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and between countries (Bradbury-Jones & Clark, 2017). The shifting disease and health patterns have been linked to globalization. Global health means the health issues that are not geographically contained and that no one country can handle them alone (Bradbury-Jones & Clark, 2017). As an answer to the global issues of health and globalization itself nurses have had to practice their profession in the context of emerging and new transnational situations (Bradbury-Jones & Clark, 2017). For this reason nurses have to proactively respond to the dynamic global changes and comprehend the consequences of globalization on health.
In this era of healthcare globalization, it is necessary to underscore the positive… Continue Reading...
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The obesity epidemic is a global health issue that demonstrates health disparities and an effect on many communities that have gotten away from traditional, organic diets. As the World Health Organization (2018) points out, global obesity has tripled since 1975. This issue became a global health issue because of the rise of the global economy in the post-war period and the spread of products using high fructose corn syrup through global corporations… Continue Reading...
immediate bearing on quality of life in the community as well as global health outcomes. “Land-use and transport policies contribute to worldwide epidemics of injuries and non-communicable diseases through traffic exposure, noise, air pollution, social isolation, low physical activity, and sedentary behaviors,” (Sallis, Bull, Burdett, et al., 2016, p. 2936). Institutional changes, political commitment, capacity building, innovative public planning, and other partnership-based local solutions have been shown to promote “overall sustainable urban health development,” (Hu & Kuo, 2016). Rice, Franceschini, Wallerstein, et al. (2017) also show how communities like Puerto Santa Lucia stand to benefit financially from improving the brand identity of… Continue Reading...
campaign regarding obesity and hypertension amongst adults in the state of West Virginia.
Population Health Issue: Hypertension and Obesity
Obesity is a mounting global health concern, with a fast-pace increased being perceived in morbid obesity. Imperatively, obesity is linked to a heightened cardiovascular risk and initial inception of cardiovascular morbidity. The escalating obesity endemic is a major source of unsustainable health expenses and morbidity as well as mortality owing to hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, particular cancers and severe cardiovascular illnesses. Chriqui (2013) asserts that if the current trends in obesity continue to prevail, it is expected that annual medical expenses attributable to the medical condition could increase by approximately $48 to… Continue Reading...
operations and the patterns that are used when it comes to the same. In this case, the organization is a global healthcare group and there has been an expensive yet necessary culture shift so as to modernize and flesh out the cultural and business facets that are in use. Just by virtue of the fact that the healthcare organization in question is global in scope, that in and of itself necessitates a cultural paradigm that has the proper size and scope. To fully create and enforce the new cultural paradigm that must exist, the organization in question needs to use or complete a couple of tasks. Those tasks, in the… Continue Reading...
/ AIDS in Africa, 3,4 million in the Americas, 3.5 million in Southeast Asia, 2.5 million in Europe, 330,000 in the Eastern Mediterranean and 1.4 million in the Western Pacific regions (Global health observatory data, 2016).
At present, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that there are approximately 36.7 million people living with HIV / AIDS as of year-end 2015 and just under half (46.3%) or about 17 million of these sufferers were receiving some form of antiviral therapy, a figure that includes 2 million people who began treatment at some point during 2015 (HIV / AIDS, 2016). In addition, more than three-quarters (77%) of all pregnant women living with HIV / AIDS were being treated with medicines that are designed… Continue Reading...
without vaccinations (Five reasons to vaccinate your child, 2018).
Statistics: Fully 10% of children around the world fail to receive any vaccinations at all (Global health observatory data, 2018).
Result: The World Health Organization estimates that more than 134,000 children die from the otherwise-preventable disease measles each year, a statistic that translates into 15 deaths every hour of every day (Global health observatory data, 2018).
Conclusion: Although the mortality due to diseases such as measles has been reduced significantly in recent years, compulsory vaccinations could help save an additional 1.5 millions of lives each year (Global health observatory data, 2018).
3. Universal vaccinations have been shown to be safe and effective.
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should become fully integrated into the global healthcare system. Crowdsourcing medicine prevents some of the problems that currently plague the profit-driven and paternalistic healthcare system, allowing all patients to receive an evidence-based, culturally sensitive, intelligent assessment of their needs.
Crowdsourcing is controversial because it has the potential to radically transform the relationship between patients and healthcare providers. For example, crowdsourcing potentially threatens the position of authority many doctors depend on to maintain their professional status. As Sanghavi points out, doctors for millennia have “jealously guarded their secrets,” at least in the European model of medicine (1).… Continue Reading...
internal and external factors influence success. The food industry faces a serious challenge that federal agencies put into place to regulate the food industry to comply with global health demands aimed at reducing obesity and communicable diseases. While the American food industry self-regulates itself, the challenges that obesity poses make people conscious of the type of food they consume. The strength that business lobbyists in America such as McDonald's have makes it difficult to challenge the growth of fast food restaurants, which are the biggest competitions. The American society is today more conscious of the food… Continue Reading...
Research shows that pharmacological interventions combined with lifestyle changes are more effective than lifestyle changes alone for some patients (Li & Cheung, 2009). However, the global healthcare community understands that pharmacological interventions alone are rarely efficacious in disease maintenance and that medications need to be combined with dietary and physical activity interventions (Apovian, Aronne, Bessesen, et al., 2015). Currently, there are only two medications that have been approved in the United States for the long-term management of obesity: Sibutramine and orlistat (Li & Cheung, 2009). The former reduces appetite to help the patient reduce food intake more reliably, while the latter is a drug that acts as a gastrointestinal lipase inhibitor, effectively interfering with fat… Continue Reading...
to transform the lives of millions of people worldwide. Whether I find work with this or another global health organization, this is where my passion lies. I do believe that the only way to help charitable organizations to thrive is through science. Evidence-based interventions are uniquely able to attract the funding they needs, because those that are rooted in faith-based organizations' chartable appeals will not have an intended effect on their communities. Instead, I see a strong need for international aid organizations to hire more epidemiologists to translate individual data sets from communities, into revealing patterns and trends. Those trends may reveal geographic-specific issues such as the… Continue Reading...
of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats, 2016). In fact, it was not until the spread of Lyme disease that ticks were not considered a major threat. This is because humans did not often pursue outdoor recreational activities and were living in suburban or urban areas (Danbom, 2017). However, as more people move into rural areas and go outside into nature more, the risk of tick-borne diseases has grown. Hence the new worry of scientists and those aiming to understand the spread of tick-borne diseases, of an even bigger outbreak in… Continue Reading...
of the easiest ways for this access to be achieved. The interdependency of economies upon the global health of the whole is also tied into the effect of globalization. In today's world, what happens in China, Japan or Europe affects other economies. The recent bankruptcy of Hanjin shipping has already caused worry for the upcoming shopping season, as Hanjin was responsible for shipping 8% of the world's commerce. Because of globalization, what happens in Asia does not stay in Asia: it has ripple effects throughout the world.
Thus, globalization has its positive benefits (a wider market) and its negative effects (a closer relationship means a greater… Continue Reading...
health care needs of people primarily stuck in conflict zones called the TPP an “imminent threat to global health” (Bernish). As the Obama Administration sought to gain support from the trade agreement that would allow Big Pharma to internationally control the prices of drugs (and thereby control the extent to which health care could be provided to indigent populations), the leaders of Doctors without Borders became more and more vocal, conducting interviews, publishing information on their own and even writing directly to the U.S. President himself (Bernish). As Gordon notes, the group “accused the US government of inserting provisions into the TPP that would interfere with the low-cost delivery… Continue Reading...
