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A case is made in Chapter Six that if any nation state is to be adjudged a ‘healthy society’, the analysis must be extended as a matter of urgency to incorporate analyses of unequal global relations. Reference is made both to shifts in the global economy of significance for health and health care beyond the English and UK experience, and to contemporary concerns around climate change. World systems theory is introduced to help theorise the linkages between high-income core, middle-income semi-peripheral and low-income peripheral countries.

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