Status of Global Health: Growing Health Disparity

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Status of Global HealthGrowing Health Disparity

• Growing Disparity in Life Expectancy
• US gt 78 years of age
• Some African Nations lt 35 years of age
• Growing Disparity in Health Professional Capacity
• More MDs at one US hospital than 4 African
  Nations
• Growling Disparity in access to the medical
  advances driven by 21st century science

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Status of Global HealthStrategy Change

• Awakening of wealthy Nations to provide support
  to combat leading causes of death and morbidity
  (HIV, TB and malaria)
• PEPFAR reauthorization 48 billion and Global
  Fund
• Awakening of the community of faith that the
  Church is to play a central role in the
  realization of Global Health
• The PEACE Plan driven by Saddleback Church

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Transformation of Health Care Delivery Full
engagement of the Local Church

• Proactive engagement of the full capacity of the
  local church in strategy with linkage to existing
  health system driven to work together for a
  common purpose - community health.
• Transition from the end product being Treatment
  of Disease to the end product being Health and
  Healing
• Transition bulk of the health delivery capacity
  centralized hospital system to decentralized
  health care in the community enabled by the
  fully engaged local Church

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Reflection

• Who are the best treatment experts to deliver
  ARV treatment throughout Africa?

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Who are the best treatment experts? Men and
Women with HIV infection successfully treated
after 15 months on ARVS
pretreatment
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Development of New Army of Health Workers
Embedded in the Community and Organized by the
Local Church

• Level 1 Teach primary health within the Church
  to all members
• Level 2 Engage members of Church to serve as
  treatment guardians to aid an individual to
  success in their treatment (such as HIV, TB,
  diabetes, HTN etc)
• Level 3 Development of persons with specific
  illnesses who have been successful on their
  treatment to serve as treatment specialists for
  patient/guardians teams
• Level 4 Development of community health
  specialists within the Church. These individuals
  help coordinate church based health activities
• Level 5 Church based nurse expands health
  capacity of the Church as a key point of service
  within the broader health system

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Path to realization of Global Health

• Full proactive engagement of the Local Church
  will be the key to an era of true Global Health
  for all
• Effective Partnership between Church leadership,
  medical leadership, government, and business
• Development, implementation, refinement, and
  reproduction of transformation models of health
  care for specific regions then Nationwide and
  then beyond