Patterns in Global Health Governance and Policy

Global health policy is now being influenced by an ever-increasing number of nonstate and non-intergovernmental actors to include influential foundations, multinational corporations, multi-sectoral partnerships, and civil society organizations. This book outlines the fundamentals of global health, a key element of sustainable development. Taking global 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 an impact on peoples’ health in an increasingly complex global governance context. The book also reviews how globalization is a key driver for the ongoing evolution of global health governance. It describes the massive increases in bilateral and multilateral investments in global health and it highlights the current global and US architecture for performing global health programs.

Print ISBN: 9781682507094 | $ 150 | 2021 | Hardcover

Subject: Social Science

Editor: Süleyman Monsen