Eminent scholars investigate the sharp contrast between the acute and multi-dimensional scale of the challenges to global health governance and the contradictory and ineffective responses to them. They draw on a wide range of disciplines to uncover the critical political economy dynamics in the contemporary governance of global health.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The International Political Economy of Global Health Governance; A.Kay & O.Williams PART I: THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE Understandings of Global Health Governance: The Contested Landscape; K.Lee National Security and Global Health Governance; C.Mc Innes Global Governance Capacities in Health: WHO and Infectious Diseases; S.Rushton The International Political Economy of Global Responses to HIV/AIDS; A.Ingram Chronic Diseases and Global Health Governance: The Contrasting Cases of Food and Tobacco; S.Barraclough PART II: THE ECONOMY OF GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE Unpacking Economism and Remapping the Terrain of Global Health; M.Sparke The Power of Money: Global Financial Markets, National Politics, and Social Determinants of Health; T.Schrecker Trade and Health; R.Labonté, C.Blouin & L.Forman IMF Policies and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa; R.P.Buckley & J.Baker The World Bank and Health; S.Harman The Competition State and the Private Control of Health Care; H.Löfgren Index
About the author
ADRIAN KAY is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Salford, UK, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
OWAIN WILLIAMS is Research Fellow in the Centre for Health and International Relations, Aberstwyth University, UK.
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