Learning Objectives

• Understand the importance of global health issues for medical practice
• Explain the intent of the Sustainable Development Goals and identify their potential impacts on global health
• Understand the principles and relevance of universal health coverage
• Describe risk transition and the implications for global health patterns.
• Discuss the challenges of increasing urbanisation
• Explain the concept of community engagement and its application to public health programs
• Discuss concepts of poverty, and identify links and associations between multidimensional poverty and health outcomes as they apply to topics throughout the semester

Global Health

• what is global health?
• what challenges does global health seek to improve?

Sustainable Development Goals

• what is the overall intent of the SDGs?
• what year should the SDGs be completed by?
• what are the strengths of the SDGs?
• what is the potential impact of achieving ‘quality education?’

Universal Health Coverage

• why is UHC important?
• what are 3 principles of UHC?