Globalization and Health presents a clear conceptual framework for understanding these varied impacts and draws on a broad range of literature to illustrate them.
Like the small town portrayed in the Frank Capra film, It's a Wonderful Life, successive generations can feel a sense of 'times past' when the pace of life was slower and seemingly more compatible with family and community life.
This work gives an account of the successes and failures, as well as the challenges and opportunities of globalisation for public health.
Manfred B. Steger Rethinking Globalism Edited by Manfred B. Steger Globalization and Labor Dimitris Stevis and Terry Boswell Globaloney 2.0 Michael Veseth Globalization and Health Jeremy Youde Supported by the Globalization Research ...
This landmark volume will be a necessary addition for researchers and scholars studying the field of globalization, health and social policy, and public health across the social sciences.
Leading scholars in bioethics, law, medicine and philosophy from various jurisdictions engage these themes in this volume, and demonstrate the need for transnational solutions in a global age of healthcare.
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.
Leading scholars in bioethics, law, medicine and philosophy from various jurisdictions engage these themes in this volume, and demonstrate the need for transnational solutions in a global age of healthcare.
The paper explores the causes of such trends on the basis of five main mortality models. To do so, it regresses IMR/LEB on 15 determinants of health.
Based on the findings of a global research project undertaken by the World Health Organization, this volume systematically analyzes the relationship between globalization and global trends in health outcomes.
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