Globalization and Health

Pathways, Evidence and Policy

Ronald Labonté, Ted Schrecker, Corinne Packer, Vivien Runnels

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780415648059
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135850098
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

Contemporary globalization has had tremendous impact on health equity across the globe. However, no volume has systematically analyzed the relationship between globalization and global trends in health outcomes. This book consolidates and updates the findings of a global research project undertaken by the Globalisation Knowledge Network (GKN) of the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Chapters examine such questions as: How has trade liberalisation affected the social determinants of health? How has globalization affected food security, nutrition and equitable access to water and sanitation? How well do present global governance structures take account of the health equity effects associated with the social determinants of health? This landmark volume will be a necessary addition for researchers and scholars studying the field of globalization, health and social policy, and public health across the social sciences.

Table of contents

• Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
• Contents
• Tables
• Figures
• Boxes
• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• 2 An Empirical Investigation of the Relation between Globalization and Health
• 3 Global Political-Economic and Geopolitical Processes, Structures, and Trends
• 4 Labor Markets, Equity, and Social Determinants of Health
• 5 Globalization and Policy Space for Health and Social Determinants of Health
• 6 Liberalization “Shocks” and Social Protection Policies
• 7 Global Financing for Health
• 8 Globalization and Health Systems Change
• 9 Globalization and the Cross-Border Flow of Health Workers
• 10 Globalization, Trade, and the Nutrition Transition
• 11 Intellectual Property Rights and Inequalities in Health Outcomes
• 12 Global Governance for Health
• 13 Rights, Redistribution, and Regulation
• 14 Globalization, Social Determinants, and the Struggle for Health
• Contributors
• Index