Week 8 Objectives - The Confirmation

1. What is my thesis?
Future global leaders should take global health as their primary concern
 2. What types of source am I using to defend my thesis? 
I am using examples and statistics from reliable orgainzations.
3. Are my arguments mostly based on evidence, logic or emotion?
My arguments are mostly based on evidence and statistics, thus, it is logical.


My Confirmation

   Then, why should global health should be primary concern for future global leaders? Why should people in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Australia should also concern about global health that might seem unrelated to them although they will be the ones who should pay the most for it? Actually, for a number of critical reasons, the global health should be concerns for not only developing nations, but developed nations.

  

  First, everyone deserves an equal opportunity for health. Many member states of the United Nations signed on to Article 25, which says:

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

   The world community has so many tools to make people healthy today, allowing them to contribute to their families and their communities. However, many children in poor countries get sick and die needlessly from malnutrition of from diseases that are curable and preventable. Many adults in developing countries are dying due to their lack of access to medicines that are available to people in rich countries. Is this just? Is it right to accept such deaths without steps to prevent them?

 

   Second, diseases do not respect boundaries. In other words, developing countries also can get diseases of developed countries. This is especially true for epidemic disease. Human immunodeficiency virus(HIV), has spread worldwide. A person with tuberculosis can infect 15 people a year. Actually, in the United States as a whole, 39% of all tuberculosis cases are in foreign-born individuals; in California, this proportion is 69%. Clearly, the health of each of us is increasingly depending on the health of others.

http://www.macalester.edu/news/2013/10/why-global-health-matters/
Why Study Global Health? - Global Health Institute