Global Liberalization: Approach To Globalization And Health Care

anthropology will still remain the same. The only thing that would possibly change would be the social phenomena and impacts that would occur as a result of globalization and economic liberalization. Yes, people may become more interconnected and less traditional within their own culture, but diversity is still present and people still pride themselves on where they came from.

Globalization impacts a lot policies that pertain to health, some of which stem from non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The NGOs try to establish worldwide health care, create health care facilities, and treat infectious diseases in all parts of the world. However, Garret (2007) argues that global health care policies are more concerned with high profile diseases,

They suggest that the diagonal approach to financing health care is the most effective way compared to the vertical and horizontal financing approach. Vertical financing is when health care policies focus on the high profile diseases, and horizontal financing focuses on improving health care systems in developing countries. However, if a country’s government were to just fund one approach without the other, then they would run into problems where infectious diseases would keep spreading and they would have poor health care facilities to contain the transmission of diseases. For this reason, the diagonal approach is the best option because it aims for disease-specific results through improved health care systems (Ooms et al., 2008).

Global health has become a main focus of discussion within medical anthropology and other related fields because there is a lot of room for improvement. One way to improve global health is to establish effective methods and policies that regulate the flow of products that negatively affect the wellbeing of people. Woodward and colleagues (2001) suggest that WHO should help policymakers by monitoring and obtaining knowledge about the flow of harmful goods across borders, such as illicit drugs and small arms as well as human

In fact, many Western U.S. cities contain thousands of immigrants from all parts of the world, and their numbers increase exponentially with each passing year (Clark, 1983). One way this can affect the Western medical community is when a patient comes in and either wants a “traditional” form of medical care or complains about pains that are not known within the Western realm of medicine. Both scenarios can happen and do occur every day, but it is then up to the clinician to figure out the best form of treatment for the patient. However, this is where communication between the patient and the clinician becomes highly important because this is when accidents and misdiagnoses occur. Then the patient may stop their treatments because their symptoms still exist and the treatment plan is not helping. Therefore, it is the clinician 's responsibility to make sure they completely understand the patient 's’ perspective in order to negotiate a treatment strategy that will be the most effective and beneficial to the