Blog 2: Health Internationally

This blog focused on health internationally and how it is mandated by the World Health Organization (WHO). The World Health Organization has been in existence since 1948. This organization conducted meetings between twenty six other countries to launch a program called the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). The Global Health Security Agenda was created for the sole purpose “to prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to any major event threatening public health anywhere.” WHO created this program because many countries are having outburst of flu viruses or specific epidemics that should not be spread worldwide. For example, a flu influenza has been spread throughout China called H7H9. As a man named Sebelius once said “a threat anywhere is indeed a threat everywhere.”

The quote “a threat anywhere is indeed a threat everywhere”, is important to this article because it reveals how WHO and GHSA are trying to prevent and control diseases and pandemics worldwide. This article is very important to note because it affects everyone worldwide. If World Health Organization was not trying to launch a program like Global Health Security Agenda, then diseases in one country could become pandemics around the world. Diseases that started in China or Africa could eventually be America’s worst nightmare, so it is important to have a program and organization controlling these diseases. This article is also important because it shows how WHO is very crucial to not only prevention of diseases, but treatment/public awareness. WHO is going to enforce laws on countries and regions so that they are properly medicated with diseases so that the disease cannot spread outside of their country. Americans, as well as people all around the world, need to support WHO and their programs, such as GHSA, because they are preventing terrible diseases from spreading. We need to be well aware of their policies and abide by them because they are ultimately making the best decisions for the world.

http://guardianlv.com/2014/02/world-health-organization-who-new-standards-for-public-health/