Евгений.ppt

Definition of Prevention Historical Examples of Global Prevention Activities Introduction Community US$4.18 cost per illness-cases incur 83% of cost (=10 days income; 1/3rd for drugs, 1/3rd due to lost income). Govt pays 17% of cost per illness and creates treatment system and case-management standards Eradication of smallpox is the best known example of WHO’s accomplishments. Indeed, the benefits of smallpox eradication for public health are very impressive. In 1967, when WHO started international eradication efforts, smallpox, was estimated to have afflicted up to 15 million people annually, of whom some two million died with millions more left disfigured and sometimes blind. With the amazing global cooperation, in 1980, WHO was able to certify that the disease had been eradicated. If smallpox were not eradicated, there would have been 350 million new victims in the past 20 years -- roughly the combined population of the USA and Mexico -- and an estimated 40 million deaths -- a figure equal to the entire population of Spain or South Africa.(WHO /archives/who50/en/smallpox.htm) Pictures taken from lectures Modeling Potential Response to Smallpox by Martin Meltzer, CDC, USA a.cl/supercourse/lecture/cdc0111/003.htm And Microbial threats to health in the US /~super1/lecture/lec6991/index.htm by Joshua Lederberg During the past 5 years the Lingua Franca of health research and science has become PowerPoint. Most of our current scientific knowledge has been assembled in PowerPoint lectures. Moreover the growth of PowerPoint on the net has been astonishing. In 1994 there were few lectures, now there are over 5 million. If we could establish a global system to make the academic lectures freely accessible in a virtual Library of lectures we could markedly improve the sharing of our prevention knowledge. Supercourse is the global library of lectures shared for free by 10000 faculty members from 152 countries of the world. It was originally funded by NASA and