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Subject: [spiritof1848] JECH Debate: Health, equity, justice
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:39:15 -0400
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Subject: JECH Debate: Health, equity, justice and globalisation
Debate: Health, equity, justice and globalisation
Journal of Epidemiology and Community health
September 2001 JECH's debate on globalisation and health is entirely free
access.
Health, equity, justice and globalisation: some lessons from the People's
Health Assembly
F Baum - J Epidemiol Community Health 2001;55:613-6
Full text at: http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/613
<http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/613>
"....... Can you imagine a world in which the spread of globalisation meant
the world becoming a more just and equitable place? This seems like an
impossible dream. All the indications are that the current forms of
globalisation are making the world a safe place for unfettered market
liberalism and the consequent growth of inequities. This economic
globalisation is posing severe threats to both people's health and the
health of the planet....."
Towards a more sustainable globalisation: the role of the public health
community
DOUGLAS W BETTCHER and HEATHER WIPFLI - J Epidemiol Community Health
2001;55:617-8
Full text at: http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/617
<http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/617>
"..........In her article Fran Baum is correct in pointing out that the
political complexities of our globalised world must be taken into account by
public health professionals. Global health futures are directly or
indirectly associated with the transnational economic, social, and
technological changes taking place in the world. Issues such as poverty,
equity, and justice must be firmly rooted in any discussions aimed at
improving global public health. However, globalisation is a "janus faced"
creature: the double face of globalisation, one promising and the other
threatening, is a fact of life as humanity is being catapulted into a more
interdependent future......"
A dialogue of the deaf? The health impacts of globalisation
KELLEY LEE - J Epidemiol Community Health 2001;55:619
Full text at: http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/619
<http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/619>
"....... Opinion about the true impacts on human health of globalisation
remains sharply divided. On the one hand, a wide range of health
professionals, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), scholars and activists
fear globalisation is worsening the divide between haves and have nots to
unprecedented degrees........"
Liberalisation, health and the World Trade Organisation
RONALD LABONTE - J Epidemiol Community Health 2001;55:620-1
Full text at: http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/620
<http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/620>
"....The contemporary globalisation project of which Baum writes rests on
the promise that economic growth benefits all.1 Originally enforced through
Structural Adjustment Programs' trinity of privatisation, reduced public
spending and increased trade liberalisation, it is the benefits of the
latter that now dominate the "globalisation is good" argument. So dominant
is this claim that it deserves closer scrutiny....."
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