The Ashgate research companion to the globalization of health

383 Pages·2012·3.485 MB·English

by  Ted Schrecker

ASHGATE

RESEARCH
COMPANION
The AshgATe ReseARch comp Anion To
The glob AlizATion of he AlTh
ASHGATE

RESEARCH
COMPANION
The Ashgate Research Companions are designed to offer scholars and graduate
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research in a particular area. The companions’ editors bring together a team of
respected and experienced experts to write chapters on the key issues in their
speciality, providing a comprehensive reference to the field.
The Ashgate Research
Companion to the Globalization
of Health
Edited by
Ted schRecke R
Bruyère Research Institute and University of Ottawa, Canada
© Ted Schrecker, and the contributors 2012
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The Ashgate research companion to the globalization of
health.
1. World health. 2. Public health--International
cooperation. 3. Globalization--Health aspects.
I. Globalization of health II. Schrecker, Ted.
362.1-dc23
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Schrecker, Ted.
The Ashgate research companion to the globalization of health / by Ted Schrecker.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-0924-3 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-0925-0 (ebook)
1. World health. 2. Epidemics--History. I. Title. II. Title: Research companion to the
globalization of health.
RA441.S37 2012
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables   vii
List of Abbreviations   ix
Notes on Contributors   xv
Editor’s Introduction: Globalizing Health Politics in the New Century   1
Ted Schrecker
1 The Value of Historical Perspective 17
Monica H. Green
2 From Plagues to Peoples: Health on the Modern Global/International
Agenda 39
Anne-Emanuelle Birn
3 The Politics of Non-Communicable Disease Policy 61
Sara M. Glasgow
4 Anthropology and Global Health 79
Vinh-Kim Nguyen
5 Global Environmental Change and Human Health 97
Charmian M. Bennett and Anthony J. McMichael
6 Reaching behind Borders: International Trade and Chronic Disease 117
K.S. Mohindra, Raphael Lencucha and Ronald Labonté
7 Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: An Overview of Obstacles
and Opportunities to Improve Access to Medicines 135
Natalia Ovtcharenko, Sarah Bonazza and Jillian Clare Kohler
8 Global Health and the Human Security Agenda 151
Colleen O’Manique
9 Biopolitics at the Crossroads of Sexuality and Disaster:
The Case of Haiti 169
Rosalind P. Petchesky
The Ashgate Research Companion to the Globalization of Health
10 Metropolitan Health in a Globalizing World 191
Ted Schrecker, Françoise Barten and K.S. Mohindra
11 Global Health Governance and the Intersection of Health
and Foreign Policy 205
Wolfgang Hein and Ilona Kickbusch
12 Advocates for Global Health Aid Must Call for a New
Development Model 229
Rick Rowden
13 Taking Social Determinants of Health Seriously 245
Ruth Bell, Sharon Friel and Michael Marmot
14 The Contributions of a Human Rights Approach to Health 261
Audrey R. Chapman
Coda: The World after Lehman Brothers, New York and Rio   277
Ted Schrecker
Bibliography   281
Index   351
vi
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1 Proportions of total deaths from major cause-of-death categories,
1909 and 1999, in Chile   23
5.1 A schematic representation of the diverse and often interconnecting
pathways through which global environmental changes can affect
human health and well-being   99
5.2 The diagram illustrates, first, the conventional epidemiological
approach to an environmental threat to health – see the causal
pathway leading from a specific chemical exposure (farm chemicals)
to a specific disease outcome (cancer). However, agricultural
practices have many other impacts on the wider environment, and
some of them, when aggregated across populations (for example,
greenhouse gas emissions), affect global environmental systems.
These global environmental changes, in turn, affect health, including
via impacts on food yields   101
5.3 Comparison of cumulative carbon dioxide emissions (by country) for
1950–2000, as compared to the regional distribution of (aggregated)
mortality, in 2000, attributable to four climate-sensitive health effects
(malaria, malnutrition, diarrhoeal disease and flood-related fatalities) 113
11.1 Arguments for health in foreign policy   212
11.2 Development assistance for health from 1990 to 2011 by channel
of assistance   214
11.3 International agreements in traditional IR theory   217
11.4 Global politics in a post-Westphalian system   218
11.5 The continuum of the relationship between health and foreign policy 222
13.1 Under-5 mortality rate per 1,000 live births by level of household wealth 250
13.2 Life expectancy at age 25 by years of education, men and women,
United States   251
Table
1.1 Eight paradigmatic infectious diseases   21
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List of Abbreviations
3TC+d4T+NVP Lamivudine, stavudine and nevirapine
4-H Club (Male) homosexuals, Haitians, hemophiliacs and heroin addicts
(injecting drug users)
5th H Heterosexual women
aDNA Ancient DNA
AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
APIs Active pharmaceutical ingredients
ARENA Nationalist Republican Alliance [El Salvador]
ARVs Antiretrovirals
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
BCG Bacille Calmette-Guérin
BCE Before the Common Era
BMGF Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
BRIC Brazil, Russia, India and China
CAMR Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime
CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CAFTA Central American Free Trade Agreement
CARICOM Caribbean Community
CARMEN Set of Actions for the Multifactoral Reduction of Non-
Communicable Diseases
CDC Centers for Disease Control
CFC Chlorofluorocarbons
CGD Center for Global Development
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CEDAW Committee to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women
CESCR Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
CHD Coronary heart disease
CMH Commission on Macroeconomics and Health
CO Carbon dioxide
2
COMESA Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
CRC Committee on the Rights of the Child
CSDH Commission on the Social Determinants of Health
CSO Civil society organizations