February 2016: Health

Watch the 3 videos below with your Chapter, and discuss. Please ensure your chapter comments on the Member Resource Site post by the end of the month! You may comment individually as members, or collectively as a chapter. The questions below are intended as guides: you do not need to answer all (or any) of the questions, so long as your comment is somehow related to the topic and materials. We encourage you to engage in discussion with one another in the comments section!

Orienting Discussion Questions:

  1. How can we define “health?” How does this compare to how other cultures define “health?”
  2. What are some of the barriers preventing many from access to healthcare? Consider the similarities and differences that exist in different parts of the world.
  3. How can we increase global access to healthcare?

Video 1: SDG: Good Health and Well-Being

Video 2: Reinvent the Syringe

Video 3: Jeffrey Sachs Lecture 9, Chapter 1

 

Key Points:

  • Healthy living is one of 17 Global Goals that make up the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Sustainable Development Goal #3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
  • “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.” --UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25