The complexities of this particular mixed-methods case study are discussed in more detail elsewhere [ 63]; we focus here on how this study helps to demonstrate three of the multidimensional and transformative characteristics of globalization associated with global politics, economic trends and the cultural expansion of globalized health rights terminology.
The remainder of this article identifies and defends a definition of globalization and describes key strategic and methodological issues, emphasizing how and why the special characteristics of globalization as a focus of research on health equity and SDH demand a distinctive perspective and approach.
Furthermore, as will be discussed below, there is also discontent about what research methods are most appropriate to 'capture' the empirical characteristics of globalization and how to best incorporate this methodology as a means to substantiate any one particular conceptualization of globalization.
This interconnectedness is a distinguishing characteristic of contemporary globalization, and provides the basis for Pogge's argument that the industrialized world has an ethical obligation to reduce poverty outside its own borders [ 1].
Dan Breznitz: One thing truly important to understanding China is the defining characteristic of today's globalization: the fragmentation of production.
Due to globalization, the characteristic of many systems in biology, engineering and sociology paradigms can nowadays be captured and investigated as networks of connected communities.
This is doubly ironic, because even as NGOs contest the effects of globalization, they exhibit many of the characteristics of a global, transnational subculture; the Internet, moreover, is one of the principal tools that makes globalization feasible and organized protests against it possible.
Global cities are also said to share many of the same characteristics because of their connectedness and shared experiences of globalization.
However, the accelerated pace of globalization after 1990 has eroded many distinctive characteristics of the functional approach.
An article on March 12 about the debate over globalization misstated a characteristic of the United States economy that leads to foreign ownership of American companies.
