Table 3 Thematic categories and subthemes aligned to key constructs of Labonte and Torgerson’s [2] conceptual framework
From: Globalization and Health: developing the journal to advance the field
Key constructs (Labonte & Torgerson) | Thematic categories | Sub-themes | Examples from G&H |
|---|---|---|---|
Global policy space & global health contexts | Global policies | Weapon control | [45]-Globalising weapon trade |
Global health | Epidemiology | [46]-Accountability in global health cooperation | |
Governance in health and pharmaceuticals | Food globalisation | [47]- Governments aiding nutrition crisis | |
Accountability | Global fund | ||
Nutrition | Millennium | ||
Development goals | |||
Global & domestic development contexts | Scientific research | Brain drain | [48] - Open access publishing in LMIC |
Educational development | Open innovation | [49]- Reverse innovation and volunteering | |
Global partnerships | Disease prevention strategies | [50]- Sustainable development in health | |
Development issues in LMIC | Resource allocation and effectiveness, | [51]- Coordination of development assistance | |
Voluntourism aid and NGOs | Emerging economies | ||
Sustainable development | Open publishing | ||
Underreporting in developing countries. | |||
Environmental pathways | Climate change | Impact on spread of diseases | [52]- Climate change and mosquito borne illnesses |
Climate sensitive health investment | [53]- Global health adaption with climate change | ||
Trade agreements & regulatory space of pharmaceutical products | Human rights | Antimicrobial resistance | [54]- Policy and access to medicine |
Implications of drug patents | Local production of medication | [39]- Import and production of generic medicine | |
Cost of medicines | Bilateral trade | ||
Access to medicine | |||
Healthcare systems | Healthcare regulation | Health rights | [55]- Conceptual framework for medical tourism |
Technology and health | Discourse on disease | [28]- eHealth legislation | |
Medical tourism | Telemedicine e/mHealth | [56]- Health market regulation in LMIC | |
Healthcare systems in LMIC | Access to healthcare systems | [57]- Access to healthcare in post conflict settings | |
Maternal health | Water sanitation | [58] - Facilitating access to healthcare | |
Public health service regulations | Mother to child HIV | ||
Female sex workers’ access to healthcare | Maternal mental health | ||
Domestic policy & national level contexts/influences | Governmental spending on health | Health system frameworks | [59]- Economic impact of spending on health |
Policy Global health diplomacy | Reducing practice-implementation gap | [60]- Health 'quality chasm’ in resource limited settings | |
Policy making on care systems | [32]- Frameworks learning from other international experience | ||
Improvement incentives | |||
Population level health influences: NCDs | Prevention and intervention | Prevalence | [61]- Effects of diabetes on domestic health system |
Burden- economic and health | Care systems | [62]- Integrating mHealth and mental health care | |
Diabetes | Policy management | [63]- Nicotine replacement therapies | |
Cardio vascular disease | Psychological impacts | [64]- Framework for prevention and control of NCDs | |
Tobacco | Mental health and SES Suicide | ||
Mental health | Tobacco’s global mortality | ||
Nutrition | Nicotine replacement and control | ||
Alcohol abuse | Obesity nutrition crisis | ||
Population level health influences: communicable diseases | Transmission of diseases | Adherence and sustained delivery of ART | [65]- Inequity in HIV care |
HIV/AIDS Programme sustainability | Access and supply of interventions | [66]- Access barriers to HIV/AIDS services | |
Awareness and prevention ARTs | AIDS free generation | [67]- Psychological influences of AIDS as chronic illness | |
Barriers in service | |||
Disease reconfiguration- HIV/AIDs as a chronic disease |