The Global Crisis and Global Health  

Oleh:

Gill, Stephen ; Bakker, Isabella

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Global Health and Global Health Ethics, page 221-238.
Topik: Rising Hunger and the Global Food Crisis; Global Health Financing
Fulltext: The Global Crisis and Global Health.pdf (376.15KB)

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We have previously argued that the present global fi nancial and economic crisis is a clear manifestation of an unstable and contradictory world characterized by a disjunction between: (a) massive economic growth, unprecedented advances in science, technology/medical care; and (b) widening disparities in wealth and health within and between nations. Indeed, modern advances in health are increasingly driven by market forces, and therefore benefit about 20% of the world’s population while 44% (about 3 billion people) live under miserable conditions on less than $2 per day, gaining little from conventional science and medicine (Benatar et al ., 2009 ). To this we would now add: (1) The present crisis is much more than a crisis of capitalist accumulation or a necessary selfcorrection aided by macroeconomic intervention and bailouts. (2) The crisis also reflects contradictions of what we call “market civilization” – an individualistic, consumerist, privatized, energy-intensive and ecologically myopic pattern of lifestyle and culture which is currently dominant in world development (Gill, 1995).

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