Browse by subject "Global economy and health"
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Can Global Wealth Lead To Global Health?
Global Health or International Health has become a trendy term and many academic centres have evolved around this ‘Global’ theme. Is it the emergence of new infectious diseases such as SARS, or the re-emergence of old infectious diseases such as Avian Flu (H5N1) and Swine Flu (H1N1) that drives this global action on health? Should global health focus on the provision of medical aid to low-income countries? And finally, is the training of health care workers in low-income countries a priority area, as it helps to build the capacity of health care systems to respond to various health challenges more effectively and efficiently?
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| Author | Prof. Albert Lee |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global economy and health Urbanisation |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Can Healthcare Save the Global Economy?
An article published on the St Joseph's University website.
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| Author | Carolyn Steigleman |
| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | US USA Economic crisis |
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CARE
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.
We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty.
Our Mission
Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world.
Full recordDiabetes saps health and wealth from China's rise
This report examines the rise in diabetes fuelled by China's economic change.
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| Author | Alcorn et al |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Global economy and health Non-communicable diseases |
| Tags | china diabetes economy public health diet |
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DIPLOMACY, HEALTH AND THE ECONOMY
Aricle written by Jakaya Mrishoo Kikwete (President of the United Republic of Tanzania), giving his opinion on health and the economy.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | Tanzania president opinion |
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Economic Evaluation Basics
After completing this course, learners will have a more complete understanding of the issues that researchers consider in conducting economic evaluations and the role of economic evaluations in policy and program decision making. - See more at: http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/course/economic-evaluation-basics#sthash.Zvf5GeWA.dpuf
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | Global Health eLearning Centre online online learning online course online resource |
| Rights | Collaborating organizations involved in the development of Economic Evaluation Basics include:
Maria Au, United States Agency for International Development Lisa Basalla, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs David Davies-Deis, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs Dianna Edgil, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator David Hotchkiss, MEASURE Evaluation/Tulane University Seseni Nu, ICF Macro Vimalanand Prabhu, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Nalinee Sangrujee, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention We would also like to acknowledge the following technical reviewers for their valuable input:
Ajay Behl, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Mahmud Khan, Tulane University Greg Russell, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator - See more at: http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/course/economic-evaluation-basics#sthash.Zvf5GeWA.dpuf |
Ethical and Economic Perspectives on Global Health Interventions
Abstract
Interventions that improve childhood health directly improve the quality of life and, in addition, have multiplier effects, producing sustained population and economic gains in poor countries. We suggest how contemporary global institutions shaping the development, pricing and distribution of vaccines and drugs may be modified to deliver large improvements in health. To support a justice argument for such modification, we show how the current global economic order may contribute to perpetuating poverty and poor health in less-developed countries.
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| Author | Sonia Bhalotra, Thomas Pogge |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | policy policy paper |
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Feeding cities
Explores the various perspectives of global health held by different generations.
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| Author | Brieger, W |
| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Urbanisation Climate change and sustainability Global economy and health Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | climate change food Poverty agriculture Nutrition aid |
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Gap Minder
This year, 2007, Hans Rosling’s TED-speech focused on making the seemingly impossible possible.
The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data pop. Asian countries, as colorful bubbles, float across the grid – toward better national health and wealth.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global health issues Global economy and health Population growth Technology |
| Tags | TED Gap Minder statistics data population health wealth trends analysis prediction graphs |
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Global economic crisis 'linked to suicide rise'
BBC news article published on 18th September 2013.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | BBC BBC news online news |
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Global Economy and Health: UBC Seeks Solutions to Salt Mining Challenges
"The technologies are the crudest of the crude." The University of British Columbia Engineering graduate, Jennifer Hinton, finds solutions for the developing world and hazards related to mining salt.
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| Author | Bruce Marchfelder |
| Type | Video |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
| Rights | Video by Bruce Marchfelder for the Faculty of Applied Science, The University of British Columbia Produced February 2012 Copyright: The University of British Columbia |
Global Health and Diplomacy
GHD's mission:
To bring together leaders from the global health, diplomatic and development communities in order to discuss global health challenges and develop innovative solutions to help protect vulnerable populations from disease.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Child health Gender and health Global health issues Maternal health Global economy and health New and emerging infectious diseases Technology |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health and the Global Economic Crisis
Abstract
Although the resources and knowledge for achieving improved global health exist, a new, critical paradigm on health as an aspect of human development, human security, and human rights is needed. Such a shift is required to sufficiently modify and credibly reduce the present dominance of perverse market forces on global health. New scientific discoveries can make wide-ranging contributions to improved health; however, improved global health depends on achieving greater social justice, economic redistribution, and enhanced democratization of production, caring social institutions for essential health care, education, and other public goods. As with the quest for an HIV vaccine, the challenge of improved global health requires an ambitious multidisciplinary research program.
Despite impressive scientific advances and massive economic growth over the past 60 years, disparities in wealth and health have persisted and, in many places, widened. As a result, the hope of achieving significantly improved health for a greater proportion of the world's people—one of the most pressing problems of our time—has become an ever more distant prospect.1–5 Our failure to make adequate advances in this direction is starkly illustrated by insufficient progress toward achieving the limited Millennium Development Goals for health in the poorest countries,6 the growing threat of infectious diseases associated with poverty,7 and the increasing burden of chronic diseases on lifestyle.8 All of these challenges, now exacerbated by the most severe global economic crisis since the 1930s, are likely to become even more urgent in the years ahead.9,10
We describe aspects of an increasingly unstable world and why the market-driven growth paradigm is insufficient to achieve improved global health. We then suggest a number of new ways of thinking that we believe should be adopted to improve global health.
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| Author | Solomon R. Benatar, DSc (Med), Stephen Gill, PhD, and Isabella Bakker, PhD |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | economic economics |
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Global tobacco control
Detailed and lengthy slide sets for 11 lectures including: The tobacco pandemic: An historical overview; Tobacco addiction by design: implications for public health and policy; The modern tobacco industry; National tobacco control strategies; Secondhand smoke; Tobacco control economics; Tracking tobacco industry advertising, marketing and promotion; Harm reduction; Cessastion; and The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. These materials have been made available on an open source website but are subject to copywrite controls.
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| Author | Samet, J |
| Type | Presentation |
| Subject | Global health issues Global economy and health Non-communicable diseases |
| Tags | tobacco industry tobacco control secondhand smoke tobacco advertising harm reduction cessation |
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Health and the International Economy
A WHO document published in Agust 2002
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| Type | Document |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Health care and equity in India
Examines key challenges for the equity of service provision and access according to ability to pay and geography. Includes data on poverty, cost of individual health care expenditure, immunisation and child mortality in graph form. Free registration is necessary for access to this article. This paper is part of a Lancet series on India.
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| Author | Balarajan et al |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Child health Gender and health Global economy and health Poverty and inequality |
| Tags | Poverty india child mortality healthcare costs Inequality healthcare markets gender |
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The Application of Key Governance Tools to Understand How Common Health Services Administrations Function
This research analysis aims to examine three particular tools of governance (that is – government insurance, social regulations, and economic regulations) in a scholarly effort to understand how these tools are applied to, and enable the functioning of, specific and common health services administrations. In light of the current U.S. economic, fiscal, and insurance crises, combined with the general salience of today’s socioeconomic conditions (particularly in the United States), this analysis offers an important revelation regarding how the medical and health services sectors are able to survive in light of the United States’ precarious and volatile infrastructures.
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| Author | Jonathan Matusitz and Gerald-Mark Breen |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The global financial crisis and health equity: Early experiences from Canada
Abstract
Background: It is widely acknowledged that austerity measures in the wake of the global financial crisis are starting to undermine population health results. Yet, few research studies have focused on the ways in which the financial crisis and the ensuing ‘Great Recession’ have affected health equity, especially through their impact on social determinants of health; neither has much attention been given to the health consequences of the fiscal austerity regime that quickly followed a brief period of counter-cyclical government spending for bank bailouts and economic stimulus. Canada has not remained insulated from these developments, despite its relative success in maneuvering the global financial crisis.
Methods: The study draws on three sources of evidence: A series of semi-structured interviews in Ottawa and Toronto, with key informants selected on the basis of their expertise (n = 12); an analysis of recent (2012) Canadian and Ontario budgetary impacts on social determinants of health; and documentation of trend data on key social health determinants pre- and post the financial crisis.
Results: The findings suggest that health equity is primarily impacted through two main pathways related to the global financial crisis: austerity budgets and associated program cutbacks in areas crucial to addressing the inequitable distribution of social determinants of health, including social assistance, housing, and education; and the qualitative transformation of labor markets, with precarious forms of employment expanding rapidly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Preliminary evidence suggests that these tendencies will lead to a further deepening of existing health inequities, unless counter-acted through a change in policy direction.
Conclusions: This article documents some of the effects of financial crisis and severe economic decline on health equity in Canada. However, more research is necessary to study policy choices that could mitigate this effect. Since the policy response to a similar set of economic shocks has globally varied and led to differential health and health equity outcomes, comparative studies are now possible to assess the successes and failures of specific policy responses. This raises the question of what types of public policy can mitigate against the negative health equity effects of severe economic recessions.
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| Author | Arne Ruckert and Ronald Labonté |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | Health equity Global financial crisis social determinants of health Austerity Canada |
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The Global Supply Chain: Our Economy, Security and Health Depends on It
A news article in the Huffigton Post published on 27th January 2013.
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| Type | Forum |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | news news article online news world economic forum |
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The Political Economy of Health
This si an online learning module from which participants will:
- develop the background knowledge and conceptual tools for analysing the political and economic structures and dynamics (at the local, national and global levels) which frame the social and environmental determinants of health and which frame health policy and funding directions;
- develop the analytical skills needed to apply such tools to the analysis of a particular set of health issues.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | politic political politics learning online learning resource |
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The price of being well
Is it time for a new paradigm for health and development? A heavyweight panel with an egalitarian ideology claims to have found one
News article published by The Economist August 28th 2008.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Global economy and health |
| Tags | news |
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US Aid (USAID)
USAID is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential.
Our Mission: We partner to end extreme poverty and to promote resilient, democratic societies while advancing our security and prosperity.