Question

Select a global health issue from the World Health Organization (WHO) list of health topics available at http://www.who.int/topics/en/ How has globalization influenced this issue from a positive or negative perspective?

Answer 1

I would select Vaccine:

There has been a lot that has been discussed regarding vaccine development and its availability across the globe to cure people from vaccine preventable communicable diseases.Globalization has its own affects on this.Economic globalization, specifically plays an important role as it allows cross border flow of goods,people and services globally.Globalization no doubt has led to spread of communicable diseases across the globe when people travel from one place to another via air.Moreover many developments related to globalization have affected the availability of vaccines in many countries and vaccines are not developed and available globally due to an increased funding,costly trade agreements and lack of proper technologies in research and development.