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. INDICE: 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.McInnes - Global Governance Capacities in Health: WHO andInfectious 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
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20591-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 23/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés