Globalization Public Health

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1. The movement of people, food, and manufactured goods are directly related to globalization and can have such a negative impact on public health, for example the increased in international travel is believed to have played a major role in the spread of HIV/AIDS. Secondly, the rise in the importation of food has led to massive outbreaks of salmonella and e.coli bacteria. In addition, the transit of manufactured goods like used tired can harbored malaria infected mosquitoes to areas otherwise not affected. Therefore, I believe there are steps that should be taken to reduce these flows of diseases which are caused by the trio of the movement of people, food, and manufactured goods; as well as lowering the spread of global diseases such as Tuberculosis, …show more content…

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Developing ways to combat drug resistance diseases is vital, therefore, research in more ways to treat and cure diseases of the future is a necessary step to be taken.
• Improved sanitation and living conditions can be achieved by the availability of public health infrastructure such as improve access to safe water, proper sewage and better healthy nutrition can prevent diseases and save lives.
• Price of drugs: Lifesaving medication and drugs should be subsidized most especially in the developing counties to enable larger amount of the poor sick population access basic public health infrastructures.
2. As mentioned earlier and above food-born illness is related globalization and rich countries such as the United States increases the importation of food largely due to consumer preferences, cheaper foreign production and increase access to foreign markets because of trade …show more content…

As part of the shared vision to reduce foodborne illness, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working with FDA to gather more data to better estimate sources of illness. Additionally, USDA, FDA, and CDC are involved in many interagency efforts, including the Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC). This interagency collaboration is working to improve methods used to estimate the proportion of foodborne illness associated with specific

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