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The Globalisation of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Diseases in the World–Society—A Case Study with a Special Focus on Heart Failure

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  • Benjamin Quasinowski

    (Institute of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen, 47057 Duisburg, Germany)

  • Tao Liu

    (School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China)

Abstract

While there has been a shift of attention in global health towards non-communicable diseases, we still know little about the social mechanisms that have allowed these diseases to emerge as topics of global concern. We employ a sociological approach to globalisation in order to reconstruct how cardiology, with our special focus being on heart failure research, has become global, and thereby placed cardiovascular diseases on the agenda of global health. Following sociological theories of world–society and world–polity, we identify a number of preconditions that had to be met so that the globalisation of cardiology could set in. Amongst them were technological innovations, the emergence of an organisational infrastructure on the national level, the appearance of cardiological journals, and an internationally standardised nomenclature. More recently, new drugs and treatment strategies, new specialist journals, and new international standards allowed the subspeciality of heart failure to globalise. Our findings are based on the history and sociology of cardiology, and on our analysis of a broad range of other documents, including scientific articles, guidelines, and policy documents. Additionally, our analysis included two datasets, one containing information on national cardiac societies, and the other containing data on publication output in cardiology.

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  • Benjamin Quasinowski & Tao Liu, 2020. "The Globalisation of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Diseases in the World–Society—A Case Study with a Special Focus on Heart Failure," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(9), pages 1-22, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:9:p:3150-:d:352652
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    1. George Weisz & Etienne Vignola-Gagné, 2015. "The World Health Organization and the Globalization of Chronic Noncommunicable Disease," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 41(3), pages 507-532, September.
    2. Tao Liu & Benjamin Quasinowski & André Soares, 2020. "The Emulation and Adaptation of a Global Model of Clinical Practice Guidelines on Chronic Heart Failure in BRICS Countries: A Comparative Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(5), pages 1-21, March.
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