...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... . 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...

...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...

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

... 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...

...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...

...Ashley M. Fox; Michael R. Reich Abstract Universal health coverage has recently become a top item on the global health agenda pressed by multilateral and donor organizations, as disenchantment grows with vertical, disease-specific health programs. This increasing focus on universal health coverage...

... as a public good, where national or local authorities held sovereign rights and power to protect public health. With the increasing globalized nature of infectious disease, such notions shifted toward surveillance as a global public good, with countries responding in turn by creating new global health...

...Yanzhong Huang Abstract This article examines the role of international institutional actors in China's health policy process. Particular attention is paid to three major international institutional actors: the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS...

... of Health Care in the United States . San Francisco : McKinsey Global Institute . Appleby J. 2010 . Unnecessary Hospital Admissions Targeted by New Payment Plan . Kaiser Health News , December 7 . www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/December/07/hospital-admissions.aspx . ———. 2011...

... through wildly speculative theories about the origins of the virus. The World Health Organization sought to coordinate a global response, but it has been hamstrung and has come under attack. Given past cooperation between major powers to mobilize and eradicate smallpox and previous US leadership to fight...

... and an emerging civil society presence. We discuss the critical importance of timing for policy intervention and the role of health policy in shaping the broader social terrain. The interventions of external actors such as the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund were...

...June Park Abstract This study investigates South Korea's trials and errors in procuring COVID-19 vaccines from abroad, amid the limitations of a multilateral scheme for global provision through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) program via the World Health Organization (WHO...

... for Controlling and Mitigating the Epidemic in Developing Nations . American Journal of Public Health 95 : 1162 – 1172 . Biehl J. 2004 . The Activist State: Global Pharmaceuticals, AIDS, and Citizenship in Brazil . Social Text 80 : 106 – 132 . Biesma R. Brugha R. Harmer...

..., even amid the pandemic, when it is too soon to draw conclusions. References Abimbola Seye , Topp Stephanie M. , Palagyi Anna , Marais Ben , and Negin Joel . 2017 . “ Global Health Security: Where Is the Data to Inform Health System Strengthening? ” BMJ Global Health...