Health and Globalization - Paperbackby Geoffrey Cockerham (Author), William C. Cockerham (Author) This accessible book examines the multidimensional influence of globalization on human health and disease. The acceleration of globalization since the end of the Cold War has had numerous far reaching impacts on health related issues, both social and political, and as this book shows, globalization continues to present both positive and negative implications for the state of human health.