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Title Globalization and health / [edited by] Ichirō Kawachi, Sarah Wamala
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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 W'BOOL  362.1042 Kaw/Gah  AVAILABLE
Description 1 volume
Contents Globalization and health: challenges and prospects / Ichirō Kawachi and Sarah Wamala -- Infectious disease in the age of globalization / Lance Saker, Kelley Lee, and Barbara Cannito -- Globalization and tobacco / Derek Yach ... [et al.] -- The rapid shifts in stages of the nutrition transition: the global obesity epidemic / Barry M. Popkin and Michelle Mendez -- Global climate change and human health / A.J. McMichael and G. Ranmuthugala --
Car culture, transport policy and public health / Tord Kjellstrom and Sarah Hinde -- Poverty and inequality in a globalizing world / Ichirō Kawachi and Sarah Wamala -- The consequences of economic globalization on working conditions, labor relations and workers' health / Christer Hogstedt, David H. Wegman, and Tord Kjellstrom -- Population movements / Pascale Allotey and Anthony Zwi -- Globalization and women's health / Sarah Wamala and Ichirō Kawachi -- Summary measures of population health: controversies and new directions / Daniel D. Reidpath -- Health impact assessment: towards globalization as if human rights mattered / Eileen O'Keefe and Alex Scott-Samuel -- Structural adjustment programs and health / Anna Breman and Carolyn Shelton -- Poverty reduction strategy papers: bold new approach to poverty eradication or old wine in new bottles? / Sarah Wamala, Ichirō Kawachi and Besinati Phiri Mpepo --
Health policy and the WTO / M. Gregg Bloche and Elizabeth R. Jungman -- Promoting public health in the 21st century: the role of the WHO / Ruth Bonita, Alec Irwin and Robert Beaglehole -- What's politics got to do with it? health, the G8 and the global economy / Ted Schrecker and Ronald Labonte -- Military spending: global health threat or global public good? / Raymond R. Hyatt, Jr
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Globalization -- Health aspects.
World health.
Author Kawachi, Ichirō.
Wamala, Sarah P.
LC no. 2005026737
ISBN 019517299X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780195172997