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Globalization, Trade & Health - Key Readings

Globalization and Health – General

 
  • Lee K. (2000), "Globalization and health policy: A review of the literature and proposed research and policy agenda" in Bambas A. et. al. Eds. Health and Human Development in the Global Economy (Washington D.C.: PAHO).
  • Lee K. (in press), “Globalization – a new agenda for health?” in McKee, M., Garner P. and Stott R. eds. International Cooperation and Global Health (London: Oxford University Press)
  • McMichael A.J. and Beaglehole R. (2000), “The changing global context of public health”, The Lancet
  • Yach D. and Bettcher D. (1998a), “The Globalization of Public Health: Threats and Opportunities”, American Journal of Public Health, May 88 (5): 1-3.
  • Yach D. and Bettcher D. (1998b), “The Globalization of Public Health: The Convergence of Self-Interest and Altruism”,  American Journal of Public Health, May 88 (5): 4-7.

 

Globalization and Disease

 
  • Fidler D. (1996), “Globalization, International Law and Emerging Infectious Diseases”, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2 (2): 77-84.
  • Yach D. and Bettcher D. (2000), “Globalization of tobacco industry influence and new global responses”, Tobacco Control, 9: 206-216.

 

Global Economy and Health

 
  • Fidler D. (1996), “Globalization, International Law and Emerging Infectious Diseases”, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2 (2): 77-84.
  • Lang T., Heasman M. and Pitt J. (1999), Food, Globalization and a New Health Agenda (San Francisco: International Forum on Globalization).

 

Global Environmental Change and Health

 
  • McMichael A. and Haines A. (1997), “Global climate change: the potential effects on health”, British Medical Journal, 315, 27 September, pp. 805-9

 

Global Health Governance

 
  • Buse K. and Walt G. (2000a), “Global public-private Health Partnerships: Part I -  A new Development in Health?” Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 78(4): 549-61.
  • Chen L., Evans T. and Cash R. (1999), “Health as a Global Public Good” in Kaul. I., Grunberg I. And Stern M. eds., Global Public Goods: International Co-operation in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press): 285-89.
  • Kickbusch I. (1999), “Global Public Health: Revisiting Health Public Policy  at the global level”, Health Promotion International, 14 (4): 285-88
  • Pollack A. and Price D. (2000), “Rewriting the regulations: how the World Trade Organization could accelerate privatisation in health-care systems”, The Lancet, 356; 9 Dec: pp. 1995-2000.
  • Navarro V. (1999), “Health and Equity in the world in the era of Globalization”, International Journal of Health Services, 29 (2): 215-26
  • Cash R. and Narasimham V. (2000), “Impediments to Global Surveillance of infectious diseases: Consequences of open reporting in a Global Economy”, Bulletin of the WHO, 78 (11): 1358-67
  • Bettcher D., Yach D. and Guindon G. (2000), “Global Trade and Health: Key Linkages and future challenges”, Bulletin of the WHO, 78 (4): 521-34
  • Bettcher D. and Lee K. (forthcoming), “Glossary on Globalization and Health”, Journal of Community Health and Epidemiology
  • Zimmet P. (2000), “Globalization, Coca-Colonization and the chronic Disease Epidemic: Can the Doomsday Scenario be averted?”, Journal of International Medicine, March, 47(3), 301-310.
  • Baris E. and McLeod K., “Globalization and International Trade in the Twenty-first Century: Opportunities for and Threats to the Health Sector in the South”, International Journal of Health Services, 2000, 30(1): 187-210
  • Lang T. (1999), “Diet, Health and Globalization: Five Key Questions”, Proceedings of the Nutritional Society, May, 58(2): 335-43

 

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