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Global health justice and governance /

In a world beset by extreme and unconscionable health disparities humankind desperately needs a new vision to ensure central health capabilities for all. This book lays out the profound health challenges facing the world today and offers a new theory of justice and governance as a way to resolve the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ruger, Jennifer Prah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Global Health Justice and Governance; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; List of Figure, Tables, and Box; Part I: Problems in Global Health and Governance; 1: Global Health Problems; 1.1 Global Health Inequalities; 1.2 Problems of Global Health Externalities; 1.3 Cross-Border Problems in Global Health; 2: Global Health Governance Problems; 2.1 Global Institutions; 2.2 From International Health Governance to Global Health Governance; 2.3 Development Assistance for Health; 2.3.1 Foreign Aid, Public and Private; 2.3.2 Reasons Why Donors Provide Foreign Aid
  • 2.3.3 The DAH System: Critiques and Proposals2.4 Actors and Regimes in Global Health Governance; 2.4.1 States; 2.4.2 United Nations Organizations; 2.4.3 Economic Organizations and Coalitions: World Bank, World Trade Organization, G8, and G20; 2.4.4 Civil Society Organizations and Nongovernmental Organizations; 2.4.5 Public-Private Partnerships; 2.5 Where Global Health Efforts Succeed; 2.6 GHG: Major Issues and Challenges; 2.6.1 Approaches to Global Health Challenges: Vertical and Horizontal; 2.6.2 Health: A Multisectoral Issue; 2.6.3 Neoliberalism and Global Health
  • 2.6.4 Country and Local Capacity and Ownership2.6.5 Research Gaps in Global Health Governance; 2.7 Global Health Governance's Key Problems Persist; 2.7.1 Summary of Global Health Governance Problems; 2.8 Why a Theory of Global Health Justice and Governance?; Part II: Global Health Justice; 3: Contrasting Theories of Global Justice; 3.1 Realism; 3.2 Particularism: Communitarianism and Nationalism; 3.3 Social Contractarianism (Society of States); 3.4 Cosmopolitanism and Utilitarianism; 3.4.1 Utilitarianism; 3.4.2 Human Rights Cosmopolitanism
  • 3.5 Application of Global Justice Perspectives to Global Health3.5.1 Global Health Justice: Largely Unheeded in Justice Theories; 3.5.2 Health as a Human Right; 3.5.3 Global Health Justice and Ethics Issues; 4: An Alternative Account: Provincial Globalism; 4.1 Human Flourishing and Capabilities; 4.1.1 Health Capabilities; 4.1.2 Central Health Capabilities; 4.1.3 Transpositionality: A Global View of Health Capabilities; 4.1.4 Health Capability Components: Functionings, Agency, and Needs; 4.1.5 Health Agency; 4.1.6 Ethical Individualism; 4.2 Global Distributive Justice
  • 4.2.1 Principles and Measurement in Health Equity Theory4.2.1.1 EQUALITY, PRIORITY, SUFFICIENCY; 4.2.1.2 MEASURING GLOBAL HEALTH INEQUALITIES AND EXTERNALITIES BY SHORTFALL EQUALITY; 4.3 Joint Commitments: Plural Subjecthood; 4.4 Relativism versus Universalism; 4.5 Fulfilling Global Health Justice Requirements: Principles for Allocating and Prioritizing Responsibilities; 4.5.1 Causality, Remediation, and Partiality; 4.5.2 Functions and Capabilities; 4.5.3 Ethical Commitments, Public Norms; 4.5.4 Institutions and Actors: Global and State Obligations