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Directions : In this section, you have a short passage. After the passage, you will find some items based on the passage. Read the passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and the opinion of author only.
We live in a time when globalisation is rapidly encompassing travel, information, trade and investment. The internet ties people together in ways unimagined a few years ago. The globalisation of health, however, remains an elusive goal, similar to the globalisation of economic well-being. Laurie Garrett, in The Coming Plague, describes an unwelcome form of globalisation: the globalisation of disease. Garrett examines the recent history of emerging diseases such as AIDS, Ebola, Hantavirus, Rift Valley Fever, Legionnaires’ disease, and others. She also explains the resurgence of familiar diseases like tuberculosis, cholera, and pneumonia as a consequence of the widespread and unwise use of antibiotics. Many of the new diseases are clearly linked to changes in land use, which ~ brings humans into close contacts with rodents or other animals that harbour viruses previously unknown to medicine and often deadly to humans. Resurgent diseases, by contrast, are a creation of our medical practice. By treating people with antibiotics without restraint, we unknowingly select strains that are immune to the antibiotics and that pass on their resistant genes to unrelated bacteria by way of plasmid transfer. The heroes of her book are the women and men on the frontlines of epidemiology. Garrett makes a plea for a greater commitment from our universities, medical schools, and government agencies to train workers who will be capable of recognizing new diseases and who will be able to move about equally well in the laboratory, the hospital and the field in pursuit of knowledge and public-health intervention around the world.
According to the passage, globalisation of health has become imperative due to
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Download Solution PDF- The passage discusses the globalisation of travel, information, trade, and investment.
- It highlights the connectivity brought about by the internet among people worldwide.
- However, it notes the challenges in achieving globalisation of health, primarily due to the globalisation of diseases.
- Hence, the primary reason making the globalisation of health imperative is the spread of diseases globally.
- Option 2: public health intervention - While important, public health intervention is not the primary driving force behind globalisation of health as discussed in the passage.
- Option 3: the creation of new medical systems - The passage does not emphasize the creation of new medical systems as a reason for the globalisation of health.
- Option 4: the indiscriminate use of antibiotics - While relevant to resurgent diseases, it is not highlighted as causing the need for globalisation of health.
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