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 Globalization poses public health challenges in trade

It is vital that public health professionals engage with issues concerning trade organisations and treaties.
The world is getting smaller. Increased globalisation, resulting from advances in travel and telecommunications, has facilitated an ever greater mixing of people, customs and cultures, and more rapid cross border flows of goods and services, people and capital, and ideas and information. For some this heralds increasing standards of living—including health—for all. For others it brings greater exploitation of poor countries, adverse impacts on health, and the destruction of indigenous cultures. But why should this concern those working in public health? Read more in an article in the Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health on this Link



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