on health and health care delivery
A new journal titled Globalization and Health is being launched by Derek Yach, professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health's (EPH) Global Health Division, and Dr. Greg Martin, clinical research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Globalization, note the scholars, encompasses a wide range of economic, political, social and technological processes that transcend national boundaries, leading to a greater global interconnectedness with enormous implications for health care systems and decision-making processes.
"Globalization holds threats and opportunities for health," says Yach, who came to EPH from the World Health Organization, where he worked on a variety of issues affected by globalization, including tobacco use and chronic disease prevention, and also had responsibility for developing a new, global "Health For All" policy.
"This journal," Yach adds, "will encourage a vigorous debate that we hope will focus on finding solutions to current and expected future threats to health arising from cross-border flows of infections, products and marketing harmful to health, and international policies that limit people's access to essential drugs and information for better health."
Globalization, Martin notes, is "an age-old process, which has in recent times caught our attention and captured our imagination."
The first issue of Globalization and Health is expected to be published in March. It will include research, book reviews, commentaries, debate, hypotheses, methodology, reviews, short reports and study protocols. The journal will be accessible online at www.globalizationandhealth.com.
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