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The international volunteer in urology (IVU) was established in 1992. Their mission is to teach and provide service, directly to patients in need of urological and surgical care. The IVU members accomplish this by teaching doctors and nurses in resource-poor areas of the world the skills they need. In return the people in these communities will have greater access to services. The international volunteer in urology has worked with many countries throughout the world. They’ve worked with countries in South America, Asia, Africa, and North America. According to the official IVU website, IVU spent a total of 4.2 million dollars in medical service to help the countries in need in 2013.
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They spend hours with nurses and doctors of countries to educate them about urology. I hope organizations such as the IVU will be around for years to come because the world is in dyer need for their help.
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Hans Rosling is a medical doctor and statistician from Sweden. Hans taught ‘Global Development’ to Swedish undergraduates. In his video, Ted talk “the best stats you've ever seen” he focused on many of the common myths that people have about world. He starts off the video by talking about preconceived notions that his students had about the statistics of Child Mortality. He gave the students a pretest to predict which of 2 countries had worse child mortality rates.
Hans Rosling also talked about myths that were common in third world countries. Myths such as the third world countries have longer lives with small families, while non-third world countries have larger families with shorter life expectancy. Hans showed this was true in 1962, until the early 2000. Most countries have moved towards a trend of smaller families and increasing life expectancy. Countries in Africa were one area lagging in life expectancy, due to a HIV epidemic in the 90s.
Hans also talked about Income distribution throughout the world, he goes on to say in the video that there is no ‘gap’ between rich and poor (in that people earn incomes at all possible rates. The riches 20% take 74% of income, while the poorest 20%
Imagine being a soldier during the revolutionary war. There is no one to help you, and there is no doctors to save your life. Since the American Red Cross was founded, the organization has helped millions of people ranging from war to natural disasters.. The American Red Cross provides a range of services in the United States by giving emergency assistance, blood, disaster relief, and education. Also, the Red Cross feeds the volunteers, helps families contact each other, provides blood to disaster victims, and helps those affected by disaster to access other available resources. Their mission is empowering ordinary people to perform extraordinary
Per the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, from September 2009-September 2010, over 5 million Americans volunteered in the healthcare field. Similarly, a study done in 2004 stated that an average sized hospital, with approximately 450 beds, contributed an average of 70,515 hours to the hospital. This is the work of 42 clerical employees, thus saving the hospital approximately $1,260,000 a year. At Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, Texas, [number] volunteers, who are anywhere from ages 14 to “I stopped counting with the Beatles”, provided [number] hours over the Odessa community and saved the hospital administration [$$$] in the last year alone. Medical Center Hospital also has the volunteers operate a fundraising popcorn stand. This greatly contribute to lowering operational costs of the volunteer program, and allows for the Hospital to provide college scholarships for its teenage
This organization is a very powerful and recognized thing in today’s world. Some people donate a pint of blood which can save three people’s lives. Clara Barton spent many years helping soldiers heal back to health but the American Red Cross provides healing for everyone in the United States even just by donating something little can save someone’s live or make their day
The documentary “Inequality for All” focusing on Robert Reich, a Berkeley professor, Harvard graduate, and previous Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, argues how the United States economy is struggling with the widening income gap; indeed, since the 1970’s, the income gap between the wealthy and middle class has continued to widen which has created many problems within this country.
Gap in wealth between the rich and poor is too big. Conflict between the two groups is necessary to change and improve the country’s overall wealth. Without the working class, there would be no production, therefore, they remain unequal to ensure capitalist continue making profit. Hans thinks the capitalist exploits the working class and some new policies are required to bring justice for the poor. Hans suggest the redistributions of wealth can be solution for Shelly. Hans also supports progressive taxes where wealthy pay more taxes and poor pay less or no tax have desire to help people who are poor to bring justice and equality in their
Before beginning my volunteer work I faced quite a dilema. Where could I influence children, help them develop their leadership potential, educate them about agriculture, and have fun-all at the same time?
(11) The importance of a multi-ethnic study is also examined by Luyckx and Brenner who make the suggestion ethnicity, an adverse intrauterine environment and low birth-weight is highly associated with resource poor countries.
Unite for Sight is a renowned global organization that has provided eye care to over 1,800,000 people in North America, Africa, and Asia. Unite for Sight was founded by Jennifer Staple-Clark in 2000 while she was a sophomore at Yale University. Since its establishment Unite for Sight’s innovative programs in Ghana, Honduras, and India have provided the highest quality of care to over 1.9 million of the world’s poorest people, which includes 93,166 sight restoring surgeries. “Moreover, since 2003 they have trained more than 9,600 Global Impact Fellows to eliminate preventable blindness in their local community and abroad” (Sight, 2016). Global Impact Fellows are volunteers that consist of both students and an array professionals alike from a
The video is briefly, but explained the details of social inequality depend on the social classes of our society; upper class, middle class, and the lower (working) class and how it is that the resources in a society are unevenly distributed. It is explaining how each classes are treated in education and healthcare. One of them are the wealth distribution in the United States; the fact that Top 20% of US are taking control of 72% of the world
Mark Pearson from the OECD, told BBC News: "It's not just income that we're seeing being very concentrated - you look at wealth and you find that the bottom 40% of the population in rich countries have only 3% of household wealth whereas the top 10% have over half of household wealth." (Anthony Reuben, 2015)
Imagine an entire community of individuals, from doctors to massage therapists, that does not answer to any political entity or religion, yet still manages to collectively provide free healthcare services to millions of individuals in need every year. Medecins Sans Frontiers, or popularly known in the US as Doctors Without Borders, is an international NGO that does just that. The organization began in 1971 when a group of French doctors and journalists recognized the dire need for assistance in healthcare during times of war, famine, and flood in Nigeria and Pakistan. Since then, it has expanded and provides aid to over 60 countries in underserved regions across Central America, South America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia as
He compares the life expectancy and fertility rate of many countries since 1960. He found out that they is a lot of countries that have improved in term of life expectancy. As example China and India has improved and are moving toward better health care and small families like develop countries.
I will consider life expectancy, maternal mortality and infant mortality as indicators of global health and analyze their intercountry and time changes.
Next, it was the pain of loss that drove them into working together to deal with the nephrosis. Later in the 1950s, the organization’s main goal was supporting kidney patients and their families by raising funds for kidney research (“History”). In 1956, their first major national fundraising event was a success and it reached to about $400,000. It was
Medical knowledge is less than adequate in these societies, leading to much illness and a very high death rate. The infant mortality rate is overwhelmingly high, which is a reason for the high birth rates. Many infants do not make it through their first year of life before they get deathly ill - most of them do eventually die from their illness. The medical technology of modern society is so expensive to third world countries, making it extremely difficult for their society to stay healthy. Life expectancy is about 40-45 years in traditional societies.