Online Discussion Postings: Global Health and Sustainable Development

This online discussion post examines the fundamental role of nation states in global health governance, focusing on their healthcare service management, research, and health protection. The post explores the influence of international states, including financial contributions and political positions within global health organizations like the World Health Organization. It highlights the impact of initiatives like the US President's AIDS relief plan and the Paris Declaration for Aid Effectiveness. The discussion also addresses power imbalances between donor and recipient countries and the rise of new centers of power. The second part of the post focuses on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their potential to transform global healthcare, emphasizing the importance of implementation. It discusses the SDGs' focus on addressing factors contributing to mortality and illness in low-income countries, highlighting the central role of nurses in providing patient care and making critical decisions. The post references several academic sources to support its arguments.

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Post One
Nation states have a fundamental role to play in the governance of global health practice.
One of their primary functions is the governance of their health care services, monitoring, and
healthcare protection (Battié, 2013). They carry out the management of research and health
protection and monitor the kind of impact their policy actions have. Proper governance of health
requires the global health issues attention for instance in areas that deal with staff training and
recruitment, development and research. The states cater to the monitoring and environmental
health control (Boyle, 2017). Additionally, the states take part in the government processes of
institutions between countries involved in efforts of health diplomacy with other nations. Some
cases have forced governments to develop strategies in respect of world health.
First world countries assist the developing countries in developing essential projects for
healthcare, for instance, the US Presidents AIDS relief emergency plan. The plan is placed to
help people with HIV to cope with the virus (Lakea, et al., 2017). The influence of international
states takes various forms. Every form contributes to specific projects that sustain regular
contributions and take specific political positions with the bodies for decision-making. Some of
the organization that determines global health includes the World Health Organization, which is
influenced by the actions of the World Trade Organization (Szleza et al. 2010). The influence of
the world states can take various forms. At times, it involves taking specific political positions
like withholding funds from the countries involved. Some member states have special powers,
which have forced the United Nations to develop new institutions like Global AIDS Fund created
to fight AIDS.

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The Paris Declaration for Aid Effectiveness was made in 2005. The announcement saw
powerful donor countries pledge to place the interest of the donor recipients at the driver’s seat
of the donation negotiations. The move was aimed to keep the donor countries on control of the
humanitarian process (Mukasa, 2015). Since the donor, recipients are the primary players in the
process they would be in a better place to understand their pressing needs. Power imbalance
affects the relationship between the donor countries and the recipient countries. Despite the fact
that geopolitical power divisions are apparent signs that the geopolitical power imbalances are
shifting abound. Countries like India, China, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa are becoming the
new face of world centers of power (Mukasa, 2015). The states are determining the political
moves their neighbors make and are an asset in trade partnership with the less developed nations.
Post Two
Sustainable Development Goals have a high potential of transforming the future of global
healthcare. However, they only become beneficial when implemented to the latter. Good health
encompasses every good thing that most people pursue. Many people seek freedom, satisfaction,
independence, and fulfillment, education and learning (Grant, 2016). Many would like fair
treatment, freedom from discrimination and the ability to determine their terms of survival. Good
health is one of the primary measurements of sustainable development. The United Nations
Aspiration for 2030 adopts population health as one of its determinant of state development
indices around the world (Szleza et al. 2010). The Sustainable Development Goals aim to act as a
blueprint for long-term human development. Different from the previous SDGs the 2030 GDG
proposal makes new prepositions for global health development. The 2030 SDG may be
successful because of a variety of reasons. It targets significant factors that lead to the growth of
death in low income and developing countries and illness.

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The new development goals place the nurse at the core of health care. Nurses are
positioned around the patients around the clock to ensure they get the right kind of therapy and
treatment. They function to assess the patients’ progress in the healthcare facility and determine
in collaboration with the doctors, whether patients need to change their medication in case, it
does not work well (Mukasa, 2015). Patients admitted with leg pain could be suffering from any
disease. That the leg pain degenerates into the sudden death of the patients is subject to close
examination to determine the possible causes one of which is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
(Szleza et al. 2010). It is essential for nurses to understand the manifestation of Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder as many patients are in the risk of acquiring the condition.
Nurses are seen as the primary helpers to the doctors in any given medical facility. They
are therefore required to have adequate training to deal with all the medical conditions that their
patients might have (Lakea, et al., 2017). Nurses of today are better trained in the skills of patient
care. Independence of the nurses allows them to make critical decisions that might at times
amount to saving their patients’ lives. Nurses today deal with complex medical issues for short
periods (Szleza et al. 2010). Modern complexities require highly specialized technology and
patient care to cure. Advanced care nurses are taking up duties that were once reserved for
physicians because the nursing profession is in need of more specialists who can deal with the
emerging issues in healthcare. SDGs are therefore very useful in keeping world states
committed to maintaining high standards of health care.

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