Ronald Labonté, Arne Ruckert

Health Equity in a Globalizing Era

Past Challenges, Future Prospects

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This title discusses how globalization impacts the health of individuals and populations. It focuses on how globalization processes have impacted various social determinants of health such as income, employment, or migration patterns, and how this in turn shapes inequities in health outcomes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780198835356
• ISBN-10: 0198835353
• Artikelnr.: 54598573

Autorenporträt

Ronald Labonté is Distinguished Research Chair and former Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity and Professor in the School of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Ottawa. He is active with the People's Health Movement, and has consulted extensively with UN agencies, governments and civil society organizations. Arne Ruckert is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Ottawa's School of Epidemiology and Public Health, working on health equity issues in the Globalization and Health Equity research unit. He has worked as a policy consultant for various development organizations (including the North-South Institute, CCIC, the Halifax Initiative), international organizations (WHO), and the Canadian government (Health Canada).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Globalization: Definitions, a Potted History, and Implications for
Health
* 2: Globalization as a 'Determinant of the Determinants of Health'
* 3: Neoliberalism and its health discontents
* 4: Migration: Globalization's Historically Defining Element
* 5: Disrupted Labour Markets: Health Opportunities for Some, Health
Risks for Others
* 6: Trade and Investment Liberalization: the Health Complications of
'Free' Trade
* 7: International Development Assistance and Health: From the
Millennium Development to the Sustainable Development Goals
* 8: Globalizing Health Systems
* 9: Global Flows: Health Workers and Patients on the Move
* 10: Infectious Diseases in the Age of Globalization
* 11: The Global Diffusion of Noncommunicable Diseases
* 12: Imperiling the Health of the Global Environmental Commons
* 13: The Gendered Face of Global Health
* 14: The Global Institutional Architecture: Entangling Health and its
Social Determinants
* 15: Overcoming Gridlock: From Global Health Governance to Global
Governance for Health
* 16: International Human Rights: 'Taming' Global Economic Markets?
* 17: Global Activism and the Prospects for a Healthier Future