Answer To: Communicating global health challenges to a general audience is pivotal to developing awareness of...
Dr Insiyah R. answered on Jan 14 2023
Global health concern
COVID 19 pendemic
Introduction
A pandemic is characterised as the spread of any illness or disease that is common worldwide.
As seen by the COVID 19 epidemic, pandemics are one of the most pressing global health concerns today.
In Wuhan, China, in December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic was recorded. Around 200 nations were afflicted by this disease since it quickly spread owing to globalisation and interchange (Briggs et al, 2020).
Up to 2021, there were over 450 million COVID-19 instances that were documented (de Figueiredo et al, 2021).
The pandemic is a severe health problem because it exposes the global health disparities that exist in practise.
The purpose of this presentation is to examine how social, economic, political, and environmental issues affect global health as well as how social determinants of health affect health disparities globally. In this lecture, the ideas relating to the advancement of global health will also be covered. A pandemic has the ability to destabilise the supply chain, create problems like extreme poverty, and have a negative influence on many parts of the world's economies, resources, and health. Policies and strategies must be created in order to prevent further pandemics and manage them as well as was done during COVID-19 management.
Social determinants of evolving global health challenges
Several societal issues have an impact on global health, including:
One of the key variables affecting global health and associated inequities is income and social protection (de Figueiredo et al, 2021).
Working conditions, employment, and job security.
Housing instability, access to basic resources, and food insecurity
Any individual's social welfare is impacted by the pandemic, as well as the country as a whole (Tai et al, 2021).
Social variables such as socioeconomic position, poverty, resource availability, financing for healthcare, education, etc. were observed to be some factors that affected the country's capacity to combat the COVID-19 epidemic.
Culture, health practises, and ethnicity of the groups in any location are also social variables. Due to the fact that these variables also affect the region's and the populace's capacity to contain or manage pandemics like COVID-19 (Tai et al, 2021). Communities with more resources, stable finances, literacy, and less cultural limitations were shown to have greater control over and handled the COVID-19 outbreak than others (Danabal et al, 2019). Therefore, during the 2021 epidemic, it was seen that South Asian areas and nations like India, Bangladesh were significantly damaged by COVID owing of its high mortality rate and dissemination (Gopalan and Misra, 2020). These societal elements have been found to have a connection to this scenario in these areas. In addition, Danabal et al. (2019) investigated how inadequate education was one of the main reasons that limited and hindered the uptake of vaccines in many countries, leading to a significant distribution of COVID 19.
Economic considerations have changed the nature of the world's health problems.
The nation's response to the pandemic or any other global health issue depends on its economic situation.
Due to its dire economic and budgetary situation, South Africa had an extremely difficult battle in its fight to contain the Ebola endemic.
To lessen health disparities and encourage a higher GDP for the country, higher employment is an aim (Buheji et al, 2021).
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the nations who supported financing and resources for development and research came out on top (Bhuiyan et al, 2021).
For instance, India, which is actively battling the epidemic, supported significant funding for vaccine development and research. This enabled the country handle the situation...