- Copyright Page
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Global Health Politics: An Introduction
- The History of International Health: Medicine, Politics, and Two Socio-Medical Perspectives, 1851 to 2000
- Globalisation and the Politics of Global Health
- The Politics of Global Health Inequalities: Approaches to Studying the Role of Power
- Critical Approaches to Global Health
- Global Health Diplomacy
- Security and Health
- Global Health and Human Security
- Critical Security Studies and Global Health
- Biosecurity and the Risk to Global Health
- Military Assistance during Health Emergencies
- Global Health and International Development
- The Politics of Gender and Global Health
- Global Health Governance
- The State and Global Health
- Emerging Powers and Global Health Governance: The Case of BRICS Countries
- The Politics of Global Health Agenda Setting
- The Politics of Intergovernmental Organizations in Global Health
- Civil Society and Global Health Politics
- The Role of the Business Sector in Global Health Politics
- Philanthropy and Global Health
- Trade and Investment Agreements and the Global Politics of Health
- The Global Politics of Healthcare Reform
- Towards a Critical Political Economy of Global Health
- The Human Right to Health and Global Health Politics
- Reporting Disease Outbreaks in a World with No Digital Borders
- The Politics of Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
- The Global Politics of HIV and AIDS
- The Global Politics of Neglected Tropical Diseases
- The Politics of Global Vaccination Policies
- The Global Politics of Access to Medicines: From 1.0 to 2.0
- Non-Communicable Diseases and Global Health Politics
- The Politics of Global Tobacco Control
- The Politics of Global Bioethical Frameworks
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter explores the relationship between international development and global health. Contrary to the view that development implies ‘good change’, this chapter argues that the discourse of development masks the destructive and exploitative practices of wealthy countries at the expense of poorer ones. These practices, and the unregulated capitalist economic system that they are part of, have created massive inequalities between and within countries, and potentially catastrophic climate change. Both of these outcomes are detrimental to global health and the millennium development goals and sustainable development goals do not challenge these dynamics. While the Sustainable Development Goals acknowledge that inequality and climate change are serious threats to the future of humanity, they fail to address the economic system that created them. Notwithstanding, it is possible that the enormity and proximity of the threat posed by inequality and global warming will energise a counter movement to create what Kate Raworth terms ‘an ecologically safe and socially just space’ for the global population while there is still time.
Keywords: globalisation, development, climate change, sustainable development goals, inequality, health
Andrew Harmer, Queen Mary University of London
Jonathan Kennedy, Queen Mary University of London
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- Copyright Page
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Global Health Politics: An Introduction
- The History of International Health: Medicine, Politics, and Two Socio-Medical Perspectives, 1851 to 2000
- Globalisation and the Politics of Global Health
- The Politics of Global Health Inequalities: Approaches to Studying the Role of Power
- Critical Approaches to Global Health
- Global Health Diplomacy
- Security and Health
- Global Health and Human Security
- Critical Security Studies and Global Health
- Biosecurity and the Risk to Global Health
- Military Assistance during Health Emergencies
- Global Health and International Development
- The Politics of Gender and Global Health
- Global Health Governance
- The State and Global Health
- Emerging Powers and Global Health Governance: The Case of BRICS Countries
- The Politics of Global Health Agenda Setting
- The Politics of Intergovernmental Organizations in Global Health
- Civil Society and Global Health Politics
- The Role of the Business Sector in Global Health Politics
- Philanthropy and Global Health
- Trade and Investment Agreements and the Global Politics of Health
- The Global Politics of Healthcare Reform
- Towards a Critical Political Economy of Global Health
- The Human Right to Health and Global Health Politics
- Reporting Disease Outbreaks in a World with No Digital Borders
- The Politics of Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
- The Global Politics of HIV and AIDS
- The Global Politics of Neglected Tropical Diseases
- The Politics of Global Vaccination Policies
- The Global Politics of Access to Medicines: From 1.0 to 2.0
- Non-Communicable Diseases and Global Health Politics
- The Politics of Global Tobacco Control
- The Politics of Global Bioethical Frameworks
- Index