Bringing (domestic) politics back in: global and local influences on health equity

Schrecker, Ted

doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2015.05.007

Bringing (domestic) politics back in: global and local influences on health equity

Schrecker, Ted

Authors

Ted Schrecker

Abstract

The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for health correctly concluded that: ‘with globalization, health inequity increasingly results from transnational activities that involve actors with different interests and degrees of power’. At the same time, taking up that Commission's focus on political determinants of health and ‘power asymmetries’ requires recognizing the interplay of globalization with domestic politics, and the limits of global influences as explanations for policies that affect health inequalities. I make this case using three examples – trade policy, climate change policy, and the domestic politics of poverty reduction and social policy – and a concluding observation about the 2015 UK election.

Citation

Schrecker, T. (2015). Bringing (domestic) politics back in: global and local influences on health equity. Public Health, 129(7), 843-848. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2015.05.007

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	May 13, 2015
Publication Date	Jul 1, 2015
Deposit Date	Jul 7, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Jun 24, 2016
Journal	Public Health
Print ISSN	0033-3506
Publisher	Elsevier
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	129
Issue	7
Pages	843-848
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2015.05.007
Keywords	Social determinants of health, Health equity, Globalization, Climate change, Policy space, Trade, Poverty, Economic inequality.

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