Globalization and global health: toward nursing praxis in the global community.
Considerable evidence suggests that neocolonialism, in the form of economic globalization as it has evolved since the 1980s, contributes significantly to the poverty and immense global burden of disease experienced by peoples of the developing world, as well as to escalating environmental degradation of alarming proportions. Nursing's fundamental responsibilities to promote health, prevent disease, and alleviate suffering call for the expression of caring for humanity and environment through political activism at local, national, and international levels to bring about reforms of the current global economic order.
School of Nursing, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. arafael@yorku.ca
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D030861:Capitalism; D018595:Colonialism; D003132:Commerce / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003906:Developing Countries; D004782:Environmental Health; D014943:Global Health; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D008119:Lobbying; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology*; D011203:Poverty / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000639:trends; D011209:Power, Psychological; D014480:United Nations / Q000458:organization & administration