The last two decades of the twentieth century recorded a slowdown in health gains and widespread increases in health … inequality across and within countries. The paper explores the causes of such trends on the basis of five main mortality models …. To do so, it regresses IMR/LEB on 15 determinants of health. The results underscore the negative health effects of the …

convergence of adult mortality rates among the rich of the world, particularly men. Globalization would do much for global health … throughout the now poor world. Many see related threats to public health from current globalization. Multilateral and bilateral … Services may restrict the freedom of signatories to shape their own health delivery systems, and it remains unclear whether …