Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Factors cause diseases spreading

The living standard of the world is improving tremendously, and at the same time, it creates crisis and problems. Have you ever realized that these problems will gradually emerge to worsen our lives as our world continues to develop? One of these problems is the spread of diseases. It is an important issue since it has a huge impact on people’s lives. Although we are living in America, the wealthiest and the most high-technologies country in the world, there is still no one can escape from the consequence of the spread of disease that is caused by the rapid development. Therefore, it is very important for us to know about the causes of the spread of disease, and also the crisis for all human beings. There are three main factors that cause the disease spreading, and they are globalization, urbanization and the gap between the north and the south.
Globalization provides both advantages and disadvantages to the world. These advantages and disadvantages can never be balanced. Diseases can be spread through global travel and trading businesses. In addition, globalization of food supply and centralized food processing will help the disease spread to other countries easily. Globalization is always wanted in the business world, people attempt to expand the impact of globalization to have a better life; unfortunately, these attempts might put the health of the people in risk by devastating the environment.

Urbanization drives the cities too crowed. People want to move to the cities to strive for better job opportunities in order to improve their living standard. At the same time, they try to escape from the civil wars, famine, and other manmade and nature disasters which are always being seen in the rural area. Moreover, pollution from the industries, burning of fossil fuels, and releasing harmful chemicals will affect the health of the people who live in the cities, they will get sick easier. As more areas become urbanized, the gap between the urban area and rural area is therefore widened. More educated people would leave for the urban areas, so the rural areas will remain the same with no improvement, and always be an undeveloped area.

World Health Organization cannot avoid the spreading of disease, since there are not enough laboratories that produce antibiotics, and those countries in the southern part of the world do not have the finances and resources to develop the need technology in order to protect its people. Also, the living standards of those countries are extremely low, so diseases can spread rapidly.

The spread of diseases are caused by the careless of people who try to improve their lives, and these problems are able to do a huge damage to our world. Therefore people should keep an eye on it, and be considerate for the long-term effects. Apparently, an individual might not have a big influence on a global issue like this. However, if everyone contributes a little to the world, the problems can diminish and eventually vanish.

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