Global Health Governance
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"This book is a welcome addition to the now over 60-strong series on Global Institutions edited by Thomas Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson. [It] is written in a highly accessible style, offering a brief and readable account of the key concepts and issues related to global health governance." - Kelley Lee, International Affairs, Vol. 88, 5, September 2012
"Harman's tightly written book provides a highly recommended introduction to the central questions and actors in contemporary global health governance. Summing Up: Highly recommended" - C. H. Blake, CHOICE, January 2013, Vol. 50 No. 05
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In the light of scares about potential pandemics such as swine fever and avian flu, the issue of global health and its governance is of increasing concern to scholars and practitioners of medicine, public health, social work, and international politics alike. Les mer
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Providing a concise and informative introduction to how global health is governed, this book:
Explores the various ways in which we understand global health governance
Explains the "nuts and bolts" of the traditional institutions of global health governance, highlights key frameworks and treaties and their relative successes and failings
Examines the actors in global health governance, their purpose, influence and impact
Offers an in depth analysis of the effectiveness of global health interventions, focusing particularly on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Highlighting the wide variety of actors, issues and approaches involved, this work shows the complex nature of global health governance, forcing the reader to examine who or what really governs global health, to what outcome, and for whom.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 178
- ISBN
- 9780415561587
- Utgivelsesår
- 2011
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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"This book is a welcome addition to the now over 60-strong series on Global Institutions edited by Thomas Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson. [It] is written in a highly accessible style, offering a brief and readable account of the key concepts and issues related to global health governance." - Kelley Lee, International Affairs, Vol. 88, 5, September 2012
"Harman's tightly written book provides a highly recommended introduction to the central questions and actors in contemporary global health governance. Summing Up: Highly recommended" - C. H. Blake, CHOICE, January 2013, Vol. 50 No. 05
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