Realigning global health governance: WHO at a crossroads
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Global Health Governance at a Crossroads.
This review takes stock of the global health governance (GHG) literature. We address the transition from international health governance (IHG) to global health governance, identify major actors, and explain some challenges and successes in GHG. We analyze the framing of health as national security, human security, human rights, and global public good, and the implications of these various frame...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Equity in Health
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1475-9276
DOI: 10.1186/s12939-020-01297-y