Abstract

International concerns for protection and promotion of peoples health in developing countries in the face of globalization came up with strategies for minimizing the negative impacts of economic adjustment in the 1980s and later for ensuring health equity. The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health though it recognized that health is indispensable to development missed out the processes of how the changing dynamics of global economic and geopolitical environment undermine or improve health. The World Health Organization however limited its focus on the health systems. Squarely the global exercises emphasized basic incomes living standards health and nutrition of the vulnerable including the poor or stressed more the health systems rather than the social determinants of health. (excerpt)

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