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Health is a dynamic Health is a dynamic state of complete state of complete physical, mental, physical, mental, spiritual, and social spiritual, and social well being and not well being and not merely the absence of merely the absence of disease or infirmity.disease or infirmity.
WorldHealth
Organization,1998
Medical science has no vocabulary or framework to deal with the concept of well being.
Jonathan Mann, 1994
Shalom , n., well being
I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10
Be perfect, (NIV) therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 5:48 (NIV)
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Health is a dynamic Health is a dynamic state of complete state of complete physical, mental, physical, mental, spiritual, and social spiritual, and social well being and not well being and not merely the absence of merely the absence of disease or infirmity.disease or infirmity.
WorldHealth
Organization,1998
After ten years of doing all the
“jungle doctor” heroics at a
mission hospital in northern
Nigeria, seeing this cartoon
changed my life.
1. Describe the picture.2. What is the problem?
3. Where does this happen in real life?
4. Why?5. What to do?
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Tobacco is the worst human disaster of the century. WHO, 1990
Annual Deaths Globally
1970
1999
2010predicted
Why do we allow tobacco companies to continue to entice our children and grandchildren to use their deadly product?
$$Tobacco is not a medical issue!
Continuing thousands of deaths daily from tobacco are an issue of justice.
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McKeown, T., Lowe, C.R. An Introduction to Social Medicine, Oxford 1974, p 237
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Côte d’Ivoire DHS, 1994; Bolivia DHS, 1998; Kyrgyz Rep. DHS 1997; Burkina Faso DHS 1992/3; Colombia DHS, 1995; India National Family Health Survey 1992/3; Indonesia DHS 1997. Source: WORLD BANK
Infant Mortality and Poverty
+ Low prices for natural resources
+ So called aid
- High prices for imports
- High interest on external debt
= Billions in capital drain
Hemorrhage of Hemorrhage of capital from capital from
AfricaAfrica
The most The most
important important
determinant of determinant of
health is health is
social justice.social justice.
“Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and other garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God.” Jesus (Luke 11:42)
We pray, “Thy will be We pray, “Thy will be
done on earth as it is done on earth as it is
in heaven.”in heaven.”
It seems clear that the It seems clear that the
minority in the world with minority in the world with
power and money will not power and money will not
voluntarily use it to voluntarily use it to
change significantly the change significantly the
plight of the poor.plight of the poor.Dave Hilton, Contact 106, December 1988
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= women of color from poorest nations= women of color from poorest nations
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What to do about tobacco?
Letter writing campaign to the chosen leaders of your national community:
a. Ban all advertising of tobacco products.
b. Remove tobacco from the Free Trade Act list
c. Require the same warnings on exported tobacco as in the U.S.
Economic and social Economic and social
development, based on development, based on
a new economic order, a new economic order,
is of basic importance is of basic importance
for the attainment of for the attainment of
health for all.health for all.WHO, Declaration of Alma Ata, 1978
The people have the right The people have the right
and duty to participate and duty to participate
individually and individually and
collectively in the collectively in the
planning and planning and
implementation of their implementation of their
health care.health care.WHO, Declaration of Alma Ata, 1978
Go to the people.Go to the people.Live among them.Live among them.Learn from them.Learn from them.
Begin with what they have.Begin with what they have.Build on what they know.Build on what they know.And of the best of leaders,And of the best of leaders,
when the task is donewhen the task is donethe people will saythe people will say
““We have done it ourselves.”We have done it ourselves.”
Lao Tsu 300 BCE
HELP
Empowerment
LISTEN
Facilitate thinking,speaking & acting
(mobilize individual andcommunity resources)
Change
Dependence
Status Quo
Health (well-being) for all
Give to,Do for,
Tell
LISTEN
strong feelings
reflect back
input
Paulo Freire as described in Training for Transformation by Hope & Timmel
think decide
actassess
The Role of the FacilitatorThe Role of the Facilitator
Isaiah 65: 17-35
“For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight. “I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it, or the cry of distress. No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old person who does not live out a lifetime; for one who dies at a hundred years
will be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed. They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain, or bear children for calamity; for they shall be offspring blessed by the LORD--and their descendants as well.
Isaiah 65:17-23
Health is a dynamic Health is a dynamic state of complete state of complete physical, mental, physical, mental, spiritual, and social spiritual, and social well being and not well being and not merely the absence of merely the absence of disease or infirmity.disease or infirmity.
WorldHealth
Organization,1998