Globalization And Health Inequities In Latin America

Author : Ligia Malagón de Salazar,Roberto Carlos Luján Villar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319672922

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Globalization and Health Inequities in Latin America by Ligia Malagón de Salazar,Roberto Carlos Luján Villar Pdf

This book critically analyses the influence of international policies and guidelines on the performance of interventions aimed at reducing health inequities in Latin America, with special emphasis on health promotion and health in all policies strategies. While the implementation of these interventions plays a key role in strengthening these countries’ capacity to respond to current and future challenges, the urgency and pressures of cooperation and funding agencies to show results consistent with their own agendas not only hampers this goal, but also makes the territory invisible, hiding the real problems faced by most Latin American countries, diminishing the richness of local knowledge production, and hindering the development of relevant proposals that consider the territory’s conditions and cultural identity. Departing from this general analysis, the authors search for answers to the following questions: Why, despite the importance of the theoretical advances r egarding actions to address social and health inequities, haven’t Latin American countries been able to produce the expected results? Why do successful initiatives only take place within the framework of pilot projects? Why does the ideology of health promotion and health in all policies mainly permeate structures of the health sector, but not other sectors? Why are intersectoral actions conjunctural initiatives, which often fail to evolve into permanent practices? Based on an extensive literature review, case studies, personal experiences, and interviews with key informants in the region, Globalization and Health Inequities in Latin America presents a strategy that uses monitoring and evaluation practices for enhancing the capacity of Latin American and other low and middle-income countries to implement sustainable processes to foster inclusiveness, equity, social justice and human rights. p/pp

Author : Ligia Malagón de Salazar,Roberto Carlos Luján Villar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 3319672932

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Globalization and Health Inequities in Latin America by Ligia Malagón de Salazar,Roberto Carlos Luján Villar Pdf

This book critically analyses the influence of international policies and guidelines on the performance of interventions aimed at reducing health inequities in Latin America, with special emphasis on health promotion and health in all policies strategies. While the implementation of these interventions plays a key role in strengthening these countries' capacity to respond to current and future challenges, the urgency and pressures of cooperation and funding agencies to show results consistent with their own agendas not only hampers this goal, but also makes the territory invisible, hiding the real problems faced by most Latin American countries, diminishing the richness of local knowledge production, and hindering the development of relevant proposals that consider the territory's conditions and cultural identity. Departing from this general analysis, the authors search for answers to the following questions: Why, despite the importance of the theoretical advances r egarding actions to address social and health inequities, haven't Latin American countries been able to produce the expected results? Why do successful initiatives only take place within the framework of pilot projects? Why does the ideology of health promotion and health in all policies mainly permeate structures of the health sector, but not other sectors? Why are intersectoral actions conjunctural initiatives, which often fail to evolve into permanent practices? Based on an extensive literature review, case studies, personal experiences, and interviews with key informants in the region, Globalization and Health Inequities in Latin America presents a strategy that uses monitoring and evaluation practices for enhancing the capacity of Latin American and other low and middle-income countries to implement sustainable processes to foster inclusiveness, equity, social justice and human rights. & nb sp.

Author : J. Gideon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137120274

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Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context by J. Gideon Pdf

Using a political economy of health, Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context demonstrates how the development of health systems in Latin America was closely linked to men's participation in formal labor. This established an inherent male bias that continues to shape health services today. While economic liberalization has created new jobs that have been taken up mainly by women, these jobs fail to offer the same health entitlements. Author Jasmine Gideon explores the resultant tensions and gender inequalities, which have been further exacerbated in the context of health care commercialization.

Author : Fernando De Maio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137400635

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Global Health Inequities by Fernando De Maio Pdf

Despite living in a 'globalized' world where advances in medicine, technology and science come at an ever-increasing pace, there exist staggering inequalities in health. Even as we celebrate new pharmaceutical developments, access to already-existing medicines is hindered by economic and political barriers for poor people around the world. Critical but accessible, Global Health Inequities questions taken-for-granted assumptions, showing how breakthroughs in biomedicine alone cannot address inequities in health. The book's analysis of theory and empirical work elucidates key debates and highlights the most significant challenges facing global health today, including the growing burden of chronic non-communicable diseases and the persistent injustice of neglected tropical diseases. Fernando De Maio identifies the need for sociological analysis in global health, drawing together research from public health, sociology, anthropology and related fields, in order to expand the scope of the medical gaze towards a more holistic and structural perspective of health inequity.

Author : Emily E Vasquez,Amaya G. Perez-Brumer,Richard Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000071597

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Social Inequities and Contemporary Struggles for Collective Health in Latin America by Emily E Vasquez,Amaya G. Perez-Brumer,Richard Parker Pdf

This book explores the legacy of the Latin American Social Medicine and Collective Health (LASM-CH) movements and other key approaches—including human rights activism and popular opposition to neoliberal governance—that have each distinguished the struggle for collective health in Latin America during the twentieth and now into the twnety-first century. At a time when global health has been pushed to adopt increasingly conservative agendas in the wake of global financial crisis and amidst the rise of radical-right populist politics, attention to the legacies of Latin America’s epistemological innovations and social movement action are especially warranted. This collection addresses three crosscutting themes: First, how LASM-CH perspectives have taken root as an element of international cooperation and solidarity in the health arena in the region and beyond, into the twenty-firstcentury. Second, how LASM-CH perspectives have been incorporated and restyled into major contemporary health system reforms in the region. Third, how elements of the LASM-CH legacy mark contemporary health social movements in the region, alongside additional key influences on collective action for health at present. Working at the nexus of activism, policy, and health equity, this multidisciplinary collection offers new perspective on struggles for justice in twenty-first-century Latin America. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Global Public Health.

Author : Anne-Emanuelle Birn,Yogan Pillay,Timothy H. Holtz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199392285

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Textbook of Global Health by Anne-Emanuelle Birn,Yogan Pillay,Timothy H. Holtz Pdf

This edition originally published: 2017.

Author : Ronald N. Labonte,Ted Schrecker,Amit Sen Gupta,Centre for Social Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Economics
ISBN : 9780973329230

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Health for Some by Ronald N. Labonte,Ted Schrecker,Amit Sen Gupta,Centre for Social Justice Pdf

Author : Richard L. Harris,Jorge Nef
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742572508

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Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean by Richard L. Harris,Jorge Nef Pdf

For an additional chapter on health and human security: Click Here. For suggested resources for each chapter in the book: Click Here. For additional resources on ecological and social issues: Click Here. For additional resources on indigenous peoples: Click Here. Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this thoroughly updated and revised second edition is an engaging critical analysis of the major political, economic, social, and ecological conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Genuinely regional in scope, this textbook examines the hemispheric and global context of these conditions as well as the relations among Latin American and Caribbean states and their relations with the United States. Expert contributors describe and analyze the economies and trading relations, politics and state policies, social inequalities and social injustices, indigenous communities, gender relations, influence of religion, wide array of social movements, and social ecology of the societies in this important region of the world. Harris and Nef have assembled a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate courses and all readers concerned with understanding the past, present, and future development of contemporary Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Americas as a whole. Contributions by: Guido Pascual Galafassi, Richard L. Harris, Judith Adler Hellman, Cristóbal Kay, Michael Kearney, Francesca Miller, Jorge Nef, Viviana Patroni, Wilder Robles, and Stefano Varese.

Author : Ronald Labonté,Ted Schrecker,Corinne Packer,Vivien Runnels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781135850104

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Globalization and Health by Ronald Labonté,Ted Schrecker,Corinne Packer,Vivien Runnels Pdf

Based on the findings of a global research project undertaken by the World Health Organization, this volume systematically analyzes the relationship between globalization and global trends in health outcomes. This will be a necessary addition for scholars studying globalization, health and social policy, and public health across the social sciences.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173031235580

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Health & Human Development in the New Global Economy by World Health Organization Pdf

This publication is the result of a collaborative effort between the Pan American Health Organization and the WHO Collaborating Center for International Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch. The chapters are based on the proceedings from a seminarworkshop held in Galveston Texas in 1998. The objective of this forum was to examine the impact of the economic globalization process and technological change on health trends in the Region of the Americas and even more specifically to explore how civil society groups can influence the formulation of healthy public policies and monitor equity in terms of both the health situation and the distribution of health care resources. This publication addresses a wide range of issues affecting health in the global economy including various types of economic organization and potential dangers the world faces as a new century begins. It centers on experiences opportunities and risks in the Americas and on the value of health in human development and of international and regional integration processes in the formulation of a new global economy. It includes articles analyzing the impact of economic reform policies on health in general as well as monographs written from the perspective of civil society groups in specific countries. The variety of viewpoints and lessons learned in this publication will be of use to decision-makers health and development experts and emerging civil society groups in Latin America and the Caribbean and can guide them in better addressing the enormous risks facing all sectors of society as a result of globalization by enabling them to take advantage of the tremendous potential this process affords.

Author : Prof Dr Barbara Fritz,Professor Lena Lavinas
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472446749

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A Moment of Equality for Latin America? by Prof Dr Barbara Fritz,Professor Lena Lavinas Pdf

Unlike other regions around the world, several Latin American countries have managed to reduce income inequality over the last decade. Higher growth rates and growing employment, but also innovative wage policies and social programs, have contributed to reducing poverty and narrow income disparities. Yet, despite this progress, nation-states in the region demonstrate little capacity to substantially change their patterns of deeply rooted inequalities. Focusing on the limits and challenges of redistributive policies in Latin America, this volume synthesizes and updates the discussion of inequality in the region, introducing the perspective of global and transnational interdependencies. The book explores the extent to which redistributive policies have been interlinked with the provision and quality of public goods as well as with structural changes of the productive sector. Inspired by structuralist and neostructuralist thinking of Latin American economists, such as Raúl Prebisch and Celso Furtado, authors question the redistributive impact of the interplay of recent macroeconomic, fiscal and social policies, particularly under left and center-left administrations committed to greater equality. Bringing together experts in social, fiscal and macroeconomic policies to investigate the interdependent and global character of inequalities, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, economics, development and politics with interests in Latin America, inequality and public policy.

Author : Vicente Navarro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351863995

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Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Inequalities by Vicente Navarro Pdf

Since U.S. President Reagan and U.K. Prime Minister Thatcher, a major ideology (under the name of economic science) has been expanded worldwide that claims that the best policies to stimulate human development are those that reduce the role of the state in economic and social lives: privatizing public services and public enterprises, deregulating the mobility of capital and labor, eliminating protectionism, and reducing public social protection. This ideology, called 'neoliberalism,' has guided the globalization of economic activity and become the conventional wisdom in international agencies and institutions (such as the IMF, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and the technical agencies of the United Nations, including the WHO). Reproduced in the 'Washington consensus' in the United States and the 'Brussels consensus' in the European Union, this ideology has guided policies widely accepted as the only ones possible and advisable.This book assembles a series of articles that challenge that ideology. Written by well-known scholars, these articles question each of the tenets of neoliberal doctrine, showing how the policies guided by this ideology have adversely affected human development in the countries where they have been implemented.

Author : Mr. Ravi Balakrishnan,Sandra Lizarazo,Marika Santoro,Mr. Frederik G Toscani,Mr. Mauricio Vargas
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484326091

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Commodity Cycles, Inequality, and Poverty in Latin America by Mr. Ravi Balakrishnan,Sandra Lizarazo,Marika Santoro,Mr. Frederik G Toscani,Mr. Mauricio Vargas Pdf

Over the past decades, inequality has risen not just in advanced economies but also in many emerging market and developing economies, becoming one of the key global policy challenges. And throughout the 20th century, Latin America was associated with some of the world’s highest levels of inequality. Yet something interesting happened in the first decade and a half of the 21st century. Latin America was the only region in the World to have experienced significant declines in inequality in that period. Poverty also fell in Latin America, although this was replicated in other regions, and Latin America started from a relatively low base. Starting around 2014, however, and even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, poverty and inequality gains had already slowed in Latin America and, in some cases, gone into reverse. And the COVID-19 shock, which is still playing out, is likely to dramatically worsen short-term poverty and inequality dynamics. Against this background, this departmental paper investigates the link between commodity prices, and poverty and inequality developments in Latin America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Inequality in Latin America[ by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sherri L. Porcelain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000451238

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Public Health and Beyond in Latin America and the Caribbean by Sherri L. Porcelain Pdf

Public Health and Beyond in Latin America and the Caribbean: Reflections from the Field explores the diverse and complex public health landscape, from global to regional to local, by considering historical and socio-cultural factors to contextualize the ongoing public health crisis. Drawing on four decades of field experience, research, and teaching, Sherri L. Porcelain uses case studies to offer a realistic view of the public heath struggle in Latin America and the Caribbean. Using specific countries as regional examples, the book shows how population health has been inextricably linked to political, economic, social, cultural, ethical, ecological, environmental, and technological factors. Chapters in this book will examine the history of public health issues associated with international development, globalization and the international political economy, disasters, diplomacy, and security studies coupled with the changing role of key actors driving the global and regional agendas. The final chapter examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and what it means for the future of public health. This book is recommended for undergraduate students interested in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean as well as others concerned with global and regional population health challenges.