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The Elgar Companion to the Law and Practice of the World Health Organization.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McArdle, Scarlett.
- Series:
- Elgar Companions to the Law and Practice of the UN Agencies and Bodies Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World Health Organization--Rules and practice.
- World Health Organization.
- World health.
- Public health laws.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (503 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.
- Summary:
- This Companion presents a comprehensive analysis of the World Health Organization's (WHO) practices and structures, reflecting on its development as a specialised UN agency since its creation. It examines the WHO's capacity to provide the coordination and leadership needed to address today's global health challenges.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- PART I: WHO: DEVELOPMENT AND POWERS
- Chapter 1: Introduction to The Elgar Companion to the Law and Practice of the World Health Organization
- Chapter 2: The development of the World Health Organization in contextScarlett
- Chapter 3: The World Health Organization, the complexity of institutional powers, and the growing accountability
- Chapter 4: The law governing the WHOMateja S. Platise
- PART II: LAW-MAKING AND THE WHO
- Chapter 5: Introduction to Part II: law-making and the WHO
- Chapter 6: Chapter 1: Global health law: the centrality of the WHO
- Chapter 7: Soft law of the WHO
- Chapter 8: The World Health Organization and the law of treaties
- PART III: THE EXTERNAL DIMENSION
- Chapter 9: Introduction to Part III: the external dimension
- Chapter 10: The development and implementation of human rights law in WHO governance1
- Chapter 11: The international health regulations and the right to health: conflicts and harmony and the role of the World Health Organization
- Chapter 12: The World Health Organization's use of private contractual law to procure vaccine in a pandemic
- Chapter 13: The WHO and navigating pathogen access and benefit-sharing in a post COVID-19 world
- Chapter 14: Conclusion to The Elgar Companion to the Law and Practice of the World Health Organization
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-03-538445-0
- 1-78990-670-9
- 9781035384457
- OCLC:
- 1569081834
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