by ghgovernance | Sep 1, 2009 | Book Review
Review of Innovation in Global Health Governance: Critical Cases by Andrew F. Cooper and John J. Kirton, editors. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2009. 422 pp. Hardcover: £60.00, ISBN: 978-0-7546-4872-7, 978-0-7546-8985-0 (e-book) Reviewed by James Ricci From avian...
by ghgovernance | Sep 1, 2009 | Book Review
Review of Health and Health Care in the New Russia by Nick Manning and Nataliya Tikhonova, editors. England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2009. xvii, 314 pp. Hardcover $114.95, ISBN 978-0-7546-7427-6. Reviewed by Amanda Teckman For years, the media has blamed Russia’s...
by ghgovernance | Sep 1, 2009 | Book Review, World Bank
Review of The Battle against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance, and the World Bank, by Devi Sridhar New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 256 pp. Hardcover: $85.00, ISBN: 9780199549962 Reviewed by Jeremy M. Bennett and Omer Gokcekus For over four decades, there has been...
by ghgovernance | Sep 1, 2009 | Noncommunicable Diseases
Quality of Life Estimation with Structural Equation Modeling in School Aged Children with Asthma Sheniz Moonie, Xuan Huang, David A. Sterling Significant increases in childhood asthma prevalence and mortality has prompted federal and regulatory agencies to work...
by ghgovernance | Sep 1, 2009 | Emerging Powers, HIV/AIDS
The Politics of Receptivity and Resistance: How Brazil, India, China, and Russia Strategically use the International Health Community in Response to HIV/AIDS: A Theory Eduardo J. Gómez Little is known about how emerging nations, such as Brazil, Russia, India and China...
by ghgovernance | Sep 1, 2009 | Europe, Health Systems
What Goes Up: The Genesis and Context of Health Reform in Sweden Sara M. Glasgow Throughout the twentieth century, Sweden earned a reputation for a generous, comprehensive welfare system predicated upon collective responsibility. As a consequence, the history of...
by ghgovernance | Sep 1, 2009 | Health Systems, North America
The Application of Key Governance Tools to Understand How Common Health Services Administrations Function Jonathan Matusitz and Gerald-Mark Breen This research analysis aims to examine three particular tools of governance (that is – government insurance, social...
by ghgovernance | Sep 1, 2009 | Donor Assistance/Aid, HIV/AIDS
Uncomfortable Knowledge: PEPFAR, HIV Risk Reduction and Safer Sex Carrie Cafaro and William J. Bicknell HIV prevention that focuses on abstinence, faithfulness and condoms (ABC) has not worked well, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. We present the data in support of...
by ghgovernance | Sep 1, 2009 | International Law
Food Safety and Global Health: An International Law Perspective Stefania Negri Following the recurrence of serious events of food contamination across the globe, food safety has become a matter of ever increasing international concern and the World Health Organization...
by ghgovernance | Sep 1, 2009 | Governance
Global Health Governance and the State: Premature Claims of A Post-International Framework James Ricci Since the SARS outbreak of 2003, the Global Health Governance literature has challenged state-based frameworks in the provision of health. With the increased...
by ghgovernance | Sep 1, 2009 | Complete Issues, Fall 2009
Global Health Governance and the State: Premature Claims of A Post-International Framework James Ricci Food Safety and Global Health: An International Law Perspective Stefania Negri Uncomfortable Knowledge: PEPFAR, HIV Risk Reduction and Safer Sex Carrie Cafaro and...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2009 | Book Review
Review of Making Sense of Global Health Governance – A Policy Perspective. by Kent Buse, Wolfgang Hein, and Nick Drager, editors. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 376 pp. Hardcover: £60.00, ISBN: 9780230209923. Reviewed by Layla Yüzen Global health governance is...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2009 | Donor Assistance/Aid, Health Systems, Human Resources for Health
Health Worker Shortages and Inequalities: The Reform of United States Policy Paula O’Brien and Lawrence O. Gostin The United States and other rich countries have done very little to address the dire global shortage of health workers. In some instances, the conduct of...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2009 | Essential Medicines, Health Technology, Trade
Medicines as Global Public Goods: The Governance of Technological Innovation in the New Era of Global Health Suerie Moon One of the most significant changes in global health over the past decade has occurred in the framing, norms, and policy approaches to addressing...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2009 | Donor Assistance/Aid, International Law, North America
Health Care Reform that Works for the U.S. and for the World’s Poor Thomas Pogge Some 18 million people die annually from poverty-related causes. Insofar as present global institutional arrangements foreseeably and avoidably perpetuate this death toll, affluent...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2009 | Emerging Powers
Opportunities for the Obama Administration and the G20 “to Do Good” for Global Health Sisule F. Musungu The deepening of globalization in the last few decades spurred by the huge improvements in air travel, increased international trade, the power of the internet and...