...Steven Ney Health has become a policy issue of global concern. Worried that the unstructured, polycentric, and pluralist nature of global health governance is undermining the ability to serve emergent global public health interests, some commentators are calling for a more systematic institutional...

...Rebecca Katz; Sara Rosenbaum This article examines the current state of disease surveillance and reporting in the United States and seeks to answer two central questions: first, whether the increasing emphasis on the global importance of public health policies compels a fundamental reexamination...

...Mary A. Clark These are small points in an overall excellent book, one I intend to assign to an upper-level undergraduate global health class. Hoping to Help benefits from clear writing and the use of summaries and boxes to break up long chunks of text. Judith Lasker's writing style should...

... policy roles seem relatively defined. Global comparison of the LMICs and other countries suggests power, unity, legitimacy, and federal roles are tied closely to the stage of health system development. Exploring issues of how physician associations are organized and how they influence policy making...

... global abortion rights activism Around the time Roe v. Wade was decided in the United States, countries such as India, Zambia, and Tunisia also liberalized their abortion laws. Each had its own motivations for doing so, but few countries liberalized abortion to uphold human rights. The prevailing...

... become increasingly exposed to international pressures and norms and focused on more effective, equitable health care systems. There are several lessons learned from the case studies of Brazil, Ghana, India, China, Vietnam, and Thailand in this special issue on the global and domestic politics of health...

... in the health field remains largely descriptive. We theorize the implications of ISDS mechanisms for health policy by integrating the concept of global constitutionalism with veto point theory. It is argued that attempts to constitutionalize investment law, through a proliferation of International Investment...

...Joshua W. Busby Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak is the most serious test of the international system since the 2008 global financial crisis. Rather than cooperate to contain and respond to a common threat, the world's leading powers—the United States and China—have increasingly blamed each other...

...Susan Greenhalgh Abstract Context: Industry influence on health science and policy is a critical issue of our day. In 2015 the New York Times revealed that Coca-Cola paid scientists to form a Global Energy Balance Network promoting the notion that exercise, not dietary restraint, is the solution...

...Steven Epstein Cristiana Bastos. Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. 224 pp.$27.95 cloth. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Altman, Dennis. 1999 . Globalization, Political Economy, and HIV/AIDS. Theory and Society 28 (4...

... about It . New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003. 352 pp. $24.95 cloth. Tim Lang and Michael Heasman. Food Wars: The Global Battle for Mouths, Minds, and Markets . London: Earthscan, 2003. 224 pp. $99.95 cloth; $35.00 paper. © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Hallman, William K., W. Carl Hebden...

... the Clinton White House. New York: Simon and Schuster. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Populists in a Global Market James A. Morone Brown University It has been a wild decade...

... Com menta ry The Health Care State in Global Perspective Janice M. Goggin Brown University Typically, observers have treated health policy...

...Sherri A. Brown Obijiofor Aginam. Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 240 pp. $60.00 cloth. Duke University Press 2007 Books Obijiofor Aginam...

...Susan J. Lambert Jody Heymann. Forgotten Families: Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 306 pp. $27.50 cloth. Duke University Press 2007 Books...

... . When Managed Care Doesn't Travel Well: A Case Study of South Africa. In Global Health Care Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Regions, Trends, and Opportunities Shaping the International Health Arena , ed. W. W. Wieners, 52 -65. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Gwatkin, D. R. 2004 . Are Free...

..., the new guidance was the product of an extended period of sometimes acrimonious controversy both within the two UN agencies and globally. Those pressing for change had argued that a paradigm of testing that had emerged at a time when little could be done for those infected with HIV was inappropriate...

...Katrina Perehudoff; Kaja Anastazja Ippel Abstract Context: The European Union (EU) governs global health through its constituent laws, institutions, actors, and policies. However, it is unclear whether or how these political factors interact to position the EU as a political determinant of global...

...Scott L. Greer Cohen I. Glenn , ed. The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 454+xxiv pp. $95.00 cloth. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The American health care industry, as this book argues...