ABSTRACT
The birth of modern nursing occurred during the late 19th and early 20th centuries when a number of formal hospitals were created in urban centers throughout the Western hemisphere. Throughout the Americas, rather than be free-standing schools of nursing, schools of nursing aligned themselves with existing hospital facilities and infrastructures. In Latin America, population-focused socialized medicine and public health established a strong foothold and effectively competed with private health care in philosophy and practice. Early nursing care in new system of health care was based on routine, tradition and established practice. The concept of globalization is complex, multidimensional and highly politicized. Clearly, for conservative scholars, globalization is a mechanism for expanding free market capitalism and it is inextricably linked to neoliberalism. The spread of free market capitalism from the busiest urban center to the most remote rural village has made it an intensely contested economic form. This chapter presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
