What I learned from International Health

At the beginning of the semester, I knew hardly anything about global/international health.  I still think this is much to be learned, but taking International Health and World Food Problems has helped a lot.  I believe the class as a whole agrees that positive deviance is very important.  At least it appeared that way from the last class.  I personally think globalization was one of the most important concepts we talked about.  Globalization needs to be understood or at least thought about.  It has always been around, but we do not think about it.  Globalization has led to many changes around the world both good and bad.  Even if it involves the same people or object, it can have different effects.  Look at what we learned about women and globalization.  It is starting to become more acceptable for women to seek out paid work.  I do not know where this started, but the United States has obviously been supportive of paid women’s work.  The glass ceiling aside, women are allowed to work in developed countries.  Having more women in the work force has uncovered problems that we were not aware of before.  The stress of having to work a paid job, raise a family, and do all other day-to-day tasks is daunting.  Women are strong enough to handle, but societal norms are not making it easy on them.  Finding good childcare and financing it are extremely difficult for many.  Hopefully, we will come up with better solutions in future years.  We have are all capable of being this solution.  I talked about globalization because I found it to be so important.  There were other concepts we learned about that are also significant.  Wherever I end up career wise, I believe I can use the concepts taught from these courses to improve how I address the issues I face.