Os autores examinam o documento resultante da Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Desenvolvimento Sustentável (CNUDS), conhecida como Rio+20, realizada em junho de 2012 analisando o papel da economia verde no processo de desenvolvimento e na erradicação da pobreza, bem como os requisitos para uma g...
Development assistance for health (DAH) constitutes a critical vehicle of collective action in global health, one that has seen the rise and involvement of emerging powers like India and China. Through their DAH, both countries actively seek to widen their global health footprint. This paper measures Chi...
Global Health Diplomacy (GHD) is a new area of scholarly research. While much has been written on this topic, to date few have analyzed the social and political origins of GHD processes and their outcomes. Using the case of Brazil as illustration, in this article I carefully analyze the historical social...
Health-related travel, also referred to as "medical tourism" is historically well-known. Its emerging contemporary form suggests the development of a form of globalised for-profit healthcare. Medical tourism to India, the focus of a recent conference in Canada, provides an example of the globalisation of...
Se realizó un estudio descriptivo de corte transversal con el objetivo de determinar algunos factores de riesgo aterogénicos en la población perteneciente al consultorio médico 3 del Policlínico Docente Dr. Mario Muñoz Monroy, situado en la localidad de Guanabo, municipio Habana del Este, durante e...
What determines whether or not global health problems become global political priorities? In recent years the global health governance literature, drawing on earlier constructivist work on ‘framing,’ has begun to examine precisely these issues and to develop more nuanced explanations of prioritizatio...
Objetivos: Analizar si las emisiones de CO2 per-cápita por país tienen o no mayor asociación con los indicadores de desarrollo y salud, en comparación con las coberturas porcentaje de cobertura de agua por cañería, PAC y saneamiento, en 106 países del mundo. Materiales y métodos: usando una muest...
Governments, international agencies and corporations are increasingly investing in traditional herbal medicine research. Yet little literature addresses ethical challenges in this research. In this paper, we apply concepts in a comprehensive ethical framework for clinical re...
