Question

describe at least 2 positives and 2 negatives aspects about the globalization of healthcare

Answer 1

Globalization of health
Positive aspects:
- Globalization of health prevents the spread of disease by increasing integrated trade, economic growth, human movement and cultural development, technology improvement, it facilitates collaboration and communication among various agencies.
-It creates economic benefits by reducing health care costs. It circulates money, goods, people, and information globally.
Negative aspects:
-Globalization increases the emerging and re-emerging infectious disease. Example: many chronic respiratory diseases re-emerged in 1980 once it got eradicated in 1950, because of increasing resistance to drugs.
-Globalization has the impact of privatized health care due to private for-profit and private not for profit facilities, it impacts the many countries to use health services to get maximum benefits.