Health in Global Community. Women’s Health

Health in Global Community. Women’s Health

Question 1

Globalization has resulted in transferring or flowing of acute and epidemic infections, including tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, and plagues, among other diseases (Knoblauch et al. 2018). For instance, the current trending diseases, referred to as coronavirus has been a threat and challenge to globalization. People are not willing to travel to China or get into close contact with China. China happens to be the country where the outbreak started. Therefore, globalization has related to the transfer of diseases across the globe. Additionally, wealthier nations are predicting financial burden from an unhealthy population migrating to the first world. However, this is funny because those diseases are also exported around the globe through products such as tobacco, fast food, and indirectly through microeconomic policies of debt burden as well as direct investment.

Due to globalization, there is increased professional mobility, primarily from developing countries where there is an increased rate of unemployment. Health professionals from different countries offer diverse and competent services to different countries (Knoblauch et al. 2018). Additionally, the modern transportation system speeds up the movement of pathogens across the world. Fortunately, advanced technology ensures that such infection is curbed as quickly as possible. Lifestyle disease also referred to as obesity by the marketing of western consumer goods mainly within the low socio-economic population. Through globalization, sharing of principles, standards, as well as ethical values underpin concrete decision making regarding health.

Question 2

World health organization (WHO) is an international organization which has been collaborating or partnering with other organization to improve the sector of nursing and healthcare globally (Bradbury-Jones, & Clark, 2017). World health organization works with the professional organization, government bodies, researchers, and other international health agencies to improve health outcomes globally.

The international hospital federation is a non-profit organization found in Bernex, Geneva, Switzerland. The primary mission of the organization is to improve the health in communities through cooperation among the participants within the worldwide health field or sector. The organization usually meets annually, and delegates discuss the hospital and health issues in the respective countries (Holguin, Hughes, & Shamian, 2017). However, the organization only host members, only hospitals and the healthcare leadership summits where healthcare development strategies are debated. The organization exclusively focuses on the areas that require special attention. The organization also collaborate with other healthcare organization, to improve health care outcome among the specific nations. Some of the members of the international hospital federation include the American hospital association Oulu university hospital in Finland aga khan university hospital in Pakistan among other organizations. Through the help of these organizations, the delegates discuss issues concerning nursing and how healthcare can be improved globally.

Question 3

Family planning method choices indicate the status of health globally. The percent of service delivery points prepared to offer particular services which have been actively provided this service with a specific period. The indicator is crucial especial in evaluating health system strengthening in the developing nations (Holguin, Hughes, & Shamian, 2017). The information is collected regarding the overall availability of various facility-based health services in the country and the readiness to offer those services. The percent of the hospitals or health organization providing the permanent methods of family planning is an indicator which determines the extent to which facilities can offer permanent FP methods to women. With the help of other indicators, it aids in evaluating the extent of contraceptive choices among women.

The presence of supportive youth, as well as adolescent sexual policies, indicates a more significant improvement of women’s health. If there is an increased number of the adolescent who participated in the implementation of the supportive programs makes the program effective and appealing (Bradbury-Jones, & Clark, 2017). Meaningful participation leads to the satisfaction of the health care needs of youths and adolescent females. While working with youths and adolescent requires specific and unique skills and knowledge, the number of the trained physician to handle adolescents determine the status of healthcare among this group. The appropriate training is supposed to cover the area of counseling, outreach, reproduction health services, education, and referral.

Question 4

There are various reasons why women receive inadequate care. There is an increased rate of illiteracy among the women population. Despite not having the necessary information regarding health, most women lack the skills to read and write. In most third world countries, women continue giving births while lacking resources to take care of them because they have no information regarding family planning.  Other women do not go to the hospital due to their cultural and religious beliefs (Ahmed et al. 2016). According to Catholic doctrine, women are not supposed to use family planning are supposed to use a natural process such as abstinence and withdrawal.  Catholics beliefs that women are allowed to give birth to as many children as possible because God has instructed them to do so.

Additionally, most rural women have less disposable income; as a result, it’s hard to afford basic women’s health. Their women control finances, and they are in no position or allowed to utilize them if not permitted by their men.  The issue to do with literacy can be intervened by the increased rate of education (Ahmed et al. 2016). Most female health programs are free in a particular hospital.  Having information regarding such issues limits the literacy barrier to access of health among women. Education will lead to an increase in the usage of the already available services that have been underutilized by women. Also, based on women’s social roles, they may be discouraged from living the home since they are the primary caregiver. Instead, the cheaper traditional healer may be called if the situation becomes worse. In the house, women are never allowed to control the finance, and men may decide to give out the money for hospitalization or not. Also, through stigma, women may accept to cope with specific health issues instead of going for surgery; men, in this case, would not accept such.

References

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Bradbury-Jones, C., & Clark, M. (2017). Globalization and global health: issues for nursing. Nursing Standard, 31(39).

Holguin, E., Hughes, F., & Shamian, J. (2017). Transnational nursing organizations paving the way for global health: The International Council of Nurses as the exemplar. A new era in global health: Nursing and the United Nations, 2030, 205-226.

Knoblauch, A. M., Divall, M. J., Owuor, M., Musunka, G., Pascall, A., Nduna, K., … & Winkler, M. S. (2018). Selected indicators and determinants of women’s health in the vicinity of a copper mine development in northwestern Zambia. BMC women’s health, 18(1), 62.