by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Human Rights, Spring 2018, World Bank
by Yusra Ribhi Shawar and Jennifer Prah Ruger While the World Bank has integrated rights-based principles in the implementation of some health programs that it finances, it continues to deny a formal legal obligation for human rights. Employing thematic and discourse...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Human Rights, Spring 2008
by Hiwote Fantahun This article examines the responsibility of external funders to ensure respect for human rights in their health assistance in highly repressive and politicized countries, using Ethiopia as a case study. Ethiopia’s experience is particularly...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Spring 2018, World Bank
by Desmond McNeill The World Bank is reluctant to engage with human rights – generally, and more specifically in relation to health. Why? And what is to be done about it? This commentary summarizes the debate, showing that insiders and critical outsiders largely...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Human Rights, Spring 2018, Trade
by Meri Koivusalo and Katrina Perehudoff New generation trade agreements mark a new era in the contentious relationship between the right to health and global trade objectives. This article delineates three of the unique qualities of new generation agreements and the...
by ghgovernance | Mar 15, 2018 | Complete Issues, Feature Stories, Human Rights, Spring 2018
Volume XII, No. 1 Spring 2018: Special Issue Human Rights in Global Health Governance Full Text Human Rights in Global Health Governance Benjamin Mason Meier, Hanna Huffstetler and Lawrence O. Gostin Transforming the WHO’s Role in Advancing the Right to...
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...
