Book description
The Handbook of Global Health Policy provides a definitive source of the key areas in the field. It examines the ethical and practical dimensions of new and current policy models and their effect on the future development of global health and policy.
Maps out key debates and policy structures involved in all areas of global health policy
Isolates and examines new policy initiatives in global health policy
Provides an examination of these initiatives that captures both the ethical/critical as well as practical/empirical dimensions involved with global health policy, global health policy formation and its implications
Confronts the theoretical and practical questions of 'who gets what and why' and 'how, when and where?'
Captures the views of a wide array of scholars and practitioners, including from low- and middle-income countries, to ensure an inclusive view of current policy debates
Table of contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword: Global Health Policy-Making in Transition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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Part I Global Health Policy and Global Health Governance
- 1 Understanding Global Health Policy
- 2 Critical Reflections on Global Health Policy Formation: From Renaissance to Crisis
- 3 Contemporary Global Health Governance: Origins, Functions, and Challenges
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4 Global Health Justice and the Right to Health
- Introduction
- Debates about Health Justice at the Domestic Level
- Limiting the Scope of Health Justice to the State
- Cosmopolitanism and Broadening the Scope of Health Justice
- Rights-Based Approaches to Health: Problematizing the Use of Rights Claims to Promote Social Justice at the Domestic and Global Level
- Conclusions
- References
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Part II Narrowing the Gap Between Knowledge and Action
- 5 Measuring the World's Health: How Good are Our Estimates?
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6 Achieving Better Global Health Policy, Even When Health Metrics Data are Scanty
- What is Global Health Policy – and What Health Metrics Data are Needed?
- Scale of Health Metrics Data
- Population Basis of Health Metrics Data
- Linking Health Service Encounters with the Everyday Lives of Citizens
- Uncertainties in Measuring Health
- Ethical Issues in Health Metrics Data
- Moving from Health Metrics Data to Health Policy
- References
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7 An Argument for Evidence-Based Policy-Making in Global Health
- Introduction
- Narrowing the Gap
- Why Should We Use Evidence? Which Evidence Should We Use?
- Using Different Types of Evidence to Answer Different Questions
- Evidence-Informed Policies Improve Public Health
- What are the Barriers to EBP in Global Health?
- The New Landscape of Evidence Translation in Global Health
- Conclusions
- References
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8 Can Global Health Policy be Depoliticized? A Critique of Global Calls for Evidence-Based Policy
- Introduction
- Understanding Evidence-Based Global Health Policy
- The Pejorative Influence of Politics in Global Health Policy
- Producing Health Sciences Research: The Politics of Creating the Evidence Base
- Using Health Sciences Research: What to Value and How to Value Evidence in Decision-Making
- Wider Implications of a Depoliticized Approach to Evidence
- Conclusions: A Way Forward?
- References
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Part III The Politics of Risk, Disease, and Neglect
- 9 Dietary Policies to Reduce Non-Communicable Diseases
- 10 Ethical Reflections on Who is At Risk: Vulnerability and Global Public Health
- 11 Ethical and Economic Perspectives on Global Health Interventions
- 12 Global Health Policy Responses to the World's Neglected Diseases
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13 The Fight for Global Access to Essential Health Commodities
- Introduction
- The Medical Innovation System is Failing Many Patients
- The First Problem: Medical Tools are Often Priced Out of Reach
- The Second Problem: Medical Tools to Address “Unprofitable” Diseases are Often Unavailable
- The Third Problem: Medical Tools are Often Unsuitable for Neglected Populations
- How to Ensure Better Access to More Appropriate Innovation
- Innovation and Access: Towards a System that Delivers what Patients Need
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgment
- References
- 14 The Social Determinants of Health
- Part IV Diplomacy, Security, and Humanitarianism
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Part V Financing and the Political Economy of Global Health
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19 The Global Health Financing Architecture and the Millennium Development Goals
- Introduction
- Progress Towards the Health MDGs
- Trends in Global Health Financing
- Key Players in the Global Health Financing Architecture: the Emergence of New Financing Institutions
- The Need for Domestic Financing
- Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Global Health Financing
- Increased Accountability
- Looking Forward: Lessons Learned and Recommendations
- Notes
- References
- 20 Can International Aid Improve Health?
- 21 The Exterritorial Reach of Money: Global Finance and Social Determinants of Health
- 22 Trade Rules and Intellectual Property Protection for Pharmaceuticals
- 23 The Health Systems Agenda: Prospects for the Diagonal Approach
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24 Will Effective Health Delivery Platforms be Built in Low-Income Countries?
- Introduction
- First Decade of the “Global Health Revolution”: Where Did All the International Assistance Go?
- Why was Development Assistance for Health Allocated to Infectious Disease Control?
- Preliminary Conclusion: An Opportunity for Integrating Infectious Disease Control with Health Systems Strengthening
- Infectious Disease Control Programs Building Health Delivery Platforms: Diagonal Approach, Bottom-Up and Top-Down
- Conclusions
- References
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19 The Global Health Financing Architecture and the Millennium Development Goals
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Part VI Health Rights and Partnerships
- 25 A Rights-Based Approach to Global Health Policy: What Contribution can Human Rights Make to Achieving Equity?
- 26 From Aid to Accompaniment: Rules of the Road for Development Assistance
- 27 Global Health Partnerships: The Emerging Agenda
- 28 Partnerships and the Millennium Development Goals: The Challenges of Reforming Global Health Governance
- Part VII Beyond Globalization
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: The Handbook of Global Health Policy
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
- ISBN: 9780470674192
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