Globalization

Question 1

What is globalization?

Answer 1

a constellation of processes by which nations, businesses, and people are becoming more connected and interdependent via increased economic integration, communication exchange, and cultural diffusion

Question 2

What is global health?

Answer 2

Global health is an area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity for all people worldwide

Global health deals with issues that directly affect the health of all people in the world, including those that transcend national boundaries.

Question 3

What is international health?

Answer 3

Deals with health issues of resource constrained countries rather than one’s own county or residence of citizenship.

Question 4

What is public health?

Answer 4

Deals with issues that shape population health of a community or entire country and within the geographic boundary of that country

Question 5

What is postcolonialism?

Answer 5

is a theory and political movement that challenges Western authority and its ethnocentric ideas that naturalize the current global economic and political order rather than problematize them as the consequence of centuries of colonialism

Question 6

What is postcolonial feminism?

Answer 6

Perspective that provides an opportunity for cultivating global citizenship

Sheds light on the inequities in any global context and facilitates the examination of the complex nature of health issues