Globalization Public Health

“Without a lifespan view of women’s health… we are unlikely to be successful in advancing women’s health” (Woods 2009, pg. 400). A Global Health Imperative (2009) by author Nancy Fugate Woods explains the issues about health status and opportunities for the health of girl-children world-wide, which includes sex and gender disparities. Girl and women’s health is important, but just not as important as men’s health. Woods gives example of women’s health issues that are extremely serious. “Health issues or problems that occur predominantly in women are breast cancer and menopause” (Woods 2009, pg. 400). Women all over the world have the risk of getting breast cancer, HIV and Aids. Women that are affected by these diseases in some countries may

Good health for all people has turned out to be an acknowledged global objective and the records reveal that there have been extensive achievements in life expectancy over the past century. However, there has been persistence in health disproportions between affluent and deprived despite the fact that the prospects for upcoming health trends depend more and more on the latest processes of globalization. In the previous times, globalization has frequently been observed as an economic process comparatively. At the present times, however, it is progressively perceived as a wide-ranging trend fashioned by a multitude of aspects and incidents that are restructuring and changing the format of our society swiftly (Huynen, Martens & Hilderink, 2005).

Globalization in healthcare is a topic that has been the subject of many debates worldwide. While practically the entire world is becoming a global village due to globalization, the healthcare industry was considered to be invulnerable to this trend. This was attributed to the fact that healthcare is a service industry, where service is delivered on area of purchase. However many developments not only in the healthcare industry but in the entire economical sphere as a whole have seen the aspects of globalization. As a result globalization in the healthcare industry is a common phenomenon in the contemporary world. As the healthcare industry across global boundaries becomes increasingly intertwined,

There is need for International Corporation to come together to solve this problem because individual government of countries cannot handle it alone. The World Health organization requires that countries have the food surveillance program to monitor the food borne out borne disease outbreak in every county. The surveillance system uses electronic programmed computer to detect the presence of pathogens and bacterium which are microscopic in nature on items of food that pass across the border of every country. When the pathogen is detected in a food, such food item is banned and seized at port of entry of the

No matter how strenuous it may be for an urban area to prevent an outbreak from occurring, it is still inevitable. Many organizations have tried to educate the population about the cause of diseases and how to prevent it. Although this method displays a decrease in certain diseases, it still occurs. However, instead of just attempting to prevent these diseases, a profound amount of cures have been discovered to treat it. Throughout multiple sources, such as online articles and lectures on the Industrial Revolution, it is unambiguous that the human race spreads disease through unsanitary environments, direct physical contact, and lack of knowledge, but society adapts to these situations and restrains the expansion of diseases by improved safety

Although the increased movement of people, food, and manufactured goods can have negative impacts on public health by providing a sort of highway for the spread of infectious disease, in contrast, it can also have a great positive impact. This movement can also include the increased ease of movement of people like doctors and engineers that can help to improve an otherwise cut-off region, the availability of fresh foods to areas that wouldn't normally have access during certain times of the year, and the increased east of movement of manufactures goods such as medicines. For this reason, the reduction of flow would most certainly have a much more negative affect on public health at this point in time. Instead, other options to control the negative affects must be explored. One such option would be the increased implementation of a better inspection and sterilization process for imported and even exported goods. In conjunction, a better global education system could be developed

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the principal government agency in the United States working to improve the health of all Americans despite their economic, social and educational status. HHS has identified three national goals of global health, including strengthen health care, advance scientific knowledge and innovation, and advance the health, safety and well-being of Americans (Secretary, 2014). The first goal to strengthen healthcare refers to HHS's push in making health insurance affordable for all Americans. This will increase access to preventative care as well as ensuring assess to high quality, culturally competent care. This goal focuses on improving transitions in care across the continuum, which in

Other countries could be using for example contaminated water that they did not know about. Or from traveling a great distance by ship or plane the food could be contaminated in the process. To prevent disease of food-borne illness can be done in multiple ways. First, we can eat fresh local produce so that there is no worry about getting diseases while transporting the food. Stepping away from the processed foods can help because processing centers have been linked to having harmful chemicals and bacteria. Therefore eating fresh local food helps reduce the possibility of food-borne

One global health challenge is the deficit in the amount of health professionals globally. Crisp and Chen (2014) acknowledge that the faltering amount of health professionals are being stressed by “demographic changes, epidemiologic shifts, and redistribution of the disability burden”. Worldwide, anyone is capable of suffering from global warming or diseases. Becoming a health professional requires knowledge of many ailments and diseases and in order to assess this information, they need to attend school. With how interconnected science and technology has become, health professionals are now traveling for the enterprise. Their patients are also traveling for medical treatment. Twenty-five percent of doctors in the United States are from overseas. Medical tourism to countries such as Thailand and Singapore are increasing at twenty percent per year. The education of a health professional varies from region to region. The schooling of most health professionals varies country to country. In the United States, it’s four years of university and then another four years of medical school. In the UK, the regimen is between five to six years of post-high school education. The number of doctors in the world is 9.2 million, nurses are 18.1 million. The US has 4% of the world’s doctors and 17% of the world’s nurses. Future projections estimate that by 2020, that there will be an insufficient amount of doctors and nurses and will get even worse by 2025. Countries such as India, China,

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

In the article “Perspectives on Global Healthcare” written by Marlena Seibert Primeau was published in April 2016. The biggest question of this article concerned about is perspectives on global healthcare. First of all, the author mentioned the historical perspective of healthcare. There are two different points of view on the historical perspective of healthcare: nation’s view of individual health and the development of its healthcare system as a whole. Lead into that the professional nursing has been modeled by historical events. For example, “Florence Nightingale’s response to the needs of the Crimean war soldiers to the experiences of the nurses in Louisiana and Mississippi who worked in nursing homes during Hurricane Katrina”, the author

Health is a complex concept, and global health adds to this complexity. When I think of health as a concept, I view it as being absent of disease. This understanding is a very biomedical approach to health and is a very narrow viewpoint of health. According to the World Health Organization (1948), health is defined as a “state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (a cited by Jacobsen p. 2). This definition does give a better understanding of what health is from a broader perspective. At the University of Victoria’s Global Health class, I have become to understand better the WHO’s definition and that it is linked to the social determinants of health. In this paper, I will reflect and analyze the learning that occurred for myself while taking the Global Health class, and how this knowledge has helped my nursing practice evolve at the local and international level.

Global health refers to all aspects of a system concerning health. It takes into account history and political economy to help us understand "the skewed distributions of wealth and illness around the globe" (Farmer). Medical anthropologists studying in this field analyze the contributions by such factors and work to solve health problems with "an interdisciplinary approach" (Farmer). Describing the forces that cause millions each year to fall ill to Malaria, a preventable and treatable disease, requires what Farmer calls a biosocial approach – analyzing how changing social structures that transcend national and other administrative boundaries affect health (Farmer).

Infectious disease were shaped serious health issues in the world until beginning of 20th century, some disease as cholera, plaque were distribute significant proportions of the populations of European cities. (Barreto, Teixieira & Carmo, 2006).

Globalization aided in impacting human health by population mobility. The source of epidemics throughout history can be traced back to human migration (Saker). The effects of these epidemics have changed whole societies. International efforts to prevent the spreading of infections from one country to another have been focused on. Early diseases that spread between Asia and Europe included the bubonic plague, influenzas of various types, and other similar contagious diseases. The world is more interdependent and connected than ever in the era of globalization. This is because inexpensive and efficient transportation allows access to almost everywhere and the increase of global trade of agricultural products brought an increasing number of people into contact with animal disease. Trade routes had long been established between Europe and Asia along which diseases were unintentionally transmitted. The management of malaria is a global role (Carter). Global institutions support the