[A major contribution from some of the world's best thinkers on the
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Health for Some:  Death, Disease and Disparity in a Globalizing Era (2005)
by Ronald Labonte, Ted Schrecker, Amit Sen Gupta
Published by the Centre for Social Justice.
ISBN: 0-9733292-3-8       124 pages
Price: C $14.95 (bulk prices available on request)

Health for Some investigates the impact of globalization on human health.
Although increasing affluence improves  health, globalization often fails
to deliver rapid economic growth and poverty reduction. Those who fall
behind in the  winner take all markets of global competition not only
suffer from poverty and poor health, but also lose access to health care
and other essential health-producing services.

Reversing these trends will require decisive and coordinated action on the
part of high-income countries in areas we often do not connect with: debt
cancellation, increased development  assistance, fair trade policies and
global tax reforms.  Ultimately, everyone should have the opportunity to
lead a  healthy life: it should be a basic human right.

Table of Contents
 Prologue
1. Introduction
2. Globalization: From Trading Blankets to Global Warming
3. Globalization’s ‘Poster Children’
4. AIDS, Poverty, and the Poverty of Aid
5. Debt, Aid, and Brain Drain
6. Of Trade and Tortillas
7. Globalization, Health and the World Trade Organization
8. Globalization Comes Home to Roost
9. Conclusion
Afterword
Endnotes
References

 About the Authors
Ronald Labonte is Canada Research Chair in Globalization/Health Equity  at
the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa. A public health
sociologist by predilection, he accrued 15 years of government service and
10 years work as an international consultant in health promotion and
community  empowerment before joining academia full-time in 1999. He is a
founding  member of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research, a
past board  member of local, provincial, national and international health
associations in  Canada, and a member of the Peoples’ Health Movement.

Ted Schrecker is a senior policy researcher at the Institute of Population
Health, University of Ottawa. A political scientist by background, he has
more than 20 years of professional experience as a legislative researcher,
consultant and academic. His special interests are in issues at the
interface  of science, ethics, law and public policy and in causal pathways
that link globalization with domestic social and economic policy by way of
changes  in class structure and class allegiances.

Amit Sen Gupta trained in medicine and works on issues related to public
health and pharmaceuticals policy, on which he has lectured and written
extensively. He is also involved in implementing rural industrialization
programs in India through the Centre for Technology and Development, is
Secretary of the All India Peoples Science Network, and co-convenor of the
Peoples’ Health Movement (India) and member of the Movement’s
International Steering Group.


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