Abstract
Health performance and economic performance are interlinked. Good health is essential for economic and social development.
This paper identifies and describes linkages between economic globalization and health. The aim is to analyze international professional discourse on ways how economic globalization affects health and to critical reflex development of the Czech health policy in the relation to economic globalization, financial crisis and health.
The World Health Organization plays the major role in the studying the health effects resulting globalization. In the other side in the Czech Republic there isn't developed the discussion about social determinants of health, health gap, health inequalities, health promotion.
The risks of economic globalization aren't reflected by health policy makers.