The capitalist world-system and international health

摘要: A number of world health problems which have been discretely considered in the past are viewed this paper as interwoven with each other and functioning capitalist political-economic world-system. Thus, climactic explanations ("tropical medicine"), even poverty when conceived cultural terms or a structural problem resident entirely within single nation, seen inadequate for understanding any all discussed briefly here: poor general levels peripheral semi-peripheral nations, especially rising infant mortality rates countries such Brazil; comerciogenic malnutrition; dumping exploitative sale drugs, pesticides products banned restricted core nations; genocidal threatening approaches to population control; export hazardous polluting industry similar human experimentation; irrelevant, high medical technology lacking basic public measures, "brain drain", imperialism. Also discounted moralistic inveighing, complaints about information its transfer, discussions bureaucratic bumbling inter-agency politics professional rivalries, various forms victim-blaming, corrective ignore class structure control, distribution, expropriation resources nations The framework suggests importance worldwide hegemony, including established by service ruling classes. Socialist-oriented quasi-independent world-system suffering less from effects. This that we should conceive socialist health, rather than kind unified phenomenon called "international health".