The World Health Organization between north and south / Nitsan Chorev.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chorev, Nitsan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Health Organization.

Public health--International cooperation.

Public health.

World health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched numerous programs aimed at improving health conditions around the globe, ranging from efforts to eradicate smallpox to education programs about the health risks of smoking. In setting global health priorities and carrying out initiatives, the WHO bureaucracy has faced the challenge of reconciling the preferences of a small minority of wealthy nations, who fund the organization, with the demands of poorer member countries, who hold the majority of votes. In The World Health Organization between North and South, Nitsan Chorev shows how the WHO bureaucracy has succeeded not only in avoiding having its agenda co-opted by either coalition of member states but also in reaching a consensus that fit the bureaucracy's own principles and interests. Chorev assesses the response of the WHO bureaucracy to member-state pressure in two particularly contentious moments: when during the 1970's and early 1980's developing countries forcefully called for a more equal international economic order, and when in the 1990's the United States and other wealthy countries demanded international organizations adopt neoliberal economic reforms. In analyzing these two periods, Chorev demonstrates how strategic maneuvering made it possible for a vulnerable bureaucracy to preserve a relatively autonomous agenda, promote a consistent set of values, and protect its interests in the face of challenges from developing and developed countries alike.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

1. The World Health Organization

2. The Strategic Response of International Organizations

3. A New International Order in Health

4. Appropriate Technology, Inappropriate Marketing

5. The WHO in Crisis

6. Health in Economic Terms

7. How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies

Conclusion: Structural Transformations of the Global Health Regime

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780801464393

0801464390

9780801463921

0801463920

OCLC:

790296146