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Global Health. 2012 Aug 31;8:30. doi: 10.1186/1744-8603-8-30.
The complex relationship between globalization and health calls for research from many disciplinary and methodological perspectives. This editorial gives an overview of the content trajectory of the interdisciplinary journal 'Globalization and Health' over the first six years of production, 2005 to 2010. The findings show that bio-medical and population health perspectives have been dominant but that social science perspectives have become more evident in recent years. The types of paper published have also changed, with a growing proportion of empirical studies. A special issue on 'Health systems, health economies and globalization: social science perspectives' is introduced, a collection of contributions written from the vantage points of economics, political science, psychology, sociology, business studies, social policy and research policy. The papers concern a range of issues pertaining to the globalization of healthcare markets and governance and regulation issues. They highlight the important contribution that can be made by the social sciences to this field, and also the practical and methodological challenges implicit in the study of globalization and health.
全球化与健康之间的复杂关系需要从许多学科和方法的角度进行研究。本社论概述了跨学科期刊《全球化与健康》在 2005 年至 2010 年的前六年制作过程中的内容轨迹。研究结果表明，生物医学和人口健康视角一直占据主导地位，但近年来社会科学视角变得更加明显。发表的论文类型也发生了变化，实证研究的比例不断增加。介绍了一期关于“卫生系统、卫生经济与全球化：社会科学视角”的特刊，其中收录了从经济学、政治学、心理学、社会学、商业研究、社会政策和研究政策的角度撰写的一系列文章。这些文章涉及与医疗保健市场全球化和治理与监管问题相关的一系列问题。它们强调了社会科学可以为这一领域做出的重要贡献，也突出了全球化与健康研究中隐含的实际和方法挑战。
