All Outputs (9)

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.

Complementarities or contradictions? Scoping the health dimensions of "Flexicurity" labor market policies (2013)
Journal Article
Afzal, Z., Muntaner, C., Chung, H., Mahmood, Q., Ng, E., & Schrecker, T. (2013). Complementarities or contradictions? Scoping the health dimensions of "Flexicurity" labor market policies. International Journal of Health Services, 43(3), 473-482. https://doi.org/10.2190/hs.43.3.f

Flexicurity, or the integration of labor market flexibility with social security and active labor market policies, has figured prominently in economic and social policy discussions in Europe since the mid-1990s. Such policies are designed to transcen... Read More about Complementarities or contradictions? Scoping the health dimensions of "Flexicurity" labor market policies.

Global reach, local depth, and the future of health equity (2013)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2013). Global reach, local depth, and the future of health equity. Social medicine (Social Medicine Publication Group), 7(2), 98-104

"Global Reach" was the title of one of the first popular books on the power of transnational corporations, published in 1974. Since then globalization has transformed the world to an extent that would then have been difficult to imagine. In this arti... Read More about Global reach, local depth, and the future of health equity.