Globalization Is The Connection Of People, Products, And Ideas

Globalization has had both a positive and negative impact throughout the world. An interconnectedness within the world where complicated issues can arise creating an unevenness that can contribute to a societies as well as the individuals happiness in life (El-Ojelli, 2006:p1). The negative impacts of

The pandemic struck the world and infected 1/3 of earth’s human population, killing over 50 million humans. The world’s top doctors have never witnessed anything of this killing magnitude besides the bubonic plague of 1348 but the transmissibility is of nothing they’ve ever seen in their lifetime or of recorded history. People abruptly became aware of the importance of health, and need of medicine and cleanliness.

Infectious epidemics and pandemics have happened all through mankind's history. “They remain the prime cause of death worldwide and will not be conquered during our lifetimes.” The flu of 1918 was one of the deadliest epidemics in history. “It infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide–about one-third of the planet’s population at the time–and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims. More than 25 percent of the U.S. population became sick, and some 675,000 Americans died during the pandemic.” No one knew how the virus spread, there were no antibiotics to fight it, and no flu shots to prevent it. In the final year of World War I, it struck terror in the hearts of people all across Europe and left more death in its wake than the combined military actions of the combatants. “It killed more Americans in a few months than World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the

Globalization involves the movement of people, food, goods from one place to another. And in the process of countries integrating, people and goods move from one location to another. In as much as there is positive impact for people, goods and services to move from one country to another. There are chances that the people, goods and service in a county can be infected and taken across the border to another country. In the course of globalization people move from one country to another and they might have contacted diseases or the product that they are carrying across the border. Diseases such as AIDs, tuberculosis, malaria are the top among the list of the disease that is usually carried by people. But just as globalization increases the frequency and ease with which diseases can move around the world, it also can improve access to the medicines, medical information, and training that can help treat or cure these diseases. Drug companies and governments now have the ability to ship drugs to remote parts of the world affected by outbreaks of diseases. There are various options that can be used to lower the spread of global disease. Most countries usually have screening borders to check the people, food and

“Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world” (The State University of New York, 2014, para 1).

Over 50% of the world’s population is now living in urban areas, this provides for closer proximity of neighbors, confinement in transportation; buses, trains, carpools, and the limited ability to quarantine and control isolation. The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong in 2002 and 2003, which was believed to have originated in rural China, demonstrated how dense urban living could ignite a global health crisis (Ronak B. Patel, M.D., M.P.H., and Thomas F. Burke, M.D.). In poorer areas, resources are limited, and it is difficult to contain outbreaks, education and prevention are minimal, and treatment is dependent upon responding countries, and NGOs. Pandemics are not just the problem of the countries affected; all countries have a concern, both financially and medically. As seen recently, with the spread of the Ebola virus, the spread of disease is only limited by the traveler; with the ease and ability to fly from country to country, an outbreak is inevitable. In the slums of third world countries, the lack of reporting and adequate health care will lead to the spread of undetected diseases. During the 1918 influenza pandemic, it is estimated that up to 100 million people worldwide and 670,000 people in the U.S.A. died (Siddharth Chandra). A

Recognition of healthcare systems globally in both high and low income areas is a key component to understanding the health of each country overall. Each country can only function and be as strong as the weakest country due to communicable diseases that spread worldwide. As technology advances so do the pathogens that enter each individual's body. In the past pathogens were contained to their country of origin and were not easily spread but in today’s society they can travel within in a matter of hours or minutes. Understanding each healthcare system allows world leaders and healthcare workers to determine changes that need to be made in order to eliminate health disparities and the spread of various communicable diseases. Analyzing and

Notably, globalization is a double edged sword concept. Same as it facilitated the spread of contagious diseases, it also helped to bolster access to “medicines, medical information” (The Levin Institute, p. 2) and human capacity building that help in treating or curing these diseases.

Some also argued that globalization leads to the incursion of communicable diseases. Diseases such as HIV/AIDS can be easily spread by travelers to the remotest corner of the world. A newly infected disease that is communicable is also easily spread by travelers. This causes health issues not only in one country but also the others that are connected to it. Much time is also need to develop the cure for the

One definition I found that encompassed most aspects that I found relevant was defined as “ an area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide. Global health emphasizes transnational health issues, determinants, and solutions; involves many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration; and is a synthesis of population- based prevention with individual-level clinical care”(graduate institute). This definition includes the entire population and the idea of improving all aspects of health for everyone. It also brings up the fact that it is interdisciplinary, thus it incorporates different views and new ways of thinking. While it has evolved over time, the term global health is rather a recent phenomenon, which was in part brought to the public attention by the World Health Organization. “In the 1990s, WHO attempted to use leadership of an emerging concern with ‘global health’ as an organizational strategy that promised survival and, indeed, renewal”(Brown et al., 2006). By moving away from the traditional way of thinking to an interdisciplinary approach the global heath term was made popular and is continuing to gain acceptance. Global health is simply put as a way of preventing the diseases from infecting people, rather than treating those that are infected. While many definitions of the term have been found, “the origin and meaning of the term ‘global health’ are still unclear” (Brown et al., 2006). The term global health has such a broad scope of focus and all that it includes making it hard for people to agree upon one specific

Since globalization is inevitable there will always be challenges that occur in result. One of the most pressing and widely discussed it the impact globalization has on public health. The spread of illnesses through movement of people, goods, and food is more prevalent due to the increases in technology and population.

Global health is the often defined as, “the area of study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide.” Global health places the responsibility for worldwide improvement on all nations, rather than leaving the responsibility on individual nations. The global health movement strives not only to improve immediate health conditions, but also to work for long-term improvements.

Globalisation is the international trade of ideas and customs throughout developing and developed countries. Globalisation can impact these countries positively or negatively depending on the interaction whether it be economically, politically, culturally or historically. The involvement of a developed country on another developing country can largely impact both countries by means of how they adapt to the new ideas that were introduced. Globalization can affect anyone and everyone in the world whether or not they are located in a developing or developed country. Globalisation can also connect countries via these spread ideas. An example of a positive impact caused by globalisation is the introducing of new defence and attack methods due to wars such as using ‘ghost guns’ to safely vacate a battle area. An example of a negative impact caused by globalization is how the immigration of people into a new unfounded country can further increase carbon dioxide emissions throughout the globe.

Globalization is a major issue in our world today. But it can be seen through many different perspectives, some see it as a negative thing, but some people also see the positives within it and some people have mixed views. Globalization is the spreading of different views, this can political views, social views, and economic views being spread throughout the world where it once wasn’t present. Globalization shapes the way people live and what they do on a day to day basis, or what’s going on around them like technological advancement. Globalization affects everyone, what we do, what we eat all shapes our individual and collective identities.

Globalization has both positive and negative effects about one of the major concerns, health. The health care is primarily affected by globalization is through the increasing and worsening of internationalization of various health risks. However, if you will have to define the terms and other dimensions of the health risks such as;