Globalization and health is an inclusive journal encouraging authors to position their studies within contemporary global debates while promoting the innovation of new possibilities for public health globally. But just as globalization increases the frequency and ease with which diseases can move around the world it also can improve access to the medicines medical information and training that can help treat or cure these diseases. While the globalization of health care offers tremendous possibilities for good such as a rapid response to catastrophes it also can give rise to a new concern such as a quicker spread of. For high income countries the debate surrounding globalisation and health tends to focus on the perceived threat from low and middle income countries of acquiring certain acute and epidemic infections such as hiv aids tuberculosis plague and more recently severe acute respiratory syndrome sars 6 richer countries also fear the potential financial burden of unhealthy populations migrating from the developing world