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Globalization and Health

Globalization and Health

9780195172997
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Globalisation is breaking down economic, political, cultural, demographic, and social barriers across the world at an astonishing pace. The topic of globalisation can arouse passionate debate in many circles including academic journals, the popular media, and even on the streets. This new world order is marked by new actors, new rules of governance, new forms of communication, and the global movement of populations. Health is an exquisitely sensitive mirror of social conditions, andthe authors of this book argue that the assessment of health is an important criterion for evaluating and monitoring the progress of globalisation. This book provides an analysis of the most serious global threats to health, the tools that can be used to evaluate them, and the international agencies established to respond to them. Medical threats such as infectious diseases, obesity, tobacco use, and global climate change are discussed, but the authors also expand their scope to include socio-political health impacts such as economic inequality. The complex role of organisations such as the World Health Organization, the InternationalMonetary Fund, and the World Bank is also analysed, as is the increasing interconnectedness of health and non-health actors. Is this blurring of boundaries really beneficial to the publics health, or have these actors abandoned health issues for power politics? By drawing together an internationalgroup of health experts, Globalization and Health provides a comprehensive account of the successes and failures, as well as the challenges and opportunities of globalisation for public health.
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OUP USA
84081
9780195172997
9780195172997

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Publication date
2006
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
360
Dimensions (mm)
187 x 259
Weight (g)
947
  • Globalization and Health: Challenges and Prospects; Part I: The Health Consequences of Globalization; Infectious Disease in the Age of Globalization; Globalization and Tobacco; The Rapid Shifts in Stages of the Nutrition Transition: The Global Obesity Epidemic; Global Climate Change and Human Health; Car Culture, Transport Policy and Public Health; Poverty and Inequality in a Globalizing World; The Consequences of Economic Globalization on Working Conditions, Labor Relations and Workers Health; Population Movements; Globalization and Womens Health; Part II: Monitoring the Impact of Globalization on Health; Summary Measures of Population Health: Controversies and New Directions; Health Impact Assessment: Towards Globalization as If Human Rights Mattered; Part III: The International Resonses to Globalization; Structural Adjustment Programs and Health; Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: Bold New Approach to Poverty Eradication or Old Wine in New Bottles?; Health Policy and the World Trade Organisation; Promoting Public Health in the Twenty-First Century: The Role of the World Health Organisation; Whats Politics Got to Do With It? Health, the G8 and Global Economy; Military Spending: Global Health Threat or Global Public Good?;
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