Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, an increase of new HIV infections and a rise of various diseases caused by war and radioactive contamination are just some of the problems we face today. A very brief look at our daily news is enough to show the desperate need for global health solutions. The simple observation is: diseases do not stop at a country's border. Therefore the global health policy designated to fight them should not do so neither. What is needed are aspiring health policy makers who are not only able to assess the current medical danger and the correlative need to act but who are also capable of designing substantive counter-measures and procedural ways to convince a majority of the respective decision making body that …show more content…
Second, as I witnessed so much physical distress at a very early age, and later read about the health issues that arose in the aftermath of civil and military strife, I decided medical knowledge would be extremely important in addressing the needs of a globe very often torn by strife, which often results in epidemics, not to mention the casualties caused by weapons.
My commitment to public health policy is based, thirdly, on both my personal experience of its lack, on my studies of the health of populations denied proper policies by their governments and non-governmental organizations, and on a deep belief that the third element that is needed for public health policy, particularly in health-related arenas, is ethics.
D – Ethics as a guiding principle in the making of public health …show more content…
Without a decent baseline standard of health, it is difficult for a population to progress. But health issues concerns not just diseases and injuries per se; it encompasses environmental and climatic components as well, and industrial and financial organizations, too, must be managed in such a way that the public is served rather than harmed. In short, there is no arena in which public health policy can be ignored and still produce a society in which the greatest possible number of people can get on with their lives, knowing that they can both have a good life and give back their own expertise to the society that nurtures them. In short, public health policy must be like the human body; an integrated whole in which the illness of one part might easily affect the health of others. Public health policy, then, is a holistic pursuit, must be a holistic