Global Change And Health

by Lee, Kelley; Collin, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9780335218486
• ISBN10: 0335218482
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

Global health is a relatively new but rapidly expanding field as public health practitioners recognize the important challenges that global changes are posing for human health. Increasingly the determinants of health circumvent, undermine or are oblivious to the territorial boundaries of states. To effectively address health concerns exceeds the capacity of individual countries acting alone through domestic institutions. The issues covered include: Food, tobacco and pharmaceuticals Emerging infectious diseases Climate change Economy and trade Security and governance

Author Biography

Dr Kelley Lee is Senior Lecturer in Global Health Policy at LSHTM. She is author of 'Globalisation and Health, An introduction' published by Palgrave (2003). Jeff Collin is Lecturer in Policy Analysis at LSHTM. His current research projects include a four year project supported by the US National Cancer Institute entitled 'Globalisation the tobacco industry and policy influence' and a two year project analysing the political economy of tobacco control in southeast Asia for the Rockefeller foundation. .

Table of Contents

Overview of the book	1	(2)
Introduction to global health	3	(10)
Kelley Lee
Global social change and health	13	(15)
Kelley Lee
Gender, globalization and health	28	(14)
Wendy Harcourt
The impact of globalization on food	42	(11)
Mickey Chopra
The impact of globalization on emerging infectious disease	53	(10)
Julius Weinberg
Introduction to the global economy	63	(20)
Kelley Lee
The World Trade Organization and public health	83	(12)
Kelley Lee
Nick Drager
The globalization of the pharmaceutical industry	95	(16)
Joan Busfield
The global economy and the tobacco pandemic	111	(15)
Jeff Collin
Global environmental changes, climate change and human health	126	(20)
Tony McMichael
Global health and security	146	(15)
Harley Feldbaum
Health, globalization and governance: an introduction to public health's `new world order'	161	(17)
David P Fidler
The commercial sector and global health governance	178	(17)
Kent Buse
Health and an emerging global civil society	195	(16)
Mike Rowson
Glossary	211	(4)
Index	215