• ANS Adv Nurs Sci · Jan 2006

    Review

    Globalization and global health: toward nursing praxis in the global community.

    • Adeline Falk-Rafael.
    • School of Nursing, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. arafael@yorku.ca
    • ANS Adv Nurs Sci. 2006 Jan 1;29(1):2-14.

    AbstractConsiderable evidence suggests that neocolonialism, in the form of economic globalization as it has evolved since the 1980s, contributes significantly to the poverty and immense global burden of disease experienced by peoples of the developing world, as well as to escalating environmental degradation of alarming proportions. Nursing's fundamental responsibilities to promote health, prevent disease, and alleviate suffering call for the expression of caring for humanity and environment through political activism at local, national, and international levels to bring about reforms of the current global economic order.

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