Globalization and Health - update

This is a new open access journal published online by BioMedCentral.

The opening editorial argues that globalisation is reshaping the world in which we strive to create health or tackle disease. Health is also a measure of the successes or failings of globalisation, and globalisation is affected by health.

As the coordinator of my church's group looking at globalisation, in partnership with three churches elsewhere in the world, I shall be monitoring this journal. Articles so far include one on health priorities and one on international nurse recruitment and the NHS.

A review in the Lancet, however, points out that almost all the editorial board are resident in the USA or western Europe.. Read the review (I have the password to access it on the Lancet site).