Health Literacy Blog: Practical Medicine
Lynn Farrales, is a family physician and completed the R3 Enhanced Skills in Global Health, a UBC Department of Family Medicine program. She has an interest in refugee health, international health, community-based development and social justice. Lynn recently launched a blog chronicling some of her activities related to health literacy. Her hope for this blog is “to generate some discussion among health providers and educators who have an interest in addressing health literacy.”
Global Health in Canada: Dr. Mayhew’s Cross Cultural Health Experience
When Canadian students think about “Global Health”, they often imagine health disparities in vulnerable and underserved populations across the globe. Many students feel that in order to capture a taste of global health, they must travel and work abroad. However, Dr. Maureen Mayhew experiences health from an international perspective in Vancouver when she provides care for her refugee patients at Bridge clinic.
The Voice of a Movement: Yvonne Chaka Chaka
A few days ago I had the opportunity to attend a private viewing of the documentary “The Motherland Tour: A Journey of African Women” featuring Yvonne Chaka Chaka, a South African singer who is using her voice as a positive tool to bring about awareness of the struggles that women and children go through when facing global injustices. Yvonne’s music has been the forefront of South Africa for twenty years and she is known throughout the world as the “Princess of Africa”. She has sung along side Bono and Annie Lennox and she is considered as the daughter to Nelson Mandela who listened to her music during his difficult times in prison.
Global Health Promotion Journal Club – 1st Meeting
Please join us at 6:30pm on November 11th for the first meeting of the Global Health Promotion Journal Club. During our first meeting we’ll be discussing the paper “Sick individuals and sick populations” by Geoffrey Rose.
Global Cancer Control
The International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (INCTR) “is dedicated to helping to build capacity for cancer treatment and research in countries in which such capacity is presently limited, and thereby to create a foundation on which to build strategies designed to lessen the suffering, limit the number of lives lost, and promote the highest quality of life for children and adults with cancer in these countries, and to increase the quantity and quality of cancer research throughout the world.”