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.
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