Health And Globalization 's Impact On Food And People

About 1,500 cases of malaria are diagnosed in the United States annually, mostly in returned travelers” (Global Health - Division of Parasitic Diseases , 2010). Malaria risk is not distributed homogeneously throughout all countries. Some destinations have malaria transmission occurring throughout the whole country, while in others it occurs in defined pockets so the traveler should be weary of areas whose climate is conducive to mosquitoes.

We live in a country where all children go to school to gain an education and 25% of them will go onto receive some type of college degree. Compare this to low-income countries, in which children are 16 times as likely to die prior to their fifth birthday (Nickitas, Middaugh & Aries, 2016). Beyond the lens of our smartphones, Facebook friends and Nike sneakers is a world full of desperate people wishing to have enough food to eat for today. Many parts of the world lack sanitation, safe housing, sparse medical care and no medication. The global health issue are everyone’s problems not only for the sake of altruism but, with the increase in global travel for routine business and pleasure, dangerous pathogen are no longer confine by boarders. The Ebola outbreak four years ago, proved the necessity of a global solution to global health issues. The collaborative practice of several world health agencies and economically developed countries along with the use of volunteers, statistical updates, the latest literature and practices kept this outbreak mostly contained to its region of origin and the death toll to approximately 11,000 people (mainly in West Africa) (WHO,

As noted earlier, the problem of health and culture go together not only in Europe, but also in the Asian markets. Various countries in Asia have seen very similar results of what is happening in the Mediterranean. Many Asian nations have been invaded by the fast-food industry and have seen their culture and health decline. Specifically in China, the traditional cuisine includes large amounts of vegetables and grains with meager quantity of meat. However,

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

Preston (1995) argues, “[a] hot virus from the rainforest lives within a twenty-four hour plane flight from every city on earth” (p. 16). In addition, only one host is needed to spread the hot virus into a massive outbreak in any part of the world, and such an outbreak could plunge the global population into oblivion. To further explain, Preston (1995) draws the conclusion that the airline routes that tie earth’s cities together are a “web,” and once a hot virus enters the “web,” it can be delivered to far corners of the earth in one day (p. 16). Simple and flawed decisions by humans can make this frightening idea a

The way diseases spread is fairly uniform from disease to disease, interaction with foreign land or those who dwell on that land. Thus, foreign trade and travel, boat, ship, land, or plane, is a crucial tool in the spread of a disease, turning it into a national or even worldwide

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?

In the United States of America, people take food for granted. Anyone can go to the local grocery store or a farmers market and buy almost every type of food produced in the world. Globalization of food in first world countries has created “food scenes” in large metropolitan areas, and we can agree that this is spreading to smaller towns every day. Anyone can think of their favorite food and everyone would give a different response, whether it would be Mexican, Italian, or a local cuisine. This is possible through technological advances in farming techniques developed to produce food year round, due to strong states of government, with policies that empower this to be true. The lack of government involvement in Malawian farms is the predominant reason for a constant state of poverty.

Disease has ravaged the Earth for millions, if not billions, of years. It has existed since the formation of multicellular organisms on the Earth. Disease arises in many different forms, including parasitic, mutational, viral, bacterial, and countless more. All life on planet Earth is susceptible to infection of a disease. Part of what makes numerous diseases extraordinarily dangerous is the copious number of methods transmission can occur. Diseases can become airborne, transmitted through consumed sustenance, inherited from previous generations, and various diseases can spontaneously appear out of thin air. New forms of disease are being generated all the time. A major disease devastating boreal forests across the North American continent is White Nose Syndrome.

Globalization has an enormous effect on our community’s health. In pursuing my bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science with a concentration in Health and Fitness, I consistently witness and research the problems of our town’s well-being. Various aspects of globalization that impact us are mass production of foods, technological advances that make us sedentary, and our cultural backgrounds. With this town ranging from lower income families to middle class, we have a wide variety of health issues. There are many unhealthy, fast-food chains that are easily accessible and convenient to us as a whole. Maria Jerskey’s book, Globalization: A Reader for Writers has some excellent articles than can relate to our community and help us better understand these effects.

The United States is 3.806 million square miles, the land mass can’t grow to sustain an increasing population. The United States Census Bureau estimated the United States population on December 31, 2014 was 320,087,963; and this number is increasing every second. As the population increases, the environment must change to meet the demand. As sophisticated as the U.S. is, the ability to ensure that every home is clean, sanitary, has healthy living conditions with proper nutrition, and has adequate running water and utilities is limited. There are poor neighborhoods, cities, and regions; these areas are a contributor for the spread of disease. With the ease of travel, disease can spread worldwide with little to no effort. The WHO report on global

Internationally, there are consistently mass spreadings of diseases especially in indigent countries. Just in the previous year there has been an outbreak of ebola and without these diseases being controlled, they will continue to spread and terminate mass hoards of people. In the past, quarantines were issued, sanitation was enforced, and health regulations were established. In the face of the black plague during the 14th century, the quarantine was ineffective due to the lack of control and coordination of the disease. Yet, when there was an outbreak of the disease in Indiana in 1994, it was able to be controlled within 2 months. In regards to sanitation, the need for safe water and hygiene is still a major problem. Many diseases are the source of dirty drinking water and poor sanitation. Organizations, such as the International Health Regulations and World Health Organization, were set up to take measures towards controlling these

When dangerous diseases like Ebola and the Zika virus infect large populations of people and becomes a threat to public health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) takes the lead in responding to them. Microbes that fall into the highest level of containment – Biosafety Levels (BSL) three and four – are easily transmissible in the air with little or no treatment available (CDC, “Recognizing Biosafety Levels”). To fight against such threats, the CDC conducts critical research to “track and find what is making people sick and the most effective ways to prevent it” (CDC, “Mission, Role, and Pledge”).

With all the effort the government that is putting forth and money that is being invested in bettering our health globally we should not neglect this issue. According to the CDC “serious diseases don’t stop at the boarders and many can spread easily. You may have never seen a case of polio or diphtheria, but they still occur in other countries. All it takes is a plane ride for these diseases to arrive in your community. One example is measles. Measles is not very common in the US due to vaccination, but it is still common in many parts of the world. The disease is brought into the US by unvaccinated travelers who are infected while abroad.

The CDC's Center for Global Health manage effectively and evaluate health programs to achieve U.S. Government program and international organization goals to improve health, including disease extinction. The ECDC and the U. S. Global Health have to deal with millions of people traveling back and forth worldwide, and this can cause a huge problem of spreading infectious diseases all over the world. According to Xavier Bosch (2003), “The ECDC will coordinate responses of national public health systems to emerging threats from communicable diseases such as influenza” (p. 455). The international public health system communicates with the United States, and this information they receive is pass to the state and local levels which activates the public safety emergency response teams. This is where the incident command system comes in to protect the public. Therefore, the U. S. Global Health and ECDC are always reminding all countries that they are vulnerable to the spread disease, and through the international public health systems the communication of information on these infectious diseases helps prevent and control outbreaks that spread easily to one country to