Global health justice and governance / Jennifer Prah Ruger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruger, Jennifer Prah, author.

Contributor:

Louis B. Flexner Medical Book Fund.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy.

Medical laws and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover; Global Health Justice and Governance; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; List of Figure, Tables, and Box; Part I: Problems in Global Health and Governance; 1: Global Health Problems; 1.1 Global Health Inequalities; 1.2 Problems of Global Health Externalities; 1.3 Cross-Border Problems in Global Health; 2: Global Health Governance Problems; 2.1 Global Institutions; 2.2 From International Health Governance to Global Health Governance; 2.3 Development Assistance for Health; 2.3.1 Foreign Aid, Public and Private; 2.3.2 Reasons Why Donors Provide Foreign Aid

2.3.3 The DAH System: Critiques and Proposals2.4 Actors and Regimes in Global Health Governance; 2.4.1 States; 2.4.2 United Nations Organizations; 2.4.3 Economic Organizations and Coalitions: World Bank, World Trade Organization, G8, and G20; 2.4.4 Civil Society Organizations and Nongovernmental Organizations; 2.4.5 Public-Private Partnerships; 2.5 Where Global Health Efforts Succeed; 2.6 GHG: Major Issues and Challenges; 2.6.1 Approaches to Global Health Challenges: Vertical and Horizontal; 2.6.2 Health: A Multisectoral Issue; 2.6.3 Neoliberalism and Global Health

2.6.4 Country and Local Capacity and Ownership2.6.5 Research Gaps in Global Health Governance; 2.7 Global Health Governance's Key Problems Persist; 2.7.1 Summary of Global Health Governance Problems; 2.8 Why a Theory of Global Health Justice and Governance?; Part II: Global Health Justice; 3: Contrasting Theories of Global Justice; 3.1 Realism; 3.2 Particularism: Communitarianism and Nationalism; 3.3 Social Contractarianism (Society of States); 3.4 Cosmopolitanism and Utilitarianism; 3.4.1 Utilitarianism; 3.4.2 Human Rights Cosmopolitanism

3.5 Application of Global Justice Perspectives to Global Health3.5.1 Global Health Justice: Largely Unheeded in Justice Theories; 3.5.2 Health as a Human Right; 3.5.3 Global Health Justice and Ethics Issues; 4: An Alternative Account: Provincial Globalism; 4.1 Human Flourishing and Capabilities; 4.1.1 Health Capabilities; 4.1.2 Central Health Capabilities; 4.1.3 Transpositionality: A Global View of Health Capabilities; 4.1.4 Health Capability Components: Functionings, Agency, and Needs; 4.1.5 Health Agency; 4.1.6 Ethical Individualism; 4.2 Global Distributive Justice

4.2.1 Principles and Measurement in Health Equity Theory4.2.1.1 EQUALITY, PRIORITY, SUFFICIENCY; 4.2.1.2 MEASURING GLOBAL HEALTH INEQUALITIES AND EXTERNALITIES BY SHORTFALL EQUALITY; 4.3 Joint Commitments: Plural Subjecthood; 4.4 Relativism versus Universalism; 4.5 Fulfilling Global Health Justice Requirements: Principles for Allocating and Prioritizing Responsibilities; 4.5.1 Causality, Remediation, and Partiality; 4.5.2 Functions and Capabilities; 4.5.3 Ethical Commitments, Public Norms; 4.5.4 Institutions and Actors: Global and State Obligations

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed May 10, 2018).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis B. Flexner Medical Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780192556530

0192556533

Publisher Number:

99977122502

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.