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Global Health, 2006.
A review of the idea of global health and how it is practically implemented.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 6 sources, £ 50.95
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This paper discusses the idea that global health for all is possible provided that certain conditions are met. The ideal of global health for all is a vision that depends on a global perspective and a specific view of the future. The paper further discusses how global health also depends on a comprehensive view of health which must include the social determinants of health. From the Alma Ata Declaration, it was affirmed that he attainment of the highest possible level of health is a most important worldwide social goal whose realization requires the action of many other social and economic sectors in addition to the health sector (Leuning, 2002, pp. 298-299).
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Global Health for All, 2005.
A review of the concept of global health for all, taking into account the multifaceted and complex issues surrounding this concept.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, £ 63.95
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This paper argues that the current global health issues indeed are multidimensional and complex, and cannot be considered outside of the social determinants of health. According to this paper, the ethic of care and care as a moral ideal, prevent the nurse from despair over the state of the global village. As formidable as the challenges are to implementing global health for all as policy and practice, the nurse and nursing as a profession have a vision of the future as well as certain strategies at heir disposal.
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"The vision of the global future can be reduced to two scenarios. One of these involves multiple and complex problems whereby the goal of global health for all is just not possible. In fact, one argument is that the WHO is hypocritical by being fearful to follow its own credo of health for all. The second scenario involves the nurse as a change agent who is not passive but has a strategic vision and is capable of strategic planning (Bezold & Hancock, 1996). "
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'Global Health Issues and Challenges', 2006.
A review of Nancy Dickenson Hazard 2004 article about conditions that affect nursing, "Global Health Issues and Challenges".
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, £ 31.95
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This paper discusses and reviews Nancy Dickenson Hazard 2004 article, "Global Health Issues and Challenges" which presents an overview of a number of Arista conferences held in various world regions. Participants identified global issues and conditions which affect nursing. They also focused on strategic actions for the nursing profession and on recommendations for actions aimed at creating healthy communities. The paper explains that Hazard's article was presented as an executive summary and synthesis of the reports made from the various Arista conferences.
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Global Health Care, 2004.
This paper reviews six global health care journal articles, each one specific to an individual topic about variations and trends in health care around the world.
6,500 words (approx. 26.0 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 106.95
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This paper explains that after a country attains a certain economic level, the degree to which an individual receives good health care is determined by other factors, including poverty, which is present even in the wealthiest societies. The author points out that Canada?s health care is superior to that in the United States, offers more flexibility, and should be used as a model for the United States. The paper relates that the U.S. and other countries are facing challenges to funding national health care; however, in other countries, these challenges are often met through incentives and additional taxation, which is largely opposed in the United States.
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Broad Topic - Variations and Trends in Health and Disease around the World
Topic - Canada?s Health Care and How it Differs from the U.S.
Topic - Dynamics of Different Health Care Systems
Topic - Functioning of Different Health Care Systems
Topic - Global Impact of Various Health Care Systems
Topic - China Health Care and Its Global Impact
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"More specifically Martens attempts to define global and regional dynamics that might influence health and disease trends. He concludes that managing health variations and transition effectively in the future will require ?a micro and macro approach? that takes into consideration the social, cultural and behavioural determinants of health. In his work Martens claims that socio-economic change and public health initiatives as well as technology have contributed to a shift in health and disease toward the positive. To support this premise he points out that the average life expectancy is doubled across the globe and infant and mortality rates have sharply declined."
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Global Health, 2006.
This paper explores the global future of healthcare.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 5 sources, £ 63.95
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The paper discusses how the global future is uncertain in most respects, but there are particular features of the future that actually are certain. The paper explains that the future will be based in biology and driven by an information flow. The future will also be a period of technology and a new form of health management. The paper considers two basic visions of the future. The first is fatalistic and maintains that numerous and complex issues ensure that the goal of global health for all is just not feasible.
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Global Trade in Health Care, 2008.
An analysis of the current and future trends for the Indian health scenario, as well as trade in health services in general.
6,208 words (approx. 24.8 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 103.95
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This paper provides an overview of the nature of trade in health services in India. The paper also discusses the possible implications on the national health services affecting equity, efficiency and access to health services. The paper then discusses the current Indian health scenario. Next, the paper analyzes the future trends and scope for foreign collaborations as well as policy responses required in the prevailing international and national health environment. A discussion on how to meet the challenges which are likely to be faced by India is also included. The paper contains many graphs and figures.
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Abstract
Overview of Global Healthcare Trade
Implications of Trade in Healthcare
The Current Indian Health Scenario
Future Trends, Scope of Foreign Collaboration and Policy Environment
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"Increasing trade in health care is almost certain to create dual structures-one catering to the rich segment of the population and the foreigners and the other to the people who can not afford high costs of out-of-pocket treatment or even a private health insurance. Hence, for the latter category, India needs to cover maximum population under some form of pre-payment system i.e. Community Health Insurance and Social Health Insurance. The challenge before the country is to ensure harmonious co-existence of the systems. A lot of thinking on creating political rewards and institutional sustaining of redistributive allocations is needed in the face of increasing healthcare commercialization. This is true whether or not the allocation process was regressive before healthcare market liberalization."
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Global Sanitary Health Conditions, 2006.
This paper is an empirical study of World Health Organization data evaluating the relationship of sanitary health conditions to the number of cases of HIV and tuberculosis.
7,765 words (approx. 31.1 pages), 11 sources, APA, £ 120.95
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This paper explains that home-based care is a strategy increasingly relied on by many countries adversely affected by HIV/AIDS because they have weak health systems and infrastructures and are overwhelmed by the volume of patients requiring long-term care, and yet, their sanitation and hygiene, which underpin these home care strategies, are often poor. The author uses variables such as the number of people living with HIV, GDP/Capita (US$), expenditure on health per capita (US$), access to improved water resources in urban and rural areas, access to better sanitation facilities in urban and rural areas, prevalence of contraceptives (which serves to explain the sexual behavior) and the number of new tuberculosis (TB) cases detected in a year. The paper is based on a statistical regression procedure including ANOVA on all the selected variables with the number of people with HIV and tuberculosis living in 70 countries; the data is reported by organizing these countries into global regional zones.
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Analysis of Data for the World
AFR (African Region)
HIV
Tuberculosis
South-East Asian Region
HIV
TB Cases
West-Pacific Region
HIV
The Eastern Mediterranean Region
HIV Cases
TB Cases
American Region
Data
HIV Cases
TB Cases
European Region (EUR)
HIV Dependent
Concluding Remarks
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"While in many African countries, everyone is vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, the people worst affected are those living in poor, over crowded areas that lack adequate sanitary facilities, water supply, and medical care. Having a potable water supply and latrine close to one's home is a basic human right. Access to adequate water supply and sanitation facilities helps people to live healthier lives, free from the risks of water and sanitation related illnesses and affords them the dignity that is due to them being human being. For a person living with HIV/AIDS access to water and sanitation facilities is especially critical. The risks posed by poor facilities can be fatal. It is an undeniable fact that poverty goes hand-in-hand with inadequate hygiene and sanitation facilities and people living in over crowded slum areas severely face this inadequacy. It is observed from the data obtained from WHO that the incidence of HIV is positively correlated with absolute poverty (in terms of income <$1) by a factor 0.25 and with the Gini coefficient by a factor of 0.21. In this study, data have been analyzed on various variables and has made an effort to explain the correlations and trends for each of the regions classified by the WHO."
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Global Economics of Health Care, 2002.
A comparison of the health care systems of England and the U.S.
3,653 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 9 sources, MLA, £ 72.95
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This paper examines the economic systems that govern decision-making policies of the health care systems in England and the U.S. It briefly provides an overview of these systems and then looks at the similarities and differences in their operating systems.
Comparing Health Care Systems
Health Care in England
Health Care in the United States
Works Cited
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"The tort systems of Commonwealth nations other than New Zealand remain basically similar to the American system, with the following exceptions germane to America: (1) civil jury trials prevail in the United States, but have been largely abolished elsewhere; (2) In the United States the losing party is not responsible for the legal fees and costs of the winner, unlike other locales; and (3) American law has no limits on contingency fees. Combined, these differences lead to speculative litigation, which is the legitimate basis for overarching jury awards in this country. ?One can define a speculative claim as one whose success depends not on the intrinsic legal merits of the claim, but on fortuity.? "
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Global Health, 2005.
A discussion on holistic medicine as an alternative to western medicine.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, £ 25.95
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The main thesis of this article is that society needs to move away from current conceptions of health as being equivalent to medicine, and instead move towards formulating a definition of health that is more positive. The writer argues that this will enable society to move towards health-promotion with a different approach. This science will be taken out of the hands of the medical community, and handled instead holistically by people such as community workers, sociologists, and nutritionists.
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Health Equality and Nursing, 2008.
This paper explores whether global health for all is possible to achieve.
2,021 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 10 sources, APA, £ 45.95
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The paper discusses the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and whether nurses can really make the difference in promoting global health. The paper looks at how even though contemporary global health issues are multidimensional and complex, nursing has the benefits of a vision of the future as well as effective strategies to implement global health for all. The paper concludes that the greatest challenge at the present time to full realization of this goal is the uneven effects of globalization around the world.
Outline:
Introduction
The Origins of Global Health for All
Globalization and Effects on Global Health
The Challenges to Global Health for All
Meeting the Challenges
Nursing and Health for All
Conclusion
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"The Alma-Ata Declaration was intended to address the need for a global response to health inequalities. The proposal of global health for all was first proposed at Alma-Ata and made use of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion which defined health promotion as "those processes that enable people to increase control over and to improve their health" (Hilfinger Messias, 2001, p. 9). The Charter specified five strategies: advancing public health policy, developing supportive environments, enhancing community action, developing personal skills, and changing the direction of health services."
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The Global South and the Global North, 2007.
An analysis of the impact of globalization on the inequality between the global north and the global south.
1,402 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 33.95
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This paper looks at globalization and discusses how it has exacerbated the pre-existing inequalities between the poor global south and the wealthy global north. It illustrates how globalization forces some people (predominantly in the southern regions of the planet) to work while permitting other people (predominantly individuals residing in the global north) to become wealthy.
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"To start with, it is commonly known that powerful multinational corporations in the global north habitually take their manufacturing operations from Europe and/or America and deposit those aforementioned manufacturing operations in global south countries where they can avoid the onerous regulatory regimes, high corporate taxes, and high wage costs they associate with the north. At the same time, the movement of jobs and plants to the south has the unhappy effect of not only costing workers jobs in the north but also of reducing the south to the subordinate position of being "hewers of wood and drawers of water" for multinationals that are looking for cheap human resources that can be utilized in a working environment that is more permissive than the highly-regulated work environments of America and/or Europe. A good example of this phenomenon can be found in the IT sector where skilled U.S. workers are losing jobs to individuals overseas (Sosbe, 4) - presumably because the "cost of doing business" vis-a-vis wage expenses is lower in global south nations which do not have a strong tradition of labor activism or of government involvement in employee-employer relations."
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Globalization and Global Labour Patterns, 2005.
An analysis of the factors leading to globalization and global labour patterns.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 10 sources, £ 76.95
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This paper discusses globalization and global labour patterns. The paper argues that in a globalized world corporations are determining the labour conditions in both developed and developing countries. It suggests that the corporations are essentially making cheap, unskilled and flexible labourers.
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"Globalization and Global Labour Patterns Globalization is one of the most controversial issues in politics and economics. In "Note on Terminalogy" David McNally defines globalization as, "The mainstream term for the new world Economy of the past twenty years" (McNally 9). How exactly has the world economy changed? While discussing the political and economic changes that have occurred over the last three decades Teeple explains, A system of highly integrated world trade was an irreversible fact by the end of the 1970s, confirmed and hastened by the new means of transportation and communications, whose increased productivity were transforming the worldwide distribution of products and hence the global conditions for valorization (Teeple 71)."
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Processes of Globalization and Shared Global Culture, 2005.
A discussion on whether the processes of globalization are producing a shared global culture.
2,028 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, APA, £ 45.95
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The paper states that it is not complicated to find some globalized places such as airline terminals, international hotels or CNN business news revealing the effects of globalization and its repercussions on our understanding of culture in the modern world. The paper relates that through the growing of global interconnections and the processes of ideas and global goods crossing national borders, cultures fuse across the globe. The paper also discusses the presence of English as an international language, and a homogenization of culture. The paper confirms that, culture is a set of values and practices characterized by its particularity, which nevertheless needs universal criteria as a reference to justify this particularity. It is also crucial to define culture as an "encompassing" concept and to keep in mind that it is difficult to know what is cultural.
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"In addition, a shared global culture is also relevant as a global dissemination of an American or Western culture. Indeed the processes of globalization are providing fuel for a cultural imperialism, that is to say a global culture liable to be a hegemonic culture. Thus the assertion of a shared global culture seems to be linked to what Friedman describes as "the increasing hegemony of particular central cultures, the diffusion of American values, consumers goods and lifestyles" (Friedman, 1994: 195). The diffusion of dominant standard icons and references such as MacDonald's, Coca-Cola leads to think about an obvious Americanization. In a word, cultures are both confronted by a global dominance of the western culture and by the practices of global capitalism. The result is probably a decrease of cultural differences: a process which undeniably worked to the advantage of the USA and others Western nations. A striking example of this tendency of cultural imperialism is the United Nations Educations Scientific and Cultural Organization's call for a "new world information and communication order" and its politics on global culture."
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Globalization and Global Survival, 2005.
This paper discusses the effects and dangers of globalization.
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This article examines the cultural, commercial, political and environmental effects of globalization. The writer then looks at the related challenges and dangers. The writer discusses how the existence of international monopolies together with the third world sweat shops and additional factors endanger global survival. The writer further discusses that globalization's exportation of environmentally and perhaps socially unsustainable Western materialism to populous developing nations such as India and China is also worrying for the future of the planet.
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"Evidence of increasing hegemony by an ever shrinking number of multinational conglomerates is fuelling increasing concern regarding global cultural, commercial, political and environmental effects from such inequitable distribution of power. The creation of international industrial monopolies and massive fortunes of unprecedented size, accompanied as it is by equally massive down-sizing, unemployment, environmental degradation and the exponential increase of Third World sweat shops and child labor, seems to be leading to disaster on a global scale."
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