This paper is aimed to answer two questions. The first one is why it is necessary to develop a global perspective on public health rather than national or regional ones. The second one is to dwell upon one local and one global environmental public health problem in Arabian Gulf.
To start with, it is important to point out that, nowadays, public health is one of the factors which define the well-being of each citizen. Besides, public health appears to be the condition required for the valuable development of the country. Annually published data about the mean life enforce governments, as well as businesses, to invest more funds into the development of public health systems (Baltagi et al. 3). At present, it is possible to state that local public health systems have been facing a certain crisis. It results from several factors. One of them is the aging of the planet population. A notable improvement in the life quality and a simultaneous reduction in the birth rate entrain the reduction in the number of people who are able to work (including the reduction in the number of medical staff). Besides, there are a growing number of people who are in constant need of support from the part of the public health system (Zimmer et al. 374). Local public health systems are not likely to tackle the problem. That is one of the reasons why a global perspective for public health should be developed.
Apart from that, according to surveys, patients would like to have the worldwide public health system. It is expected to be of higher quality. The total tendency of reductions in the level of sedentism among the planet population, as well as the elimination of the borders between states, require providing constant prompt access to information about each citizen’s health (Prince 6). This is the only way to guarantee quality medical services for patients regardless of the place where he/she finds themselves and how far it is from their home. What is more, one of the most serious problems is acknowledged to be the management of medicine-induced treatment of patients. The range of medicines tends to enlarge. Thus, doctors are incapable of remembering all of them, their characteristics, and contra-indications (Tulchinsky and Varavikova 24). Therefore, working out a single base of medicines available worldwide will help to solve this problem to some extent.
One of the most serious global environmental public health challenges which Arabian Gulf has been facing is acknowledged to be climate change. Based on the data published by WHO, in the majority of eastern countries, people have been suffering from maladies entrained by the shift of temperatures (Salam 460). When it comes to a local challenge, it is crucial to point out that there has been a certain increase in outdoor air pollution recently (Leaning and Guha-Sapir, 1842). Coupled with climate change, it tends to cause much trouble to people who are diagnosed with allergies, asthma, and other respiratory diseases, among others.
Hence, this paper has answered two questions that have been formulated in the introduction. It has arrived at the conclusion that there are three major reasons why a global perspective on public health should be developed. Besides, it has reflected on one local and one global environmental public health challenge Arabian Gulf.
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