PHA-Exchange> Health for Some: Death, Disease and Disparity in a Globalizing Era

[Claudio]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) 

Health for Some: Death, Disease and Disparity in a Globalizing Era

 

Ronald Labonte is Canada Research Chair in Globalization/Health Equity at the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa. 

Ted Schrecker, senior policy researcher at the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa. 

Amit Sen Gupta, Centre for Technology and Development, is Secretary of the All India Peoples Science Network, and co-convenor of the

Peoples' Health Movement (India) and member of the Movement's International Steering Group.
CSJ Research and Education, Toronto - April 2005 

 

Available online as PDF file [134p.] at: http://www.socialjustice.org/pdfs/HealthforSome.pdf 

 

"...The fundamental health challenges inherent in our contemporary global political economy - equity and sustainability - have been central

to the struggle for health within countries for the past century. Addressing them requires some form of market-correcting system of wealth redistribution between, as well as within, nations. As Birdsall argues, globalization as we know it today is fundamentally asymmetric. "In its benefits and its risks, it works less well for the currently poor countries and for poor households within developing countries.

 

Because markets at the national level are asymmetric, modern capitalist economies have social contracts, progressive tax systems, and laws and regulations to manage asymmetries and market failures. At the global level, there is no real equivalent to national governments to manage global markets, though they are bigger, deeper and if anything more asymmetric. They work better for the rich; and their risks and failures hurt the poor more" (Birdsall 2002). The national and global are linked. Globalization's present form limits the macroeconomic, development and health policy space within rich and poor nations alike..."

 

Can somebody review this and post a review in the list?

Claudio

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