Global Health Institutions
This organization sets global technical standards and coordinates international disease surveillance.
What is WHO?
This framework illustrates how systems of oppression affect social identities, which in turn shape health outcomes.
What is intersectionality?
This health care model emphasizes community participation and access to basic care.
What is Primary Health Care?
This ethical theory aims to maximize total health benefits per dollar spent.
What is utilitarianism?
This metric combines mortality and disability into one population health measure.
What are DALYs?
This organization focuses on child health programs and humanitarian response.
What is UNICEF?
This framework explains health outcomes by linking biological processes with social, environmental, and structural conditions.
What is the biosocial approach?
This health care model focuses on cost-effective disease-specific interventions.
What is Selective Primary Health Care?
These are country-specific climate commitments under the Paris Agreement.
What are Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)?
A chronic disease program helps patients live longer with mild symptoms rather than curing the disease. This primarily affects which DALY component?
What is Years Lived with Disability (YLD)?
A country undergoing economic crisis receives loans requiring health-sector spending reforms and insurance restructuring as conditions for funding.
What is the World Bank?
This theory argues that suffering is produced by social, political, and economic forces.
What is social suffering?
This model can produce rapid, measurable reductions in a specific disease.
What is the TVA apporach?
These global goals address inequality, sustainability, and governance beyond narrow sectoral targets.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
Policymakers use this metric to compare the total burden of different diseases because it captures both premature death and time lived in poor health.
What are Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs)?
This is the key difference in how WHO, UNICEF, and the World Bank influence global health.
What is technical guidance vs. program implementation vs. financing power?
This concept describes how power functions through the surveillance and regulation of individuals' bodies.
What is biopower?
Training community health workers to deliver vaccines, malaria tests, and maternal care in one visit is an example of this systems-strengthening strategy.
What is shared delivery infrastructure?
These three fields differ in organizational scope: one focuses on domestic population health systems, one emphasizes cross-border disease control often through bilateral aid, and one prioritizes transnational equity through multilateral collaboration.
What are public health, international health, and global health?
If a program reduces baseline DALYs by 20%, this is the term for the benefit produced.
What are DALYs averted?
A country seeking vaccine rollout logistics, child nutrition programs, and health system loans would work with these three institutions respectively.
What are WHO, UNICEF, and the World Bank?
This concept proposes that health categories and risk groups are influenced by social processes.
What is the social construction of reality?
Many modern health systems in low-income countries still reflect structures originally designed during colonial rule to protect trade and colonial administrators rather than local populations.
What is the legacy of colonial medicine?
This ethical framework prioritizes expanding individuals’ real freedoms and opportunities to live healthy lives.
What is the Capabilities Approach?
A program costs $300,000 and reduces disease burden from 6,000 DALYs to 4,500 DALYs. This value represents the program’s cost-effectiveness ratio.
What is cost per DALY averted?