Global Health Governance : Crisis, Institutions and Political Economy

Eminent scholars investigate the sharp contrast between the acute and multi-dimensional scale of the challenges to global health governance and the contradictory and ineffective responses to them. They draw on a wide range of disciplines to uncover the critical political economy dynamics in the contemporary governance of global health.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The International Political Economy of Global Health Governance; A.Kay & O.Williams PART I: THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE Understandings of Global Health Governance: The Contested Landscape; K.Lee National Security and Global Health Governance; C.McInnes Global Governance Capacities in Health: WHO and Infectious Diseases; S.Rushton The International Political Economy of Global Responses to HIV/AIDS; A.Ingram Chronic Diseases and Global Health Governance: The Contrasting Cases of Food and Tobacco; S.Barraclough PART II: THE ECONOMY OF GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE Unpacking Economism and Remapping the Terrain of Global Health; M.Sparke The Power of Money: Global Financial Markets, National Politics, and Social Determinants of Health; T.Schrecker Trade and Health; R.Labonté, C.Blouin & L.Forman IMF Policies and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa; R.P.Buckley & J.Baker The World Bank and Health; S.Harman The Competition State and the Private Control of Health Care; H.Löfgren Index