"Loathsome and Dangerous": Health Screening in a Globalized World

Community capacity building and health promotion in a globalized world.

In this paper, community capacity building (CCB) is seen as part of a long-standing health promotion tradition involving community action in health promotion. The conceptual context of the term CCB is presented, and compared with other community approaches. The usage of the term is variable. It is submitted that its common features are (i) the concepts of capacity and empowerment (versus diseas...

The Bangkok Charter for health promotion in a globalized world.

The GRIPP program is innovative and experimental and over the next few years we hope to learn more about how to improve research and practice links. The next issue of the NSW Public Health Bulletin will highlight examples of how the principles of GRIPP are being used in public health programs in NSW. The issue has been guest edited by Philip Davies from the Government Chief Social Researcher’s ...

Food safety in a globalized world

Editorials 212 Access to sufficient safe food is a basic requirement for human health. Ensuring food safety and security in a highly globalized world presents increasingly difficult, and often under-appreciated challenges, for governments, commercial organizations and individuals alike. The risks of unsafe food are substantial , but can be difficult to quantify. Diarrhoeal diseases – both foodb...

Redistribution Policies in a Globalized World

Fighting Infection in a Globalized World

Probably the hardest human battle, one that has lasted hundreds of thousands of years, has been the one against infection. Being able to celebrate a 30 birthday was once considered a miracle but only if one survived the perilous years of childhood. Indeed, the CDC reports that in 1900, nearly 30% of deaths worldwide occurred in children 5 and under. It is remarkable how far we’ve come in our ab...