Globalization and Health

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A Comparative Study of Allowable Pesticide Residue Levels on Produce in the United States

Neff RA, Hartle JC, Laestadius LI, Dolan K, Rosenthal AC and Nachman KE Globalization and Health 2012, 8:2 (31 January 2012)
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Descriptive Review and Evaluation of the Functioning of the International Health Regulations (IHR) Annex 2

Anema A, Druyts E, Hollmeyer HG, Hardiman MC and Wilson K Globalization and Health 2012, 8:1 (10 January 2012)
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Multi-Country analysis of palm oil consumption and cardiovascular disease mortality for countries at different stages of economic development: 1980-1997

Chen BK, Seligman B, Farquhar JW and Goldhaber-Fiebert JD Globalization and Health 2011, 7:45 (16 December 2011)
Review

Chronic non-communicable diseases in Cameroon - burden, determinants and current policies

Echouffo-Tcheugui JB and Kengne AP Globalization and Health 2011, 7:44 (23 November 2011)
Debate

Social participation and healthy ageing: a neglected, significant protective factor for chronic non communicable conditions

Holmes WR and Joseph J Globalization and Health 2011, 7:43 (28 October 2011)
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Health system determinants of infant, child and maternal mortality: A cross-sectional study of UN member countries

Muldoon KA, Galway LP, Nakajima M, Kanters S, Hogg RS, Bendavid E and Mills EJ Globalization and Health 2011, 7:42 (24 October 2011)
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The increasing chronicity of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: Re-thinking "HIV as a long-wave event" in the era of widespread access to ART

Nixon SA, Hanass-Hancock J, Whiteside A and Barnett T Globalization and Health 2011, 7:41 (20 October 2011)
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Canadian medical tourism companies that have exited the marketplace: Content analysis of websites used to market transnational medical travel

Turner L Globalization and Health 2011, 7:40 (14 October 2011)
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Aims & scope

Globalization and Health is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that provides an international forum for high quality original research, knowledge sharing and debate on the topic of globalization and its effects on health, both positive and negative. The journal is is affiliated with the London School of Economics (LSE Health).

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The mission of LSE Health is to advance, transmit and sustain knowledge and understanding through the conduct of research, teaching and scholarship at the highest international standards, for the benefit of the international and national health policy community. LSE Health aims to expand and improve conceptual frameworks, apply new methodologies, encourage debate about issues raised by research developments and introduce new questions or themes that will contribute to policy discussions. Globalization and Health is an important means of encouraging such debate and promoting high quality research. The Centre is committed to interdisciplinary research that benefits policy makers and health professionals.

Call for papers

Climate Change and Global Health

Globalization and Health is currently inviting papers for a new special issue entitled "Climate Change and Global Health: Implications for human health and health systems".

This special issue has arisen to explore the resilience and flexibility of our health systems in the face of possible large scale disasters linked to climate change, and will welcome manuscripts addressing the following issues:

Health policy and financing mechanisms that will encourage public action and adaption strategies for health systems.
Assessments of the ability of public policy and institutions to respond to climate change and human health.
Merging the economics of climate adaptation and traditional health economics.
How to mitigate asymmetrical effects of climate change on the global population.
Interdisciplinary education and research.

Manuscripts may include research papers, reviews, policy analyses, short reports, commentaries, or debates. All manuscripts will undergo full peer-review in line with the journal's standard policy. Please see our instructions for authors for further details.

We would like to invite you to submit your manuscript please, indicate that you would like your manuscript to be considered for the special issue.

The closing date for submissions is
13th January 2012.

Article series

Case studies of non-communicable disease action around the world: successes, barriers, and lessons learned
Published: 10 October 2011
Last updated: 23 November 2011

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