The Impact of Globalization on Public Health in United States

When it comes to globalization, everyone may have a different vision of it’s outcome. For Marcelo Gleiser, the author of “Globalization: Two visions of the Future of Humanity”, a completely globalized world may result in a dystopia. In contrast, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, the author of “A Mickey Mouse Approach to Globalization” and Tanveer Ali, the creator of “The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food” may think of globalization as other cultures sharing each other’s components to interact on a new level and spurring a more “open-minded” (Ali 27) individual.

American culture was built on the idea of progress. Our society has focused on creating new technology, advancing the current systems, and these forces thrust the world towards globality, a world where countries are increasingly interconnected. To be clear, globalization isn’t a new phenomenon, but the technological advances of the postmodern era accelerated the path to globality, a world in which our current ideas of national borders are significantly different, much more fluid. Economics is just one facet of globalization, but unmistakable in the chosen image. Economic globalization refers to the complex system that our

The article written by Lisa Lowe refers to globalization as it relates to the United States. This article touched on the transitions which occurred. The shifts from culture in neighborhoods due to migrants arriving. This article also referred to the critiques of globalization. It’s important to know who is against or for this process. As it provides perspective to those who want understand motives behind the negative stance.

Globalization has an enormous effect on our community’s health. In pursuing my bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science with a concentration in Health and Fitness, I consistently witness and research the problems of our town’s well-being. Various aspects of globalization that impact us are mass production of foods, technological advances that make us sedentary, and our cultural backgrounds. With this town ranging from lower income families to middle class, we have a wide variety of health issues. There are many unhealthy, fast-food chains that are easily accessible and convenient to us as a whole. Maria Jerskey’s book, Globalization: A Reader for Writers has some excellent articles than can relate to our community and help us better understand these effects.

Globalization is nothing new, since ancient times; people have been selling and buying their goods to each other. America was found by Europeans, when they were looking for new routes to expand their commerce and trade. In the last decade thanks to advances in communication and technology the commerce around the world has increased to a level never seen before. This globalization however has brought some changes and challenges to the American workforce: jobs have been lost or outsourced, People are not sure what kind of skills will be necessary to have a successful career and what kind of jobs that will have great demand in the coming

In “Globaloney 2.0: The Crash of 2008 and the Future of Globalization,” Michael Veseth tells many stories to make the point that for globalization to be successful, people need to stop believing the globaloney that surrounds it. He presents three types of globaloney: Financial Globaloney, Golden Arches Globaloney, and Grassroots Globaloney. Golden Arches Globaloney, which refers to the perception that globalization is the same as Americanization and it removes the world’s differences, is the one that seems the most misguided to me (Veseth, 2010). I believe that for globalization to become synonymous with Americanization, America needs to be more accepting of other countries/cultures and implement some of their characteristics, and vice versa. Dambisa

Health of population and its distribution are affected by population-level influences, individual level health risks, and the health care system. And these factors are strongly influenced by economy, which are multiple direct and indirect linkages of globalization and the proximal determinants of health between (Woodward, et al., 2001).

Since globalization is inevitable there will always be challenges that occur in result. One of the most pressing and widely discussed it the impact globalization has on public health. The spread of illnesses through movement of people, goods, and food is more prevalent due to the increases in technology and population.

For many years globalization as made it possible for food, people, and manufactured goods to be transported from one nation to the other, though this has been an interesting phenomenon that opened the financial doors for citizens globally, still there is a cause for concerns as it relates to the negative impact this movement as on public health. I wouldn’t say that steps should be taken to reduce the flow of these goods or food items but rather put proper measures in place to ensure that all items especially foods are up to standards when crossing borders. This responsibility will rest highly on customs at each nation’s border. Especially since whenever their citizens become sick it will have a negative effect on their nation and no one wants to have a disease outbreak in their country.

Globalization is the flow of goods, information, capital and people across political and geographical boundaries. It offers tremendous possibilities for good, such as a rapid response to catastrophes, but it can also give rise to a new concern, such as a quicker spread of diseases. Even though people have always traded between communities and countries, shared different information and exchanged some form of currency across various borders, there is something they never had that makes globalization so unsafe nova days - technology. We achieved extraordinary speed and immensity of the numerous components of globalization, primarily driven by advances in communication and transportation technologies. The effect of globalization on health systems

Globalization is the rapidly developing process of complex interconnections between societies, cultures, institutions and individuals world-wide (Tomlinson, 1997). The term “globalization” often became used since the second half of the 1980s with the radical increase of foreign direct investment by MNCs. This phenomenon was facilitated by the triumph of market-oriented economic ideology represented as deregulation, privatization, and a decreased role for the state in the economy over communism in collapsing of the Soviet Union (Gilpin, 2001). Since then, there is a widespread acknowledge that increasing global interconnection results in cultural standardization and homogeneity driven by Americanism or Westernization, which may have been regarded

Globalization has affected world health in a variety of positive and negative ways and the analysis of these effects allows us to better prepare the future course of international health and for dealing with the fallout of negative effects. As one of the major vectors of negative effects on global health, the movement of people and goods should have serious thought put into whether the inhibition of such movement would be worth the health benefits. Additionally, the trade of foods has allowed illness to enter into a wider number environments and exposed people to illnesses factors that they would not have traditionally anticipated from food products produced more locally. On the current technological edge of food production there is also concern regarding genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the value of their contributions to the global health of people and plants versus their potentially deleterious effects.

Globalization is the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets (www.merriam-webster.com, 2012). Globalisation has had both, positive and negative effects on health. This essay will examine how globalisation has helped alcohol and tobacco trade around the world and in doing so affected health, how globalization has enabled the global community to combat these issues and an estimation of alcohol and tobacco consumption in different countries. This essay will also contain statistics from the World Health Organization based on alcohol and tobacco to illustrate the impact of globalisation.

When determining whether the movement of people, food, and manufactured goods negative impacts on public health are outweighing the positive, we must consider what is important to us or worth the risks. Some seem to think that the economies built around and jobs created through global trade are more important than the risk of spreading disease. On the other hand, the thought of risking lives or serious illness contracted from global movement is devastating in itself and would provide valid reasoning to promote the idea of slowing the flows of these global movements.

In short, it is obvious that Globalization has turned to Americanization and it should not be continuing like that. In other words, Globalization has to return to its general meaning and takes off any dress may make it out of its contest. Thus, Globalization stays as an excellent sign for exchanging aspects of cultures without any influent from one on another.