Globalization and Health Inequities in Latin America / edited by Ligia Malagón de Salazar, Roberto Carlos Luján Villar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Malagón de Salazar, Ligia, editor.

Luján Villar, Roberto Carlos, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine.

Health promotion.

Health administration.

Medicine & Public Health.

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Health Administration.

Local Subjects:

Medicine & Public Health.

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Health Administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXII, 306 pages 46 illustrations, 35 illustrations in color)

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This book critically analyses the influence of international policies and guidelines on the performance of interventions aimed at reducing health inequities in Latin America, with special emphasis on health promotion and health in all policies strategies. While the implementation of these interventions plays a key role in strengthening these countries' capacity to respond to current and future challenges, the urgency and pressures of cooperation and funding agencies to show results consistent with their own agendas not only hampers this goal, but also makes the territory invisible, hiding the real problems faced by most Latin American countries, diminishing the richness of local knowledge production, and hindering the development of relevant proposals that consider the territory's conditions and cultural identity. Departing from this general analysis, the authors search for answers to the following questions: Why, despite the importance of the theoretical advances r egarding actions to address social and health inequities, haven't Latin American countries been able to produce the expected results? Why do successful initiatives only take place within the framework of pilot projects? Why does the ideology of health promotion and health in all policies mainly permeate structures of the health sector, but not other sectors? Why are intersectoral actions conjunctural initiatives, which often fail to evolve into permanent practices? Based on an extensive literature review, case studies, personal experiences, and interviews with key informants in the region, Globalization and Health Inequities in Latin America presents a strategy that uses monitoring and evaluation practices for enhancing the capacity of Latin American and other low and middle-income countries to implement sustainable processes to foster inclusiveness, equity, social justice and human rights. andnb sp;.

Contents:

Part I.Introduction

Chapter 1. Equity, Globalization and Health

Chapter 2.Global response to social and health inequities

Chapter 3.Main challenges to reduce health inequities in Latin América

Part II.Latin American Experiences

Chapter 4.Redlacpromsa: The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Health Promotion managers

Chapter 5.Denaturalizing “long-lasting endemic diseases”: social mobilization in the context of arboviral diseases in Brazil

Chapter 6. Health promoting schools: implementation challenges, barriers and lessons from a case study

Chapter 7.Health in the School Program: practicing intersectoriality with territorial basis for the future of Health in all Policies. (SETP / HiP)

Chapter 8.Strategic Analysis of Health Care Practices for Homeless in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil

Chapter 9.Linking behavioral surveillance system to health promotion, and policy-making

Chapter 10.Linking behavioral surveillance system to health promotion, and policy-making

Chapter 11.La Cumbre, Valle del Cauca. The challenge of implementing sustainable territorial development. Critical factors and consequences in the reduction of inequities in health

Chapter 12.Innovation in the small farmers' economy: good agricultural practices of Healthy Agriculture with associated rural enterprises in the Northern Cauca area in Colombia

Chapter 13. Research in the Strategy of Healthy Communities in Mexico: Learning for the transformation of the practice against the Social Determinants of Health

Chapter 14.Space management of health promotion: The dengue epidemic case in Perú

Part III - Proposal

Chapter 15.A bet for the reduction of health inequities in accordance to the conditions of the Latin American Region.

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ISBN:

9783319672922

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