We hope that this blog will provide a platform for a sprawling conversation about the political economy of health. In particular, we aim to explore the ways in which globalisation shapes the health chances of people globally, but particularly in low income countries.
We (the assembled bloggers) believe that the global economy, its influences on health and various strategies of change are too complex to be captured in a single narrative. Rather we need a conversation that canvasses a range of issues, analyses and possible strategies of change. We hope that out of this conversation, and the thousands of other similar linked conversations taking place at the same time, a stronger consensus might emerge which will point towards new forms of global action.
We look towards new forms of practice, new organisations and new social movements through which we may find our way to a healthier world, a more equitable and more convivial world; a progressive return to an ecologically sustainable relationship between humanity and the rest of the biosphere.
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ReplyDeleteHow can we counter the relentless quest by the power elite to limit and disempower progressive policy?
Coporate lobbyists seem to have more power than the local electorate.
I preferred the union comrades to the spivs from the big end of town.
Doug Welch