The Main Challenges of Global Health today: Health Diseases

 

The world is far healthier than ever before global life expectancy is increasing in most countries and diseases like AIDS tuberculosis and malaria are on the decline despite decades of progress plenty of work remains every year more than 6 million children die before their fifth birthday.

The majority by preventable causes rates of asthma are increasing among the young and the old and the virus like h1n1 can spread from San Diego to Shanghai.

Only a matter of days those who are tasked with improving global health faced three major challenges non communicable diseases or NCDs infectious diseases and funding for treatment and prevention non communicable diseases like cancer and diabetes are the world's biggest killers in 1990. 

 Three of the top seven global causes of death were NCDs in 2015. It was six out of seven this is in part because global life expectancy and standards of living are on the rise as countries get richer and their populations get older people are increasingly exposed to the risk factors of NCDs. such as, a sedentary lifestyle increased substance abuse and access to processed foods in Africa cancer now kills about 450,000 people annually; but by 2030 that rate is projected to climb to almost 1 million people each year.

Non communicable diseases often require extensive long-term care and access to affordable treatment can be a major obstacle in both developing and developed countries unlike NCDs the rates of infectious diseases are down worldwide.

 

However, they still present a major global health challenge because outbreaks are difficult to predict and just as hard to prepare for the 2018.

Ebola epidemic killed thousands in West Africa more recently Zika has been linked to birth defects and children throughout Latin America and the Caribbean and it has scared off tourists from the worst hit countries costing local economies billions of dollars health officials can only do so much to respond to infectious diseases because virus is spread undetected and mutate rapidly.

It becomes a race to protect the healthy and quarantine the sick in the face of an outbreak international coordination can reduce the odds of a disease spreading to other countries but with a crowded cast of 40 government-to- government donors 25 UN agencies 20 global and regional funds and 90 global initiatives involved in any serious outbreak coordination is a challenge. It can be difficult to even determine, who's in charge the World Health Organization could be taking a leading role.

It was established after World War two for that specific purpose but today its capabilities and resources are no match for the proliferation of global health problems instead the majority of funding for these organizations come straight from the so called to Washington's the Gates Foundation; which gives 68 percent of the world's private donations in the realm of Health.

 The US government, which provides 52 percent of all public funding for global health while crucial to maintaining health programs around the world. especially in low-income countries dependent on foreign aid the concentration of funding for these two sources makes the whole system extremely vulnerable to personal and political developments in 2020.

The year 2020 was a devastating for global health. A unknown virus raced around the world, rapidly emerging as one of its top killers, laying bare the deficiencies of our health systems. Today, health services in all regions are struggling to both intercept COVID-19, and provide people with vital health care.

189 countries made a historic commitment to improving the lives of the world's poorest citizens which became eight specific Millennium Development Goals. Three of these were health- related in 2015 the UN replaced these objectives with 17 sustainable development goals 11 of which deal with improving global health outcomes finding new ways to effectively respond to non communicable and infectious diseases and overcoming funding challenges will help achieve these goals which are more important than ever before because in an increasingly connected world health in one country affects health in all.

In 2021 we will prioritize to building national capacity through our hard work along with Member States, also with new initiatives, for example working with youth groups, strengthening and expanding partnerships with civil society and the private sector, and partnering with the new WHO Foundation. Our institutional capacity will develop quickly, including through new scientific collaborations and the WHO institutions.