Globalization, according to the Levin Institute (2016), has allowed an increase in the amount of people and goods moving throughout the world. Both people and goods have the ability to carry disease with them across the borders of our nations. Attempts to reduce the amount of international trade and travel do not provide a reasonable solution to this problem. The world continues to become more connected and the focus needs to be on ways to cope with this change instead of seeking to limit it. It is my belief that the focus should be on sharing medical information and creating preventative measures for disease. By educating more people on what causes diseases to spread, we can help reduce the amount of people inadvertently passing diseases to others.
One area of trade that has high risks for the transfer of diseases is the food industry. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2017, August 31) estimates that foodborne illnesses affect 48 million people each year. With the growing demand for the availability of more foods throughout the world, producers are trying to yield as much as possible with the least amount of resources. This push to produce more has caused an environment where producers are neglecting safety standards in an attempt to increase product. The Levin Institute (2016) touches on an issue where many livestock farmers misuse antibiotics in their feeds to prevent infections, instead of creating cleaner environments for the livestock to grow. By taking
Globalization can be seen as reduction in barriers between countries. Globalization has opened the world market for international trade. The movement of globalization have contributed to the spread of knowledge, culture, technology, and information across borders. The increasing role international expansion across border has also increased the focus of multinational corporations to international business strategies. Organizations today in developed nation or in developing nation are going international due to increase in competition. They want to expand their limits beyond local region. Competition in domestic market and pressure to expand the business are the few reasons for the globalization. The following are the few
Globalization has an Immense impact on health because of the spread of people, food, and manufactured goods. In today's era, we travel more than before and so does our food. This travel can lead to the spread of disease by people coming more in contact with each other from different parts of the world. Mosquitos could accidentally board a plane or food caring disease could be shipped to another country. Not only in today's era has this happened but since ancient times we have been susceptible to diseases from travel. Smallpox and the bubonic plague killed many of the world's population. These diseases were mostly caused by the travel on ships or the diseases in rats and lack of medical knowledge from the people. The first step to reducing global disease is surveillance. With surveillance, we can better monitor new spreads of disease around the world. Immunizations are very helpful because they can help prevent the body from receiving any harmful diseases. Research is necessary because we can
Is the increasing globalization of business good or bad for the United States? If you are from a different country, what effect do you think globalization is having or will have on your country? Is globalization resulting in unequal gains for different countries?
I recently watched the documentary called Food Inc. in which it unveiled the unsanitary conditions of livestock farming. Some livestock farmers use antibiotic-treated feed for their animals because they become very ill. The reason for heavy use of antibiotics is that the lack of sanitation in the tunnel ventilated houses create infections in the animals. (Robert Kenner, 2009) In some cases, antibiotics are administered without the consultation of an accredited veterinarian and for no reason. There has been an increasing fear in the public that antibiotics used in the meat and poultry may have some unexpected negative effects after years of consumption. The Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) have published articles that report on the effects of medicated feed that may create antibiotic resistance in humans. The CDC reports that 3,800 cases of drug-resistant Salmonella Typhi infections occur per year in the United States (CDC, 2013.) Salmonella is a foodborne illness which is also contagious amongst food animals. In recent news, the World Health Organization (2015) has labeled red meat a carcinogen. This recent information fuels the public’s fear that there may be a link to human antibiotic resistance and the overuse of antibiotics in food animals . This type of news has made antibiotics in livestock feed an urgent public health issue. In order to prevent antibiotic resistance and deter this problem the proposed bill known as Senate Bill 770 (SB. 770)
Based on Sparke’s textbook, Globalization can be defined as “the extension, acceleration, and intensification of consequential worldwide global interconnections.” This is what he refers to as “little g” globalization. These global interconnections reveal the ties and tensions of globalization. There is also “big G” globalization which is what Sparke calls using globalization as a buzzword in a political context. A big part of globalization is commodities and commodity chains. A commodity can be simply defined as anything that is bought or sold while a commodity chain is the production process that produces these commodities. Understanding commodities and commodity chains is important to be able to understand globalization. One example of how commodities demonstrate globalization is outsourcing and offshoring. By doing this, companies bring their companies overseas which means that they are interconnected with other parts of the world. Understanding commodity chains can also allow you to understand the ties and tensions. I decided to focus on the apparel industry and the commodity of a piece of clothing. This commodity shows some of the tensions related to labor, like constantly searching for the cheapest labor, and tensions related to the environment, like pollution from the clothing industry. A piece of clothing also shows ties through, for instance, in which countries clothes are produced and to which countries they are being exported to. The article "Indian Textile and
Globalization is a phenomenon that has shaped and changed the world in so many different ways. It has made advancements in social progress including communication, trade, and travel, but while these promote a more interconnected world, this leads to a negative aspect of globalization – disease. With the increase in a globalized realm, the spread of disease is unavoidable and can cause drastic changes to the dynamics of numerous countries. This has been seen in history countless times, especially the impact of colonization in which contact between Europeans and the people of the land they invade interacting among each other, bringing about new illnesses and diseases that can spread to the masses. The spread of H1N1, Ebola, Swine
Though importing and exporting goods and the movement of peoples from one place to another are significant contributors to the spread of disease on a global level, I do not believe any measures should be taken to limit these movements unless there is clear evidence of a potential pandemic. Attempting to curb disease by limiting such movements would cause too much social and economic distress and any benefits gained would only be marginal as reducing the spread of disease does little to nothing in regards to curing or eradicating the disease (when allowed to continue to spread within an existing population). In the world’s current state, limiting exports means destroying business which also means damaging local economies. It is evident that
Before we can begin to explore solutions to control the spread of infectious disease, we must consider what it is that actually contributes to its spread. The four most important concerns in recent years have been HIVAIDS, Tuberculosis, Cholera, and Malaria. The first two diseases are a cause of global concern due to its widespread exposure. The latter are a resulting problem of underdeveloped and poorer nations, which directly implies that globalization can actually help reduce these infections.
Globalization is taking place across the world where people can either become globalization or stay local in the state or country. People are very controversial about globalization helping local economies and local businesses. Some people believe globalization is helping local businesses into the markets and then there are some that believe that multinational corporations hurting the local small businesses. What is globalization? “the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets” (). Globalization has started long before we were born.
With the spread of disease country to country being as simple as a plane ticket from one place to another, it has become increasingly obviously that countries must support one another in development of adequate health care structures and in prevention and management of devastating illnesses. In doing so, the advancement of global health is attainable.
If the movement of people, food, and manufactured goods can have such a negative impact on public health, should steps be taken to reduce these flows? What other options are there for lowering the spread of global diseases?
This is another example of how negligence can and has caused harm to the public by resistant bacteria entering into our food supply and causing major outbreaks of food poising in recent years (Arias & Murray, 2009). The spread of antibiotic resistant salmonella or E coli can be easily transferred to humans by consumption of meat, eggs, and dairy. Antibiotic-resistant E. coli can also contaminate produce by either run off from animal processing plants or from crops that are fertilized with manure (Khachatourians, 1998). Both MRSA and E. coli are examples of drug resistant bacterium that migrate between humans, animals, and the environment and are easily dispersed around the globe (Finley, et al., 2013). Finley, et al., (2013) states that in addition to reducing domestic and agricultural waste into the environment, there should also be improvements in sanitation as well as higher standards of our water supplies.
Held and Hirst, explain that contemporary globalization is the way the entire world is connected via high-speed technology, increasing trade and investment between countries, migration. Thanks to the high-speed technology we can connect with businesses across the globe. Increasing trade between countries provides economic benefits and migration introduces us to the new culture. The authors see the process as a new world order that requires new rules and regulations, how to govern between the national and the international.
Industrial farming feeding practices and mistreatment of animals poses many health risks to consumers. Animals raised on industrial farms are confined in feedlots and neglected in these contaminated facilities. First, industrial farming animals have no access to sunlight, fresh air or open pasture. Often, they are densely packed in cattle pens filled with their own waste. Additionally, during long distance transports they are not given food, water or time to rest. As a result, agribusinesses deliver unhealthy and treacherous food to supermarkets that deceive the public into buying food that is not safe. For instance, because factory farms use antibiotics excessively to prevent disease in animals consumers become antibiotic resistant themselves, which is very dangerous when they are hospitalized. Then, the antibiotic overexposure common in consumers who
Economic globalization has become the most important feature and a general trend of present world economic development. Globalization is a phenomenon and also a process of development of mankind and human society (Hamilton, 2008). It is the essential feature of the modern age. Globalization is the cross-border flows of capital and goods, including capital, labour, technology and natural resources (Bożyk, Misala & Puławski, 2002). Economic globalization is a historical process, and the germination of it could date back to the 16th century. After the industrial revolution, capitalist commodity economy, modern industry and transportation have been developing rapidly. The world market was fast expanded and the foreign trade was