¶ … nurses to research global health issues?
According to Nancy Dickenson-Hazard, chief executive officer of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, confronting the presence in the world of disease, violence, "environmental conditions" and "socioeconomic disparities" very often falls into the hands of "the largest corps of healthcare provides globally, nurses…" (Dickenson-Hazard, 2004), p. 6). First of all, nurses everywhere should be alert to health conditions globally because outbreaks that endanger public health in one country could have a negative impact on health conditions in another country. Disease spreads through transportation systems, immigration, and through shipping of products globally.
Secondly, the Arista Series of conferences that Dickenson-Hazard reports on in her peer-reviewed article (the conferences were held in different parts of the world) identified conditions that "affect nursing and health care" and created specific "strategic actions" to address those conditions (Dickenson-Hazard, p. 7).
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified what nurses all over the world should be aware of, that is, the "leading risk factors" that result on 33% of all worldwide deaths, and those include: "underweight,...
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