The Threat Of The Global Crisis

While contemporary global health organizations are seen as pinnacles of modern globalization and scientific methodology, many are still mired in their colonial and imperialist origins. For example, the mission of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria is strongly reminiscent of tropical medical practices. Tropical medicine, a product of equatorial imperialism, worked on racially or culturally motivated narratives of superiority; this resulted in treatments emphasizing simply disease over general good health (Farmer et al, 59). For example, chapter 3 of Reimaging Global Public Health details how the WHO malaria eradication attempts failed largely due to insufficiently accounting for underlying social causes of the disease in addition to biological factors. Malaria as en epidemic is deeply entrenched in the societal fabric of many regions, making eradication significantly more difficult than a basic medical approach of treatment and prevention. Similarly, the Global Fund appears prone to oversimplifying the treatment and prevention of AIDS and the stigma that surrounds it.

In an interconnected world, the possibility for spreading diseases is incredibly high compared to centuries past. Notorious epidemics like the Black Plague or smallpox were relatively contained to a single continent, until the Europeans brought smallpox to the Americas. The HIV virus was an example of a rapidly spread virus that quickly made its way across the world, including North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia (http://www.avert.org/professionals/history-hiv-aids/overview). In And the Band Played On, the doctors of The Center for Disease Control do their best to follow scientific standards while trying to deal with the disease, even with the politics of Reagan breathing down their neck. The issues they encounter are like the ideas proposed by Merton, Longino, and Douglas, particularly with the way they conduct the experiment and deal with the findings.

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

Another short story of the article tells about the deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Stephen Ostroff, warning that there will be malaria in America in the next decade. Moreover, the Surgeon General, David Satcher, says that America is in danger by the presence of disease in Africa. Satcher describes Africa as hot, wet, unsanitary and impoverished. At the end of the story, he states that a global system of disease surveillance and public health should be established. Goldberg’s 1999 article “Microbes on the Move” was published in response to the first case of exotic West Nile virus in New York, and it is applicable today because most people in America or other countries still do not feel threatened by the presence of viruses in Africa.

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.

Globalization is without a doubt very important to both developing and developed countries, but it also opens door for several diseases to enter a country, especially through food items. This occurs because with the disappearance of borders, goods and people becomes more freely to move and this creates greater challenges towards global health. National government alone won’t be effective in fixing these problems, instead the International organizations and agreements are well needed to step in at this point.

In 2009 an estimated 33.2 million human beings were unfortunate enough to be infected with AIDS or HIV. A hefty 22.4 million of those individuals live in where the story of humanity began, Sub-Saharan Africa. The good-fortuned United States on the other end of the spectrum ,is home to 1.2 million infected. The statistics for the amount of infected in the U.S. is almost negligible in comparison to those of Africa’s ,because of the obvious difference in amount of infected ,but also in the amount of power the disease has in the confines of each spatial variation. In the growing quest for equality amongst all humanity it is a necessity to understand why Africans are bearing the statistical load and why the number of infected grow in amongst

The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) is the causative agent of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). AIDS is characterized by a severely compromised immune system and the occurrence of life-threatening opportunistic infections. The first cases of AIDS were documented in 1981 and the isolation of HIV from a patient was described two years later.1,2 Since then, HIV/AIDS has evolved into a global pandemic. According to a report from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS published in 2016, over 36.7 million people are living with HIV/AIDS worldwide and 1.1 million HIV/AIDS-related deaths as well as 2.1 million new infections occur annually.3 Due to major efforts to raise HIV/AIDS awareness and prevent new infections, the annual number of new infections is slowly decreasing in many regions of the world, including Western and Southern Africa.3 However, infection rates have remained relatively constant in North America in recent years and have increased by over 50% in other regions, such as Eastern Europe and Central Asia.3 Despite major advances in biomedical research, a vaccine or a cure remains elusive.

Tuberculosis is the one of the world’s second deadliest disease; having killed around 1.5 million people in the year 2013, second only to HIV/AIDS. Around 3 million cases, which equates to one-third of the global total, go undiagnosed and hundreds more cases are considered to be a drug-resistant form of the disease. A search done on the New York Times’ website turns up 10 articles with the word “tuberculosis” in the headline published over the past 12 months while “HIV and AIDS” turns up 91 articles (Gould, 2015). The sad reality is that tuberculosis is not given enough attention compared to other well-known diseases such as HIV/AIDS. Tuberculosis is considered a disease of the past and not an immediate threat to developed nations; not to mention that it is just not profitable route for the health care industry to pursue. Although, when processing all this information, we tend to forget that HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis go hand-in-hand, as tuberculosis is an opportunistic disease for AIDS patients in sub-Saharan Africa and workers/patients in medical and correctional facilities.

In every country, they always have a chance to have a financial crisis, it depends on the government and banks, which means Australia might go to have a financial crisis in the further year. Banks can reduce the likelihood of having a financial crisis in countries. Many possible ways to have a financial crisis and 2008 is a big international crisis. Australia financial system helped the government to reduce the damage from the 2008 international crisis, many countries except Australia have a serious problem and impact after the crisis. Australia financial crisis can cause by banking and houses, it can avoid one crisis, but may not evade the second, so they should find a solution to avoid the crisis come.

For thousands of years throughout history, humans have had to contend with the spread of infectious diseases. One of the greatest concerns in today’s society is the constant fear of a potential outbreak of an infectious disease. A disease for which society does not have a cure or vaccine available, thereby obliterating the human race if it were to spread. Notable cases include the emergence of HIV/AIDS in the 1970s and 1980s, and the more recent 2014 outbreak of Ebola in Western Africa. Examining the distinctions between the two can give us a better understanding of how to combat potential outbreaks in the future.

From the mid 20th century up until the modern day, the world experienced a surge of globalization that consequently led to a period of “unprecedented peace and prosperity” (Adelman and Delatte 2015). This period was able to come to fruition mainly because of the newfound ease of communication individuals and organizations faced; ideas and capital were spread farther, quicker, and with more ease than ever before. However, with the global web of interconnectivity growing more complex as time passed, it became evident that society was experiencing an inverse effect. As more actors began to involve themselves in an international integration, the ability to cooperate was declining. In their article, The Crisis of our Crises, Jeremy Adelman and Anne-Laure Delatte focus on this inverse effect, and the response (or, lack thereof) of policymakers to deal with the crises that emerge from it. The argument that Adelman and Delatte presents in their article in favor of an integrative approach to international crises is certainly plausible due to the fact that globalization is viewed as a function of political economy, and liberal policy that facilitates cooperation in both politics and economics is necessary in order to maintain the prosperity that the world has seen in the last 60 years.

Before the financial crisis of 2008 the world was financially safe, stable and solid. Iceland was a beautiful place with a high standard of living. Iceland had the complete infrastructure for a modern society, clean energy, Fisheries with quotas, clean air, food production, healthcare, education, and a low crime rate. This made it an area where people wanted to settle down and start families. Around the world country’s looked up to Iceland’s financial aspect until it all came to a frightening halt. In 2000, the Iceland government started to make harming decision to their economy. They began to allow deregulation which brought on horrible consequences for the environment and the economy. The government allowed for multinational corporations to take over their region. Giant aluminum Smelting plants were built that began to exploit their geothermal and hydroelectric resources. While this was happening the government also privatized or transferred from public to private ownership and control, the three largest banks. These banks began to grow larger and larger until they became more then 10 times the size of the economy, making it extremely difficult for the government to rescue. In just five short years three banks that were basically unknown outside of Iceland before this became huge. These banks were giving out loans to anyone who needed or wanted them which was the cause of the financial crisis of 2008. Before the banks loans were given out to only people they knew could

Global crisis occurs due to financial crisis and economic crisis. These are nothing but risk that could threaten humankind as a whole or even cause the end of planet Earth. A financial crisis is a situation where money demand quickly rises relative to money supply. A stock market crash is an example for this. Whereas economic crisis refers to the economic down of countries all over the world. They are going down in -ve zone.

On December 15th, 2014, Uber implemented price surging, that charged its users a minimum $100 (USD $85) to escape an armed hostage crisis in downtown Sydney. The intro of quadrupled price caused overwhelming criticism by both riders and drivers on social media and traditional media. Uber responded quickly to those criticism, but their response was not accepted.