Global Health and Quality of Life

Empower
Student Movement for Real Change

Student Movement for Real Change is a leadership development organization that provides students in the United States a vehicle to advocate for positive change in neglected regions of the world.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Partners for Health
• Livin' the Good Life?

Action Project  |  Free

Yes! Magazine
Positive Futures Network 

This online magazine discusses what constitutes the good life according to a range of people including scientists, writers, sociologists, and religious leaders. There is a free subcription for educators.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Livin' the Good Life? 

Magazine  |  Free

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The CDC provides an array of information and resources about diseases, emergency preparedness, environmental health, workplace safety, healthy living, and traveler's health.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Partners for Health
• Life: The Long and Short of It

Website  |  Free

Children's Fund
United Nations 

United Nations Children's Fund includes information and action projects on children's health, education, equity, and protection around the world.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Partners for Health

Website  |  Free

Fighting Disease: Health At The End of The Millennium 
United Nations

Fighting Disease: Health At The End of The Millennium contains curriculum, quizzes, and disease information in the hopes of educating students and teachers about the relationship between poverty and disease.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Life: The Long and Short of It
• Partners for Health

Website  |  Free

Human Development Reports
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) page on statistics and indicators of human development, including life expectancy and literacy rates.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Livin' the Good Life?
• Life: The Long and Short of It
• Shop Till You Drop?
• Shopping Heats Up  

Website  |  Free

Partners in Health
Partners in Health (PIH)

Partners in Health is a non-profit organization promoting global health. PIH's works to provide access to primary health care, free health care and education for the poor, community partnerships,  basic social and economic needs, service for the poor through the public sector. 

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Partners for Health
• Life: The Long and Short of It

Website  |  Free

TakingITGlobal
TakingITGlobal 
 
TakingITGlobal.org is an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons: 

• Life: The Long and Short of It
• Partners for Health

Website  |  Free

Student Global AIDS Campaign

The Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) is a national student and youth movement with chapters at high schools, colleges, and universities across the United States committed to bringing an end to HIV and AIDS in the U.S. and around the world through education, informed advocacy, media work, and direct action.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Partners for Health

Action Project  |  Free

Invisible Enemies: Stories of Infectious Disease
Jeanette Farrell

In this 272-page young adult book, Farrell discusses seven infectious diseases (smallpox, leprosy, plague, tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, and AIDS), highlighting the causes, history, of treatment, popular notions and fears about the disease, and the story of how breakthroughs came about. 

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Partners for Health

Book  |  ISBN 9780374336370  |  $

Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder

This is a 336-page true story of Paul Farmer, a doctor who sets out to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to people in Hati.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Life: The Long and Short of It
• Partners for Health  

Book  |  ISBN 9780375506161  |  $

Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health
Meredith Fort

In this 300-page collection of essays, international scholars and activists examine how official and corporate actors of globalization-including multinationals, the IMF and World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and "first world" governments-have enacted policies that limit medical access and promote disease and death for many in the poor world.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Partners for Health

Book  |  ISBN 9780896087163  |  $

Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge
David Koplow

This is a 270-page analysis of smallpox policy focusing on two major points: smallpox has killed millions of people over the millennia, and the eradication of naturally occurring smallpox from the world had been one of humankind's most amazing success stories. 

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Partners for Health

Book  |  ISBN 9780520242203  |  $

Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America
John de Graaf 

This 250-page official handbook of the national movement behind "Take Back Your Time Day". This  site is dedicated to the U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and realatonships, our communities, and our environment.  

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Livin' the Good Life?

Book  |  ISBN 9781576752456  |  $

The World Health Report
World Health Organization

This annual report published by the World Health Organization assesses global health statistics from all countries.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Partners for Health
• Life: The Long and Short of It

Online Report  |  Free

The Girl Effect

This 2-minute video is about the powerful social and economic change brought about when girls have the opportunity to participate in their society. Proceeding the video are ways to get involved with promoting The Girl Effect as well as fact sheets and video clips about the effects poverty and quality of life.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Life: The Long and Short of It
• Partners for Health  

Online Video  |  Free

Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge
PBS 
 
From vaccines to antibiotics, clean water to nutrition, bioterror threats to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, this six part 360-minutes series tells the stories of global health champions and the communities they strive to protect.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Life: The Long and Short of It
• Partners for Health  

Online Video Series  |  Free

Work and Time
David Springbett and Heather MacAndrew 

This 50-minute program examines work and time as intertwined problems in our fast-forward lives and why it's become increasingly harder to find balance.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Livin' the Good Life?

Video  |  ISBN 1594582742   |  $

Quality of Life Project
The World Health Organization 

The World Health Organization's Quality of Life project uses a life assessment instrument to measure 26 broad areas, including physical health, psychological health, social relationships, and environment.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Livin' the Good Life?

Website  |  Free

UNAIDS: Uniting the world against AIDS
United Nations

Through the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Millennium Development Goals, developed by UNAIDS, the world has a set of commitments, actions and goals to stop and reverse the spread of HIV.

Links to resources containing related Facing the Future lessons:

• Partners for Health

Website  |  Free