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  title info:
    title: Health Without Borders
    sub title: Epidemics in the Era of Globalization
  name:
    name part: Vineis, Paolo.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 108 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health. The population of the world grew from 1 billion in 1800 to 7 billion in 2012, and over the past 50 years the mean temperature has risen faster than ever before. Both factors continue to rise, as well as health inequalities. Our environment is changing rapidly, with tremendous consequences for our health. These changes produce complex and constantly varying interactions between the biosphere, economy, climate and human health, forcing us to approach future global health trends from a new perspective. Preventive actions to improve health, especially in low-income countries, are essential if our future is going to be a sustainable one. After a period of undeniable improvement in the health of the world’s population, this improvement is likely to slow down and we will experience– at least locally – crises of the same magnitude as have been observed in financial markets since 2009. There is instability in health systems, which will worsen if preventive and buffering mechanisms do not take on a central role. We cannot exclude the possibility that the allied forces of poverty, social inequalities, climate change, industrial food and lack of governance will lead to a deterioration in the health of large sectors of the population. In low-income countries, while many of the traditional causes of death (infectious diseases) are still highly prevalent, other threats typical of affluent societies (obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases) are increasing. Africa is not only affected by malaria, TB and HIV, but also by skyrocketing rates of cancer. The book argues that the current situation requires effective and coordinated multinational interventions guided by the principle of health as a common good. An entirely competition-driven economy cannot – by its very nature – address global challenges that require full international cooperation. A communal global leadership is called for. Paolo Vineis is Chair of Envir…
  note: by Paolo Vineis.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Health promotion
  subject:
    topic: Epidemiology
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Health
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Environmental health
  subject:
    topic: Health economics
  subject:
    topic: Medical economics
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Medicine and Health
  subject:
    topic: Epidemiology
  subject:
    topic: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Health
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Health Economics
  classification: R-RZ
  classification: 610
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319524467
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52446-7
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    record creation date: 170603
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