HOSPITALS IN A

GLOBALIZED
WORLD
DEFINE GLOBALIZATION
• A multidimensional phenomenom that already has and will continue to influence
hospitalsand impact the healthcare, in which the hospitals will have to adapt in order to
accopalte it
IN WHICH WAYS DOES THE HOSPITAL HAVE TO
ADAPT
• Taking care of patients from different background
• Make quicker and innovative solutions
• How to deal with less funding
OBJECTIVES OF THIS PAPER
• How globalization and ICT´s affect the role of healthcare and hospitals
• Role of healthcare in a globalized world
IS GLOBALIZATION GOOD OR BAD?
• Is neither positive or negative, but an inevitable process of human evolution
DEFINE GLOBALIZATION (AS SAID TEXTUALLY
IN THE PAPER)
• Basically is every human activity crossing national borders, and is a phenomenos that is
partially understood. Process of closer interaction of human activity across a range of
spheres (economic, social, politic, cultural) experienced along a 3-D view.
EXPLAIN ACCORDING TO EXPERTS THE
POSITIVE SIDE OF GLOBALIZATION
• A proccess of denationalization of markets, law and people in a way of interlacing
pepople for the common good
EXPLAIN THE NEGATIVE SIDE OF
GLOBALIZATION
• Systematic implementation of trade liberalization rules by government through pressure
of Multinacional companies for exclusive purpose of increasing profits and expenses
WHAT ARE SOME CHARACTERISTIC OF
GLOBALIZATION
• Modyfies pre-existing processes
• Stretches, social, politic and economic ideas
• Speeds up global interaction
• Deepens the impact of certain events
DESCRIBE PATH A, ON HOW GLOBALIZATION
AFFECTS HEALTHCARE
• Talks about how globalization impacts population level health risks due to the amount of
people traveling around the world, and also the amout of people being displaced by
violence. This facilitates the spread of old and new diseases (AIDS, CHOLERA,
MALARIA, TB) in a way nearing pandemics in a need for social responses
• Also it makes the Intentional market and legal trade of dangerous substances (Tobacco
and Alchohol). EU spend 2 million eiros in a caompaing against Lung Cancer, but gave
the same money to subsidize tobacco growing
DESCRIBE PATH B
• Explains how globalization affects and impacts sectors such as education, housing and
public safety, influencing by this the general detrimants of health, changing the household
income, affecting directly healthcare
DESCRIBE PATH C
• It specifies a link between economic globalization and its effect on national economies,
affecting healthcare systems by impacting its estability and potential for expansion. No
independece among nation states
DESCRIBE PATH D
• Happens when there is a creation of world markets (Pharmaceuticals and medical
supplies) and the availability and cost of these resources are out of the gov hands. So the
gov has little power to influence policies and regulations. Markets and teals such as the
WTO and TRIPS will affect both strong and weak economies due to the fact of steep
escalation of medical prices.
PATH E
• Show the effects of international trade policies on healthcare, and how the non tariffs on
trafe and GATS agremment affects HCS. Will facilitate the penetration of Private
entrerprices into healthcare, causing an increase of the economic value.
HOW WILL THE HOSPITALS BECOME
INFLUENCED (GENERAL)
• Influenced by the enviroment they´re in
• Policies afffected by external factor
• Population they serve
• Patterns of disease
• Public Expectation
HOW WILL GLOBALIZATION AFFECT HOSPITALS
IN GENERAL
• Expansion and increase of complexity of its surrounding enviroment
• Expansion of the catchment areas (zonas donde operan)
• Progressive specialization of research and teaching hospitals
• Creation of large networks of connected super-hospitals
HOW WILL GLOBALIZATION AFFECT PATIENTS
• More diverse patients
• New disease patterns
• Appereance of Virtual Patients; Each time in higher numbers
• Increse the number of international patients
HOW WILL GLOBALIZATION AFFECT HUMAN
RESOURCES
• Increase (change ) in staff per patient ratio, with a mix of profesoinal and organizagtional
skills
• New strategies for recruitment, hiring, training and updating
• Etno-Cultural variety in staff
• Increase number of international graduates
HOW GLOBALIZATOING WILL AFFECT HOSPITAL
CAPITAL
• Fewer beds, more; diagnostic, outpatient, one day suergery and vitrual patient facilities
• Local difuse networks facilitating comunications
• International Networks for teaching and reaserch
HOW WILL GLOBALIZATION IMPACT
INFORMATION
• Increase reliance of knowledge, production, dissemination and translation
• Use of hospitals “wealths of wisdom”
• Global sharing of local knowledges
• Creation of international communities of practice
• Research turned into practice
HOW WILL FUNDING BE AFFECTED BY
GLOBALIZATION
• More importance of global services revenues
• Creation of super/multi government funding mechanisms
• Increase the weight of reaserch funding
• Increased accountability of hospitals developing and commercializing new products
EXPLAIN SOME OF THE CHALLENGES AHEAD
• Policy Makers need to invision hospitals of future and make policies accordingly
• Strategies to influence the develpoed globalization changes
• Deepen the understanding of globalization