As the world has grown smaller with intensive transportation and communication advances, it has also grown more interdependent. Products and people are constantly on the move and fragile ecosystems are increasingly disturbed as development pushes into new areas. Environmental pressures or ineffective health systems are recognized for their local impact but also seen as potential sources of nati...

Ilona Kickbusch argues that public health experts need to work with diplomats in order to achieve global health goals.

Brugha and Bruen (2014) raise a number of compelling issues related to the interaction between politics and policy in the global health context. The first question that their views invite is whether this is, at heart, best characterized as a benign or malign influence. Many commentators have suggested that this overlap should be discouraged (see, for example, Marseille et al 2002; Thomas & Webe...

globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. the aspects of globalization can be classified in four dimensions: social and cultural globalization, economic globalization, political globalization and globalization of law. a review of recent urban and regional studies shows that these studies has affected from globalization literature in ...