Public Health and Emerging Risks: Emerging Countries' Responsibility and International Cooperation

Abstract:     
A globalizing world offers many opportunities and challenges for global health. The opportunity to convey health technology and know-how from one region of the world to another offers significant hope for countries to gain knowledge and improve health. This paper argues that global problems require local solutions and outlines efforts to link health to foreign policy and to support countries' articulating their own needs. This paper also outlines the unique role emerging countries have to play in reducing global health inequalities and in assisting developing countries in improving the health of their populations.

Keywords: globalization, public health, emerging countries

JEL Classifications: I18, I30

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