1st Edition

Global Health Governance and Policy An Introduction

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

Global Health Governance and Policy outlines the fundamentals of global health, a key element of sustainable development. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it explores the relationship between the globalization process and global health’s social, political, economic and environmental determinants. It points the attention to the actors and forces that shape global policies and actions with... Read more

1. Introduction

Section 1: Globalization, Development and Health

2. Links between globalization, development and health

3. Global estimates of health indicators 

4. The right to health and the evolution of public health strategies in the context of global development policies 

Section 2: Global Governance and Health

5. Global governance in health

6. International institutions: the United Nations system 

7. Governments and their groupings

8. Non-state actors

9. Global action networks and transnational hybrid organizations

10. Future challenges toward global governance for health 

Section 3: Global Policies and Issues

11. Neoliberal globalization, global policies and health 

12. Health systems in the global health landscape 

13. Global health financing and Development Assistance for Health

Biography

Eduardo Missoni has decades-long experience in international development cooperation, and is currently adjunct professor at the Bocconi University and SDA-Bocconi School of Management, at the Milano-Bicocca University, and at the Medical School of the University of Pavia, Italy. He is also a member of the Faculty of the Geneva School of Diplomacy, and has teaching duties at the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Guglielmo Pacileo is a senior physician at the Management Directorate of the Alessandria Local Health Authority, and an adjunct professor at SDA-Bocconi School of Management, Italy. He also holds teaching duties at the Medical School of the University of Pavia, Italy.

Fabrizio Tediosi is Group Leader for Health Policy and System Research at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, and Privat Dozent (Associate Professor) at the University of Basel.