by ghgovernance | Dec 5, 2016 | Feature Stories, Recent Issue, Winter 2016
Special Issue: Political Science in Global Health Volume X, No. 3 (Winter 2016) Special Guest Editor: Eduardo J. Gómez, King’s College London Full Text Introduction: The State of Political Science Research in Global Health Politics and Policy Eduardo J. Gómez Ideas...
by ghgovernance | Dec 5, 2016 | Winter 2016
By Eduardo J. Gómez Over the past two decades, the study of the politics of global health has become an increasingly popular and important scholarly topic. A host of social scientists, public health researchers, medical scientists and historians have taken an interest...
by ghgovernance | Dec 5, 2016 | Winter 2016
By Daniel Béland and Valéry Ridde Contributing to this special issue of Global Health Governance on “Political Science in Global Health,” this exploratory article draws attention to the potential role of ideas in policy implementation, a topic that has been relatively...
by ghgovernance | Dec 5, 2016 | Winter 2016
By Joshua W Busby and Ethan B Kapstein Framing is a central mechanism in the social movements literature. Human rights frames are thought to be an especially potent form of rhetorical communication because human rights are thought to trump other objectives. However,...
by ghgovernance | Dec 5, 2016 | Winter 2016
By Simukai Chigudu In 2008, Zimbabwe was engulfed by a devastating cholera outbreak resulting in an unprecedented 98,000 cases and over 4,000 deaths. Cholera, however, was much more than a health crisis. The disease signified the nadir of Zimbabwe’s catastrophic...
by ghgovernance | Dec 5, 2016 | Winter 2016
By Duff Gillespie, Michelle Hawks Cuellar, Sarah Whitmarsh, Alison Bodenheimer and Sabrina Karklins Like other global initiatives, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have had mixed results. One reason global efforts fall short is they ignore...
by ghgovernance | Dec 5, 2016 | Winter 2016
By Eduardo J. Gómez In recent years, several emerging economies, such as India, China, Russia, and Indonesia, have introduced national health insurance programs targeting the poor, safeguarding them from increased out-of-pocket and catastrophic expenses. With the...
by ghgovernance | Dec 5, 2016 | Winter 2016
By Preslava Stoeva Despite consistent political attention to health-related issues crossing national borders, public health and international relations have not engaged in a coherent dialogue. Public health scholars denounce studies of politics as not directly...