Global health financing has increased dramatically in recent years, indicative of a rise in
health as a foreign policy issue. Several governments have issued specific foreign policy …

In recent decades, public health policy and practice have been increasingly challenged by
globalization, even as global financing for health has increased dramatically. This article …

Globalization is a key context for the study of social determinants of health (SDH). Broadly
stated, SDH are the conditions in which people live and work, and that affect their …

Many qualitative research studies acknowledge the possibility of social desirability bias (a
tendency to present reality to align with what is perceived to be socially acceptable) as a …

… Ronald Labonte has worked in health promotion and community development for 25 years
in a variety of government and NGO settings. He currently divides his time between teaching …

Recent reformulations of health promotion focus on empowerment as both a means and an
end in health promotion practice. Both concepts, however, are rarely examined for their …

… & Labonte, R. (2000) A planning framework for the accommodation of community empowerment
goals within health promotion programming, Health Policy and Planning, 15 (in press). …

One manifestation of globalization is medical tourism. As its implications remain largely
unknown, we reviewed claimed benefits and risks. Driven by high health-care costs, long waiting …

The aim of the present study was to examine the convergence of two approaches used to
assess community capacity in health promotion interventions. One was used to examine …

… Borrowing from similar cautionary statements I made regarding last season's first blush
with social capital (Labonte, 1999), I offer a focal question for practitioners, researchers and …