Nurses—Making a Difference in Global Health
GOAL 5: Improve maternal health
Read how nurses around the world are advocating for and helping achieve this goal.
Nursing and Midwifery: offsetting negative influences of globalization
All who work in health care, particularly nurses and midwives, are aware of the
major challenges that face us. Changes in the political landscape and world
economy and shifts in the balance of power have made world events increasingly
apparent in our daily experience. We aimed to achieve “Health for All” by 2000
but have not succeeded. We all know that poverty and ill health are breeding
grounds for discontent and instability. We are again faced with the old enemies
of pestilence and war. Infectious diseases once thought conquered are rearing
their heads with new vigor and deadly menace. Tuberculosis and malaria are once
again life-threatening, and science does not yet have the answers. HIV and AIDS
continue to elude long-term solutions and millions are dying. If there are
solutions, they are often not used because of their threat to the economy of
large companies, organizations and governments. Read More >>
Additional stories about how nurses are helping to improve maternal health: