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South Eastern European Journal of Public Health Special Volume 2016: a Global Public Health Curriculum; 2Nd Edition (2016) South Eastern European Journal of Public Health Special Volume 2016: A Global Public Health Curriculum; 2nd Edition (2016) Edited by Ulrich Laaser and Florida Beluli Jacobs Verlag South Eastern European Journal of Public Health Jürgen Breckenkamp Genc Burazeri, Ulrich Laaser, Jose M. Martin-Moreno, Peter Schröder-Bäck. 1 Executive Editor Genc Burazeri (Tirana, Albania and Maastricht, The Netherlands) Faculty of Medicine Rr. ―Dibres‖, No. 371 Tirana, Albania Phone: 0035/5672071652 Email Skype: genc.burazeri Assistant Executive Editors Florida Beluli, Email Ervin Toci, Email Kreshnik Petrela, Email All at:Faculty of Medicine Rr. ―Dibres‖, No. 371 Tirana, Albania Editors Jürgen Breckenkamp, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bielefeld, Germany (2016). Genc Burazeri, Faculty of Medicine, Tirana, Albania and Department of International Health, CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands (2013). Ulrich Laaser, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bielefeld, Germany (2013). Jose Martin-Moreno, School of Public Health, Valencia, Spain (2013). Peter Schröder-Bäck, Department of International Health, CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands (2014). Regional Editors Suzanne M. Babich, Associate Dean of Global Health and Professor, Health Policy and Management, at the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, for North America. Samir N. Banoob, President, Intenational Health Mangement, Tampa, Florida, USA, for the Middle East. Evelyne de Leeuw, free lance health consultant, Sydney, Australia, for the Western Pacific Region. Damen Haile Mariam, University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the African Region. Charles Surjadi, Faculty of Medicine, Atmajaya University, Jakarta, Indonesia, for the South East Asian Region. Laura Magana Valladares, Secretaria Académica, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Mexico, Mexico, for Latin America. Advisory Editorial Board Tewabech Bishaw, African Federation of Public Health Associations (AFPHA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Jadranka Bozikov, Department for Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Medical Informatics, Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. Helmut Brand, Department of International Health, CAPHRI, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands. 2 Patricia Brownell, Fordham University, New York City, New York, USA. Franco Cavallo, Department of Public Health and Paediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Torino, Torino, Italy. Doncho Donev, Institute of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University ―Ss Cyril and Methodius‖, Skopje, Macedonia. Mariana Dyakova, University of Warwick, Faculty of Public Health, United Kingdom. Florentina Furtunescu, Department of Public Health and Management, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila", Bucharest, Romania. Andrej Grjibovski, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway and School of Public Health, Arkhangelsk, Russia Motasem Hamdan, School of Public Health, Al-Quds University, East Jerusalem, Palestine. Mihajlo Jakovljevic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia. Aleksandra Jovic-Vranes, Institute of Social Medicine, Medical Faculty, Belgrade University, Serbia. Ilona Kickbusch, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. Mihali Kokeny, free lance consultant, Budapest, Hungary. Dominique Kondji, Cameroon Public Health Association, Douala, Cameroon. Giuseppe La Torre, Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, University Sapienza, Rome, Italy. Oleg Lozan, School of Public Health Management, Chisinau, Moldova. George Lueddeke, Consultant in Higher and Medical Education, Southampton, United Kingdom. Izet Masic, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Bernhard Merkel, Visiting Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Naser Ramadani, Institute of Public Health, Prishtina, Kosovo. Enver Roshi, School of Public Health, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania. Maria Ruseva, South East European Health Network (SEEHN), Sofia, Bulgaria. Fimka Tozija, Institute of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University ―Ss Cyril and Methodius‖, Skopje, Macedonia. Theodore Tulchinsky, Hadassah–Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel. Lijana Zaletel-Kragelj, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 3 Publisher Dr. Hans Jacobs (Lage, Germany) Editorial Office Jacobs Verlag Hellweg 72 D 32791 Lage Germany Email Phone: 0049/5232/979043 Fax: 0049/05232/979045 4 SEEJPH South Eastern European Journal of Public Health www.seejph.com/ Special Volume, 2016 Ulrich Laaser, Florida Beluli (Eds.) Publisher: Jacobs/Germany ISSN 2197-5248 Jacobs Verlag 5 ISSN2197-5248 DO I10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2016-106 Bibliographic information published by Die DeutscheBibliothek. Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.ddb.de South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (Open AccessJournal) Copyright 2016 by Jacobs Publishing Company Hellweg 72, 32791 Lage, Germany Copyright cover picture: WordPress Foundation: http://wordpressfoundation.org/GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page BACKGROUND AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9- 10 R 1.1 INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH 11- 26 Ulrich Laaser R 1.2 GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH FUNCTIONS AND SERVICES: 27- 31 THE HISTORY Ehud Miron R 1.3 GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH: DEFINITIONS AND CHALLENGES 32- 39 Johanna Nurse R 2.1 DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGES, POPULATION GROWTH, 40- 47 AGING, AND URBANISATION Charles Surjadi, Luka Kovacic, Muzaffar Malik R 2.2 BURDEN OF DISEASE 48- 60 Milena Santric-Milicevic, Zorica Terzic-Supic R 2.3 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE 61- 66 Dragan Gjorgjev, Fimka Tozija R 2.4 GLOBAL MIGRATION AND HEALTH 67- 84 Muhammad Wasif Alam, Vesna Bjegovic-Mikanovic R 2.5 SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES 85- 99 Janko Jankovic R 2.6 GENDER AND HEALTH 100-104 Bosiljka Djikanovic R 2.7 STRUCTURAL AND SOCIAL VIOLENCE 105-119 Fimka Tozija R 2.8 DISASTER PREPAREDNESS 120-141 Elisaveta Stikova R 2.9 THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDG) 142-148 Marta Lomazzi R 2.10 THE CONCEPT OF WELL-BEING AND ITS MEASUREMENT 149-155 Francesco Lietz R 2.11 THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AND HEALTH 156-167 Helmut Wenzel 7 R 3.1 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF POPULATION HEALTH AND 168-199 WELL-BEING George Lueddeke R 3.2 DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING POLICY REFORMS AND 200-215 EFFECTIVE AID INTERVENTIONS IN THE HEALTH SECTOR Christopher Potter R 3.3 THE ROLE OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY IN HEALTH 216-225 Motasem Hamdan R 3.4 UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE 226-234 Jose M. Martin-Moreno, Meggan Harris R 3.5 PUBLIC HEALTH LEADERSHIP IN A GLOBALISED WORLD 235-240 Katarzyna Czabanowska R 3.6 PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS 341-247 Alexandra Jovic-Vranes R 3.7 THE GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE 248-269 Milena Santric Milicevic, Vesna Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Muhammad Wasiful Alam R 3.8 EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PROFESSIONALS WITHIN 270-276 GLOBAL HEALTH Suzanne Babich, Egil Marstein R 3.9 BLENDED LEARNING 277-287 Željka Stamenkovic-Nikolic, Suzanne Babic R 3.10 GLOBAL HEALTH LAW 288-303 Joaquin Cayon R 3.11 HUMAN RIGHTS AND HEALTH 304-317 Fiona Haigh R 3.12 GLOBAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FOR HEALTH 318-328 Ulrich Laaser R 4.0 GOING GLOBAL 329-338 Ulrich Laaser 8 BACKGROUND AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH: CURRICULAR MODULES FOR LECTURERS AND TEACHERS Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) Section on Education for Global Public Health (SEGPH) Section on Education for Global Public Health (SEGPH) Members and authors (*): All professionals in the ASPHER community are welcome. Meetings take place online via Skype. A first call was sent out by the chair Ulrich Laaser ([email protected]) early in 2014. Alam, Wasif M. (Dubai)* <[email protected]> Aluttis, Christoph (The Netherlands) <[email protected]> Babich, Suzanne (USA)* < [email protected]> Banoob, Samir (USA) <[email protected]> Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna (Serbia)* <[email protected]> Burazeri, Genc (Albania) < [email protected]> Cayon, Joaquin (Spain)* <[email protected]> Czabanowska, Katarzyna (Poland)* < [email protected]> Djikanovic, Bosiljka (Serbia)* < [email protected]> Gjorgjev, Dragan (FYR Macedonia)* < [email protected]> Grancharova, Gena (Bulgaria) < [email protected]> Green, Manfred (Israel) <[email protected]> Haigh, Fiona (New Zealand)* < [email protected]> Hamdan, Motasem (Palestine)* < [email protected]> Harris, Meggan* < [email protected]> Jankovic, Janko (Serbia)* < [email protected]> Jovic-Vranes, Alexandra* <[email protected]> Kovacic, Luka (Croatia)* (deceased 2015) Laaser, Ulrich (Germany)* <[email protected]> Lietz, Francesco (Italy)* < [email protected]> Lomazzi, Marta (Italy)* < [email protected]> Lueddeke, George (England)* < [email protected]> Magana Valladares, Laura (Mexico) <[email protected]> Malik, Muzzaffar (England) < [email protected]> Marstein, Egil (Norway)* <[email protected]> Miron, Ehud (Israel)* < [email protected]> Martin-Moreno, Jose (Spain)* < [email protected]>
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