Globalisation's Influence: Healthcare and Health Outcomes

This essay examines the multifaceted impacts of globalization on healthcare, exploring both its positive and negative effects. It begins by defining globalization and its various forms, including spatial, temporal, and cognitive changes, and then discusses its influence on health outcomes, particularly in high-income and developing countries. The essay highlights the impact of globalization on health at the population level, considering factors related to health, national economy, politics, and society. It analyzes the positive aspects, such as advancements in technology and health services, and the negative consequences, including the spread of infectious diseases and environmental changes. The essay also references a conceptual framework to illustrate the complex relationship between globalization and health, emphasizing the importance of addressing health inequalities and developing sustainable forms of globalization to ensure equitable benefits.

Globalisation In
Health Care

INTRODUCTION
Globalisation is the process in which people, ideas and goods distributed with the help of
the world, encouragement more interaction and integration among the world's culture,
governments and economies (Gabe, Harley and Calnan, 2015). The current form of globalisation
is identifiable in its unprecedented intensity and extent of change. It would be overly simplistic
and inaccurate to define globalisation as either good or bad for health. It is categorised into three
types of changes which is happening at unprecedented rates over the past few decades. Such as
Spatial changes in globalisation can affect to movement of people, information, other life forms
and goods and services. Temporal changes affects to comprehend and experience time and
cognitive change impact on the cultures, values, knowledge and beliefs.
For high income countries discussed about the globalisation and health tends to constraint
on the perceived threat, from low and middle income countries. To acquiring definite and
epidemic infections like tuberculosis, plague and respiratory syndrome. From the angle of health
and disease focus on globalisation so it is seriously effected on the medicine of infection disease
as regards the ability to prevent, control and eliminate of particular disease, worldwide and
especially in developing countries. Good health for all populations has been become
international objective in order to get advantage in life expectancy over the past century. But
now a days increase inequalities between rich and poor persist while the prospects for future
health depend increasingly on the relative new processes of globalisation.
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Illustration 1: Conceptual framework for globalization and health, 2001
(Source: Conceptual framework for globalization and health, 2001)
As per the above chart is is understand that globalisation can affect to population level
health, factors which is related to health and national economy, politics and society. After that
these are categorised in to different segment like individual health risks, household economy and
health care system (Chatterji and et.al., 2015). These aspects directly related to health so through
these ways globalisation can influence to health in effective manner. The health effect on
globalisation which are simultaneously positive and negative varying according to factors like
geographical location, age, sex, ethnic origin, socio-economic status and education level. In
present time globalisation considering as unstoppable force and it will consider as key challenge
which is developing socially and environmentally sustainable forms of globalisation. It can
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provide various advantages and least costs, shared more equitably than is presently the case.
Below experts in the area of the field define about the positive and negative impact of
globalization has on health.
Positive impact of globalisation on health
Globalisation has brought advantages in developed countries and there are including
positive effects such as trade, education, competition, technology, capital flows & investments,
culture and organization structure. It will show positive impact because it provide various health
services which can implement into effective manner. In modern time it provides many options
and ways which can remove disease in few hours and easily know about the infection. So as a
result health experts take appropriate decision and prepare for deduct it.
Negative impact of globalisation on health
The changes in environment become reason of intensive development of industry due to
globalization which is turn affects human health. The sociology changes are mainly people
migration among the countries and rural and urban fields, which essentially favours the global
extended of many infectious diseases. There are defined various factors which influenced by
globalisation in negative manner like health services, food, water and social environment. It is
carry out complex changes in the nature of society as well as risk (Fjäder, 2014).
So globalization is one of the key challenge which is facing by health policy makers and
public health professional. For this set particular framework in reference to analysis linkage
between globalisation and health. The effect of globalisation on health system and individual
complex. Many people would say that globalization has had an overall positive impact on the
health of people. For example, global transportation and the communications alteration
revolution change fast outcomes. While the globalization of health care offers tremendous
possibilities for good like as a quick outcome to catastrophes, it also can provide to a new
concern like a faster spread of disease. Globalization can relate to with number of various flows
which can show direct and indirect effects on health these are increased pathogen flows,
increased information flows, trade flows, people and financial flows.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Gabe, J., Harley, K. and Calnan, M., 2015. Healthcare choice: Discourses, perceptions,
experiences and practices. Current Sociology. 63(5). pp.623-635.
Chatterji, S. and et.al., 2015. Health, functioning, and disability in older adults—present status
and future implications. The lancet. 385(9967). pp.563-575.
Fjäder, C., 2014. The nation-state, national security and resilience in the age of
globalisation. Resilience. 2(2). pp.114-129.
Online
Conceptual framework for globalisation and health. 2001. [Online].
<https://www.who.int/bulletin/archives/79%289%29875.pdf.
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