Brown / Yamey / Wamala The Handbook of Global Health Policy

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-50960-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 632 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Handbooks of Global Policy

The Handbook of Global Health Policy provides adefinitive source of the key areas in the field. It examines theethical and practical dimensions of new and current policy modelsand their effect on the future development of global health andpolicy.
* Maps out key debates and policy structures involved in allareas of global health policy
* Isolates and examines new policy initiatives in global healthpolicy
* Provides an examination of these initiatives that captures boththe ethical/critical as well as practical/empirical dimensionsinvolved with global health policy, global health policy formationand its implications
* Confronts the theoretical and practical questions of 'whogets what and why' and 'how, when andwhere?'
* Captures the views of a wide array of scholars andpractitioners, including from low- and middle-income countries, toensure an inclusive view of current policy debates

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Garrett W.

Yamey, Gavin

Wamala, Sarah

Über Autor(innen)

Garrett Wallace Brown is Reader in the Department ofPolitics at the University of Sheffield. He is the author ofGrounding Cosmopolitanism: From Kant to the Idea of aCosmopolitan Constitution (2009) and co-editor of TheCosmopolitanism Reader (with David Held, Polity Press,2010).
Gavin Yamey leads the Evidence to Policy initiative(E2Pi), a global health policy think tank in the Global HealthGroup at the University of California, San Francisco. He is afrequent commentator on National Public Radio, and has publishedover 100 articles in peer-reviewed medicaljournals.
Sarah Wamala is the Director-General of the SwedishNational Institute of Public Health and Associate Professor atKarolinska Institute. She has published extensively on the widerdeterminants of health and relevance of preventive strategies andinterventions, and is the editor of Globalization and Health(with Ichiro Kawachi, 2007).