by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017, Feature Stories, Recent Issue
Volume XI, No. 2 Autumn 2017: Special Issue The Role of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions in Accelerating the Implementation of the Health-Related SDGs The Role of Health Policy Think Tanks in Accelerating the Implementation of the SDGs in...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Francis Omaswa and Patrick Kadama African countries gained independence from colonial rule with high expectations for their futures. Indeed, the early post-independence years showed much promise in many countries, with a scaling-up of education, healthcare, other...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Paulo M. Buss, Luiz Augusto C. Galvão, Sebastian Tobar and Luiz Eduardo Fonseca The Latin American health sector has had difficulty embracing and integrating global agendas defined at high-level meetings, such as Rio 92, Agenda 21, the Millennium Declaration and the...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Walter Flores The Central American region includes 7 countries and 43 million inhabitants. The region is highly unequal both across and between countries. Whereas Costa Rica and Panama present a high human development index, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua have the...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Yanzhong Huang North America faces unique challenges in implementing health-related sustainable development goals (SDGs), no less because two high-income countries in the region (United States and Canada) themselves have only partially met the health-related SDG...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Saadiya Razzaq This paper intends to investigate, through available literature and web searches, the role of policy research institutions in South Asia in accelerating the monitoring and implementation of health-related SDGs. It is argued that SDGs are not only...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Oriana Ramirez-Rubio and Gonzalo Fanjul The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a new opportunity to propel Europe’s role in the fulfillment of global health aspirations, such as ending preventable diseases and achieving universal health coverage (UHC). However,...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Donald C Cole, Suzanne Jackson and Lisa Forman Schools of Public Health (SPH) have been integral to public health system development at different jurisdictional levels, including global. With different histories, they have adapted to the shifting landscape of...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Ashley M. Fox The past decade has been characterized by a dramatic scale-up of development assistance for health, which has raised questions about who is responsible for health, how to hold non-state actors accountable for their activities and whether development...
by ghgovernance | Oct 23, 2017 | Fall 2017
Mari Grepstad and Berit Sofie Hembre The climate change discourse holds that burning of fossil fuels leads to climate change. Therefore, emissions must be reduced in order to avoid climate change. Further, it holds that climate change deteriorates global public...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Recent Issue, Reform of the World Health Organization
Volume XI, No. 1 Reform of the World Health Organization Guest Editors: Tine Hanrieder and Adam Kamradt-Scott Introduction: Same, same but different: Reforming the World Health Organization in an age of public scrutiny and global complexity Tine Hanrieder and...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Reform of the World Health Organization
By Tine Hanrieder and Adam Kamradt-Scott As the World Health Organization (WHO) enters its 70th year of existence, a new director-general assumes the helm of the intergovernmental organization for their next five-year term of office. The election process for the WHO’s...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Reform of the World Health Organization
By Catherine Z. Worsnop One aim of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005 is to discourage the use of overly restrictive barriers because these measures incentivize outbreak concealment and undermine outbreak response...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Reform of the World Health Organization
By Mark Eccleston-Turner and Scarlett McArdle Recently the World Health Organization (henceforward WHO) has received significant criticism for its choice of action, as well as on occasion its inaction, with much of this criticism focusing on the role the Organization...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Reform of the World Health Organization
By Julian Eckl The paper argues the working methods of the World Health Assembly (WHA) have been a recurrent object of reform discussions and that the vision that WHAs should become shorter has been a constant driver for them. It shows also how the vision of shorter...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Reform of the World Health Organization
By Lawrence O. Gostin The United Nations created the World Health Organization (WHO) as its first specialized agency in 1948. This was a time of enormous promise for the world, coming as it did after the horrors of World War II. What is striking about the post-war...