Ted Schrecker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 271425 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ted Schrecker |
| NOMBRES | Ted |
| APELLIDO | Schrecker |
| FIRMA | SCHRECKER T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4447-5281 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 124 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
"Free Spirits" No More
Canada Kills, Inc
This article applies a critical political economy of health (CPEH) theoretical-analytic framework to the context of Canadian mining in Latin America and the Caribbean, elucidating how a variety of political, economic and social mechanisms operate at multiple levels. Based upon a guided selection of on-the-ground examples, our CPEH analysis demonstrates how the activities of Canadian mining companies, supported by Canadian tax and financial incent…
What is critical about critical public health? Focus on health inequalities
For many years I have discussed with colleagues, and more recently with students, the definition of critical perspectives (plural, for there are many) on public health. Based on those discussions, and with a focus on health inequalities, this article identifies five elements of such perspectives. First, they involve some degree of commitment to health equity. Second, they situate health inequalities with regard to underlying social arrangements o…
Globalization and health
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 health, I argue that such a critical perspective need not answer the question about the glass, but rather ask what more could have been achieved under different social arrangements. I continue with a discussion of how globalization has re-scaled distributional…
Equity of primary care service delivery for low income “sicker” adults across 10 OECD countries
Inequities in quality PC for low and middle income groups exist on at least one dimension in all countries, including some that in theory provide universal access. More research is needed to fully understand equity in the PC sector
The Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Ten years after the August 2008 release of the report of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, it is important to reflect on the fate of its recommendations for reducing ‘health inequity’. The article describes some key developments in the decade, notably in understanding the etiology of health inequalities, and then juxtaposes a hopeful comparison with of an earlier (1987) UN Commission on Environment and Development with a scepti…
How extractive industries affect health
A systematic and theoretically informed analysis of how extractive industries affect health outcomes and health inequities is overdue. Informed by the work of Saskia Sassen on "logics of extraction," we adopt an expansive definition of extractive industries to include (for example) large-scale foreign acquisitions of agricultural land for export production. To ground our analysis in concrete place-based evidence, we begin with a brief review of f…
Canadian mining and ill health in Latin America
Was Mackenbach right? Towards a practical political science of redistribution and health inequalities
Global Health and the “Inequality Machine”
Global Health and the “Inequality Machine” Affiliation Ted Schrecker MAAt the time of writing, Ted Schrecker was Professor of Global Health Policy, School of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Health, Durham University, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Ted Schrecker, 20 Mulberry Wynd, Stockton-on-Tees, TS18 3BQ United Kingdom (e-mail: [email protected]com). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking …
Neoliberal epidemics’ and public health
A recent CPH editorial addressed ‘the perils of invoking neoliberalism in public health critique’. While in sympathy with many of the authors’ concerns, I argue that the analytical literature on neoliberalism, the historical record of neoliberalism’s promotion and diffusion, and the empirical evidence of its health consequences support the view that ‘neoliberal epidemics’ represent a substantial and clearly definable threat to public health and h…
Neoliberalism and Health
A recent book addresses the health effects of neoliberalism using the provocative rubric of ‘ neoliberal epidemics ’. This article reviews literature on the health effects of neoliberalism starting with the structural adjustment conditionalities mandated by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. It continues with an analysis of how neoliberalism increases economic insecurity and inequality , and the effects on health , with a section…
The double burden of neoliberalism? Noncommunicable disease policies and the global political economy of risk
The double burden of neoliberalism? Noncommunicable disease policies and the global political economy of risk
Globalization and the health of Canadians
BACKGROUND: Globalization describes processes of greater integration of the world economy through increased flows of goods, services, capital and people. Globalization has undergone significant transformation since the 1970s, entrenching neoliberal economics as the dominant model of global market integration. Although this transformation has generated some health gains, since the 1990s it has also increased health disparities. METHODS: As part of…
Theorising health inequalities
How Politics Makes Us Sick
Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra argue that the obesity, insecurity, austerity and inequality that result from neoliberal (or 'market fundamentalist') policies are hazardous to our health, asserting tha
Globalization, austerity and health equity politics
The recognition that globalization has an important role in explaining health inequalities has now moved into the mainstream. Much of that role relates to what has been called ‘[t]he inequality machine [that] is reshaping the planet’. At the same time, more attention must be paid to how the state can tame the inequality machine or compensate for its effects. I argue that governments have more flexibility in this respect than is often acknowledged…
Changing cartographies of health in a globalizing world
Anthropologists have described, often in eloquent detail, local destruction of opportunities to lead a healthy life (the social determinants of health) attendant on the macroscale economic processes conveniently described as 'globalization'. Recent reorganizations of production and finance redraw maps both literal and metaphorical of the inequalities that affect health. I argue that it is essential to focus attention on the common origins of such…
Interrogating scarcity
The idea of resource scarcity permeates health ethics and health policy analysis in various contexts. However, health ethics inquiry seldom asks-as it should-why some settings are 'resource-scarce' and others not. In this article I describe interrogating scarcity as a strategy for inquiry into questions of resource allocation within a single political jurisdiction and, in particular, as an approach to the issue of global health justice in an inte…
Global health and national borders
Despite significant theoretical disagreements, four influential accounts of justice offer important reasons to support many current initiatives to promote global health. Ethical argumentation can complement pragmatic reasons to support global health interventions and provide an important foundation to strengthen collective action
Multiple crises and global health
The world economy is entering an era of multiple crises, involving finance, food security and global environmental change. This article assesses the implications for global public health, describes the contours of post-2007 crises in food security and finance, and then briefly indicates the probable health impacts. There follows a discussion of the crisis of climate change, one that will unfold over a longer time frame but with manifestations tha…
Access to primary healthcare services for the Roma population in Serbia
BACKGROUND: Serbia has proclaimed access to healthcare as a human right. In a context wherein the Roma population are disadvantaged, the aim of this study was to assess whether the Roma population are able to effectively access primary care services, and if not, what barriers prevent them from doing so. The history of the Roma in Serbia is described in detail so as to provide a context for their current vulnerable position. METHODS: Disaggregated…
The Health Case for Economic and Social Rights Against the Global Marketplace
“All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.” —Margaret Atwood, The Tent (McClelland and Stewart 2006) Over the past few decades, most of the world's economies and societies have been integrated into the global marketplace, revealing and deepening various socioeconomic divisions. In this article, I undertake three major tasks. First, I outline the processes that have led to that deepening, iden…
Health and human rights against the marketplace
Globalization and Health
1. Introduction: Globalization's Challenges to People's Health Ronald Labonte & Ted Schrecker 2. An Empirical Investigation of the Relation Between Globalization and Health Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Stefano Rosignoli & Luca Tiberti 3. Global Political-Economic and Geopolitical Processes, Structures and Trends Patrick Bond 4. Labor Markets, Equity and Social Determinants of Health Ted Schrecker 5. Globalization and Policy Space for Health and Social…
How extractive industries affect health
A systematic and theoretically informed analysis of how extractive industries affect health outcomes and health inequities is overdue. Informed by the work of Saskia Sassen on "logics of extraction," we adopt an expansive definition of extractive industries to include (for example) large-scale foreign acquisitions of agricultural land for export production. To ground our analysis in concrete place-based evidence, we begin with a brief review of f…
Advancing health equity in the global marketplace
The WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) ascribed health disparities within and between countries to "a toxic combination of poor social policies and programmes, unfair economic arrangements, and bad politics." This article analyzes the relevance of the international human rights framework (IHRF) to the Commission's goal of reducing health disparities with reference to both social scientific and legal scholarship. We begin with …
Neoliberalism and Health
A recent book addresses the health effects of neoliberalism using the provocative rubric of ‘ neoliberal epidemics ’. This article reviews literature on the health effects of neoliberalism starting with the structural adjustment conditionalities mandated by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. It continues with an analysis of how neoliberalism increases economic insecurity and inequality , and the effects on health , with a section…
The double burden of neoliberalism? Noncommunicable disease policies and the global political economy of risk
Canadian mining and ill health in Latin America
Committed to health for all? How the G7/G8 rate
Unpacking capacity to utilize research
Passing the Buck
Globalization and health
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 health, I argue that such a critical perspective need not answer the question about the glass, but rather ask what more could have been achieved under different social arrangements. I continue with a discussion of how globalization has re-scaled distributional…
Grand Challenges Canada
Integrating Knowledge Generation with Knowledge Diffusion and Utilization
Money Matters; A Reality Check, With Help From Virginia Woolf
This article provides a qualified defence of economic indicators of human well being. Purchasing power obviously matters as a prerequisite for obtaining basic needs; abundant examples of human behaviour even in the richest countries in the world suggest that it matters for many other reasons, as well. Despite the shortcomings of indicators like GDP and GNP, richer nations (like richer individuals) have options that are simply not available to poo…
Was Mackenbach right? Towards a practical political science of redistribution and health inequalities
Interrogating scarcity
The idea of resource scarcity permeates health ethics and health policy analysis in various contexts. However, health ethics inquiry seldom asks-as it should-why some settings are 'resource-scarce' and others not. In this article I describe interrogating scarcity as a strategy for inquiry into questions of resource allocation within a single political jurisdiction and, in particular, as an approach to the issue of global health justice in an inte…
Theorising health inequalities
Changing cartographies of health in a globalizing world
Anthropologists have described, often in eloquent detail, local destruction of opportunities to lead a healthy life (the social determinants of health) attendant on the macroscale economic processes conveniently described as 'globalization'. Recent reorganizations of production and finance redraw maps both literal and metaphorical of the inequalities that affect health. I argue that it is essential to focus attention on the common origins of such…
The G8 and Global Health
The ethics of social risk reduction in the era of the biological brain
In keeping with our transdisciplinary orientation, in this article we try to do several things at once. We address research on preventing mental illness and its relation to existing conceptions of public health, a topic to which insufficient attention has been paid in the era of the biological brain, while using this case study to illustrate the limits of conventional approaches in bioethics. After identifying the crucial need for methodological …
Guest Editor's Introduction
Of cars, sustainability and equity
Surviving Globalism
Management consultant Kenichi Ohmae describes the new reality of global economic competition as a 'borderless world'. What is the future of human values, and of environmental quality, in such a world?
Passing the Buck
Guest Editor's Introduction
Money Matters; A Reality Check, With Help From Virginia Woolf
This article provides a qualified defence of economic indicators of human well being. Purchasing power obviously matters as a prerequisite for obtaining basic needs; abundant examples of human behaviour even in the richest countries in the world suggest that it matters for many other reasons, as well. Despite the shortcomings of indicators like GDP and GNP, richer nations (like richer individuals) have options that are simply not available to poo…
The ethics of social risk reduction in the era of the biological brain
In keeping with our transdisciplinary orientation, in this article we try to do several things at once. We address research on preventing mental illness and its relation to existing conceptions of public health, a topic to which insufficient attention has been paid in the era of the biological brain, while using this case study to illustrate the limits of conventional approaches in bioethics. After identifying the crucial need for methodological …
Integrating Knowledge Generation with Knowledge Diffusion and Utilization
Committed to health for all? How the G7/G8 rate
The G8 and Global Health
Globalization and social determinants of health
Globalization is a key context for the study of social determinants of health (SDH): broadly stated, SDH are the conditions in which people live and work, and that affect their opportunities to lead healthy lives. In the first article in this three part series, we described the origins of the series in work conducted for the Globalization Knowledge Network of the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health and in the C…
Globalization and social determinants of health
Globalization is a key context for the study of social determinants of health (SDH). Broadly stated, SDH are the conditions in which people live and work, and that affect their opportunities to lead healthy lives.In this first article of a three-part series, we describe the origins of the series in work conducted for the Globalization Knowledge Network of the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health and in the Commi…
Globalization and social determinants of health
This article is the third in a three-part review of research on globalization and the social determinants of health (SDH). In the first article of the series, we identified and defended an economically oriented definition of globalization and addressed a number of important conceptual and metholodogical issues. In the second article, we identified and described seven key clusters of pathways relevant to globalization's influence on SDH. This disc…
Global Social Policy Forum
The 'diagonal' approach to Global Fund financing
BACKGROUND: The potentially destructive polarisation between 'vertical' financing (aiming for disease-specific results) and 'horizontal' financing (aiming for improved health systems) of health services in developing countries has found its way to the pages of Foreign Affairs and the Financial Times. The opportunity offered by 'diagonal' financing (aiming for disease-specific results through improved health systems) seems to be obscured in this p…
Globalization and Health
1. Introduction: Globalization's Challenges to People's Health Ronald Labonte & Ted Schrecker 2. An Empirical Investigation of the Relation Between Globalization and Health Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Stefano Rosignoli & Luca Tiberti 3. Global Political-Economic and Geopolitical Processes, Structures and Trends Patrick Bond 4. Labor Markets, Equity and Social Determinants of Health Ted Schrecker 5. Globalization and Policy Space for Health and Social…
Human Rights Against the Global Marketplace
Advancing health equity in the global marketplace
The WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) ascribed health disparities within and between countries to "a toxic combination of poor social policies and programmes, unfair economic arrangements, and bad politics." This article analyzes the relevance of the international human rights framework (IHRF) to the Commission's goal of reducing health disparities with reference to both social scientific and legal scholarship. We begin with …
Access to primary healthcare services for the Roma population in Serbia
BACKGROUND: Serbia has proclaimed access to healthcare as a human right. In a context wherein the Roma population are disadvantaged, the aim of this study was to assess whether the Roma population are able to effectively access primary care services, and if not, what barriers prevent them from doing so. The history of the Roma in Serbia is described in detail so as to provide a context for their current vulnerable position. METHODS: Disaggregated…
The Health Case for Economic and Social Rights Against the Global Marketplace
“All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.” —Margaret Atwood, The Tent (McClelland and Stewart 2006) Over the past few decades, most of the world's economies and societies have been integrated into the global marketplace, revealing and deepening various socioeconomic divisions. In this article, I undertake three major tasks. First, I outline the processes that have led to that deepening, iden…
Health and human rights against the marketplace
Why Are Some Settings Resource-poor and Others Not? The Global Marketplace, Perfect Economic Storms, and the Right to Health
Grand Challenges Canada
Unpacking capacity to utilize research
Global health and national borders
Despite significant theoretical disagreements, four influential accounts of justice offer important reasons to support many current initiatives to promote global health. Ethical argumentation can complement pragmatic reasons to support global health interventions and provide an important foundation to strengthen collective action
Multiple crises and global health
The world economy is entering an era of multiple crises, involving finance, food security and global environmental change. This article assesses the implications for global public health, describes the contours of post-2007 crises in food security and finance, and then briefly indicates the probable health impacts. There follows a discussion of the crisis of climate change, one that will unfold over a longer time frame but with manifestations tha…
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