Global health appears to be undergoing a gradual shift in focus away from diseases towards systems. This is partly a response to the difficulties that disease-specific global health initiatives have experienced in meeting individual programme targets and internationally agreed benchmarks, in spite of significant increases in development assistance over the past decade. 1 It is also a response t...

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 ...

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In Burkina Faso, abortion is legally restricted and socially stigmatised, but also frequent. Unsafe abortions represent a significant public health challenge, contributing to the country's very high maternal mortality ratio. Inspired by an internationally disseminated public health framing of unsafe abortion, the country's main policy response has been to provide post-abortion care (PAC) to ave...

Jeremy Shiffman’s editorial appropriately calls on making all forms of power more apparent and accountable, notably productive power derived from expertise and claims to moral authority. This commentary argues that relationships based on productive power can be especially difficult to reveal in global health policy because of embedded notions about the nature of power and politics. Yet, it is e...

the 21st century is an era of great challenge for humankind; we are combating terrorism, climate change, poverty, human rights issues and last but not least non-communicable diseases (ncds). the burden of the latter has become so large that it is being recognized by world leaders globally as an area that it is in need of much greater attention. in light of this concern, the world health organiz...

mayor and aldermen of the city of London put into place a set of orders " concerning the infection of the plague, " which was then sweeping through the population. He intended that these actions would be " very expedient for preventing and avoiding of infection of sickness " (1). At that time, London faced a public health crisis, with an inadequate scientific base in that the role of rats and t...

One of the more surprising features of the literature on public health and on health policy research in Europe and North America is the scarcity of references on the impact of political variables on health policy and on health outcomes. One can find in this literature a growing number of articles that focus on the social and cultural determinants of health, but very few indeed on the political ...

This article explores the politics of knowledge involved in understanding and responding to epidemics in an era of global health governance and biosecurity. It develops and applies an approach focused on how multiple, competing narratives about epidemics are constructed, mobilized and interact, and selectively justify pathways of intervention and response. A detailed ethnographic case study of ...