Publications

 §  Peer-reviewed publication or project.

All publications sole authored/edited except as noted.              

Books/monographs

  1. T. Schrecker and C. Bambra, How Politics Makes Us Sick: Neoliberal Epidemics (Houndmills:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 167, ISBN 978-1-137-46309-8 (paper).

‘Clearly structured and convincingly argued, this book is a worthy addition to the growing body of literature highlighting the pernicious effects of unfettered markets’ – Frances O’Grady, General Secretary, Trades Union Congress.

‘Both sophisticated and accessible to non-specialist audiences …. Schrecker and Bambra marshal solid, cross-national evidence and clear arguments to make a compelling and incriminatory case against neoliberalism and the epidemics it has engendered’ – Anne-Emanuelle Birn, University of Toronto, in The Lancet.

  1. R. Labonté, T. Schrecker and A. Sen Gupta, Health for Some: Death, Disease and Disparity in a Globalizing Era (Toronto: Centre for Social Justice, 2005), pp. 134, ISBN 0-9733292-3-8 [expanded version of authors’ contribution to Global Health Watch, the first alternative world health report].   
  2. R. Labonté and T. Schrecker, The G8, Africa and Global Health: A Platform for Global Health Equity for the 2005 Summit (London: Nuffield Trust, 2005), pp. 53, ISBN I-905030-03-7. §
  3. R. Labonté, T. Schrecker, D. Sanders and W. Meeus.  Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health (Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press and International Development Research Centre, January 2004). §

Books/monographs (edited/co-edited)

  1. Research Companion to the Globalization of Health (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012); contents online here. §   

‘Global health has undergone a renaissance in political interest and a crisis in the politics of providing health for all. This book’s refreshing insight and depth helps us understand this conundrum and crucially offers ideas for how to move forward … an essential read for anyone interested in global health’ – Sophie Harman, City University, London.   

  1. R. Labonté, K. Mohindra, T. Schrecker and K. Stoebenau, eds., Global Health (4 vols.), Sage Library of Health and Social Welfare (London: Sage, 2011); contents online here. This invited project collected previously published materials in many disciplines that represent milestones in the field.  
  2. R. Labonté, T. Schrecker, C. Packer and V. Runnels, eds., Globalization and Health: Pathways, Evidence and Policy (New York: Routledge, 2009); contents online here. §

‘Sets a high standard for rigor and depth by its critical analysis of highly important and controversial topics of global health’ – Stephen Gloyd, University of Washington, in Journal of the American Medical Association.

‘The book sets a high standard with its critical analysis of highly important topics of global health. The evidence is substantial and almost overwhelming in some chapters, and it is almost as though every chapter is rich enough in information that it could potentially become a book of its own’ – Catharina Hjortsberg, Swedish Institute for Health Economics, in Czech Sociological Review.

  1. A.F. Cooper, J.J. Kirton and T. Schrecker, eds. Governing Global Health:  Challenge, Response, Innovation (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). §
  2. Surviving Globalism: The Social and Environmental Challenges, International Political Economy series (London: Macmillan, 1997). 
  3. T. Schrecker and J. Dalgleish, eds., Growth, Trade and Environmental Values, (London, Ontario: Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values, 1994).

Chapters in books

  1. ‘Neoliberal epidemics: etiology, a bit of history, and a view from Ground Zero,’ in A. Di Genova, J. Gabe and M. Cardano, eds., Health and illness in the Neoliberal Era in Europe (Emerald Publishing, forthcoming).
  2. T. Schrecker, A-E. Birn and M. Aguilera, ‘Challenging the global extractive order: A global health justice imperative,’ in S. Benatar and G. Brock, Global Health and Global Health Ethics, 2nd edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
  3. T. Schrecker and R. Labonté, ‘The State of Global Health in a Radically Unequal World: Patterns and Prospects,’ in S. Benatar and G. Brock, Global Health and Global Health Ethics, 2nd edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming; substantial revision and updating of item (32), below).
  4. ‘Development and Health,’ in P. Haslam, J. Schafer and P. Beaudet, eds., Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors, Issues and Practice (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 4th edition, in press); 3rd edition (2017): 382-399; 2nd edition (2012): 373-398; 1st edition (2008): 345-366; substantially revised and updated for each edition. §
  5. ‘Globalization and health,’ in A. Kobayashi, ed., International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2020): 217-222.
  6. ‘Critical approaches to international political economy and global health,’ in C. McInnes, K. Lee & J. Youde, eds., Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020): 469-490.
  7. ‘The state and global health,’ in C. McInnes, K. Lee & J. Youde, eds., Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020): 281-299.
  8. T. Schrecker and R. Labonté, ‘Global development and population health,’ in J. Nriagu, ed., Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, 2nd ed. (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2019): 309-324), substantial revision and updating of item (31), below.
  9. ‘The political economy of public health: Challenges for ethics,’ in A. Mastroianni, J. Kahn and N. Kass, eds. Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019): 842-856. §
  10. ‘Global Health,’ in K. Reinert, ed., Handbook of Globalisation and Development (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017): 529-545.
  11. T. Schrecker and V. Taler, ‘How to think about social determinants of health: Revitalizing the agenda in Canada,’ In I.L. Bourgeault, R. Labonté, C. Packer & V. Runnels, eds., Population Health in Canada: Issues, Research, and Action (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2017): 100-111.
  12. ‘Social determinants of health: Bad news and good on the inequality front,’ In I.L. Bourgeault, R. Labonté, C. Packer & V. Runnels, eds., Population Health in Canada: Issues, Research, and Action (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2017): 246-250.
  13. ‘Healthy, equitable and sustainable transportation: A new frontier for action on health equity?’ In I.L. Bourgeault, R. Labonté, C. Packer & V. Runnels, eds., Population Health in Canada: Issues, Research, and Action (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2017): 251-255.
  14. ‘Our big fat complicated population health problem: Even tougher than you thought?’ In I.L. Bourgeault, R. Labonté, C. Packer & V. Runnels, eds., Population Health in Canada: Issues, Research, and Action (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2017): 260-264.
  15. ‘A social movement, based on evidence?’ In I.L. Bourgeault, R. Labonté, C. Packer & V. Runnels, eds., Population Health in Canada: Issues, Research, and Action (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2017): 265-268.
  16. ‘Reflections on a change of scene, and the politics of health research’  In I.L. Bourgeault, R. Labonté, C. Packer & V. Runnels, eds., Population Health in Canada: Issues, Research, and Action (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2017): 274-277.
  17. D. Burges Watson and T. Schrecker, ‘Politics for Food Security and Climate Change,’ in Elsevier Reference Module in Food Sciences [Online, 2016], http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-100596-5.03060-2 (subscription required).
  18. ‘Global reach, local depth, and new geographies of metropolitan health,’ in I. Luginah & R. Bezner-Kerr, eds., The Geographies of Health and Development (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2015): 261-279.  
  19. ‘Bringing politics back in: Governance, development and health,’ in A. Robertson, R. Jones-Parry and A. Wolf, eds., Governance for Development 2014: Towards Excellence in Global Public Service (London: Nexus Strategic Partnerships, 2014; http://www.g4dev.org/G4Dev/pubData/source/G4dev1.pdf): 99-102.
  20. ‘Health equity in a globalising world: The importance of human rights,’ in A. Robertson, ed., Commonwealth Health Partnerships 2014 (London: Nexus Strategic Partnerships for the Commonwealth Secretariat, 2014): 18-21.
  21. ‘Globalization and health,’ in B. Jennings et al., eds., Bioethics, 4th edition [previously Encyclopedia of Bioethics] (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2014): 1363-1370. §
  22.  ‘The extraterritorial reach of money: How global finance constrains actions on social determinants of health,’ in G. Brown, G. Yamey and S. Wamala, eds., Handbook of Global Health Policy (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014): 393-408.
  23. T. Schrecker and R. Labonté, ‘Global development and population health,’ in S. Elias, ed. Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences [Online reference database] (Elsevier, 2013). .
  24. R. De Vogli, T. Schrecker and R. Labonté, ‘Neoliberal globalisation and health inequalities,’ in L. Monaghan and J. Gabe, eds., Key Concepts in Medical Sociology, 2nd edition (London: Sage, 2013): 32-36.
  25. ‘Globalization, Health Crises, and Health Care,’ In R. Valelly, ed., Oxford Bibliographies: Political Science [Online] (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, updated 2014; update in progress).
  26. ‘First Nations Drinking Water Policies: Case discussion,’ in Population and Public Health Ethics: Cases from research, policy, and practice (Toronto: Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, 2013): 97-102.§
  27. ‘Introduction,’ in T. Schrecker, ed., Research Companion to the Globalization of Health (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012): 1-16. §
  28. T. Schrecker, F. Barten and K. Mohindra, ‘Metropolitan health in a globalizing world,’ in T. Schrecker, ed., Research Companion to the Globalization of Health (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012): 191-204.§
  29. T. Schrecker and R. Labonté, ‘Globalization: the global marketplace and social determinants of health,’ in Commission on Social Determinants of Health Knowledge Networks, J. Lee and R. Sadana, eds., Improving Equity in Health by Addressing Social Determinants (Geneva: World Health Organization, 2012): 23-58; http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2011/9789241503037_eng.pdf.
  30. R. Labonté, K. Mohindra, T. Schrecker and K. Stoebenau, ‘Editors’ Introduction: Global Health in an Interconnected World,’ in R. Labonté et al., eds., Global Health (4 vols.), Sage Library of Health and Social Welfare (London: Sage, 2011): xxiii-lxii.
  31. T. Schrecker and R. Labonté, ‘Global development and population health,’ in J. Nriagu, ed., Encyclopedia of Environmental Health (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011): 976-986.
  32. R. Labonté and T. Schrecker, ‘The State of Global Health in a Radically Unequal World: Patterns and Prospects,’ in S. Benatar and G. Brock, Global Health and Global Health Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011): 24-36.
  33. ‘Estudio de caso 1. Globalización, mercados financieros y empleo,’ in J. Benach, C. Muntaner, O. Solar, V. Santana y M. Quinlan, Empleo, Trabajo y Desigualdades en Salud: Una Visión Global (Barcelona: Icaria Editorial, 2010): 45-46.
  34. T. Schrecker and R. Labonté, ‘Globalization,’ in D. Vlahov, J. Boufford, C. Pearson and L. Norris, eds., Urban Health: Global Perspectives (New York: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons, 2010): 13-26. §
  35. A. Yalnizyan and T. Schrecker, ‘The growing economic gap: What it means for Canadian families and the Canadian future,’ in R. Labonté, ed., Forgotten Families: Globalization and the Health of Canadians, Transdisciplinary Studies in Population Health (Ottawa: Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, 2010): 112-127.    
  36. ‘Globalization, health, and the future Canadian metropolis,’ in R. Labonté, ed., Forgotten Families: Globalization and the Health of Canadians, Transdisciplinary Studies in Population Health (Ottawa: Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, 2010): 188-208.    
  37. ‘The Power of Money: Global Financial Markets, National Politics, and Social Determinants of Health,’ in O. Williams and A. Kay, eds., The Crisis of Global Health Governance: Political Economy, Ideas and Institutions (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009): 160-181.  This was, to my knowledge, the first English-language analysis of the health policy consequences of the emergence of global financial markets.
  38. ‘The G8, Globalization, and the Need for a Global Health Ethic,’ in S. Maclean, P. Fourie and S. Brown, ed., Health for Some: The Political Economy of Global Health Governance (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009): 21-38. §
  39. R. Labonté and T. Schrecker, ‘Introduction: Globalization’s Challenges to People’s Health,’ in R. Labonté, T. Schrecker, C. Packer and V. Runnels, eds., Globalization and Health: Pathways, Evidence and Policy (New York: Routledge, 2009): 1-33.§
  40. ‘Labor Markets, Equity, and Social Determinants of Health,’ in R. Labonté, T. Schrecker, C. Packer and V. Runnels, eds., Globalization and Health: Pathways, Evidence and Policy (New York: Routledge, 2009): 81-104. §  
  41. M. Koivusalo, T. Schrecker and R. Labonté, ‘Globalization and Policy Space for Health and Social Determinants of Health,’ in R. Labonté, T. Schrecker, C. Packer and V. Runnels, eds., Globalization and Health: Pathways, Evidence and Policy (New York: Routledge, 2009): 105-130. §
  42. R. Labonté and T. Schrecker, ‘Rights, Redistribution, and Regulation,’ in R. Labonté, T. Schrecker, C. Packer and V. Runnels, eds., Globalization and Health: Pathways, Evidence and Policy (New York: Routledge, 2009): 317-333. §
  43. T. Schrecker and R. Labonté, ‘Beyond the Matrix: Thinking three-dimensionally about social determinants of health,’ in A. Gatti and A. Boggio, eds., Health and Development: Towards a Matrix Approach (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009): 56-78.
  44. R. Labonté, T. Schrecker and D. Sanders, ‘Trade policy and health equity: Can ‘policy coherence’ avoid a collision?’ in C. Blouin, N. Drager and J. Heymann, eds., Trade and Health: Seeking Common Ground (Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008): 226-261.§
  45. T. Schrecker, R. Labonté and D. Sanders, ‘Breaking faith with Africa:  The G8 and population health post-Gleneagles,’ in A.F. Cooper, J.J. Kirton and T. Schrecker, eds. Governing Global Health: Challenge, Response, Innovation (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2007): 181-205. §
  46. A.F. Cooper, J.J. Kirton and T. Schrecker, ‘Introduction: Governing Global Health in the Twenty-First Century,’ in A.F. Cooper, J.J. Kirton and T. Schrecker, eds. Governing Global Health:  Challenge, Response, Innovation (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007): 3-12. §
  47. A.F. Cooper, J.J. Kirton and T. Schrecker, ‘Conclusion: Innovation in Global Health Governance,’ in A.F. Cooper, J.J. Kirton and T. Schrecker, eds. Governing Global Health: Challenge, Response, Innovation (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007): 229-239. §
  48. T. Schrecker and R. Labonté, ‘What’s Politics Got to Do with It?  Health, the G8, and the Global Economy,’ in I. Kawachi and S. Wamala, eds., Globalization and Health (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007): 284-310. 
  49. R. Labonté, T. Schrecker and D. McCoy, ‘The G8 and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Fine Words and Fatal Indifference,’ in G. Hubbard and D. Miller, eds., Arguments Against G8 (London: Pluto Press, 2005): 182-197.  
  50. ‘Class, Place and Citizenship: The Changing Dynamics of Environmental Policy,’ in R. Paehlke and D. Torgerson, eds., Managing Leviathan: Environmental Policy and the Administrative State, 2nd edition (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2005): 125-144; excerpts reprinted in A. Greenbaum, R. Pushchak and A. Wellington, Canadian Issues in Environmental Law and Policy (Concord, Ontario: Captus Press, 2009).
  51. ‘Benefit Sharing in the New Genomic Marketplace: Expanding the Ethical Frame of Reference,’ in B. Knoppers, ed., Populations and Genetics: Legal and Social-Ethical Perspectives, Proceedings of the Third International DNA Sampling Conference (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 2003): 405-421.§
  52. ‘Using Science in Environmental Policy: Can Canada Do Better?’ in E. Parson, ed., Governing the Environment: Persistent Challenges, Uncertain Innovations (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001): 31-72; excerpts reprinted in A. Greenbaum, A. Wellington and R. Pushchak, Environmental Law in Social Context: A Canadian Perspective (Concord, Ontario: Captus Press, 2002) and in A. Greenbaum, R. Pushchak and A. Wellington, Canadian Issues in Environmental Law and Policy (Concord, Ontario: Captus Press, 2009). §
  53. ‘Place, Class, and the Privatized Environment,’ in S. Boyd, D. Chunn and R. Menzies, eds., Toxic Criminology: Environment, Law and the State in Canada (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2002): 45-57.
  54. ‘From the Welfare State to the No-Second-Chances State,’ in S. Boyd, D. Chunn and R. Menzies, eds., (Ab)Using Power: The Canadian Experience (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2001): 36-48.
  55. ‘The Cost of the Wild: International Equity and the Losses from Environmental Conservation’ in D. Pimentel, L. Westra and R. Noss, eds., Ecological Integrity: Integrating Environment, Conservation and Health (Washington, DC:  Island Press, 2000): 301-316.  
  56. ‘Crime, Property and Poverty: In the 1990s, Learning from the 1790s,’ in L. Beaman, ed., New Perspectives on Deviance: The Construction of Deviance in Everyday Life (Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice-Hall Canada, 1999): 120-136. §
  57. ‘Sustainability, Growth and Distributive Justice: Questioning Environmental Absolutism’ in J. Lemons, L. Westra and R. Goodland, eds., Sustainability and Ecological Integrity: Concepts and Approaches (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1998): 218-234.
  58. ‘Growing Wisely: Reconciling Sustainability and Competitiveness in a Shrinking World,’ in A. Dale and J. Robinson, eds., Achieving Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Research Institute series vol. 1 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1996): 73-93. 
  59. ‘Missing the Point about Growth,’ in M. Charlton and E. Riddell-Dixon, eds., Crosscurrents 2: International Relations in the Post-Cold War Era (Toronto: Nelson, 1993): 535-541; reprinted in K. Peacock, ed., Living With the Earth (Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 1996).
  60. ‘Environmental Law and the Greening of Government: A Cynical Guide,’ in G. Thompson et al., eds., Environmental Law and Business in Canada (Aurora, Ontario: Canada Law Book, 1993): 161-183.
  61. ‘Facing the Risks of Decline:  Can Canada Prosper in the Global Economy?’ in G. Symons et al., eds., Global Restructuring: Canada in the 1990s, Canadian Issues 14 (Montréal: Association for Canadian Studies, 1992): 19-47. § 
  62. ‘Of Invisible Beasts and the Public Interest: Environmental Cases and the Judicial System,’ in R. Boardman, ed., Canadian Environmental Policy: Ecosystems, Politics and Process (Toronto:  Oxford University Press, 1992): 83-105.
  63. ‘Environmentalism and Life-Styles of the Affluent,’ in S. Rosenblum and P. Findlay, eds., Debating Canada’s Future: Views from the Left (Toronto: James Lorimer, 1991): 147-165.
  64. ‘Spending Green:  Federal Expenditure Reform and Sustainable Development,’ in Sustainable Development in Canada: Options for Law Reform, Canadian Bar Association Committee Report (Ottawa: Canadian Bar Association, 1990): 103-112.
  65. ‘Resisting Environmental Regulation:  The Cryptic Pattern of Business-Government Relations,’ in R. Paehlke and D. Torgerson, eds., Managing Leviathan:  Environmental Politics and the Administrative State (Peterborough, Ontario:  Broadview Press, 1990); excerpts reprinted in A. Greenbaum,  A. Wellington and E. Baar, eds., Social Conflict and Environmental Law (North York, Ontario: Captus, 1995).§
  66. ‘The Political Content and Context of Environmental Law,’ in T. Caputo et al., eds., Law and Society:  A Critical Perspective (Toronto:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Canada, 1989): 173-204.
  67. ‘Risks versus Rights:  Economic Power and Economic Analysis in Environmental Politics,’ in D. Poff and W. Waluchow, eds., Business Ethics in Canada (Scarborough, Ontario:  Prentice-Hall Canada, 1987): 265-285; 2nd edition 1991; 3rd edition 1999; 4th edition 2005.
  68. ‘Energy Conservation:  Public Policy Perspectives,’ in A.F. Jantzen and R.K. Swartman, eds., Solar Energy Conversion II (Toronto: Pergamon Press, 1981): 553-569.
  69. ‘Canada’s Nuclear Commitment:  A Challenge in Technology Assessment,’ in O.P. Dwivedi, ed., Resources and the Environment (Toronto:  McClelland & Stewart, 1980): 288-305.

            Articles in refereed journals/annuals

  1. ‘Globalization and health: Political grand challenges,’ Review of International Political Economy  27 (2019): 26-47. §
  2. ‘The Commission on Social Determinants of Health: Ten years on, a tale of a sinking stone, or of promise yet unrealised?’ Critical Public Health 29 (2019): 610-615. §
  3. A-E. Birn, L. Shipton and T. Schrecker, ‘Canadian mining and ill health in Latin America: a call to action,’ Canadian Journal of Public Health 109 (2018): 786-790. §
  4. ‘Health, trade and human rights:  Pangloss meets neoliberalism and post-democracy,’ in R. Labonté, A. Ruckert & C. Packer, eds., ‘Special section: Trade, health and human rights,’ Canadian Yearbook on Human Rights 2 (2016-2018) (Ottawa: Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa): 183-189. §
  5. T. Schrecker, A-E. Birn and M. Aguilera, ‘How extractive industries affect health: Political economy underpinnings and pathways,’ Health and Place 52 (2018): 135-147. §
  6. A. Kapilashrami and T. Schrecker, ‘Global Health Watch: Challenging entrenched ideas in global health’ [Editorial], BMJ 360 (2018): k956 doi: 10.1136/bmj.k956.
  7. ‘Was Mackenbach right?  Towards a practical political science of redistribution and health inequalities,’ Health and Place 46 (2017): 293-299. §
  8. ‘Priority Setting: Right Answer to a Far Too Narrow Question? Comment on “Global Developments in Priority Setting in Health”,’ International Journal of Health Policy and Management 7 (2018): 86-88.§
  9. ‘“Stop, You’re Killing us!”  An Alternative Take on Populism and Public Health; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”’ International Journal of Health Policy and Management 6 (2017):673-675.§
  10. D. McNeill, P. Barlow, C. Deere Birkbeck, S. Fukuda-Parr, A. Grover, T. Schrecker and D. Stuckler, ‘Trade and Investment Agreements: Implications for Health Protection,’ Journal of World Trade 51 (2017): 159-182. §
  11. D. McNeill, C. Deere Birkbeck, S. Fukuda-Parr, A. Grover, T. Schrecker and D. Stuckler, ‘Political origins of health inequities: trade and investment agreements,’ The Lancet 389 (2017):760-762. §
  12. ‘A New Gilded Age, and What It Means for Global Health; Comment on “Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?”’ International Journal of Health Policy and Management 6 (2017):169-171. §
  13. ‘Neoliberalism and Health: The Linkages and the Dangers,’ Sociology Compass 10 (2016): 952-971.§
  14. ‘“Neoliberal epidemics” and public health: sometimes the world is less complicated than it appears,’ Critical Public Health 26 (2016): 477-480. §
  15. ‘Globalization, Austerity, and Health Equity Politics: Taming the inequality machine, and why it matters,’ Critical Public Health 26 (2016): 4-13. §
  16. ‘Bringing (domestic) politics back in: Global and Local Influences on Health Equity,’ Public Health (Elsevier) 129 (2015): 843-848. §
  17. S. Glasgow and T. Schrecker, ‘The Double Burden of Neoliberalism? Noncommunicable Disease Policies and the Global Political Economy of Risk,’ Health and Place 34 (2015): 279-286. §
  18. ‘New cartographies of health in a globalizing world,’ Medicine, Anthropology and Theory: A Journal of Culture and Health 1 (2014, continues Medische Antropologie, 1989–2012):145-180; doi.org/10.17157/mat.1.1.203. §
  19. ‘Beyond “Run, Knit and Relax”: Can Health Promotion in Canada Advance the Social Determinants of Health Agenda?’ Healthcare Policy 9 (2013), Special Issue: 48-58. §
  20. ‘Can health equity survive epidemiology?  Standards of proof and social determinants of health,’ Preventive Medicine 57 (2013): 741-744. §  
  21. ‘Global reach, local depth, and the future of health equity,’ Social Medicine 7(2): 98-104. §
  22. Z. Afzal, C. Muntaner, H. Chung, Q. Mahmood, E. Ng and T. Schrecker, ‘Complementarities or contradictions? Scoping the health dimensions of ‘flexicurity’ labor market policies,’ International Journal of Health Services 43 (2013): 473-482. §
  23. K. Mohindra and T. Schrecker, ‘From bulldozing to housing rights: Reducing vulnerability and improving health in African slums,’ Global Health Promotion 20, supp. 1 (2013): 64-69. § 
  24. M. Johri, R. Chung, A. Dawson and T. Schrecker, ‘Global health and national borders: The ethics of foreign aid in a time of financial crisis,’ Globalization and Health 8:19 (2012). §
  25. ‘Interrogating scarcity: How to think about ‘resource-scarce settings’,’ Health Policy & Planning  28 (2013): 400-409 [Editor’s choice]. §
  26. ‘Multiple crises and global health: New and necessary frontiers of health politics,’ Global Public Health 7 (2012): 557-573.§ 
  27. P. Östlin, T. Schrecker, R. Sadana et al. (14 authors in all), ‘Priorities for research on equity and health: towards an equity-focused health research agenda,’ PLoS Medicine 8 (2011): e1001115; . Included in PLoS Med collection ‘World Health Report 2012: No Health Without Research’.§
  28. L. Idzerda, O. Adams, J. Patrick, T. Schrecker and P. Tugwell, ‘Access to primary healthcare services for the Roma population in Serbia: a secondary data analysis,’ BMC International Health and Human Rights 11 (2011). §
  29. T. Schrecker, A. Chapman, R. Labonté and R. De Vogli, ‘Health and human rights against the marketplace: A response to Reubi,’ Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011): 629-631.
  30. ‘Why are some settings ‘resource-poor’ and others not?  Globalization, perfect economic storms, and the right to health,’ Canadian Journal of Public Health 102 (2011): 204-206. §
  31. ‘The Health Case for Human Rights against the Global Marketplace,’ Journal of Human Rights 10 (2011): 151-177. § 
  32. C. Larson, S. Haddad, A.-E. Birn, D. Cole, R. Labonté, J. Roberts, T. Schrecker, D. Sellen and D. Zakus, ‘Grand Challenges Canada: Inappropriate Emphasis and Missed Opportunities in Global Health Research?’  Canadian Journal of Public Health 102 (2011): 149-151. §
  33. R. Labonté, K. Mohindra and T. Schrecker, ‘The Growing Impact of Globalization for Health and Public Health Practice,’ Annual Review of Public Health 32 (2011): 263-283.§
  34. C. Muntaner, J. Benach, H. Chung and T. Schrecker, ‘Welfare State, Labor Market Inequalities and Health in a Global Context: An Integrated Framework,’ Gaceta Sanitaria 24, Suppl. 1 (2010): 56-61.§
  35. N. Hamel and T. Schrecker, ‘Unpacking Capacity to Utilize Research: A Tale of the Burkina Faso Public Health Association,’ Social Science & Medicine 72 (2010): 31-38. §
  36. T. Bryant, D. Raphael, T. Schrecker and R. Labonté, ‘Canada: A Land of Missed Opportunity for Addressing the Social Determinants of Health,’ Health Policy 101 (2010): 44-58. §  
  37. T. Schrecker, A. Chapman, R. Labonté and R. De Vogli, ‘Advancing Health Equity in the Global Marketplace: How Human Rights Can Help,’ Social Science & Medicine 71 (2010): 1520-1526.§
  38. T. Schrecker, R. Labonté and R. De Vogli, ‘Globalisation and Health: The need for a global vision,’ The Lancet, 372 (2008): 1670-1676. §
  39. E. Blas, L. Gilson, M. Kelly, R. Labonté, J. Lapitan, C. Muntaner, P. Östlin, J. Popay, R. Sadana, T. Schrecker, G. Sen and Z, Vaghri, ‘Addressing Social Determinants of Health Inequities: What can the state and civil society do?’ The Lancet, 372 (2008): 1685-1689. §
  40. ‘Denaturalizing scarcity: A strategy of inquiry for public health ethics,’ Bulletin of the World Health Organization  86 (2008): 600-605; reprinted in R. Labonté et al., eds., Global Health, Sage Library of Health and Social Welfare (London: Sage, 2011), vol. IV and in F. Baylis et al., eds., Health Care Ethics in Canada, 3rd edition (Toronto: Nelson, 2011). §
  41. G. Ooms, W. Van Damme, B. Baker, P. Zeitz and T. Schrecker, ‘The “diagonal” approach to Global Fund financing: A cure for the broader malaise of health systems?’ Globalization and Health, 4:6 (2008). §
  42. R. Labonté and T. Schrecker, ‘Globalization and social determinants of health: Introduction and methodological background’ (part 1 of 3), Globalization and Health, 3:5 (2007). § This and the two articles that follow report on the initial scoping activity of the multinational Globalization Knowledge Network that supported the work of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health.
  43. R. Labonté and T. Schrecker, ‘Globalization and social determinants of health: The role of the global marketplace’ (part 2 of 3), Globalization and Health, 3:6 (2007). §
  44. R. Labonté and T. Schrecker, ‘Globalization and social determinants of health: Promoting health equity in global governance’ (part 3 of 3), Globalization and Health, 3:7 (2007). §
  45. R. Labonté and T. Schrecker, ‘Foreign Policy Matters: A Normative View of the G8 and Population Health,’ Bulletin of the World Health Organization 85 (2006): 185-191.
  46. D. McCoy, R. Narayan, F. Baum, D. Sanders, H. Serag, J. Salvage, M. Rowson, T. Schrecker et al. (13 authors in all) on behalf of the People’s Health Movement, ‘A new Director General for WHO – an opportunity for bold and inspirational leadership,’ The Lancet 368 (2006): 2179-2183. §   
  47. R. Labonté and T. Schrecker, ‘The G8 and Global Health: What now? What next?’  Canadian Journal of Public Health 97 (2006): 35-38.§
  48. G. Ooms and T. Schrecker, ‘Viewpoint:  Expenditure Ceilings, Multilateral Financial Institutions and the Health of the Poor,’ The Lancet 365 (2005): 1821-1823. §
  49. R. Labonté, T. Schrecker and A. Sen Gupta, ‘A global health equity agenda for the G8 summit,’ British Medical Journal 350 (2005): 533-536. §
  50. T. Schrecker and R. Labonté, ‘Taming the Brain Drain:  A Challenge for Public Health Systems in Southern Africa,’ International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health 10 (2004): 409-415. §
  51. R. Labonté and T. Schrecker, ‘Committed to Health for All? How the G7/G8 Rate,’ Social Science & Medicine 59 (2004): 1661-1676; reprinted in J. Kirton, ed., Global Health, Library of Essays in Global Governance series (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009): 499-514. § 
  52. E. Vingilis, K. Hartford, T. Schrecker, B. Mitchell, B. Lent and J. Bishop, ‘Integrating Knowledge Generation with Knowledge Diffusion and Utilization: A Case Study Analysis of the Consortium for Applied Research and Evaluation in Mental Health,’ Canadian Journal of Public Health 93 (2003): 468-471. §
  53. K. Hartford, T. Schrecker, M. Wiktorowicz, J. Hoch and C. Sharp.  ‘Four Decades of Mental Health Policy in Ontario, Canada,’ Administration and Policy in Mental Health 31 (2003): 65-73. §
  54. T. Schrecker, L. Acosta, M.A. Somerville and H. Bursztajn, ‘The Ethics of Social Risk Reduction in the Era of the Biological Brain,’ Social Science and Medicine 52 (2001):1677-1687. §
  55. ‘Money Matters: Incomes Tell a Story about Environmental Dangers and Human Health,’ Alternatives Journal 25 (no. 3, Summer 1999): 12-18. §
  56. ‘Private Health Care for Canada: North of the Border, an Idea Whose Time Shouldn’t Come?’  Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 26 (no. 2, Summer 1998): 138-148. §
  57. ‘Money Matters: A Reality Check, with Help from Virginia Woolf,’ Social Indicators Research 40 (1-2, 1997): 99-123. §
  58.  ‘Of Cars, Sustainability and Human Rights: A Canadian Case Study,’ CNS: Capitalism Nature Socialism 7(4), December 1996: 79-97. §
  59. ‘Environmentalism and the Politics of Invisibility,’ Alternatives: Perspectives on Society, Technology and Environment 20 (2), March/April 1994: 32-37; revised and expanded version reprinted in M. Mehta and E. Ouelett, eds., Environmental Sociology: Theory and Practice (North York, Ontario: Captus Press, 1995): 203-217.§

Technical/research reports

  1. T. Schrecker and V. Taler, How to Think about Social Determinants of Health: Revitalizing the Agenda in Canada, É/Exchange working paper series (Ottawa: Population Health Improvement Research Network, University of Ottawa, 2013).
  2. P. Östlin, T. Schrecker, R. Sadana et al., Priorities for Research on Equity and Health: Implications for global and national priority setting and the role of WHO to take the health equity research agenda forward. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2010.  A report by researchers who were closely involved with the work of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, incorporating views from multiple international consultations.
  3. M. Koivusalo, T. Schrecker and R. Labonté, Globalization and policy space for health and social determinants of health, Globalization Knowledge Network Research Papers (Ottawa: Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, 2009). §
  4. K. Lee, M. Koivusalo, E. Ollila, R. Labonté, T. Schrecker, C. Schuftan and D. Woodward, Globalization, global governance and the social determinants of health: A review of the linkages and agenda for action, Globalization Knowledge Network Research Papers (Ottawa: Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, 2008) §
  5. R. Labonté, C. Blouin, M. Chopra, K. Lee, C. Packer, M. Rowson, T. Schrecker, D. Woodward et al., Towards Health-Equitable Globalization: Rights, Regulation and Redistribution, Globalization Knowledge Network Final Report to the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (Ottawa: Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, June 2007). §
  6. R. Labonté and T. Schrecker, Making Commitments in Health Services under the GATS: A Public Health Perspective, Globalization, Trade and Health Working Papers Series GTH/ETH/2005/3 (Geneva: World Health Organization, July 2004).
  7. T. Schrecker and A. Wellington, Patenting of Higher Life Forms and Human Biological Materials: An Introduction to the Issues (Ottawa: Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee, 2001).
  8. T. Schrecker and A. Wellington, Patenting of Biotechnological Innovations Concerning Animals and Human Beings (Ottawa: Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee, 2000; completed 1999).
  9. C.B. Hoffmaster and T. Schrecker, An Ethical Analysis of the Mandatory Exclusion of Refugees and Immigrants Who Test HIV-Positive (Halifax and Montréal: Names Project/Canadian HIV-AIDS Legal Network, June 2000).  
  10. C.B. Hoffmaster and T. Schrecker, An Ethical Analysis of HIV Testing of Pregnant Women and their Newborns (Ottawa: Canadian HIV-AIDS Clearinghouse, Canadian Public Health Association, August 1999).
  11. T. Schrecker and M.A. Somerville, ‘Making Ethically Acceptable Policy Decisions: Challenges Facing the Federal Government,’ in Renewal of the Canadian Biotechnology Strategy, Resource Document 3.4.1, Background Research Papers, Ethics (Ottawa: Industry Canada, March 1998): 69-133. This and the item that immediately follows were two of the three ethics background documents for renewal of the Canadian Biotechnology Strategy in 1998.
  12. T. Schrecker, C.B. Hoffmaster, M.A. Somerville and A. Wellington, ‘Biotechnology, Ethics and Government,’ in Renewal of the Canadian Biotechnology Strategy, Resource Document 3.4.1, Background Research Papers, Ethics (Ottawa: Industry Canada, March 1998; completed 1996): 135-261.
  13. T. Schrecker, C. Elliott, C.B. Hoffmaster, E.W. Keyserlingk and M.A. Somerville, Ethical Issues Associated with the Patenting of Higher Life Forms (Ottawa: Intellectual Property Policy Directorate, Industry Canada, May 1998; completed 1994).
  14. Sustainable Development: Getting There from Here, A Handbook for Union Environment Committees and Joint Labour-Management Environment Committees, with contributions by Hugh Mackenzie and John O’Grady, Series on Sustainable Development vol. 9 (Ottawa: National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, 1993), ISBN 1-895643-22-8.
  15. Occupational Exposure Limits:  A Discussion of the Issues, P86-6E.  Hamilton, Ontario:  Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, 1987, pp. 78. §
  16. Workplace Pollution, Working Paper 53 (Ottawa: Law Reform Commission of Canada, 1986), ISBN 0-662-54570-2; excerpts reprinted in A. Greenbaum, A. Wellington and E. Baar, eds., Social Conflict and Environmental Law (North York, Ontario: Captus Press, 1995). §
  17. ‘Environmental Lead Pollution:  A Public Health Issue in Social Context,’ in Selected Social and Economic Reports to the Commission (Toronto: Commission on Lead in the Environment, Royal Society of Canada, 1986): 59-142.
  18. The Pitfalls of Standards, P86-4E (Hamilton, Ontario:  Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, 1986), ISBN 0-660-12097-6.
  19. Political Economy of Environmental Hazards, Study Paper, Protection of Life Series (Ottawa:  Law Reform Commission of Canada, 1984), ISBN 0-662-13236-X; republished online 2007. Excerpts reprinted in J. Banfield, ed., Readings in Law and Society (North York, Ontario: Captus Press, multiple editions 1988-1995) and in A. Greenbaum, A. Wellington and E. Baar, eds., Social Conflict and Environmental Law (North York, Ontario: Captus, 1995). §
  20. The Conserver Society Revisited, Discussion Paper D83-3 (Ottawa: Science Council of Canada, 1983).

Edited journal issues

  1. K. Smith and T. Schrecker, eds., ‘Theorising Health Inequalities,’ special issue, Social Theory & Health 13 (no. 3-4, August/November 2015).§ Contents online here.  
  2. ‘Sustainability and Human Well Being: Exploring the Connections,’ Social Indicators Research 40 (1-2), 1997.§
  3. ‘Sustainability,’ Journal of Canadian Studies 31 (no. 1, Spring 1996). §
  4. ‘Sustainability, Distributive Justice and the Market,’ Alternatives: Perspectives on Society, Technology and Environment 21 (no. 1, January 1995). §
  5. ‘Protesters and Ideologues: Directions in Environmental Politics,’ Alternatives: Perspectives on Society, Technology and Environment 15 (no. 4, November/December 1988).
  6. S. Lerner and T. Schrecker, eds., ‘Work and Environment in a High-Tech World,’ Alternatives: Perspectives on Society, Technology and Environment 14 (no. 3/4, August/September 1987).

Selected online commentaries (not including Health as if Everybody Counted) 

To follow.