Towards Health-Equitable Globalisation: Rights, Regulation and Redistribution

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dc.contributor.authorLabonté, Ronald
dc.contributor.authorBlouin, Chantal
dc.contributor.authorChopra, Mickey
dc.contributor.authorLee, Kelley
dc.contributor.authorPacker, Corinne
dc.contributor.authorRowson, Mike
dc.contributor.authorSchrecker, Ted
dc.contributor.authorWoodward, David
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:00:19Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:00:19Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractGlobalisation, in a broad sense, holds considerable potential for improving human health, while presenting many challenges. At base, the key challenge for the Commission is to understand how globalisation affects people’s access to social determinants of health(SDH) and, given an explicit concern with equity, how that access is distributed. The approach taken by the Globalisation Knowledge Network (GKN) to assist with this task emphasized the economic aspects of globalisation since the 1970s on the basis that the policies driving global market integration are the most important with respect to SDH. There is some evidence of positive global responses to this challenge. Efforts have been made to cut across existing national, international and institutional boundaries to address issues of transnational reach, whether articulated as goals (e.g. the Millennium Development Goals), broadly stated themes (e.g. poverty alleviation, social exclusion, gender empowerment) or control of such health-damaging products as tobacco (e.g. the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control). Even disease-specific global initiatives are increasing their response to the challenge of contemporary globalisation. Efforts to tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic, as one example, have broadened from an initial biomedical focus to issues concerning human rights, poverty and gender. Yet much more needs to done to manage the multiple ways in which globalisation affects SDH. Globalisation affects health and SDH through changes in social stratification, differential exposure or vulnerability, health system characteristics and differential consequences. These changes arise through globalisation’s effects on power, resources, labour markets, policy space, trade, financial flows (including aid and debt servicing/cancellation), health systems (including health human resources and health services), water and sanitation, food security and access to essential medicines. While not exhaustive, this list covers the principle pathways linking globalisation to health that were examined by the GKN.
dc.description.urihttps://www.who.int/social_determinants/publications/globalization/en/
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/qmpm-10a4
dc.identifier.citationLabonté, Ronald and Blouin, Chantal and Chopra, Mickey and Lee, Kelley and Packer, Corinne and Rowson, Mike and Schrecker, Ted and Woodward, David Globalisation Knowledge Network (2007) Towards Health-Equitable Globalisation: Rights, Regulation and Redistribution. Project Report. UNSPECIFIED.
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 758
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22761
dc.subjectGlobal Health
dc.subjectPublic Health
dc.subjectChronic Illness & Diseases
dc.subjectHIV/Aids
dc.subjectHealth Risk Factors
dc.subjectSmoking & Tobacco Use
dc.subjectGlobalisation
dc.subjectsocial determinants of health (SDH)
dc.subjectGlobalisation Knowledge Network (GKN)
dc.subjectglobal market integration
dc.subjectMillennium Development Goals
dc.subjectpoverty alleviation
dc.subjectsocial exclusion
dc.subjectgender empowerment
dc.subjectHIV/AIDS pandemic
dc.titleTowards Health-Equitable Globalisation: Rights, Regulation and Redistribution
dc.typeTechnical Report

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