Globalization and Health

Globalization Impact on Health

Introduction:

This is the age of technological development. In which trade barriers are removed, and almost each and every country of the world understand the importance of globalization for them. This globalization effect plays a vital role in combining the economies of the world and plays a pivotal role in converting the distant places of the world towards global village, where one can easily interact with others. As the benefits provide by globalization towards trade, some of the benefits are towards health industry also. The purpose of this essay writing is to demonstrate the impact of globalization on the health industry and the issues that arise in this field due to globalization. This paper also defines the ways that are adopted not only to solve these problems, but also in the prevention of health care issues.

It is considered that the income is the major determinant of health. If this argument is correct, then the health facilities in the third world countries is usually at the lowest level as in the developed countries. The main idea behind this argument is that money can change everything, even that the health of the person also. This argument support that the shifting of globalization trend towards third world countries improve the health facilities in them. It is arguable that the increase in the transmission in the field of health is due to the increase in growth acceleration of globalization in developed countries, but this growth is absent in the poor countries and according to estimate that almost 10.5 billion children are died in African countries due to HIV/AIDS, because of no proper health facilities in them (Deaton, 2004).

How globalization affects on health issues:

When we come to know about the word “globalization”, suddenly an idea generates in our mind that it is something about the movement of people along with goods or the movement of goods from one place to another (Deaton, 2004). The age of...