health and sustainable development: implications for local and global health
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An analysis of the inequities in health and sustainable development in the Panama Canal watershed.TRANSCRIPT
Arletty Pinel, MDInternational Center for Sustainable Development - CIDES
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General considerations
Factors affecting health in 21st Century
Poverty, health inequalities and growing disparities of outcome
Poor distribution of health workforce and brain drain Ageing and the growth of cities Infectious diseases, and increasing noncommunicable
diseases, injuries and violence Global environmental threats to human survival New technologies: information, eHealth, biotechnology Partnerships between the private and public sectors and
civil society Increasing number of trainees in affluent nations seeking
to benefit world’s destitute Globalization of trade, travel and spread of values and
ideas.
Health in Sustainable Development
Planning Environmental factors are a major contributor to health,
illness and death
Age-old public hazards occur with new environment and development problems
Problems are often simultaneously local and global
Urban growth has exposed populations to serious environmental hazards while straining capacity of health system
Fundamental factors include inadequate attention to health in development policy and practice, lack of coordinated management and insufficient inter-sectoral collaboration
The Panama Canal
watershed
World Nation
Panamanian District
Panama in the World (2000)Income per capita vs. Life Expectancy at Birth
L.E. – Panama country avg.: 74.4 years
Sources:World GDP per capita 2000: Development Data Group, The World Bank. 2008. 2008 World Development Indicators Online. Washington, DC: The World Bank; World Life Expectancy at Birth 2000-2005 : Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, 2007. World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision. New York: United Nations. Panama Real Income per capita & Life Expectancy at Birth 2000: Dirección de Estadística y Censo de la Contraloría General de la República, con el Apoyo de Naciones Unidas (UNDP). 2004. Sistema Integrado de Indicadores para el Desarrollo – República de Panamá (http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/dec/sid/)
Panama in the World (2000)Income per capita vs. Life Expectancy at Birth
Sources:World GDP per capita 2000: Development Data Group, The World Bank. 2008. 2008 World Development Indicators Online. Washington, DC: The World Bank; World Life Expectancy at Birth 2000-2005 : Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, 2007. World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision. New York: United Nations. Panama Real Income per capita & Life Expectancy at Birth 2000: Dirección de Estadística y Censo de la Contraloría General de la República, con el Apoyo de Naciones Unidas (UNDP). 2004. Sistema Integrado de Indicadores para el Desarrollo – República de Panamá (http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/dec/sid/)
World Nation
Panamanian District
55.5 years L.E. – Panama country range 75.3 years
Political division
Population distribution
Poverty levels
Human development index
Aqueducts
Educational centers
Health services network
Conclusion
Global health
Is the health of populations in a global context
Transcends perspectives and concerns of individual countries
Global political and economic impact often emphasized
It is about worldwide improvement of health, reduction of disparities, and protection against global threats that disregard national borders
Global platforms tend to address global health in approaches aimed at poverty; equity is not fully understood, operationalized or prioritized
Potential areas of collaboration
Health information gathering beyond epidemiological surveillance
Health innovation and research to support long-term goals of the Panama Canal Authority
Health planning within a sustainable development framework
Human capacity development
Knowledge and information society
Cross border cooperation
Healthy life is an outcome of sustainable development, as well as a powerful and undervalued means of achieving it. We need to see health both as a precious asset in itself, and as a means of stimulating economic growth and reducing poverty. -Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland Director-General Emeritus, WHO.
Thank you - Gracias