Globalisation on trial

A new WHO report argues that investments in health are fundamental to economic development and proposes a massive increase in funding from both rich and poor countries. Morrow (p 53) believes that the plans in this report deserve strong support and immediate action from us all, while Smith (p 54) indicates that the opportunities for substantial improvement in global health are probably better now than at any time in the past 20 years. Frenk and Gomez-Dantes (p 95) say that "exchange, evidence, and empathy" should characterise international activities to care for all the world's people, and Berwick (p 55) advocates a programme for worldwide learning in which skills, information, and designs for continual health improvement are "freely exchanged and actively spread within and among all nations."

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