Human
society has rapidly changed in both science technology and community economy
and the quality of people’s life has greatly improved, which represent two main
positive outcomes of globalization. However, can these good features of
globalization represent its whole characteristics? Fatal viruses such as AIDS
and the plague, which cause disastrous damage to human society, have rapidly
spread throughout the world during the process of globalization (Pillai, 2011).
What globalization can bring to human society are not only booming economy and
advanced technology, but also pain and death, which indicts globalization can threat
human health. However, if governments take effective actions including strengthening
sanitation construction and quarantine inspection, the risk of plague’s
spreading can be greatly reduced.
Government
should focus on domestic sanitation construction to reduce the chance of the
spreading of global epidemic. Though deadly virus such as plague and smallpox
can hardly threat human society any more, however some other diseases like AIDS
and bird flu, which now have spread all over the world, are still menacing
people’s health. According to Henry (2013), sanitation can keep people away
from waste and slow down the spreading of diseases. Henry (2013) point out that
after Hati earthquake in 2010, about 500000 people suffered from Cholera due to the lack of sanitation
system. Without qualified sanitation system, society is easy to break down
after disaster and diseases spreading because people become more likely to get
in touch with viruses and unclean environment helps diseases to reproduce. In
my view, new technologies such as waterless technologies should be applied to
reduce the costs of setting up base sanitation system especially in poor areas
because the lack of sanitation system contributes to 1.5 million child deaths
in Africa every year. It is urgent and necessary for government to build enough
qualified sanitation construction to reduce the risk of diseases’ spreading.
To strengthen quarantine inspection and avoid
smuggling are also useful for preventing global epidemic for government. Due to
the improvement of technologies, well-developed transportation now makes people
travel abroad easily. However in history the spreading of plague, which caused disastrous
damage to human society, resulted from frequent exchange activities of human civilization.
Plague is a typical example for that globalization would drive diseases to
spread worldwide and rapidly among whole human society. Strict quarantine
inspection plays the most important role in keeping one country away from
global epidemic attack. Government should make quarantine management thorough
and reasonable because too strict inspection will waste travelers’ time and
price of professional equipment is not low. My suggestion is that quarantine
should be specific to different individual, of which the principles are where traveler
comes from and where he has been to. It is meaningless to operate all types of
quarantine to one individual and this method helps to know which type of
disease this individual is most likely to catch. According to Jennifer (2000),
smuggling makes diseases like AIDS spread more rapidly in America, which means preventing
smuggling is also very important for controlling spreading of infectious
diseases. By setting up strict quarantine inspection and avoiding smuggling,
people’s health can be well protected from global epidemic.
Due
to the globalization, new technologies and frequent exchange activities make
people travel more easily, however, some global epidemic also become out of
control, which threat human society. In order to solve this problem, government
should firstly focus on building qualified sanitation construction. Also
strengthening quarantine and avoiding smuggling are also very meaningful for
controlling the diseases spreading. Global epidemic threats people’s life and
what else outcomes of globalization can also cause side effects to human
health? What about junk food and industrial pollution.
Reference
Pillia, p. (2011). Negative effects of
globalization. Retrieved from: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/negative-effects-of-globalization.html
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