miércoles, 15 de diciembre de 2010

Globalization of infectious diseases


According to the dictionary , the infectious diseases are “Deviation from the normal structure or function of any body part, organ, or system that is manifested by a characteristic set of symptoms and signs.” The infectious diseases are produced by the globalization which is the entire cultural, technologic and postmodern phenomenon that the society confronts. These events promote the worldwide competition between marketing, economies, personal abilities and technology. The fact of the globalization begins around 1492 with the colonization and in the 90’s becomes famous with advertising and internet which was the most important tool of communication.
Globalization of infectious diseases is influenced by marketing, economies, personal abilities and technology. In marketing, the sales need to increase every day with innovated, cheaper and excellent quality products. In this case, this activity promotes a dynamic economy where it is possible to see an increase or a decrease in the market extension. For that reason, it is essential to have different abilities (interpersonal and intrapersonal) developed. For example, leadership, good relationships, emotional intelligence, creativity, to work under pressure and learn different languages. In fact the technology will be a promoter of change because nowadays is the principal instrument used in diverse areas. For example, if a person on a organization get infected by a danger illness in some other country and as a consequence he or she infects the family and work partners the company will be affected and the sales are going to came down. The infectious diseases can be a social instability in multiple fields.
The transmissions of infectious diseases are the population growth, poor health education, global wars. One of the principal problems is the population growth because this event produces an increase of basic needs. If the necessities raise, people don’t have the enough money to cover a good education. For that reason, the poor health education appears and as a consequence is easier that the illnesses spread around the world. Specially if this situation happens in countries in difficult circumstances as wars. The entire social troubles produce uncontrolled infectious diseases.
Some examples of infectious diseases are HIV, dengue, asthma and swine flu. The countries with the highest number of cases Of Aids were Africa, the Caribbean and Asia. First it was related only with homosexuals but later the percentage of heterosexual people with this disease enhances every day. In the case of dengue it transmits with an intermediary agent. The place more affected with this disease is the Caribbean. Asthma is one of the most dangerous respiratory problems because people have repetitive drowning. And, last but no least, the swine flu is transmitted with an intermediary agent as well but this agent has direct contact with pigs and domestic fowl and at the end this people spread the virus to others. Those are the most common infections in the society.
It’s important to be careful with infectious diseases because the people can prevent the spread of the illnesses. The information in different communication media is helpful to stop this phenomenon. If the globalization promote widen of infectious diseases it can transmit the necessary information to avoid the problem.

4 comentarios:

  1. Your comment is very timely. Infectious disease is a principal major public health issue for both developed and developing countries. For developing countries the human cost is immediate and severe in terms of premature deaths, diminished economic productivity, and orphaned children. For developed countries, infectious diseases are a threat on the horizon because of the problem of new and drug resistant infectious diseases migrating to the industrialized countries.

    To end, the World Health Organization said "We have a window of opportunity to make dramatic progress against ancient diseases, and to establish an early warning system to protect us from new and unexpected diseases. If we fail, increased drug resistance and the emergence of new bacteria and viruses threaten to make the control of infectious diseases both scientifically and economically unlikely in the future." real effort to improve health conditions, think that every day there is more poverty but health conditions favorable, it will help reduce the number of diseases.

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  2. Infectious disease is a big problem in all society, and every is worse.

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  3. There are good and bad things about living in a globalized society, there will be more technologies that will help to ease a lot of deseases, but it is also bad, because there will be more new diseases that will be difficult to cure

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  4. we don't like to hear about this kind of things... they can create traumas...maybe now i won't be able to caress a pig again o_o lol

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