Addressing Global Health Challenges: The Burden of Disease

The MDGs were developed to relieve poor health conditions around the world and to establish positive steps to improve living conditions (UN, 2013). By the year 2005, all member nations pledged to meet the goals described in Box 4.1. These goals have continued to evolve as natural disasters and internal strife continue to affect the poor and the vulnerable.
The Millennium Report (2015) describes the developed nations' responsibility to the betterment of those in lesser-developed nations.
Many of the world's health problems directly affect the health of individuals who live in the United States.
• For example, the 103rd U.S. Congress passed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which opened trade borders between the United States, Canada, and Mexico in 1994 and allowed an increased movement of products and people.
• Along the United States–Mexico border, an influx of undocumented immigrants in recent years has raised concerns for the health of people who live in this area.
• For example, many immigrants have settled on unincorporated land, known as colonias, outside the major metropolitan areas in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
• Conditions in these settlements have led to an increase in disease conditions, such as amebiasis, respiratory, and diarrheal diseases. Environmental health hazards in the colonias are associated with poverty, poor sanitation, and overcrowded conditions.
What do you predict is the most common healthcare system around the world?
What is meant by "the burden of disease"?
Which diseases do you predict are the greatest problems worldwide? (Supported by cited material).
Identify a BSN essential that applies to your topic. (Supported by cited material).
Identify a QSEN competency that applies to your topic. (Supported by cited material).