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    Ligia Malagón de Salazar, Roberto Carlos Luján Villar, editors.
    Summary: This book critically analyses the influence of international policies and guidelines on the performance of interventions aimed at reducing health inequities in Latin America, with special emphasis on health promotion and health in all policies strategies. While the implementation of these interventions plays a key role in strengthening these countries' capacity to respond to current and future challenges, the urgency and pressures of cooperation and funding agencies to show results consistent with their own agendas not only hampers this goal, but also makes the territory invisible, hiding the real problems faced by most Latin American countries, diminishing the richness of local knowledge production, and hindering the development of relevant proposals that consider the territory's conditions and cultural identity. Departing from this general analysis, the authors search for answers to the following questions: Why, despite the importance of the theoretical advances r egarding actions to address social and health inequities, haven't Latin American countries been able to produce the expected results? Why do successful initiatives only take place within the framework of pilot projects? Why does the ideology of health promotion and health in all policies mainly permeate structures of the health sector, but not other sectors? Why are intersectoral actions conjunctural initiatives, which often fail to evolve into permanent practices? Based on an extensive literature review, case studies, personal experiences, and interviews with key informants in the region, Globalization and Health Inequities in Latin America presents a strategy that uses monitoring and evaluation practices for enhancing the capacity of Latin American and other low and middle-income countries to implement sustainable processes to foster inclusiveness, equity, social justice and human rights. &nb sp;.

    Contents:
    Part I: Introduction. Equity, globalization, and health ; Global response to social and health inequities ; Main challenges to reduce health inequities in Latin America
    Part II: Latin American experiences. REDLACPROMSA : Latin American and Caribbean network of health promotion managers ; Denaturalizing "long-lasting endemic diseases" : social mobilization in the context of arboviral diseases in Brazil ; Health promoting schools : implementation challenges, barriers, and lessons from a case study ; Health in school program ; practicing intersectorality on a territorial basis for the future of health in all policies ; Strategic analysis of health care practices for the homeless in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ; Linking public health surveillance system to policymaking and local development ; Intersectorality and local development : Municipality La Cumbre ; La Cumbre, Valle del Cauca. The challenge of implementing sustainable territorial development initiatives. Critical factors and consequences in the reduction of inequities in health ; Innovation in small farmers' economies (IECAM) : good agricultural practices of healthy agriculture with associated rual enterprises in the Northern Cauca area in Colombia ; Research in the strategy of healthy communities in Mexico : learning for the transformation of practices against social determinants of health ; Territorial management of health promotion : the dengue epidemic in Perú
    Part III. Proposal. A bet for the reduction of health inequities in accordance with the conditions of the Latin American region.
    Digital Access Springer 2018