INTRODUCTION The increasingly inequitable impacts of tobacco use highlight the importance of ensuring developing countries' ongoing participation in global tobacco control. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) has been widely regarded as reflecting the high engagement and effective influence of developing countries. METHODS We examined participation in FCTC governance based ...

1. The export sector is the fundamental source of both wealth and inequality: You are what you export. Exporting manufactures has been essential for high incomes and low levels of inequality. Exporting crops and raw materials comes with low incomes and unequal income distributions. 2. The mix of exports is determined by three fundamentals: Resources, Remoteness, and Climate. Manufacturing likes...

The relationship between the global food system and the worldwide rapid increase of obesity and related diseases is not yet well understood. A reason is that the full impact of industrialized food processing on dietary patterns, including the environments of eating and drinking, remains overlooked and underestimated. Many forms of food processing are beneficial. But what is identified and defin...

0370 M ost people believe that as societies advance economically they have higher levels of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and other noncommunicable disease (NCD) risks. However, a more detailed analysis of how parameters of economic development are associated with health outcomes as well as NCD risk factors is needed to inform local and global health policies. Such an analysis might dispel preju...

The past century of global health interventions has been marked by stunning successes (eg, eradication of smallpox) and disappointing failures (eg, spread of malaria). Life expectancy has generally increased substantially across the globe, yet there remain large populations who suffer from eminently preventable and treatable diseases. Despite the existence of wellestablished, evidence-based int...

As household incomes rise around the world and global temperatures go up, the use of air conditioning is poised to increase dramatically. Air conditioning growth is expected to be particularly strong in middle-income countries, but direct empirical evidence is scarce. In this paper we use high-quality microdata from Mexico to describe the relationship between temperature, income, and air condit...

Globally, poorer population groups bear a disproportionate burden of avoidable morbidity and mortality from road traffic injuries. The distribution of road traffic injuries is generally influenced by socioeconomic factors. Poor countries bear a disproportionate burden of injuries and fatalities, and within countries, poor people account for a disproportionate portion of the ill health due to ro...