Global public goods for health: weaknesses and opportunities in the global health system
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Global public goods for health: weaknesses and opportunities in the global health system.
Since at least the 1990s, there has been growing recognition that societies need global public goods (GPGs) in order to protect and promote public health. While the term GPG is sometimes used loosely to denote that which is 'good' for the global public, we restrict our use of the term to its technical definition (goods that are non-excludable and non-rival in consumption) for its useful analyti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Economics, Policy and Law
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1744-1331,1744-134X
DOI: 10.1017/s1744133116000451