infrastructure and insufficient human and financial resources can lead to epidemic of diseases like malaria and HIV during and after wars and natural disasters. Providing adequate shelter and living conditions to displaced populations to reduce overcrowding and the risk of disease spread will help improve these conditions.
Hey Bethany,
I think you are right when you mention that the cheapest food accessible to lower income communities are the calorie dense, low nutrient melas. This eventually cause a cycle of families purchasing meals that will cause health problems, yet is unable to be improved due to lack of resources, or simply because some do not any better. So I agree, that improving private sectors to help make food more accessible (good and bad) to everyone will improve food security and health overall.
Question 1: What actions are most important to improve global nutrition
Improving global neutron needs multiple approaches to obtained a lasting effect. Promoting access to nutrition and diverse foods for everyone including the underserve populations is a major point.
Educating the communities about how to maintained a balanced diet and the importance of micronutrients can leas to healthier eating habits. Lastly, implanting policies to address socio-economic inequalities within communities and providing food availability can create lasting improvements in global nutrition outcomes.Question 2: In your opinion, what are today’s greatest obstacles to progress in global health
One of the greatest obstacles to progress in global health currently I believe is unequal access to healthcare causing perpetuated disparities in health outcomes between communities. In addition, the rise of antimicrobial resistance in medicine has made it more difficult for treatment to be more effective in infectious disease worldwide. Lastly, with the growing use of technologies in medicine, unequal access to digital health technologies and the internet can hinder health disparities, while communities that are slow to adopt to new health technologies and innovations can also hinder progress in disease prevention and treatment.
Hey AUSTIN,
I agree advocating for women education is one of the factors that can help improve maternal health in India, and an so many other countries as well. A lot of things that occur in society is usually do to lack of education and people not knowing the importance of what they are doing or lack of their actions. I believe with an education program about the importance of maternal health from preconception to b birth, a lot of death and childhood malnutrition can be avoided.
Hey Jasmine,
Education. Education. Education. I agree with you in all level that education plays a huge role in shaping poverty which affects how diseases are control and managed in those communities. I appreciate how you went in depth to explained the correlation between education and poverty. I also like the fact that you mention we should aim to prevent and understand poverty at all socioeconomic level. I believe that educating people and equipping them with understanding and resources they need is more affective than treating disease after the fact. I enjoyed reading your response and happy so see that we believe education is an underlying issue in poverty and should be targeted.
Question 1 from article #1: Which, in your opinion, are the two most powerful pathways to improving infant growth in lower income communities?
The two most powerful pathways to improving infant growth in lower income communities would be to provide intervention for maternal health and improve women’s education and breastfeeding support. Maternal health severely impacts infant care practices and the outcomes of the families. Providing mother’s with aid in mental health through counseling, group supports can lead to better caregiving practices for the whole family. The article also showed that the mental interventions have shown potential benefits for infant growth and development. In addition, improving women’s education and while focusing on the benefits of breastfeeding will empower women. Breastfeeding has been shown to have significant benefits for infant health and their long-term survival. Having individual going through the same situation being educated together will increase support and increase community bonding.
Question 2 from article #2: In the context of India, what are potentially the most powerful interventions to broadly improve maternal health?
The most powerful interventions to improve maternal health in context to India would be to established an educational program educating the population about maternal health. Being able to educate people from all different socioeconomic level will provide education to prevent health issues lowering the need to treat diseases later. Having health care workers trained and educated to support pregnant women can bring awareness to maternal health and its needs in society. This would also have an impact not only in the community but also at the government level. With maternal health education being enforced will cause policies to be implemented by the government to further strengthen and improve the need for effective maternal care.
Question #1 from Article #1: From your perspective, why are people living in poverty most likely to suffer from TB, and how should this fact influence efforts to control the disease?
People living in poverty are most likely to suffer from TB for many reasons that can overlap with each other to increase their risks. Individuals living in poverty usually live in crowded-unsanitary community, which makes it easier for TB to spread. In addition, people living in poverty usually experience malnutrition, which makes them susceptible to experience nutrient poor deficit. Malnutrition makes individual more susceptible to al forms of diseases because the body lacks the proper nutrients and energy to fights off disease.
Like many diseases and infections, lack of education is the leading cause of disease. people living in poverty lack the resources to receive proper education to be identify the signs and symptoms of TB, as well as ways to prevent and treat TB.
In order to control the rapidly increased rate of TB, improving access to health care to the underserve population will aid in maintains spread. Although, it may require a lot of funds and time, I also believe targeting overcrowded areas to help with sanitation and ventilation will have a huge impact in improving reducing risks.
Question #2 From Article #2: What, in your opinion, are two interventions that would be most effective against neglected tropical diseases?
Two intervention that would be effective against neglected tropical diseases would large scale -prevention treatment and be improving access to water, sanction and hygiene. These two innervation would be effective in tagging the neglected tropical diseases because they target diseases at the community level to address the root cause of the disease path of transmission. For examples, tagging hygiene and sanity throughout the communities will target and eliminate various diseases that would place people at higher risk. In the other hand, the large-scale preventative treatment will involve administration of medication to population who are at risk to a certain disease, to aid in lowering the number of people affected yearly.
Hey Jasmine,
I completely agree with you that vaccination hesitancy is one of the main reasons that the population refuse to be immunized. I find this to be due to the lack of proper information and education in the general public. As a result, the general population usually refer back to each other for information that tends to be incorrect.
Question #1 from Article #1: What system-wide changes, in your opinion, would most successfully increase world-wide food security?
In my opinion, to improve world-wide food security, I believe a change needs to be made in multiple systems so they can be integrated. The main change I believe should start by enhancing how we govern and create policies. Some police shave made it easy to allow communities to access food, while others have made it more difficult. So allowing government to invest in farming goods and practice will help with food security. This can be done by allowing collaboration between research companies to improve production. I believe this method will also help improve work security as well.
Question 2 from Article #2: What do you believe are the most substantial barriers to global measles elimination, and how can these be overcome?
The most substantial Barries to global measles elimination I believe is vaccination hesitancy. Due to increased in misinformation, the general population has become more reluctant to vaccinate their children which has only increase the rick of infections. In the other hand, I believe due to limited access to health care and insurance, from underserved community has increase outbreaks thought the public. This can has also cause gaps in immunization coverage and delayed in vaccinations.
These Barries can be overcome by increasing the vaccination coverage in order to reach the underserve populations. This can also be accomplished by implementing routine immunization programs to ensure everyone receives the required dosage of MCV. For countries that are more developed, should form collaborative programs between countries to help the enhanced those that are lacking resources. Lastly, I believe public education should be done to informed communities and help reduce misinformation and increase patient confidence and trust.
Good evening,
My name is Milove Jeannot. I’m an incoming second year medical student at WCUCOM. I previously worked as a Medical Scribe for the outpatient clinic ranging from OBGYN, ophthalmology and Hematology-Oncology. I also had the opportunity to work as a Medical Scribe in the ER where I had the opportunity to work at a face pace environment with various physicians. I am also a registered Behavioral Health Technician and worked at a rehabilitation facility for almost two years.
Although I am not 100% certain of what I would like to focus on after medical school, I am certain that I want to focus on public health. As a result, I decided to take this course enhance my knowledge while also improving my skills for this field.
Best,
