Globalization, Health and Communication

One and All Arif Jinha, MA candidate Globalization and International Development University of Ottawa

Our task

There is a responsibility for health care educators to create an environment that nurtures the development of a global perspective and awareness of

oneself in relationship with the world and with others

(Leuning, 2001).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV 8M

Thesis – Globalization, Health and You

Health matters because everything else (money, politics, sex, religion, human rights, culture, arts, music etc.) is insignificant unless one lives. Globalization matters because everybody (including you!) increasingly relates to one another in a single system that affects every determinant of health.

 Globalization  Health  You

Globalization

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Globalization = Transplanetary Social Relations

Manifestations of Globality  Communications      Travel Production Markets, Money, Finance, Organizations Military     Ecology Health Law Consciousness  (Sholte, 2005) Mediated by  Communications Technology   Transborder migration Global financial system and progressive trade liberalization     Global knowledge commons System of international relations based on nation-states Inter- and Intra-national Division of Labour Global Supply Chain of Production  (Jinha, 2008 – Smiths Falls in the World)

Remember!

          End of the cold war Start of Nuclear disarmament movement Global economic crisis First Academic Journal Internet invented Start of WWI End of the Cold War Discovery of N.A. by Europeans Millennium Summit Invention of printing press          Founding of Bretton Woods institutions Russian Revolution World Trade Organization started Asian economic crisis Kepler mission launched Telephone invented Peace of Westphalia Copernican revolution Boston Tea Party

Globalization quiz – Change and Continuity

        1439 – Communications 1492 – Travel 1543 - Science 1648 – International Relations 1665 – Science/Communications 1773 – Trade 1876 – Communications 1905 – International Relations           1914 – Trade 1944 – Finance 1957 – Human Security 1989 – International Relations 1991 – Communications 1995 – Trade 1997 - Finance 2000 – Development 2009 – Finance 2009 - Science

Globalization

•Is it good or bad? •What has it got to do with health?

•What should be done with it/about it?

Be aware when things are out of balance. When rich speculators prosper while farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn, all this is robbery and chaos. (from the Tao Te Ching, circa 500 BC)

Global health

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A responsibility on whose shoulders?

The ‘Tao’ thesis - A healthy society is a balanced society – is the globe balanced?

Global health problems as outcomes of imbalance in a global social system  All of the terrible statistics of disparity learned in this course!!

Concentration vs. decentralization - communication of knowledge as a determinant of social and health development   Knowledge for Development (K4D) Knowledge as Power, self-determination Scientific Impact of Nations (King,2004) - 31 countries responsible for 98% of top 2% cited literature, 8 countries - 84.5%.

Brain Drain - human capital as a determinant of economic development Our approach (Jinha, Diack)  Access to knowledge and communication – a re-balancing of capacity – towards many more shoulders who can bear the weight solving global crises/problems, not just a privileged few

Current Research – Learning and Knowledge in the 21

st

Century

 The Development Equation (Jinha, Diack) -

Past Papers

Smiths Falls in the World

2007-2008

A study of Globalization in a rural Canadian Town http://www.stratongina.net/sfalls Global economics Asian economic crisis

2006

 Undergrad thesis – Stories of Students in a Globalized World

References

 Scholte, Jan Aarte (2005).

Globalization: a Critical Introduction.

Palgrave MacMillan.

 King, David (2004). Scientific Impact of Nations.

Nature:

430; 311-316