ABSTRACT
In the early twenty-first century, key public health issues and challenges have taken centre stage on the global scene, and health has been placed at the heart of our collective aspirations for human development and well-being. But significant debate exists not only about the causes, but also about the possible solutions for nearly all of the most important global health challenges.
Competing visions of the values and perspectives that should underlie global health policies have emerged, ranging from an emphasis on cost eff ectiveness and resource constraints on one extreme, to new calls for health and human rights, and renewed calls for health and social justice on the other. The role of different intergovernmental agencies, bilateral or unilateral donors, public or private institutions and initiatives, has increasingly been called into question, whilst the spread of neoliberal policies and programmes, and existing international trade regimes and intellectual property rights, are deeply implicated in relation to global health responses.
This volume critically evaluates how the global health industry has evolved and how the interests of diverse political and economic stakeholders are shaping the context of a rapidly changing institutional landscape. Bringing together leading authors from across the world, the Handbook’s eight sections explore:
• Critical perspectives on global health
• Globalisation, neoliberalism, and health systems
• The changing shape of global health governance
• Development assistance and the politics of global health
• Scale-up, scale-down, and the sustainability of global health programmes
• Intellectual property rights, trade relations, and global health
• Humanitarian emergencies and global health politics
• Human rights, social justice, and global health
The Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Global Health addresses both the emerging issues and conceptualisations of the political strategies, policy-making processes, and global governance of global health, along with expanding upon and highlighting the critical priorities in this rapidly evolving field. It provides an authoritative overview for students, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers working in or concerned with the politics of public health around the globe.
Part I. Critical Perspectives on Global Health
Chapter 1. South-North Commonalities and Fault-lines in Global Health
Gita Sen
Chapter 2. The Right to Health under Capitalism: Threats, Confrontations and Possibilities
César Abadía-Barrero and Adriana Ardila-Sierra
Chapter 3. South African AIDS Activism: Lessons for High-Impact Global Health Advocacy
Mandisa Mbali
Chapter 4. Neglect in Global Health
João Nunes
Chapter 5. The Politics of Funding Research in Global Health Partnerships
Johanna T. Crane, Irene Andia Biraro, Tamer M. Fouad, Yap Boum II, and David Bangsberg
Chapter 6. From Global Health to Planetary and Micro Global Health: Theorizing Global Health’s Present Remodeling and Scaling
João Biehl and Yi Ching Ong
Part II. Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Health Systems
Chapter 7. Boundaries of Global Health Politics in the ‘Fourth World’: Determinants of Political Will for Hepatitis C Treatment
Jonathan Garcia, Devynne Nelons, Tayler Tobey, Katherine Marsi
Chapter 8. Sabotaged Bodies, Sacrifice, and Lost Youth under Punitive Neoliberalism
Luis L. M. Aguiar
Chapter 9. ‘Willingness to Pay’: How Health Care User Fees Spread around the World, 1965-2015
Aaron Shakow and Salmaan Keshavjee
Chapter 10. The Politics of Health Systems Strengthening
Katerini Storeng, Ruth J. Prince and Arima Mishra
Chapter 11. National and Subnational Politics of Health Systems’ Origins and Change
Radhika Gore
Part III. The Changing Shape of Global Health Governance
Chapter 12. Reforming the World Health Organization
Yanzhong Huang and Gabriella Meltzer
Chapter 13. Health Governance: A Neglected and an Uncharted Path of Governance in Africa
Oyewale Tomori
Chapter 14. Learning from Research on Experiences of Health Diplomacy in Africa
Rene Loewenson and Bente Molenaar-Neufeld
Chapter 15. China’s Role in Global Health Governance
Jeremy Youde
Chapter 16. Aiming for Synergies between Global Health Security and Global Health Justice, with Help from a Framework Convention on Global Health
Gorik Ooms and Albrecht Jahn
Chapter 17. Health and Global Governance: The Case of Development Cooperation on
Håkan Thörn
Part IV. Development Assistance and The Politics of Global Health
Chapter 18. Global Health Challenges in the Era of Sustainable Development Goals
Nana Poku and Jim Whitman
Chapter 19. Disrupting Global Health: The Gates Foundation and the Vaccine Business
Jacob Levich
Chapter 20. National Influence in Global Health Governance: The Case of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development
Daniel E. Esser
Chapter 21. The Crossroads of Development Assistance and National Development Agendas in the Countries of South Eastern Europe
Neda Milevska Kostova, Elizabeth J. King, and Kristefer Stojanovski
Chapter 22. On the Life History of HIV Interventions in India: Avahan, Organic Intellectuals, and the Fate of Community Mobilization
Robert Lorway, Shamshad Khan, Monika Doshi, Sundar Sundararaman, and Sushena-Reza Paul
Part V. Scale-Up, Scale-Down, and the Sustainability of Global Health Programs
Chapter 23. Scaling-up and Losing the Signal: The Global HIV and AIDS Epidemic
Alan Whiteside
Chapter 24. Brazil and the Changing Meanings of ‘Universal Access’ to Antiretrovirals during the Early 21st Century
Marcos Cueto
Chapter 25. ‘Ending AIDS’ or Scaling Down the HIV Response?
Nora Kenworthy, Matthew Thomann and Richard Parker
Chapter 26. Enabling Positive Change: Learning from Progress and Setback in HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health
Purnima Mane and Peter Aggleton
Chapter 27. The Global Politics of Polio Eradication
William S. Schulz and Heidi J. Larson
Part VI. Intellectual Property Rights, Trade Relations and Global Health
Chapter 28. Politics of Access to Medicines and Human Rights
Anand Grover
Chapter 29. Trading Away Global Health?: Unravelling the Intellectual Property, Trade and Investments Nexus and the Impact on the Right to Health
Karen Van Rompaey
Chapter 30. Will the Amendment to the TRIPS Agreement Enhance Access to Medicines?
Carlos Correa
Chapter 31. Taking on the Challenge of Implementing Public Health Safeguards on the Ground: The Experience of Argentina and Brazil from a Civil Society Perspective
Marcela Fogaça Vieira and Lorena Di Giano
Chapter 32. The Politics of Malnutrition: Achieving Policy Coherence in a Globalized World Anne-Marie Thow and Biraj Patnaik
Part VII. Humanitarian Emergencies and Global Health Politics
Chapter 33. Forced Migration and Health: Problems and Responses
Eduardo Faerstein and Anete Trajman
Chapter 34. Geopolitics, Political Violence, and Global Health: Ethical Obligations for Professionals Acting Within Wars and Conflict Settings
Cindy Sousa
Chapter 35. Sovereignty, Development, and Health: Humanitarianism and Health Care Provision in the Gaza Strip
Ron Smith
Chapter 36. Drone Operators, Terrorists, and the Biopolitics of Public Health in the War on Terror
Neil Krishnan Aggarwal
Part VIII. Human Rights, Social Justice and Global Health
Chapter 37. The Invisible Reality of ‘Chinthar Roge’ (A Life of Chronic Worry): The Illness of Poverty in Dhaka’s Urban Slum Settlements
Sabina Faiz Rashid
Chapter 38. Salmon, Fire and the Environmental and Political Contexts of Tribal Health
Kari Norgaard and Ron Reed
Chapter 39. Research and Sex Work: How Neo-colonialism and Biomedicalization Impact Struggles for Sex Workers’ Rights
Laura Murray, Elsa Oliveira, and Debolina Dutta
Chapter 40. In Pursuit of Genomic Justice: Sovereignty, Inclusion and Innovation in Mexico
Emily E. Vasquez and Vivette García-Deister
