Browsing School of Public Health by Author "Labonte, Ronald"
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Assessing the health impact of transnational corporations: its importance and a framework
Baum, Fran; Sanders, David; Fisher, Matt; Anaf, Julia; Freudenberg, Nicholas; Friel, S.; Labonte, Ronald; London, Leslie; Monteiro, Carlos; Scott-Samuel, Alex; Sen, Amit (BioMed Central, 2016)BACKGROUND: The adverse health and equity impacts of transnational corporations' (TNCs) practices have become central public health concerns as TNCs increasingly dominate global trade and investment and shape national economies. ... -
Coverage of child health services in rural districts of Ethiopia with the health services extension program
Woldie, Mirkuzie; Morankar, Sudhakar Narayan; Feyissa, Garumma T.; Labonte, Ronald; Sanders, David (Academic Journals, 2015)Improving access to health care services has been advocated widely since the Declaration of Alma-Ata. Despite the efforts to realize this in Ethiopia, it is only in the year 2003 that the intention to take the package of ... -
Health promotion in Australian multi-disciplinary primary health care services: case studies from South Australia and the Nothern Territory
Baum, Fran; Freeman, Toby; Sanders, David; Jolley, Gwyn; Lawless, Angela; Bentley, Michael; Värttö, Kaisu; Boffa, John; Labonte, Ronald (Oxford University Press, 2013)This paper reports on the health promotion and disease prevention conducted at Australian multi-disciplinary primary health care (PHC) services and considers the ways in which the organizational environment affects the ... -
Implementation, effectiveness and political context of comprehensive primary health care: preliminary findings of a global literature review
Labonte, Ronald; Sanders, David; Baum, Fran; Schaay, Nikki; Packer, Corinne (CSIRO, 2008)Primary health care (PHC) is again high on the international agenda. It was the theme of The World Health Report in 2008, thirty years after the Alma-Ata Declaration, and has been the topic of a series of significant ... -
Is the Alma Ata vision of comprehensive primary health care viable? Findings from an international project
Labonte, Ronald; Sanders, David; Packer, Corinne; Schaay, Nikki (Co-Action Publishing, 2014)BACKGROUND: The 4-year (2007 2011) Revitalizing Health for All international research program (http://www. globalhealthequity.ca/projects/proj_revitalizing/index.shtml) supported 20 research teams located in 15 ... -
Measuring progess on diet-related NCD's: the need to address the causes of the causes
Friel, S.; Labonte, Ronald; Sanders, David (Elsevier, 2013)WHO has developed nine voluntary global monitoring targets and 25 indicators to assess progress in the implementation of national strategies to achieve the global political commitment to reduce the probability of dying ... -
Urbanization and international trade and investment policies as determinants of noncommunicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa
Schram, Ashley; Labonte, Ronald; Sanders, David (Elsevier, 2013)There are three dominant globalization pathways affecting noncommunicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): urbanization, trade liberalization, and investment liberalization. Urbanization carries potential health ... -
What is the difference between comprehensive and selective primary health care? Evidence from a five-year longitudinal realist case study in South Australia
Baum, Fran; Freeman, Toby; Lawless, Angela; Labonte, Ronald; Sanders, David (BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)BACKGROUND Since the WHO’s Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care (PHC) there has been debate about the advisability of adopting comprehensive or selective PHC. Proponents of the latter argue that a more ...