Abstract: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have identified specific health targets to improve the health status of the world. However, achievement of health-targets should not be looked at in isolation. Health status of an economy is directly or indirectly interlinked with several macro & micro-level factors. Developing countries are the hotspot for infectious diseases as a result of many socioeconomic, environmental and behavioral factors. However, recently, there is a large reduction in communicable diseases mainly due to antibiotic revolution and the non-communicable diseases as well as injuries and accidents are on the rise – typifying a country in epidemiological transition. On the other hand, the treatment received by any individual not only depends on the ailment he/she is suffering from but on the exact location of the individual in the economy and the society along with general development of the state of infrastructure in the system. Given this background, the paper aims to study the change in diseases pattern at different stages of development and its impact on different socioeconomic sections. The paper also attempts to analyze the interplay among stages of development, globalization, environmental degradation, socioeconomic background of individuals and health system.
Keywords: Epidemiological Transition, Biological & Environmental Risk, Globalization, Health status, Public health.
Title: Development, Globalization and It’s Impact on Health Status: A Study from Developing Countries Perspective
Author: Montu Bose
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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