Globalization as the Cause and Cure for Global Health Problems

This essay discusses the impact of globalization on global health problems, exploring how it can both cause and cure these issues. It examines the positive and negative effects of globalization on health and provides solutions and strategies to address global health concerns.

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Essay: Correct writing format and the beginning of your discussion was also good. You tried to
define globalization and global health (you need to refine it a little bit) and at some stage you
also managed to show globalisation as a cure to global health problem when you touch upon
technological advancement.
The problem, however is it was not systematic and the discussion was not logical. So the
advice is to reorganize your work. That means after the definition of globalization and global
health take one of the claims, for example, ‘globalization as a cause to global health problem’
and discuss that with facts and examples. Once you finish the discussion move to the second
claim ‘ globalization as a cure to global health problem’ and again discuss this with evidence
and examples. In your conclusion bring your final thoughts referring to both claims and that
will be fine. Hope it will help.
Kind regards,
Globalisation is both the cause and the cure for global health problems.

INTRODUCTION
Globalization is the process of interaction and integration among companies, people and
government worldwide. In other word, globalization is procedure of interconnections of people
and companies across the world that directly leads to global political, cultural and economic
integration. It allows organizations to determine lower-cost ways in order to produce their goods
and services. It influences global competition, which leads price down and creates wide variety
choices for the users. In fact, lower cost supports people in both developed and developing
countries to live better on less money. The formal way or order which happened because of the
need to integrate and interact with governments, organizations and people worldwide is referred
to as globalisation. A world where everyone interconnects with one another due to trading and
exchange of culture in that context is referenced as globalisation. There are dual outcomes of
positives and negatives of globalisation. This formalized way of globalisation had been on-
going for centuries. However, it has moved fast to all corners of the globe. According to Drager
and Sunderland,(2016), and increased international trade, a single organization which operates
in several countries, higher dependence on the global economy, easy exchange of some services,
goods, capital and certain organizations being recognised world-wide such as McDonald's are
the most common outcomes of globalisation. Sharing in the popular nature of the term
globalisation is also the terminology Global Health, which has achieved fame in the 21st century.
The Concept of Global Health
The Global Health terminology considers practice and research to be undertaken before
the issue of improvement of health and achieving equity in the health area worldwide. The focus
of Global Health has laid stress on health issues and its solutions. This area does not work only
for the care staff but also with the assistance of health scientists and in different areas of the
study plan relating to the health sector. The plans to prevent collective action by the people is
inclusive. There is a diversity of plans which would be generated by involving different areas of
knowledge or study and the number and extent of aids in the health sector. Some researchers
had been using the terminology Global Health, Public Health and International Health as having
the same meaning. However, these terminologies are distinctive enough from one another.
Global Health is thought of as the health of the people in this context worldwide. The areas of
global health-related to practices and research which are useful for the growth and development
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of the people worldwide. It is portrayed that globalisation had many results on global health. In
this context, Baum,(2016) stated that globalisation has assisted in the general health of disability
in adjusting to the life span of a human being, receiving qualitative life, an impact on infant and
the death rate of children and general disease condition context. An important role is played by
a person in Global health. There is new information about health concerns circulating
worldwide that greatly relates to the resurgence of diseases in the world. There have been
reports indicating that some mortalities do happen because of dangerous diseases and in some
cases, these illnesses result from spreading internationally of common illnesses through
migration and falls under globalisation. It is portrayed by the health professionals worldwide,
are responsible for the spread of sensitization relating to health concerns. The control and
involving quickly through identification relate to global health concerns incommunicable and
non- communicable illnesses, which relates in promotion of health sensitization everywhere and
to prevent in advance the health of people living in one country.
Globalization as a cause to global health problem
Globalisation involvement in the basic factor of trade has the plan of the introduction of
new diseases from one country to another, the occurrence of infections because of outbreaks in
the field, the poor quality of pharmaceutical industries and the contaminates from products of
clients are all connected to globalisation concerns. The scoping of a possible global plan of
global and public health relates to the threats of public health which are relative to the
recognition of regulation of health at an international level. This embraces the approaches plan
that might be taken to minimize or reduce the threats which are represented clearly at a global
level. This involvement of global plans of sensitization spread in reducing the health concerns
which are common in some countries for the sake of awareness creation publicly.
(Hanefeld,2015). At a global platform, the mortality rate from non-communicable illnesses:
These illnesses are commonly known as minor injuries, strokes, and heart illnesses. Secondly,
the mortality rate from communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria and illnesses
controlled with the assistance of vaccines are not increasing in numbers. In some developing
countries, it is a necessary element to have control and preventions to some communicable
illnesses. In the process, there is the need in developing some strategies which are useful for the
purpose to decrease risks. In the socio-economic ideal situation, developing countries
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requirement is developing the general health system of their countries and involvement with
useful improved strategies for focus on improving these non-communicable illnesses. The plans
involved in this perspective are applicable with the goal of further improvement in the socio-
economic plans. The non-communicable illnesses in this context relate to the plans of
establishment of new programs and strategies which are useful for the prevention of these
common global concerns. Within this area, other common plans are known as injuries, mental
health concerns and substance abuse which takes place because of both unintentional and
intentional cause. Communities globally are looking for answers in reducing the global
concerns that are at play mainly of common threats to health all over the world. The World
Health Organization is presently at work on the resolution of these threats which are related to
health. In developing and developed countries, to promote and cooperate between the plans
interconnected with one another. In the 21st century, the plans of development of proper
surveillance are considered needful as this way, the concerns relating to health matters are
emerging globally. In this regard, the plan of health roles related to promote and protect the
provision of better health services.
The World Health Organization stated that the most common health threats are enlisted
and related to the degree of intensive concerns. The enlisted threats related to their nature and
are the enlistment of non-communicable illnesses, air pollution, threats in relation to an
influenza pandemic, the concerns on drought, antimicrobial resistances, Ebola, concerns in
primary care, hesitant delivery of vaccines, issues related to dengue and HIV(Borg and
Rao,2016). Persons who live in poverty to a high degree are carefully thought of as either at that
young age to die or die due to any illnesses. Poverty could claim many persons lives in
comparison with those having higher incomes. These concerns of early death might be
reasonable contributions to many, not positive results concerning global health. Information
technology also has some powerful effect on the poor in remote areas of the world. This clearly
shows the connection between information technology with health. With the globalisation,
spread many illnesses which might affect the human beings in both developing and developed
countries. For example, globalisation has made it possible for some food lines in spreading their
businesses worldwide. The evolution of this spread in the whole country about the plan of health
concerns. High blood pressure, hypertension concerns and obesity are due to intake of these
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types of food and are the most common illnesses worldwide. One of the best instances in this
reference is carefully thought of is McDonald's and KFC. Lee and Eckhardt, (2017), cited a
recent report, that the United Kingdom and America are the countries most affected with the
most common health concerns from these food chains which is obesity. There are some
highlights of formalized ideas at work for health governance globally, namely:
Constructivism: The Overdoing the ‘methodological idealism’; neglect power structural
inequalities. Parsons, (1971), opined that ‘modernisation’ as involving the ‘non-Western’ world
‘catching up’ with the accomplishments of Japan and the Western world
Frank, (1967,1969), was under the influence of formalized ideas of ‘dependency’ and
‘underdevelopment’ which were existent considerations in under developing countries.
Worsley, (1967), drew upon differences in characteristics of the Third World, which were
neither communist and capitalist, non-Western and Western, but was one that was relatively
poorer.
Globalization as a cure to global health problem
The thought of Globalisation is not a new fact as it has been evolving with increasing
intensities in the world. In the past decades, the thought of globalisation had increasing
technology, capital, and labour involvement around the globe. In consideration of globalisation
as being needful for public health due to its positive impacts on health mainly for the people
resident in developing countries when it paved the way for the plan of trade in economics. The
usage of globalisation for the aim of free trade with capital availability and plans for
modernisation of technology. All the interconnections are seen with economic development,
health improvements and globalisation. A state`s economic development needs to be carefully
thought of because of globalisation. The economic growth is carefully thought of as needful and
acceptable standard for the modernisation of many states. The plans which present itself in the
growth of the economy are carefully thought of, as being able to change lives for the nation that
are of an acceptable standard for the healthy condition of the state specifically. There are several
developing countries which have no involvement in the globalised economic activities of the
world. The general plan in this preview is the consideration of the significance of the growth
and development of the health areas in these developing countries. Information technology has
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some clear powerful positive effects but there are also some powerful negative effects in the
health sector. The assistance of mass communication technology and the internet in health has a
positive powerful effect in the plan of access to many benefits in the healthcare sector. For
example, the use of electricity for the development of healthcare in developing countries.
Numerous hospitals and health organisations worldwide are connecting with upgraded and
updated technologies. These technologies usage enhances the utilization of some technical
devices fundamentally. There is continual work on-going for the provision of some facilities to
the health organizations and persons existing in the underdeveloped and developed countries.
Organizations that use several technologies have the belief to reduce some concerns that exist in
the world. But according to some plans and answers to the persons undergoing treatment on
both non-infectious and infectious illnesses. Communications in this paper are connections with
managing and administering their ability to understand. The usage and measurement of devices
of communication are with the plan of a provision of answers quickly. This involvement of the
plan of managing and delivery in connection with the plan to provide a critical look by using
antibodies and to monitor the resistance. An increase in emerging and re-emerging infectious
illnesses has a relationship with the negative areas of globalisation on healthcare. For example,
many countries in this world are needful of several drugs and modern technology. The World
Health Organisation provides precise details and answers in reducing the concerns in connection
with communicable illnesses. For example, the severe acute illnesses most common and easy in
reducing the concerns that relate to the plan of a person. The plan in connection with these
concerns is carefully thought of like the one which would spread quickly worldwide and not
only in the developing countries. One example of these illnesses is a respiratory syndrome. This
respiratory illness is an infectious virus which also has the capability of an enabled spread
without difficulty around the world.
The globalisation plan relates to elements of both non-infectious and infectious illnesses.
The referenced example relates to the illness of AIDS. This is an issue of concern presently
worldwide. Several health assistance organisations provide some answers to reduce these
concerns. Besides these illnesses, the epidemic flu is a devastation one. This affects the persons'
domicile in poverty-stricken nations. These concerns happen with the types of drift and genetic
shift. It is a carefully thought of as a fact which has several basic involvements in these concerns
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which are to increase the way the illnesses occur soon. In securing poor persons, it is needful to
take advanced steps to reduce the extreme nature of these illnesses. Some non-infectious
illnesses including those with plans of an unhealthy way of living, environmental concerns, high
blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and so many illnesses. At the international level is
organisations involvement to provide answers to reduce the danger of these illnesses and
mortality of several persons (Oberlander et.al.,2017). The concerns on illnesses and death rates
involved in the plan to generate the elements of risk in health especially in all because of these
illnesses. Prevention is needed much in health areas globally. Globalisation has some negative
effects and because of these effects, some international agencies, for example, the World Bank
and WHO among others are working together in reducing the concerns which affect the world.
These institutions in working as a group in improving public health, deploying new strategies,
and updating their technical expertise in resolving these common concerns. These international
institutions are subdivided into three groupings, namely: bilateral, non-governmental and
multilateral organizations but these institutions come together when working for the deprived
countries in development.
Findings
Globalisation has supported to increase the standard of living for people across the world. But it
has led others into poverty deeply. The small industries located in the countries of the third
world are not capable of updating devices technically in comparison to their competing
counterparts due to the updates of these devices are too dear and might increase the cost of
production of goods and services. The concerns of inflation are faced by several people due to
the rise in prices in the market. The trade and flow-in of international capital determine the
relationship between globalisation and poverty. There are many kinds of research which have
collected some data relating to the globalisation and poverty relations. The residents in the
countries which are not having the opportunities and chance of good jobs and needed health
facilities tend to have a higher number of low-income people. These are the barriers created by
the rich countries resulting in the developing countries being poor economically. According to
Baru and Mohan, (2018), an easy answer to this relates to the generation of development plans
with reduction of poverty integrated. In this work, globalisation is producing and increasing the
plan of inequality among several countries. These elements of inequality are developing
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indicators of poverty. Within the globalisation competition, there has been the introduction of
several elements of decline into countries. Previously globalisation has been causing changes in
the environment, demographics, and technology worldwide. These provided influences which
are convincing in ordering the production of some infectious and non-infectious illnesses. The
trade, which is an aspect of economics, is the cause of the spread of several communicable and
non-communicable diseases worldwide. These are not only affecting the health of human beings
but also include all living creatures. According to Dilger and Mattes, (2018), emergent illnesses
are resulting from trade in food, medical devices, and food products.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, there is a seeming paradox; at one hand, globalisation has caused the
emergence, evolution and spread of several communicable and non-communicable illnesses and
on the other hand, also, globalisation has assisted in the reduction and timely treatment of these
illnesses.
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