TY - JOUR T1 - A minister of health JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 891 LP - 892 DO - 10.1136/jech.56.12.891 VL - 56 IS - 12 AU - J Breilh Y1 - 2002/12/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/56/12/891.abstract N2 - Should challenge trendy global corporatism Regrettably it is in the so called “democracies” of the North and South where globalisation has become the scenario for market fundamentalism and an absurd race to the bottom, in which economical and social rights have been demolished and countries compete for, what will in fact, see the situation of first being the worst in human terms. The neoliberal state in those democracies has installed a process of social and cultural counter reform that deny equity in principle and in fact, consecrating a systematic violation of the codes that guarantee standards of life and dignity, which are the basis for health. Our societies have institutionalised a combination of subtle and cruel mechanisms to deprive people of means to develop their own identity and the best in their culture, turning, as … ER -