Promoting health and global change: The challenge of reorientation of health services

Promoting health and global change: The challenge of reorientation of health services

Marc W. Rosenberg, Sarah Lovell

The 2003 outbreak of SARS in Canada, the heat wave of 2003 across Europe, the constant challenges to human health resulting from extreme climate events (e.g., hurricanes, typhoons, etc.) and the everyday problems of poor sanitation, air pollution and the lack of immunisation in the developing world point to the need for an effective local, national and even an international public health workforce (PHWF). In this paper, the challenges of creating an effective PHWF are at first placed in the context of health promotion and global changes. Using recent experience from the 2003 outbreak of SARS in Canada and work carried out for the Pan American Health Organization, defining the PHW and what is required of a PHW to meet the challenges of health promotion and global changes are discussed. We conclude by assessing the prospects for creating an effective PHW within the framework of health promotion and global changes.

2008

Promoção da saúde, mudanças globais, SARS, Saúde Pública

DOI: 10.5380/raega.v15i0.14218

Revista Raega: O Espaço Geográfico em Análise

Universidade Federal do Paraná

Geography. Anthropology. Recreation, Geography (General)

EN, ES, PT