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Faculty of Nursing
Adult care Nursing Department

1 Life expectancy

2 Health outcome

3 Mortality rates (cardiovascular disease for instance)

4 Access to useful medicines (Simo et al. 2018)

5 Road deaths

6 Increases in government health spending.

Discussions about democracy today still incorporate the notion that we live in a global world

(McLuhan and Powers 1989) which brings different people together through a liberal economic
order that allows for free international trade.

A global economic order that extends beyond borders implies cooperation between societies with

different cultures, traditions, and religious or even political backgrounds.

From a commercial perspective, the Belt and Road Initiative is an example of the way countries

interact today (the starting point of the Silk Road Economic Belt is in Xi’an, China, and the endpoint

is in Rotterdam, the Netherlands) (Jia and Wang 2019).

In addition, with respect to healthcare access, this global geopolitical conjuncture should be
considered, namely because it is well known that one of the great global challenges of the 21st

century is climate change.

Advanced democracies in this global economic order must realize that climate change is a central

issue and that it will be vital to deliver an accelerated response to this dramatic evolution (Watts
et al. 2018). Climate change is a challenge that involves all societies, democratic or otherwise.

Its impacts on health and global health improvement should be carefully evaluated (Capon and

Corvalana 2018).

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