healthmatters issue 41
Special issue: Globalisation and health
Published Summer 2000CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Column
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Interview
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Making a sure start in the job
Can the government take action on health inequality? Labour’s second minister for public health speaks to healthmatters
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Features
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‘La globalisacion nos matan’ – globalisation is killing us
What is globalisation and what does it have to do with health? Carolyn Stephens reports on the struggles to protect and promote health in a rapidly globalising world
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Being old in the global village
Globalisation threatens the health of older people, eroding traditional systems of support, explains Gail Wilson
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Blueprint for an unequal world
Will globalisation reduce the obscene wealth and health inequalities which exist? Mike Rowson examines the consequences of falling trade barriers for human welfare
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Globalisation? Privatisation!
The World Trade Organisation is not just reducing barriers to international trade. It is also opening up public services to commercial exploitation – and it is already happening, warn Allyson Pollock and David Price
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Global sneezes spread diseases
Globalisation of travel, food production and environmental degradation is increasing the threat from infectious diseases, old and new. Kelley Lee explains
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Who will inherit the earth?
International agreement on intellectual property rights has been foisted on poorer countries in the interests of corporate profit, and will seriously harm public health, say Mike Rowson and Meri Koivusalo
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Organic food for thought
Growing organic food benefits the environment – but not if it has to travel thousands of miles, warns Sarah Sexton
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Reviews
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Sources of inequality
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Michael Marmot and Richard Wilkinson (eds)
Oxford University Press, 2000 -
Health and home
HOME SWEET HOME? The impact of poor housing on health
A Marsh, D Gordon, C Pantazis, P Heslop
The Policy Press, 1999, £16.99 -
Eating and assertiveness
CONQUERING ANOREXIA: the route to recovery
Clare Lindsay
Summersdale, 2000, £9.99 -
But where to begin?
PERSPECTIVES IN PUBLIC HEALTH
Sian Griffiths and David Hunter (eds)
Radcliffe Medical Press, 1999 -
Committment to caring
NURSING PRACTICE, POLICY AND CHANGE
Marjorie Gott (ed)
Radcliffe Medical Press, 2000 -
Caring and changing
CONTEMPORARY PRIMARY CARE: the challenges of change
Philip Tovey (ed)
Open University Press, 2000, £18.99 -
From hospital to home
INTERMEDIATE CARE: models in practice
Barbara Vaughan and Judith Lathlean
Kings Fund, London, 1999, £7.95 -
Men being healthy
MALE BODIES: health, culture and identity
Jonathan Watson
Open University Press, 2000, £15.99 -
Hard thinking allowed
DESIGNING LIFE? Genetics, Procreation and Ethics
Maureen Junker-Kenny (ed)
Ashgate, 1999, £35.00
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Letters
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Column
