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 Subject:  [EQ] BMJ - Setting global health research          
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Setting global health research priorities
Burden of disease and inherently global health issues should both be
considered


BMJ April 5, 2003;326:722-723
Ronald Labonte, director, Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation
Research Unit, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Jerry Spiegel, assistant professor, Liu Institute for Global Issues,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Available online at:  <http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7392/722?etoc>
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7392/722?etoc

"...................The social and environmental contexts that determine
disease are no longer simply domestic but increasingly global. The box lists
what we consider the main inherently global health issues, a term describing
health determining phenomena that transcend national borders and political
jurisdictions. Considerable research exists on each of these issues,
although not always with health as a principal outcome.


Greater attention in research is required to the linkages between these
issues and to their economic and political drivers that are, like the
issues, increasingly global in scope. Such drivers include macroeconomic
policies associated with international finance institutions, liberalisation
of trade and investment, global trade agreements, and technological
innovations, all of which are creating greater interdependence between
people and places. <http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7392/722?etoc#B5#B5>
5 Assessing how these inherently global health issues affect health is a
complex task. Recent work on locating these inherently global health issues
in comprehensive health frameworks, however, will prove useful in
identifying specific research questions that are useful to policy makers and
civil societyu1....."



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