A policy space describes “the freedom, scope, and mechanisms that governments have to
choose, design and implement public policies to fulfill their aims”(Koivusalo, Labonte, and …

The central task of any critical social science is speaking truth about power. After a brief
review of 'glass half full'and 'glass half empty'perspectives on recent developments in global …

The role of better health in socio-economic development has long been argued, as has the
need for getting other development sectors to contribute to health development. However, as …

Investing in Health is the World Bank's blueprint for a new health policy within the context of
structural adjustment. While this document includes a broad range of arguments, its implicit …

This contribution joins the debate on the politics of global health, and specifically inequality
in health. Focusing on three recent and pertinent reports, it examines two opposing …

In this article, we identify pathways that link the global financial crisis to health equity. We
distinguish between direct and indirect channels of influence, and develop a conceptual …

Although geographers have long contributed to the understanding of health worldwide via
medical geography, epidemiology, public health, and development studies, they are …

The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in late 2019 has had social, political, and economic
consequences worldwide. However, its emergence was not a surprise. In 2015, a Panel …

The last quarter century–the years of the current globalisation-enjoyed a 'peace
dividend'produced by the end of the Cold War, a 'democratic dividend'due to the collapse of …

Looking ahead to 2013 and beyond, we can already safely predict that, barring an unlikely
quick turn to robust economic growth among advanced industrial economies, the global …