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...
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...
by ghgovernance | Oct 16, 2016 | Fall 2016 Issue
The Age, Gender and Residence Differentials in the Relationship of Intergenerational Relations and Chinese Elderly’s Subjective Well-Being Li Zhang This research focuses on studying the gender, residence and age differentials in the relationship of intergenerational...
by ghgovernance | Oct 16, 2016 | Fall 2016 Issue
Three Eras in Global Tobacco Control: How Global Governance Processes Influenced Online Tobacco Control Networking Heather Wipfli, Kar-Hai Chu, Molly Lancaster, and Thomas Valente Online networks can serve as a platform to diffuse policy innovations and enhance global...
by ghgovernance | Oct 16, 2016 | Fall 2016 Issue
Digitalizing Disease Surveillance: The Global Safety Net? Clare Wenham In recent years, outbreaks of infectious disease have been framed by academics, governments and the World Health Organization (WHO) as a security threat.1 Accordingly, accurate global disease...
