Summary(Theme Development)

New Global Health Challenges (Summary of Articles

Throughout centuries and in our days mankind had to deal with certain health threats of more or less global character . Emerging farmer societies suffered from malnutrition (McMichael 2002 ) cattle breeding contributed to emergence of specific human infections (Mayer , 2000 contacts between civilizations resulted in exchange of harmful bacteria (McMichael 2002 . Living in the globalized world of the 21 century means , inter alia , globalization of health hazards in the broadest term of this word , including everything from HIV /AIDS to obesity Globalization of diseases results in

need for new globalized approach to health protection

The most basic feature influencing global health is environment Environmental changes as health hazard include industrialization and urbanization . Ecological changes are a recognized problem , while changes in the living environment caused by movement of the majority of population into urban areas and their remoteness from nature , do not receive sufficient attention yet . Living in dense communities both facilitates spread of infections (McMichael 2002 ) and creates unhealthy living conditions . This includes little physical training and unhealthy food . Recent research demonstrates that availability of fast-food outlets contributes to obesity with all groups of population especially the poor (Reidpath , Burns 2002

The mottos of global health ' by the year 2000 appeared to be futile like most of the idealistic mottos . Poverty remains to be the basic global social problem . As noted by Ingram , a situation when a half of the world 's population lives for less than 2 dollars per day can be...