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Global health governance Crisis, institutions and political economy /

Eminent scholars investigate the sharp contrast between the acute and multi-dimensional scale of the challenges to global health governance and the contradictory and ineffective responses to them. They draw on a wide range of disciplines to uncover the critical political economy dynamics in the cont...

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Group Author: Kay, Adrian; Williams, Owain David.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: International political economy series.
Subjects:
International Cooperation.
World Health.
Medical policy.
International relations.
Political Economy.
Globalization.
Politics and Government.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230249486
Summary: Eminent scholars investigate the sharp contrast between the acute and multi-dimensional scale of the challenges to global health governance and the contradictory and ineffective responses to them. They draw on a wide range of disciplines to uncover the critical political economy dynamics in the contemporary governance of global health.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Originally published in: 2009.
Carrier Form: 304 p. : 4 figures, 2.
ISBN: 9780230205918
9780230249486 :
0230249485 :
CLC: R19
Contents: Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The International Political Economy of Global Health Governance-- A.Kay & O.Williams PART I: THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE Understandings of Global Health Governance: The Contested Landscape-- K.Lee National Security and Global Health Governance-- C.McInnes Global Governance Capacities in Health: WHO and Infectious Diseases-- S.Rushton The International Political Economy of Global Responses to HIV/AIDS-- A.Ingram Chronic Diseases and Global Health Governance: The Contrasting Cases of Food and Tobacco-- S.Barraclough PART II: THE ECONOMY OF GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE Unpacking Economism and Remapping the Terrain of Global Health-- M.Sparke The Power of Money: Global Financial Markets, National Politics, and Social Determinants of Health-- T.Schrecker Trade and Health-- R.Labonte, C.Blouin & L.Forman IMF Policies and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa-- R.P.Buckley & J.Baker The World Bank and Health-- S.Harman The Competition State and the Private Control of Health Care-- H.Lofgren Index.

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