Partnerships for women's health
Subtitle: striving for best practice within the UN Global Compact
By: edited by Martina Timmermann and Monika Kruesmann.
Contributors: Timmermann, Martina.; Kruesmann, Monika.
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tokyo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9789280811858
Subjects: Global Compact; Global Compact; Women -- Health and hygiene; Women -- Health and hygiene -- India; Women's Health; Developing Countries; International Cooperation
Description: Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy or childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of national and international policy declarations, this situation remains particularly severe in developing countries. This book draws together insights and experiences of development practitioners, policy makers, academic experts and private sector partners to describe the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a public private partnership based in India. Informed by growing literature on such partnerships, the WHI sought to implement a project that would make a real difference in women's lives, simultaneous with meeting private sector commercial imperatives.--Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Improving maternal health in Asia and Africa : challenges and opportunities / Moazzam Ali; title: Poverty, health and the human right to the highest attainable standard of health / Paul Hunt and Judith Bueno de Mesquita; title: Partnering in support of the right to health : what role for business? / Klaus M. Leisinger; title: The challenge of equal financial access to the best available health care : bringing in the private sector / Günter Neubauer and Iris J. Driessle; title: The United Nations Global Compact : seeking to embrace diversity / Monika Kruesmann; title: Small and medium-sized enterprises : their role in achieving the millennium development goals / Kai Bethke and Manuela Bösendorfer; title: The health situation of women in India : policies and programmes / Suneeta Mittal and Arvind Mathur; title: India's medical system / Nirmal Kumar Ganguly and Malabika Roy; title: Health PPPs in India : stepping stones for improving women's reproductive health care? / Rama V. Baru and Madhurima Nundy; title: Pro-poor capacity-building in India's women's health sector / Arabinda Ghosh; title: Introduction to the case study : the Women's Health Initiative : a trilateral partnership within the framework of the UN Global Compact / Martina Timmermann; title: Karl Storz's WHI goals and expectations / Sybill Storz; title: The German PPP programme : a viable way to improve women's health in India? / Nicolaus von der Goltz; title: GTZ's goals and expectations for the WHI public private partnership from a development cooperation point of view / Diana Kraft and Jörg Hartmann; title: The WHI : management perspectives from the private and the public partners in the field / Peter Laser and Anu Chopra; title: The WHI : perspectives from private and public medical doctors in endoscopy training centres / A. Kurian Joseph and Alka Kriplani; title: The economic logic of the Women's Health Initiative as a business model for poverty alleviation / Christina Gradl; title: A PPP for women's health and human rights in India : striving for best practice within the framework of the UN Global Compact / Martina Timmermann and Monika Kruesmann; title: PPPs for women's health and human rights beyond India : probing new standards and methodologies / Martina Timmermann and Monika Kruesmann.