ABSTRACT
Understanding how globalisation affects health is not easy; the concept itself is multifaceted, and the breadth and depth of the pathways by which it influences health almost defy study of causal relations. Any explanation for how globalisation affects health becomes an evidence-based argument, in which evidence necessarily derives from multiple studies examining differing aspects of globalisation for their impact on theoretical or empirically established causal chains. The evidence is built up link by link; the problematic becomes one of organising the evidence into a coherent story.
