Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Globalization and social determinants of health: Introduction and methodological background (part 1 of 3) | Globalization and Health BioMed Central Open Access Review Globalization and social determinants of health Introduction and methodological background part 1 of 3 Ronald Labonté and Ted Schrecker Address Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine Faculty of Medicine and Institute of Population Health University of Ottawa Canada Email Ronald Labonté - rlabonte@ Ted Schrecker - tschrecker@ Corresponding author Published 19 June 2007 Received 24 July 2006 Globalization and Health 2007 3 5 doi 1744-8603-3-5 Accepted 19 June 2007 This article is available from http content 3 1 5 2007 Labonté and Schrecker licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Globalization is a key context for the study of social determinants of health SDH . Broadly stated SDH are the conditions in which people live and work and that affect their opportunities to lead healthy lives. In this first article of a three-part series we describe the origins of the series in work conducted for the Globalization Knowledge Network of the World Health Organization s Commission on Social Determinants of Health and in the Commission s specific concern with health equity. We explain our rationale for defining globalization with reference to the emergence of a global marketplace and the economic and political choices that have facilitated that emergence. We identify a number of conceptual milestones in studying the relation between globalization and SDH over the period 1987-2005 and then show that because globalization comprises multiple interacting policy dynamics reliance on evidence from multiple .
