Question

Is global health something that happens “over there” or near you, too? Explain.

Why does globalization matter for public health?

What’s the role of global capital? Can you find examples of it at work in your lives?

Answer 1

"Global health" refers to the health of the people globally or worldwide

Global health is an area of study,research and practice in context of diseases to improve the health of the people worldwide with out any inequality.or we can say that to promote the health and health equity of the people world wide(Health for all globally) by study,research and practice regarding the emergence of different disease world wide.
The World Health Organization,UNICEF etc are the global agecy they will give awareness to different population around the world regarding most of the diseases,prevention and its management.They will celebrate and conduct programmes and give awareness to the population by celebrating each specific day related to health and illness. Eg:World T.B day on march 24,World AIDS day on December 1st etc.

Globalization matter for public health

Globalization means the way of interact and integration of the people and countries.When different people and countries come in contact many things become globalized.Due to integration and interaction of people and countries mainly 3 changes can be occur:

• Spatial changes:Movement of people for jobs and placement,goods and services exporting
• Temporal changes:improvemt in technologies,speed of modern transportation system between different countries and and modern communication through social media,eat fast food,online credit card,
• Cognitive changes:The changes are mainly due to the effects of massmedia,advertisements,political parties etc.

Through these changes from the globalization having an effect on the public health.Through the spatial changes such as migration of peoples there may be a chance for financial burden for the country due to migration of unhealthy people from the developing countryto the developed country.Exporting of different goods such as drugs and tobacco

With the temporaroy changes occured through the globalization there may be a chance of spread of potential infectious disease (organism) with in hours through the development of modern transportation facilities

Due to the cognitive changes,the populations are addicted to the advertisements and massmedia and they follow unhealthy eating patterns and unhealthy life styles resulting in different types of life style diseases

Role of global capital

Global capital we can say it as a money market.In the global capital there is a interlinking of various investment exchanges around the world.Through this global marketing helps for the development of commerce and industry.We can say the global capital is as a capital market where it helps the people to borrow money,fund transfer or invest the money

We can say the global capital is a market where the people,companies and the governments with an excess of funds transfer those funds to people,companies and governments have a shortage of funds

Examples:

• Taking educational loan for the purpose of studying
• Taking loans to buy a car