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The Handbook of Global Health Policy.
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 involv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Wiley,
2014.
©2014 |
| Colección: | HGP - Handbooks of Global Policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Handbook of Global Health Policy ; Contents; Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; References; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Why Global Health Policy; The State of the Worlds Health; A New Kind of Handbook to Guide Action on these Challenges; Five Key Themes Emerging from the Book; Theme 1: Global Health is Increasingly Multidimensional, Requiring Innovation in Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Approaches; Theme 2: There is a Need for Greater Innovation in National and Global Health Governance; Theme 3: Health Aid to Developing Countries Requires Re-engineering.
- Theme 4: Scientific Evidence must be Balanced with Political and Ethical ConsiderationsTheme 5: Promoting Global Health is Clearly an Ethical Issue, But the Scope and Scale of Our Normative Commitment Remain Undetermined; Conclusions; References; Part I Global Health Policy and Global Health Governance; 1 Understanding Global Health Policy; Introduction; Globalization and the Transformation of Global Health Policy; New Global Health Policy Actors; Global Health Policy Instruments and Levers; Contribution of Theory to Understanding Global Health Policy.
- Functional Rationality: The Policy Process as a Set of Stages or a SystemExplanatory Theories of Policy Processes; Conclusions and Pointers for the Health Policy Analyst; References; 2 Critical Reflections on Global Health Policy Formation: From Renaissance toCrisis; Introduction; From Renaissance to Crisis; How can the Crisis in Global Health be Explained?; Critical Understandings of Policy Formation; Overcoming the Four Rs: Recommendations; Conclusions; References; 3 Contemporary Global Health Governance: Origins, Functions, and Challenges; What is Global Health Governance?
- What Purpose does Global Health Governance Serve?Why Would a Powerful State Agree to Work through Global Institutions?; Key Functions of Global Health Governance; Internationally Financed Action; International Regulation; Research and Surveillance; Major Developments in International Health Institutions: New Players and New Priorities; The Current Crisis in Global Health Governance; Dismantling Equity in International Institutions; Marginalizing Science from the Policy Process; Pursuing Donor Priorities; Privatizing Global Health; Conclusions; References.
- 4 Global Health Justice and the Right to HealthIntroduction; 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; Part II Narrowing the Gap Between Knowledge and Action; 5 Measuring the Worlds Health: How Good are Our Estimates?; What are Health Metrics, and Why do They Matter to Global Health Policy?