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The G8, Globalization, and the Need for a Global Health Ethic

Schrecker, Ted

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Authors

Ted Schrecker



Contributors

S. Maclean
Editor

S. Brown
Editor

P. Fourie
Editor

Abstract

In 2001, colleagues and I began the first ‘report card’ on how the actions and policies of the G7/G82 affected population health, in particular the health of populations outside the high-income countries (Labonte & Schrecker, 2004; Labonte, Schrecker, Sanders, & Meeus, 2004). The report card work initially addressed commitments made at the 1999 through 2001 Summits, although subsequent publications updated the analysis to include the 2005 Summit at Gleneagles, which arguably represented the zenith of G8 interest in development issues as of mid-2008. We first considered the extent to which G8 countries had lived up to their Summit commitments. However, we examined not only commitments that directly referred to health, but also commitments in a variety of other policy fields that affect social determinants of health (SDH): the conditions that make it relatively easy for some people to lead long and healthy lives, and all but impossible for others.

Citation

Schrecker, T. (2009). The G8, Globalization, and the Need for a Global Health Ethic. In S. Maclean, S. Brown, & P. Fourie (Eds.), Health for some : the political economy of global health governance (21-38). Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date 2009
Deposit Date Jun 24, 2013
Publicly Available Date Jul 11, 2013
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 21-38
Book Title Health for some : the political economy of global health governance.
Chapter Number 2
Publisher URL http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=327197

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Ted Schrecker, 'The G8, globalization, and the need for a global health ethic', 2009, Palgrave Macmillan reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=327197





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