glossary of globalization

Glossary of globalization, trade and health termsThe following glossary has been developed to promote and inform the dialogue between the trade and the health sectors.. It seeks to expla

Glossary of globalization, trade and health terms

The following glossary has been developed to promote and inform the dialogue between the trade and the health sectors

It seeks to explain many of the key globalization and trade terms and debates from the perspective of public health, providing definitions for technical terms and showing the linkages and

interrelationships between them

Because of the constantly evolving nature of the subject it covers, this glossary should be seen as work in progress:

*It does not represent the position or policies of the World Health Organization or its Member States

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Glossary terms

We have identified 103 terms listed below in alphabetical order from "Access" to "World Trade Organization" For each definition we have inserted links to related terms to allow the user to move easily around the document and to provide an insight into the linkages and patterns within this complex subject

 A

 B

 C

 D

 E

 F

 G

 H

 I

 J

 K

 L

 O

 P

 R

 S

 T

 V

 X

 Y

 Z

A

 Access

 Access to Medicines

 Adjustment with a Human Face

 Anti-Microbial Resistance

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B

 Biodiversity

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C

 Civil Society

 Climate Change

 Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH)

 Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF)

 Conditionality

 Cross-Border Health Risks

 Cultural Dimension of Globalization

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D

 Data for Policy Decisions

 Debt

 Development

 Development Cooperation

 Doha

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E

 E-Health

 Economic Growth

 Economic Integration

 Emerging Diseases

 Environmental Change

 Equity

 Essential Medicines

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F

 Financial Crisis

 Food Safety

 Food Security

 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

 Foreign Policy and Health Security

 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)

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G

 Gender

 General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)

 Generic Drugs

 Genomics

 Global Burden of Disease

 Global Democracy Deficit

 Global Governance

 Global Health Declarations

 Global Health Initiatives

 Global Public Goods

 Global Response Networks

 Globalization

 GlobaliZation and Health

 Globalization of Health

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H

 Health

 Health ethics

 Health Financing

 Health Sector

 Health Systems

 Health Transition

 HIV/AIDS

 Human Capital

 Human Development Index

 Human Rights-Based Approach to Health

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I

 Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

 InterGovernmental Organizations

 International Corporations

 International Financial Institutions

 International Financial System

 International Law

 International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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L

 Licence

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M

 Malaria

 Millennium Development Goals

 Multilateral Trade Agreements (MTAs)

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N

 Neo-Liberal Ideas

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O

 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

 Ozone Depletion

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P

 Parallel Imports

 Patents

 Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

 Pharmaceutical Industry

 Post-Washington Consensus

 Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)

 Public Health

 Public-Private Partnerships for Health

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Q

 Quality of Pharmaceutical Products

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R

 Research and Development

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S

 Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (Agreement on the Application of)

 Sector-Wide Approaches (SWAps)

 Sovereignty

 State

 Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs)

 Subsidies

 Sustainable Development

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T

 Tariffs

 Technical Barriers to Trade (Agreement on)

 Tobacco

 Trade

 Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)

 Tuberculosis (TB)

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V

 Vulnerable Groups

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W

 Washington Consensus

 World Bank

 World Health Organization (WHO)

 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)

 World Trade Organization (WTO)