Manufacturing, global trade impair health of people with no stake in either

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 - 15:52 in Psychology & Sociology

The latest products may bring joy to people around the globe, but academic researchers this week are highlighting the heightened health risks experienced by people in regions far downwind of the factories that produce these goods and on the other side of the world from where they're consumed. Scientists quantify and map the shift of environmental and health burdens brought on by globalization and international trade.

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