Globalization Due to Health

Impacts of Globalization Due to Health

Works Cited

A disease can spread across the world in 12-15 hours. People traveling on planes and trains are one of the biggest spreaders of contagious diseases. Unsanitary water is the second.

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Impacts of Globalization Due to Health

Planes and trains recycle air, especially planes. Therefore if someone is sick it is being spread to all the other people on the flight. Even though those ways of travel are some of the causes for bad health being spread, globalization is a good thing because we can transport medicine to other places that are in need of it.

Effects of Health Due to Globalization

Climate Change

Effects of Health Due to Globalization

Food-Borne Illness

Infectious diseases can also be spread when countries import and export foods. International food trade has been rapidly increasing the past few years, also increasing the spread of food-borne illnesses. Many are questioning whether there are more positive or negative effects of increasing food production precessing, and trade due to the spread of bacterial contamination of foods that are being transported all around the world.

Globalization Due to Health

Effects of Health Due to Globalization

Increased Global Travel

Effects of Health Due to Globalization

The World Tourism Organization states that by 2030 the number of people crossing international borders is expected to increase, exceeding 1.8 billion per year. Because of this, globalization is believed to play a huge role in the spread of HIV/AIDS. Experts are finding that traveling in airplanes puts you at a greater risk to become exposed to highly contagious diseases like tuberculosis.

Increased Trade In Goods

Dengue is a disease that originated in tropical areas. This disease has many symptoms including severe pain in the bones, chills, vomiting, severe exhaustion, etc. In 2008, 2.2 million people around the world were infected with dengue and it is estimated that there are about 22,000 deaths a year caused by the disease. Dengue has been spread mainly by increased trade in goods, but has also been thought to be spread by mosquitoes.

Effects of Health Due to Globalization

Some of the most important ways that infectious diseases are affected by globalization include:

• Increased global travel
• Increased trade in goods
• Food-borne illness

Summary

Global environment change and the illicit drug trade, which is a global phenomena outside the control of any one government has an impact on health.

Impact of Globalization Due to Health

Impacts of Globalization Due to Health

The life expectancy has largely increased because we have more access to medicine. But sadly that has also made a difference between the poor and the rich people. Even with the separation from poor to rich with the impacts of globalization, the poorer countries are still getting the antidotes to diseases and medical care that they need.

The increasing speed and scale of travel, migration and trade create public health challenges and cross-border health risks of new magnitude.

Another positive of globalization is we are coming up with more antidotes for diseases that are putting people in hospitals and even killing them. For reference the disease in Africa; Ebola; is in the middle of an outbreak with little known about it. Another would be the disease in Illinois, that is infectious and hurting children, we are currently helping come up with a vaccination.

Improving communication technologies which make it easier to alert the relevant authorities to the outbreaks of a particular disease and more.

Effects of Globalization Due to Health