Globalisation and psychiatry

Globalisation and psychiatry

Globalisation means crossing borders. All of the social and economic forces driving globalisation relate to the opening or dismantling of borders: instant communication, easy travel, deregulation of commerce and widened access to information and technology. The internet is often hailed as a good example of globalisation, as it allows people in far-flung corners of the planet to communicate rapi...

Impact of globalisation on social psychiatry

We are living in a world of rapid change with the most drastic transformations taking place in developing countries. With increasing globalisation billions are forced to face a future so different from life when they grew up that few of their skills are able to assist them with new challenges. Change may result in insecurity, and unpredictability that many people may cope with difficulty. The p...

AIDS and globalisation.

Globalisation and corruption

When a country interacts with foreign countries, it exposes itself to foreign culture and behaviour. This exposure could in‡uence the domestic culture through imitation or adaptation in the same way as individuals tend to be in‡uenced in their behaviour by the groups that they frequent. This could carry over to business culture in general and the corruption culture speci…cally. Therefore, the m...

Globalisation and the macroeconomy

Although the topic of globalisation has received considerable attention in many circles, it remains a phenomenon that we are still striving to understand. Not only can globalisation not be captured in a single measure or index, but its economic impacts are also difficult to isolate given the complexities in disentangling globalisation from other important structural changes that have occurred i...