Opinion - (2022) Volume 30, Issue 10
Received: 03-Oct-2022, Manuscript No. IPQPC-22-14844; Editor assigned: 05-Oct-2022, Pre QC No. IPQPC-22-14844 (PQ); Reviewed: 19-Oct-2022, QC No. IPQPC-22-14844; Revised: 24-Oct-2022, Manuscript No. IPQPC-22-14844 (R); Published: 31-Oct-2022, DOI: 10.36648/1479-1064.22.30.84
Global health is frequently emphasized that issues transcend national boundaries or have a global political and economic impact. As a result, improving global health (including mental health), reducing disparities, and safeguarding against global threats that disregard national borders are all aspects of global health. International health, a subfield of public health that focuses on developing nations and industrialized nations’ efforts to provide aid abroad, is not to be confused with global health.
The prevalence of various global diseases, as well as the likelihood that they will shorten life expectancy in the future, can be used to gauge global health. In a poor world prior to modernity, life expectancy was approximately 30 years across the globe, according to estimates. The World Health Organization (WHO) is the primary organization associated with global health and international health. UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) are two additional significant organizations that have an impact on global health. With the declaration of the Millennium Development Goals and the more recent Sustainable Development Goals, the UN system has also contributed to cross-sectoral actions to address global health and its underlying socioeconomic determinants. Multiple perspectives on the determinants and distribution of health across international contexts are used in global health. Medicine promotes disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment by describing the pathology of diseases. Epidemiology aids in the identification of health problem causes and risk factors. Policymakers can use demographic data to make decisions. For the best use of health resources, economics emphasizes cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit approaches. The determinants of health in societies can be better understood using other social sciences like sociology, development studies, psychology, anthropology, cultural studies, and law. Ethical and human rights concerns frequently arise for individuals and organizations working in global health. The field of global health as a whole is widely acknowledged to be of imperial origin, and the necessity of decolonizing it is widely acknowledged. The global health ecosystem has also been described as having a feudal structure, with a small group of high-income institutions and individuals acting as an imperial “Crown” The establishment of the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank Group in 1945, following World War II, marked a significant turning point in the direction of international cooperation in health.
In 1947 and 1948, a cholera epidemic that claimed 20,000 lives in Egypt prompted the international community to take action. Primary health care was emphasized in the 1978 Alma Ata declaration and the WHO’s Model List of Essential Medicines. Among women of reproductive age, complications during pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death. Every minute, a woman dies in a number of developing nations from complications related to childbirth. Poor maternal conditions are the fourth leading cause of death for women worldwide, after HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, according to the World Health Organization’s 2005 World Health Report.
The author is grateful to the journal editor and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions.
The author declared no potential conflicts of interest for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Citation: Mishima Y (2022) Global Health is Frequently Emphasized that Issues Transcend National Boundaries or has a Global Political and Economic Impact. Qual Prim Care. 30:41843.
Copyright: © 2022 Mishima Y. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
