Globalization exerts positive and negative impacts on health and has been linked to reduced government expenditures on health, education, and social programs, and restructured workplace and home life. Globalization is altering gender roles and relationships and influencing health determinants. Asymmetric rights and responsibilities, labor market segregation, consumption patterns, and discrimination are influenced differently by globalization and affect men and women’s health in distinct ways. Gender dimensions of global public–private partnerships, trade agreements, economic, political, social, and health system reform, and labor trends were illuminated in international consultations conducted by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Gender and Health in 2003 and of these critical issues are captured in.
