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1. To quell obesity, who should regulate food marketing to children?

   The global hegemony of the United States in the production and marketing of food, while a marvel of economic success, has contributed to the epidemic of obesity that is particularly afflicting children. So far...

   Authors: Ben Kelly

   Citation: Globalization and Health 2005 1:9

   Content type: Editorial Published on: 14 July 2005

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2. The World Summit on Sustainable Development: reaffirming the centrality of health

   The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) was held in Johannesburg in 2002 to review progress since the Rio conference in 1992, and to agree a new global deal on sustainable development. Unlike its pr...

   Authors: Yasmin von Schirnding

   Citation: Globalization and Health 2005 1:8

   Content type: Short report Published on: 10 May 2005

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3. International nurse recruitment and NHS vacancies: a cross-sectional analysis

   Foreign-trained nurse recruits exceeded the number of new British-trained recruits on the UK nurse register for the first time in 2001. As the nursing shortage continues, health care service providers rely inc...

   Authors: Amber S Batata

   Citation: Globalization and Health 2005 1:7

   Content type: Research Published on: 22 April 2005

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4. Global health priorities – priorities of the wealthy?

   Health has gained importance on the global agenda. It has become recognized in forums where it was once not addressed. In this article three issues are considered: global health policy actors, global health pr...

   Authors: Eeva Ollila

   Citation: Globalization and Health 2005 1:6

   Content type: Review Published on: 22 April 2005

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5. The evolution of the Global Burden of Disease framework for disease, injury and risk factor quantification: developing the evidence base for national, regional and global public health action

   Reliable, comparable information about the main causes of disease and injury in populations, and how these are changing, is a critical input for debates about priorities in the health sector. Traditional sourc...

   Authors: Alan D Lopez

   Citation: Globalization and Health 2005 1:5

   Content type: Commentary Published on: 22 April 2005

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6. The global diet: trade and novel infections

   Practices designed to meet the demands of global trade can amplify food safety problems. Ever-increasing pressure to churn out more product and better sides of beef has generated processes that compromise exis...

   Authors: Jill R Hodges and Ann Marie Kimball

   Citation: Globalization and Health 2005 1:4

   Content type: Review Published on: 22 April 2005

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7. Trade related infections: farther, faster, quieter

   Modern global trading traffics large volumes of diverse products rapidly to a broad geographic area of the world. When emergent infections enter this system in traded products their transmission is amplified. ...

   Authors: Ann Marie Kimball, Yuzo Arima and Jill R Hodges

   Citation: Globalization and Health 2005 1:3

   Content type: Review Published on: 22 April 2005

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8. Globalization and Health: Exploring the opportunities and constraints for health arising from globalization

   The tremendous benefits which have been conferred to almost 5 billion people through improved technologies and knowledge highlights the concomitant challenge of bringing these changes to the 1 billion people l...

   Authors: Derek Yach

   Citation: Globalization and Health 2005 1:2

   Content type: Editorial Published on: 22 April 2005

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9. Globalization and Health

   This debut editorial of Globalization and Health introduces the journal, briefly delineating its goals and objectives and outlines its scope of subject matter. 'Open Access' publishing is expected to become an in...

   Authors: Greg Martin

   Citation: Globalization and Health 2005 1:1

   Content type: Editorial Published on: 22 April 2005

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