Second National Congress on Bioethics, Sao Paulo, March 25, 1998. The globalization of public health, II: The convergence of self-interest and altruism. University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 1997. To improve the domestic and global economies and increase sustainability the government should support globalization initiatives.

This impacts economic growth domestically and internationally. of direct and indirect health impacts of various aspects of globalization. Globalization produces a worldwide economy, which is restructured by the rapid increase in global trade.

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Paper presented at the international conference Lighten the Burden of Third World Health, Cape Town, January 29–31, 1997.īerlinguer, G. The Globalization of Poverty and Ill-health: Assessing the IMF-World Bank Structural Adjustment Program. Globalization and the rise of East Asia: Lessons from the past, prospects for the future. The author concludes with some proposals for policies.

New and stronger empirical motives relate the interests of peoples to universal rights and to global health. Meanwhile, new common threats are growing: among them, the exacerbation of old infections and emergence of new ones, the impact of environmental changes, drug traffic on a world scale, and destructive and self-destructive violence. However, in recent decades the notion of health as a cornerstone of economic development has been replaced by the idea that public health and health services are an obstacle to the wealth of nations. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the struggle against epidemics united countries, world health became a common goal, and considerable results were achieved. History tells us that after the “microbial unification” of the world, which began in 1492, over three centuries elapsed before the recognition of common risks and attempts to cope with them in a cross-boundary effort. Along with the positive or negative consequences of the globalization of health, we can consider global health as a goal, responding to human rights and to common interests.

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