Using an approach that combines transnational and comparative social policy analysis with international relations, this book assesses various global social policy actors and compares their ideas and prescriptions about national health care systems. It highlights the importance of considering health policies across multiple scales.
Tabella dei contenuti
1. Global Social Policy Actors and Health Care Systems Ideas
2. UN Organisations: Health for All and All for Health Care Systems?
3. The OECD and the WTO: Outside the UN but Increasingly Important?
4. The New Centres of Power? G8, G20 and the BRICS and Health Care Systems
5. The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria: A Hybrid Organisation as the Best Health Care Systems Actor?
6. Non-Governmental Organisations and Health Care System Ideas
7. The Polish Health Care System Under Global Scrutiny
8. Conclusions: Multiple Actors, Uncertain Ideas, Nested Discourses
Circa l’autore
Alexandra Kaasch is Junior Professor in Transnational Social Policy at Bielefeld University, Germany. She has previously published Transformations in Global and Regional Social Policies (edited with Paul Stubbs, Palgrave Macmillan 2014) and The Welfare State as a Crisis Manager (with Peter Starke and Franca van Hooren, Palgrave Macmillan 2013). She is editor of the Global Social Policy Digest.
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