PHA-Exchange> Health, equity, justice, globalization and the PHA

[Claudio Schuftan]

> Debate: Health, equity, justice and globalisation
>
> Journal of Epidemiology and Community health
> September 2001 JECH's debate on globalisation and health is entirely free
> access.
>
>
> Health, equity, justice and globalisation: some lessons from the People's
> Health Assembly (PHA)
> F Baum - J Epidemiol Community Health 2001;55:613-6
> Full text at: http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/613
> <http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/613>
>
> "....... Can you imagine a world in which the spread of globalisation
meant
> the world becoming a more just and equitable place? This seems like an
> impossible dream. All the indications are that the current forms of
> globalisation are making the world a safe place for unfettered market
> liberalism and the consequent growth of inequities. This economic
> globalisation is posing severe threats to both people's health and the
> health of the planet....."
>
>
> Towards a more sustainable globalisation: the role of the public health
> community
> DOUGLAS W BETTCHER and HEATHER WIPFLI - J Epidemiol Community Health
> 2001;55:617-8
> Full text at: http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/617
> <http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/617>
>
> "..........In her article Fran Baum is correct in pointing out that the
> political complexities of our globalised world must be taken into account
by
> public health professionals. Global health futures are directly or
> indirectly associated with the transnational economic, social, and
> technological changes taking place in the world. Issues such as poverty,
> equity, and justice must be firmly rooted in any discussions aimed at
> improving global public health. However, globalisation is a "janus faced"
> creature: the double face of globalisation, one promising and the other
> threatening, is a fact of life as humanity is being catapulted into a more
> interdependent future......"
>
>
> A dialogue of the deaf? The health impacts of globalisation
> KELLEY LEE - J Epidemiol Community Health 2001;55:619
> Full text at: http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/619
> <http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/619>
>
> "....... Opinion about the true impacts on human health of globalisation
> remains sharply divided. On the one hand, a wide range of health
> professionals, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), scholars and
activists
> fear globalisation is worsening the divide between haves and have nots to
> unprecedented degrees........"
>
>
> Liberalisation, health and the World Trade Organisation
> RONALD LABONTE - J Epidemiol Community Health 2001;55:620-1
> Full text at: http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/620
> <http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/9/620>
>
> "....The contemporary globalisation project of which Baum writes rests on
> the promise that economic growth benefits all.1 Originally enforced
through
> Structural Adjustment Programs' trinity of privatisation, reduced public
> spending and increased trade liberalisation, it is the benefits of the
> latter that now dominate the "globalisation is good" argument. So dominant
> is this claim that it deserves closer scrutiny....."

Moderator: I would like to apologize for the barrage of long emails on
Monday. I was having difficulties in my connections with the server and what
should have been a message per day went out all in one day. It should not
happen again.
Claudio