In: Nursing
In your experience with health systems describe how the practice
of public health has been influenced by globalization. What
regulatory measures might be needed to address the issues you have
raised? *
Globalization is a coming together of people from varying diversities. It has both positive and negative impact on practice of public health.
Public health care aims to improve health status of the community thereby helping the person to lead a happy life.
Merits
Through globalization people are able to access latest discoveries in the field of medicine. People from developing countries can now access to better medical treatment in countries like US ,Uk
More job opportunities are created
Demerits
*Covid19 is the biggest example of why people should be concerned about the growing globalization.
The whole world came to stand still in front of this virus ,thereby affecting the trades through globalization
*Globalization increases the chance of increasing the spread of communicable disease
*overcrowding is another demerit of globalization. It reduces standard of health status
*environmental problems like air pollution etc
Regulatory measures
*travel restriction should be imposed in case of communicable disease out spread/pandemics
*proper housing and other measures to avoid overcrowding
*increase health worker ratio for increasing population
*measures to reduce environmental issues like afforestation.