Health Policy in a Globalising World

by Edited by Kelley Lee , Kent Buse , Suzanne Fustukian

• ISBN13: 9780521804196
• ISBN10: 0521804191
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Increasing recognition of the impact that globalisation may be having on public health has led to widespread concern about the risks arising from emerging and re-emerging diseases, environmental degradation and demographic change. This book argues that health policy making is being affected by globalisation and that these effects are, in turn, contributing to the kind of global health issues being faced today. The book explores how the actors, context, processes and content of health policy are changing as a result of globalisation, raising concerns about growing differences in who can influence health policy, what priorities are set, what interventions are deemed appropriate and ultimately who enjoys good and bad health. Bringing together a distinguished, international group of contributors, this book covers a comprehensive range of topics and geographic regions and will be invaluable for all those interested in health, social and public policy and globalisation.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
List of tables	x
List of boxes	xi
Notes on contributors	xii
Foreword	xix
Preface	xxi
Acknowledgements	xxv
Abbreviations	xxvii
Part I
An introduction to global health policy	3	(15)
Kelley Lee
Suzanne Fustukian
Kent Buse
The public health implications of multilateral trade agreements	18	(23)
M. Kent Ranson
Robert Beaglehole
Carlos M. Correa
Zafar Mirza
Kent Buse
Nick Drager
Globalisation and multilateral public--private health partnerships: issues for health policy	41	(22)
Kent Buse
Gill Walt
Global approaches to private sector provision: where is the evidence?	63	(15)
Ruairi Brugha
Anthony Zwi
Regulation in the context of global health markets	78	(19)
Lilani Kumaranayake
Sally Lake
Global policy networks: the propagation of health care financing reform since the 1980s	97	(23)
Kelley Lee
Hilary Goodman
The globalisation of health sector reform policies: is `lesson drawing' part of the process?	120	(20)
Barbara Mcpake
Cost-effectiveness analysis and priority-setting: global approach without local meaning?	140	(19)
Lilani Kumaranayake
Damian Walker
Part II
Global rhetoric and individual realities: linking violence against women and reproductive health	159	(22)
Susannah H. Mayhew
Charlotte Watts
The globalisation of DOTS: tuberculosis as a global emergency	181	(14)
John Porter
Kelley Lee
Jessica Ogden
Ageing and health policy: global perspectives	195	(13)
Peter Lloyd-Sherlock
Workers' health and safety in a globalising world	208	(21)
Suzanne Fustukian
Dinesh Sethi
Anthony Zwi
Globalisation, conflict and the humanitarian response	229	(22)
Anthony Zwi
Suzanne Fustukian
Dinesh Sethi
Part III
Globalisation and health policy: trends and opportunities	251	(30)
Kent Buse
Nick Drager
Suzanne Fustukian
Kelley Lee
References	281	(36)
Index	317