TY - JOUR
T1 - The Growing Impact of Globalization for Health and Public Health Practice
AU - Labonte, Ronald
AU - Mohindra, Katia
AU - Schrecker, Ted
PY - 2011/4/21
Y1 - 2011/4/21
N2 - In recent decades, public health policy and practice have been increasingly challenged by globalization, even as global financing for health has increased dramatically. This article discusses globalization and its health challenges from a vantage of political science, emphasizing increased global flows (of pathogens, information, trade, finance, and people) as driving, and driven by, global market integration. This integration requires a shift in public health thinking from a singular focus on international health (the higher disease burden in poor countries) to a more nuanced analysis of global health (in which health risks in both poor and rich countries are seen as having inherently global causes and consequences). Several globalization-related pathways to health exist, two key ones of which are described: globalized diseases and economic vulnerabilities. The article concludes with a call for national governments, especially those of wealthier nations, to take greater account of global health and its social determinants in all their foreign policies.
AB - In recent decades, public health policy and practice have been increasingly challenged by globalization, even as global financing for health has increased dramatically. This article discusses globalization and its health challenges from a vantage of political science, emphasizing increased global flows (of pathogens, information, trade, finance, and people) as driving, and driven by, global market integration. This integration requires a shift in public health thinking from a singular focus on international health (the higher disease burden in poor countries) to a more nuanced analysis of global health (in which health risks in both poor and rich countries are seen as having inherently global causes and consequences). Several globalization-related pathways to health exist, two key ones of which are described: globalized diseases and economic vulnerabilities. The article concludes with a call for national governments, especially those of wealthier nations, to take greater account of global health and its social determinants in all their foreign policies.
KW - economic integration
KW - global health diplomacy
KW - neoliberalism
KW - trade
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79952857242&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031210-101225
DO - 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031210-101225
M3 - Article
VL - 32
SP - 263
EP - 283
JO - Annual Review of Public Health
JF - Annual Review of Public Health
SN - 0163-7525
ER -