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Globalization, health, and the future Canadian metropolis

Schrecker, Ted

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Ted Schrecker



Contributors

R. Labonté
Editor

Abstract

This chapter represents a preliminary effort to understand the health implications of transnsational economic integration (globalization) for population health in Canadian metropolitan areas, and to inform the development of policy responses and strategies of resistance. Special emphasis is placed on health equity as it is affected by social determinants of health. I first provide a stylized description of the rationale for concentrating on major metropolitan areas, rather than on Canadian society as a whole, with reference to the evidence base on place-related effects on health. I then summarize the major channels of influence leading from globalization to social determinants of health in metropolitan areas. These involve labour markets; the attractiveness of urban ‘revitalization’ schemes in a context of changing opportunities for capital accumulation and growth promotion; and migration. The chapter concludes with some rather pessimistic observations about the prospects for increased health equity, given today’s neoliberal drift in public policy and pressures for policy convergence around economic competitiveness.

Citation

Schrecker, T. (2010). Globalization, health, and the future Canadian metropolis. In R. Labonté (Ed.), Forgotten families : gobalization and the health of Canadians (188-208). Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa

Publication Date 2010
Deposit Date Jun 24, 2013
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Pages 188-208
Series Title Transdisciplinary studies in population health
Book Title Forgotten families : gobalization and the health of Canadians.
Publisher URL http://www.iph.uottawa.ca/eng/transdis/files/ForgottenFamiliesFinal.pdf

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