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Was Mackenbach right? Towards a practical political science of redistribution and health inequalities (2017)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2017). Was Mackenbach right? Towards a practical political science of redistribution and health inequalities. Health & Place, 46, 293-299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.06.007

In 2010, Mackenbach reflected on England's lack of success in reducing health inequalities between 1997 and 2010, asserting that “it is difficult to imagine a longer window of opportunity for tackling health inequalities”; asking “[i]f this did not w... Read More about Was Mackenbach right? Towards a practical political science of redistribution and health inequalities.

Priority Setting: Right Answer to a Far Too Narrow Question?; Comment on “Global Developments in Priority Setting in Health” (2017)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2018). Priority Setting: Right Answer to a Far Too Narrow Question?; Comment on “Global Developments in Priority Setting in Health”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 7(1), 86-88. https://doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2017.66

In their recent editorial, Baltussen and colleagues provide a concise summary of the prevailing discourse on priority-setting in health policy. Their perspective is entirely consistent with current practice, yet they unintentionally demonstrate the n... Read More about Priority Setting: Right Answer to a Far Too Narrow Question?; Comment on “Global Developments in Priority Setting in Health”.

“Stop, You’re Killing us!” An Alternative Take on Populism and Public Health; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy” (2017)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2017). “Stop, You’re Killing us!” An Alternative Take on Populism and Public Health; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 6(11), 673-675. https://doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2017.50

Ewen Speed and Russell Mannion correctly identify several contours of the challenges for health policy in what it is useful to think of as a post-democratic era. I argue that the problem for public health is not populism per se, but rather the distin... Read More about “Stop, You’re Killing us!” An Alternative Take on Populism and Public Health; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”.

Trade and Investment Agreements: Implications for Health Protection (2017)
Journal Article
McNeill, D., Birkbeck, C. D., Fukuda-Parr, S., Grover, A., Schrecker, T., & Stuckler, D. (2017). Trade and Investment Agreements: Implications for Health Protection. Journal of World Trade, 51(1), 159-182

Trade and Investment Agreements (TIAs) have been widely criticized for their potentially negative effects on health. Many governments, particularly from low- and middle-income countries, have voiced concerns that mega-regional agreements such as the... Read More about Trade and Investment Agreements: Implications for Health Protection.

Neoliberalism and health: The linkages and the dangers (2016)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2016). Neoliberalism and health: The linkages and the dangers. Sociology Compass, 10(10), 952-971. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12408

A recent book addresses the health effects of neoliberalism using the provocative rubric of ‘neoliberal epidemics’. This article reviews literature on the health effects of neoliberalism starting with the structural adjustment conditionalities mandat... Read More about Neoliberalism and health: The linkages and the dangers.

A New Gilded Age, and What It Means for Global Health Comment on "Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?" (2016)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2017). A New Gilded Age, and What It Means for Global Health Comment on "Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?". International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 6(3), 169-171. https://doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2016.115

New contours of global inequality present new challenges for global health, and require that we consider new kinds of health issues as global. I provide a number of illustrations, arguing the need for a political science of health that goes beyond co... Read More about A New Gilded Age, and What It Means for Global Health Comment on "Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?".

‘Neoliberal epidemics' and public health: sometimes the world is less complicated than it appears (2016)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2016). ‘Neoliberal epidemics' and public health: sometimes the world is less complicated than it appears. Critical Public Health, 26(5), 477-480. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2016.1184229

A recent CPH editorial addressed ‘the perils of invoking neoliberalism in public health critique’. While in sympathy with many of the authors’ concerns, I argue that the analytical literature on neoliberalism, the historical record of neoliberalism’s... Read More about ‘Neoliberal epidemics' and public health: sometimes the world is less complicated than it appears.

Bringing (domestic) politics back in: global and local influences on health equity (2015)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2015). Bringing (domestic) politics back in: global and local influences on health equity. Public Health, 129(7), 843-848. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2015.05.007

The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for health correctly concluded that: ‘with globalization, health inequity increasingly results from transnational activities that involve actors with different interests and degrees of pow... Read More about Bringing (domestic) politics back in: global and local influences on health equity.

The double burden of neoliberalism? Noncommunicable disease policies and the global political economy of risk (2015)
Journal Article
Glasgow, S., & Schrecker, T. (2015). The double burden of neoliberalism? Noncommunicable disease policies and the global political economy of risk. Health & Place, 34, 279-286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.06.005

The growing prevalence of NCDs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is now recognized as one of the major global health policy issues of the early 21st century. Current official approaches reflect ambivalence about how health policy should app... Read More about The double burden of neoliberalism? Noncommunicable disease policies and the global political economy of risk.

Changing cartographies of health in a globalizing world (2014)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2014). Changing cartographies of health in a globalizing world. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 1(1), 145-180. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.1.1.203

Anthropologists have described, often in eloquent detail, local destruction of opportunities to lead a healthy life (the social determinants of health) attendant on the macroscale economic processes conveniently described as ‘globalization’. Recent r... Read More about Changing cartographies of health in a globalizing world.

Globalization, austerity and health equity politics: taming the inequality machine, and why it matters (2014)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2016). Globalization, austerity and health equity politics: taming the inequality machine, and why it matters. Critical Public Health, 26(1), 4-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2014.973019

The recognition that globalization has an important role in explaining health inequalities has now moved into the mainstream. Much of that role relates to what has been called ‘[t]he inequality machine [that] is reshaping the planet’. At the same tim... Read More about Globalization, austerity and health equity politics: taming the inequality machine, and why it matters.

Globalization and Health (2014)
Book Chapter
Schrecker, T. (2014). Globalization and Health. In B. Jennings, L. Eckenwiler, G. Kaebnick, B. Koenig, S. Krimsky, S. Latham, & M. Mercurio (Eds.), Bioethics (1363-1370). (4th ed.). Macmillan Reference USA / Gale / Cengage Learning

Health equity in a globalising world: The importance of human rights (2014)
Book Chapter
Schrecker, T. (2014). Health equity in a globalising world: The importance of human rights. In A. Robertson (Ed.), Commonwealth health partnerships 2014 (18-21). Nexus Strategic Partnerships

At the start of the century, the proposition that globalisation might endanger health had gained limited acceptance. It was claimed in 2001 that ‘globalisation is good for your health, mostly’, based on a simplistic analysis in which increased trade... Read More about Health equity in a globalising world: The importance of human rights.

Globalization, Health Crises and Health Care (2013)
Book Chapter
Schrecker, T. (2013). Globalization, Health Crises and Health Care. In R. Valelly (Ed.), . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199756223-0068

The definition of the term “globalization” is itself contested terrain. This article recognizes the plurality of legitimate definitions that have in common a focus on economic, political, and social processes that operate across national borders. The... Read More about Globalization, Health Crises and Health Care.

Can health equity survive epidemiology? Standards of proof and social determinants of health (2013)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2013). Can health equity survive epidemiology? Standards of proof and social determinants of health. Preventive Medicine, 57(6), 741-744. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.08.013

Objective: This article examines how epidemiological evidence is and should be used in the context of increasing concern for health equity and for social determinants of health. Method: A research literature on use of scientific evidence of “environm... Read More about Can health equity survive epidemiology? Standards of proof and social determinants of health.

Beyond ‘Run, Knit and Relax’: Can Health Promotion in Canada Advance the Social Determinants of Health Agenda? (2013)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2013). Beyond ‘Run, Knit and Relax’: Can Health Promotion in Canada Advance the Social Determinants of Health Agenda?. Healthcare Policy, 9(Special Issue), 48-58. https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2013.23590

Can health promotion in Canada effectively respond to the challenge of reducing health inequities presented by the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health? Against a background of failure to take seriously issues of social structure, I focus... Read More about Beyond ‘Run, Knit and Relax’: Can Health Promotion in Canada Advance the Social Determinants of Health Agenda?.

How to Think about Social Determinants of Health: Revitalizing the Agenda in Canada (2013)
Report
Schrecker, T., & Taler, V. (2013). How to Think about Social Determinants of Health: Revitalizing the Agenda in Canada. [No known commissioning body]

Five years after the release of the report of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, limited progress has been made in advancing its agenda of reducing health inequity by way of action on the social determinants of health, despite the a... Read More about How to Think about Social Determinants of Health: Revitalizing the Agenda in Canada.

Interrogating scarcity : how to think about ‘resource-scarce settings’ (2013)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2013). Interrogating scarcity : how to think about ‘resource-scarce settings’. Health Policy and Planning, 28(4), 400-409. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czs071

The idea of resource scarcity permeates health ethics and health policy analysis in various contexts. However, health ethics inquiry seldom asks—as it should—why some settings are ‘resource-scarce’ and others not. In this article I describe interroga... Read More about Interrogating scarcity : how to think about ‘resource-scarce settings’.

Neoliberal globalization and health inequalities (2013)
Book Chapter
De Vogli, R., Schrecker, T., & Labonté, R. (2013). Neoliberal globalization and health inequalities. In L. G. Monaghan, & E. J. (Eds.), Key concepts in medical sociology (32-36). (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications

From bulldozing to housing rights : reducing vulnerability and improving health in African slums (2013)
Journal Article
Mohindra, K., & Schrecker, T. (2013). From bulldozing to housing rights : reducing vulnerability and improving health in African slums. Global Health Promotion, 20(Supplement 1), 64-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757975912462425

Forced evictions heighten vulnerability among slum dwellers who already face multiple risks of ill health. They constitute a well-documented violation of economic and social rights and are reaching epidemic proportions in sub-Saharan Africa as econom... Read More about From bulldozing to housing rights : reducing vulnerability and improving health in African slums.