Open AccessGlobalisation: public health threats—and opportunities?
Author(s) -
Bambrick Hilary
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 1326-0200
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-842x.2003.tb00616.x
Subject(s) - globalization , public health , environmental health , business , political science , medicine , nursing , law
‘Globalisation’ usually conjures up images of corporate icons and fervent protestors. Paradoxically, it implies inclusiveness yet promotes divisiveness: rich versus poor, north versus south, power versus powerless, black versus white, good versus evil. Social and ecological change with globalisation is occurring on unprecedented scale, reshaping the ways we interact with our environment, perhaps most profoundly through transforming patterns of health and disease