Globalization and Health - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 019517299X ISBN 13: 9780195172997

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2006

Riassunto

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, and the 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 International Monetary 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 public's health, or have these actors abandoned health issues for power politics? By drawing together an international group 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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Recensione

...like a few public health books before it, this book forms part of an essential resevoir of knowledge that will make the health effects of globalisation everybody's business, and aid implementation of public health strategy to respond to globalisation. (Public Health)

Contenuti

• 1: Ichiro Kawachi and Sarah Wamala: Globalization and Health: Challenges and Prospects
• Part I: The Health Consequences of Globalization
• 2: Lance Saker, Kelley Lee, and Barbara Cannito: Infectious Disease in the Age of Globalization
• 3: Derek Yach, Heather Wipfli, Ross Hammond, and Stanton Glantz: Globalization and Tobacco
• 4: Barry M. Popkin and Michelle Mendez: The Rapid Shifts in Stages of the Nutrition Transition: The Global Obesity Epidemic
• 5: A.J. McMichael and G. Ranmuthugala: Global Climate Change and Human Health
• 6: Tord Kjellstrom and Sarah Hinde: Car Culture, Transport Policy and Public Health
• 7: Ichiro Kawachi and Sarah Wamala: Poverty and Inequality in a Globalizing World
• 8: Christer Hogstedt, David H. Wegman, and Tord Kjellstrom: The Consequences of Economic Globalization on Working Conditions, Labor Relations and Workers' Health
• 9: Pascale Allotey and Anthony Zwi: Population Movements
• 10: Sarah Wamala and Ichiro Kawachi: Globalization and Women's Health
• Part II: Monitoring the Impact of Globalization on Health
• 11: Daniel D. Reidpath: Summary Measures of Population Health: Controversies and New Directions
• 12: Eileen O'Keefe and Alex Scott-Samuel: Health Impact Assessment: Towards Globalization as If Human Rights Mattered
• Part III: The International Resonses to Globalization
• 13: Anna Breman and Carolyn Shelton: Structural Adjustment Programs and Health
• 14: Sarah Wamala, Ichiro Kawachi and Besinati Phiri Mpepo: Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: Bold New Approach to Poverty Eradication or Old Wine in New Bottles?
• 15: M. Gregg Bloche and Elizabeth R. Jungman: Health Policy and the World Trade Organisation
• 16: Ruth Bonita, Alec Irwin, and Robert Beaglehole: Promoting Public Health in the Twenty-First Century: The Role of the World Health Organisation
• 17: Ted Schrecker and Ronald Labonte: What's Politics Got to Do With It? Health, the G8 and Global Economy
• 18: Raymond R. Hyatt, Jr.: Military Spending: Global Health Threat or Global Public Good?

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 019517299X
• ISBN 13: 9780195172997
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 360
• Redattore: Kawachi Ichiro, Wamala Sarah
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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