The making of global health governance
Subtitle: China and the global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria
By: Nicole A. Szlezák
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137020826
Subjects: World health; Social aspects; AIDS (Disease); Malaria; International cooperation; Public health; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Tuberculosis; Medical policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International
Description: "How do certain policy issues come to be regarded as 'global'? Whose responsibility is it to address them? Why do new global organizations emerge, and how do they interact with the existing system of national and international policy making? This book takes a unique approach to these questions by focusing on four entities: a globalizing sector (health), a global disease (HIV/AIDS), a global organization (the Global Fund), and a major sovereign nation (China). In investigating the interplay among these four entities, Szlezák asks and investigates how can we design a system of global governance that is both fair and effective"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Globalizing Public Policy; title: the Health Sector<B>Public Health in the Twenty; title: First Century: Beyond the Multilateral Institutions<B>The Global Fund Experiment<B>How the Fund Operates in the Global Domain<B>The Local and the Global; title: HIV/AIDS in China<B>The Fund's Impact on China's HIV/AIDS Policy<B>Public Health Policy Making in the Global Domain<B>.