Intro -- Preface -- Why This Book -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: The Double Debt: Economic and Environmental -- The Economic Crisis -- The Environmental Debt -- The Baumol Disease and the Funding of the State -- Co-benefits of Climate Change Mitigation -- Final Remarks -- 2: An Overview of What Global Health Is -- Economy and Health -- Converging Trends: The Quest for a Minimal State, Misconceptions on Science, Fragmented Research -- Political Crisis, Health Crisis -- Health in a Global World -- Three Exemplary Cases: Nauru, Greece and Bangladesh -- Obesity in Nauru: A Story of Early Globalisation -- Greece: The Health Effects of Economic Crisis -- The Case of Bangladesh -- 3: Food -- The Two Faces of Nutritional Problems -- The Global Food Industry -- 4: Climate Change -- The Fifth Report by the IPCC: The Effects on Health -- Climate Change and Communicable Diseases -- Causality and Climate Change -- Climate Change and Vulnerability -- Denialism -- 5: The Environment -- Aflatoxin -- Arsenic in Water and Other Environmental Exposures in Poor Countries -- Urban Sprawl, the Built Environment and Health -- The Microbiological Environment -- 6: The Economic Crisis -- The WHO, Smallpox and Polio -- Globalisation and Health: The Prospects -- 7: Cancer: A Time Bomb in Poor Countries -- Cancer as a Global and Preventable Problem -- The Agents that Cause Cancer and the Importance of Prevention -- The Global Epidemic of Diseases Linked to Tobacco -- Occupational Carcinogens -- Diet and Tumours -- Infectious Carcinogenic Agents -- Environmental Carcinogens -- Other Risk Factors: Socio-economic Status -- ``Why Me?´´ Nature and Culture: The Role of Genetic Predisposition -- Primary Prevention of Tumours -- The Threats of Globalisation for the Primary Prevention of Cancer -- Final Remarks -- 8: The Epigenetic Landscape.
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