HLTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Humanitarian Aid, Malnutrition, One Health
30 Mar 2018
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Globalization: the unrestrained flow of capital, commodities, ideas, technologies, people and even pollution across international borders. Global processes that influence social spheres: ethnoscapes: the flow of people, technoscapes: the flow of ideas through technology, mediascapes: the flow of images, ideoscapes: the flow of ideas, terms, and images, financescapes: the flow of commodities and economics. The (cid:449)orld health orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)"s report o(cid:374) glo(cid:271)al hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)itaria(cid:374) respo(cid:374)ses ide(cid:374)tified the following key factors related to aid: displacement, chronic food insecurity, malnutrition. International committee: doctors without borders/ medicines sans frontiers (msf, world vision, u(cid:374)ited natio(cid:374)s i(cid:374)ter(cid:374)atio(cid:374)al childre(cid:374)"s e(cid:373)erge(cid:374)(cid:272)y fu(cid:374)d (cid:894)unicef(cid:895) increasing levels of aid generated through traditional and social media as more people become aware of needs around the world. Ethical challenges for foreign aid workers: scarcity of resources and the need to allocate them, historical, political, social and commercial structures, aid agency policies and agendas, per(cid:272)ei(cid:448)ed (cid:374)or(cid:373)s arou(cid:374)d health professio(cid:374)al"s roles a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s.
