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International Journal for Quality in Health Care 14:339-340 (2002)
© 2002 International Society for Quality in Health Care

Book Review

International Co-operation in Health. Martin McKee, Paul Garner and Robin Stott, eds.

Margarita P. Hurtado

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International Co-operation in Health

Martin McKee, Paul Garner and Robin Stott, eds

Published in 2001 by Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

ISBN 0 19 263198 5 (hardback); Price £39.50.

The book International Co-operation in Health represents an important contribution to a growing but scant literature on the subject of globalization and its effects on health and health care. More specifically, the book seeks to inform and educate (public) health professionals about diverse threats to health on a global scale. These include risk factors that have traditionally been studied by epidemiologists (e.g. infectious diseases, tobacco, and diet) as well as other global phenomena that affect health but have not been traditionally studied in this context (e.g. climate change and migration).

As the editors point out, current epidemiological methods that dominate public health research are . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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