The global health agenda has been dominating the current global health policy debate. Furthermore, it has compelled countries to embrace strategies for tackling health inequalities in a wide range of public health areas. The article by Robert and colleagues highlights that although globalization has increased opportunities to share and spread ideas, there is still great asymmetry of power accor...

in a recent article, gorik ooms has drawn attention to the normative underpinnings of the politics of global health. we claim that ooms is indirectly submitting to a liberal conception of politics by framing the politics of global health as a question of individual morality. drawing on the theoretical works of chantal mouffe, we introduce a conflictual concept of the political as an alternative...

striking disparities in access to healthcare and in health outcomes are major characteristics of health across the globe. this inequitable state of global health and how it could be improved has become a highly popularized field of academic study. in a series of articles in this journal the roles of power and politics in global health have been addressed in considerable detail. three points are...

politics as a new concept in iran is a subject that has involved various classes, statifications & groups. it has embraced different areas of iranians’ living. for existing researches have studied classes, iilat & some groups in iran’s political sociology, this research studies a group that political literature don’t give pay attention to that or belong on social history and very hard to study ...

of epidemic disease in New York City from 1800 to the present. Elizabeth Blackmar, in a summary of her broader study of New York housing, Manhattan for rent, 1785-1850, discusses the unique relationship between the urban housing market and public health. Alan Kraut reprises elements of his recent book, Silent travelers: germs, genes and the immigrant menace, in an essay on immigrants, nativism ...

There have been many calls of late for the study of medical politics; Evans has put precept into practice, going beyond analysis of abstract ideologies to plot the precise interplay of real power politics with medical crises. Not least, he has drawn explicit international comparisons. Hamburg turns out to have been more English than the English: by contrast to the ramshackle public health arran...

Members of the 67th World Health Assembly in 2014 were presented with a framework document to guide World Health Organization (WHO) engagement with non-state actors, a key part of WHO reform kick-started in 2011. According to this document, non-state actors include four distinct constituencies: i) nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), ii) private sector entities; iii) philanthropic foundations;...

The trope of the "body politic" is reproduced in a Bengali popular court, or moot, not only through explicit submetaphors of that master metaphor but through a grammatical example of what Peirce called diagrammatic iconism. The iconism of reduplicated verbs with reciprocal meaning became pivotal in the metacommunicative negotiation of the agenda of a rural Bangladeshi moot. Such forms of iconic...

The United States' experience with the Ebola virus in 2014 provides a window into US public health politics. First, the United States provided a case study in the role of suasion and executive action in the management of public health in a fragmented multi-level system. The variable capacity of different parts of the United States to respond to Ebola on the level of hospitals or state governmen...

This commentary on the Editorial ‘The politics and analytics of health policy’ by Professor Calum Paton focuses on two issues. First, it points to the unclear links between ideas, ideology, values, and discourse and policy, and warns that discourse is often a poor guide to enacted policy. Second, it suggests that realism, particularly ‘programme theory’ are useful tools for health policy analys...