An edition of Globalization and health
(2006)
Globalization and health
by Ichirō Kawachi
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'Globalization and Health' offers analysis of serious global threats to health, the tools that can be used to evaluate these, and the agencies established to respond to them. This work gives an account of the successes and failures, as well as the challenges and opportunities of globalisation for public health.
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Table of Contents
Globalization and health: challenges and prospects / Ichirō Kawachi and Sarah Wamala
Infectious disease in the age of globalization / Lance Saker, Kelley Lee, and Barbara Cannito
Globalization and tobacco / Derek Yach ... [et al.]
The rapid shifts in stages of the nutrition transition: the global obesity epidemic / Barry M. Popkin and Michelle Mendez
Global climate change and human health / A.J. McMichael and G. Ranmuthugala
Car culture, transport policy and public health / Tord Kjellstrom and Sarah Hinde
Poverty and inequality in a globalizing world / Ichirō Kawachi and Sarah Wamala
The consequences of economic globalization on working conditions, labor relations and workers' health / Christer Hogstedt, David H. Wegman, and Tord Kjellstrom
Population movements / Pascale Allotey and Anthony Zwi
Globalization and women's health / Sarah Wamala and Ichirō Kawachi
Summary measures of population health: controversies and new directions / Daniel D. Reidpath
Health impact assessment: towards globalization as if human rights mattered / Eileen O'Keefe and Alex Scott-Samuel
Structural adjustment programs and health / Anna Breman and Carolyn Shelton
Poverty reduction strategy papers: bold new approach to poverty eradication or old wine in new bottles? / Sarah Wamala, Ichirō Kawachi and Besinati Phiri Mpepo
Health policy and the WTO / M. Gregg Bloche and Elizabeth R. Jungman
Promoting public health in the 21st century: the role of the WHO / Ruth Bonita, Alec Irwin and Robert Beaglehole
What's politics got to do with it? health, the G8 and the global economy / Ted Schrecker and Ronald Labonte
Military spending: global health threat or global public good? / Raymond R. Hyatt, Jr.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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