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...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2009 | International Institutions and Multilateral Organizations, World Health Organization
The Global Role of the World Health Organization Jennifer Prah Ruger and Derek Yach The 21st century global health landscape requires effective global action in the face of globalization of trade, travel, information, human rights, ideas, and disease. The new global...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2009 | Governance
Are Existing Governance Structures Equipped to Deal with Today’s Global Health Challenges – Towards Systematic Coherence in Scaling Up Devi Sridhar, Sanjeev Khagram, and Tikki Pang The global financial crisis and a new political era shaped by the new US...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2009 | Governance
Global Health: Where to Now? Solomon R Benatar The recently evolving global financial crisis reveals both the fragile state of the global economy and the major long-term implications of an increasingly unfair global economy for global health and human flourishing. We...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2009 | Governance
After the Revolution: Global Health Politics in a Time of Economic Crisis and Threatening Future Trends David P. Fidler In 2008, global health’s political revolution, which unfolded over the preceding 10-15 years, ended when four global crises damaged global health...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2009 | Governance
Introduction Devi Sridhar and Larry Gostin “The world is in a mess, and much of this mess is of our own making…Collectively, we have failed to give the systems that govern international relations a moral dimension…[However] There is hope. If we have to...
by ghgovernance | Apr 1, 2009 | Fall 2008/Spring 2009 Special Issue: Innovations in Global Health in the New Political Era
Innovations in Global Health in The New Political Era Guest Editors: Devi Sridhar And Larry Gostin Introduction Devi Sridhar and Larry Gostin After the Revolution, Global Health Politics in a Time of Economic Crisis and Threatening Future Trends David Fidler Global...