Browse by subject "Regulation and governance"
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Building Trust, Taking Responsibility: Civil Society as Partners in Global Health Governance
Executive Summary
As humanity braces itself for its next encounter with a global pandemic far deadlier than SARS, it is in danger of choosing quick-fix solutions over long-term structural changes, with potentially catastrophic consequences. Influenza vaccines, border closures, and quarantines, while necessary, will do nothing to rid the world of the H5N1 virus, whose underlying causes exist elsewhere - the interface of unsound farming practices, unsustainable development, and crippling poverty.
Taking a more broad-based approach from the perspective of civil society, we argue that controlling the looming avian influenza (AI) epidemic requires us to tackle simultaneously the global public health crisis. Since the poor cannot control epidemics on their own and the international system cannot fill the shoes of local governments, the global community, acting collectively, must invest in public health infrastructure, sanitation, and responsible development in the global South. Making these policies sustainable, however, requires comprehensive changes to agricultural practices, consumption patterns, trade regulations, and our interaction with our fellow citizens and our environment. Most if not all of these are addressed in the Millennium Development Goals agreed to by all countries in the UN system. It also requires engaging civil society in the structures of global health governance on all levels.
Ultimately, mainstreaming developmental, human rights, security, and environmental considerations into influenza preparedness-planning calls for the “human security” model, which—by placing health, wealth, security, prosperity, and sustainable development into one inclusive framework—is the only way to generate consensus among all stakeholders on the controversial policies needed to lead our societies away from high-risk practices, and out of the shadow of the virus – and to reduce and prepare for future threats.
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| Author | Kathryn White and Maria Banda |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Business and Global Health Governance
This paper provides an introduction to therelationship between the commercial sector and global health governance.
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| Author | Kent Buse and Kelley Lee |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health and International Community: Ethical, Political and Regulatory Challenges
Book summary:
Global health arguably represents the most pressing issues facing humanity. Trends in international migration and transnational commerce render state boundaries increasingly porous. Human activity in one part of the world can lead to health impacts elsewhere. Animals, viruses and bacteria as well as pandemics and environmental disasters do not recognize or respect political borders. It is now widely accepted that a global perspective on the understanding of threats to health and how to respond to them is required, but there are many practical problems in establishing such an approach. This book offers a foundational study of these urgent and challenging problems, combining critical analysis with practically focused policy contributions. The contributors span the fields of ethics, human rights, international relations, law, philosophy and global politics. They address normative questions relating to justice, equity and inequality and practical questions regarding multi-organizational cooperation, global governance and international relations. Moving from the theoretical to the practical, Global Health and International Community is an essential resource for scholars, students, activists and policy makers across the globe.
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| Author | John Coggon and Swati Gola |
| Type | Book |
| Subject | Social justice, human rights and health Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health Governance as a contested space: competing discourses, interests and actors
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The literature on Global Health Governance has developed rapidly over recent years with a large number of scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds entering the field. Much of this work has been focussed either around the governance roles of specific institutions (IOs, GHPs, foundations etc) or the governance of particular health problems (most commonly infectious disease). Now seems to be a suitable point at which to take a step back and ask some more conceptual questions about how Global Health Governance works and what drives contemporary global responses to health problems.
This paper argues that Global Health Governance can best be understood as a process of contestation between a variety of different discourses, each of which takes a particular approach to health as a global issue, and each of which generates certain policy responses. It argues that the key contemporary discourses influencing Global Health Governance are biomedicine, human rights, economism and security, but that other (currently recessive) discourses also have an influence. These discourses are promoted by different global health actors and each has gained salience in particular issue areas. The paper argues that it is in the interplay of these discourses – a process in which both power and ideas play a role – that contemporary Global Health Governance is shaped.
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| Author | Owain Williams & Simon Rushton |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health Governance: Overview of the Role of International Law in Protecting and Promoting Global Public Health
This paper’s analysis unfolds in five parts. Part 1 examines the theoretical and practical need for international law in global governance systems. Part 2 provides a brief overview of the structure and dynamics of international law, which is an area of legal theory and practice that is often unfamiliar to public health experts and policy makers. Part 3 demonstrates how deeply embedded the value of public health is in public international law today. The protection and promotion of public health can be found in a wide variety of international legal regimes that cut across virtually every area of international relations. Part 4 analyzes different kinds of global governance mechanisms and strategies that have developed in international law on public health. In Part 5, the focus is on international law’slimitations as an instrument of GHG in order to communicate the message that international law is necessary but not sufficient to create effective GHG in today’s complex world.
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| Author | Professor David Fidler |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Health Law: A Definition and Grand Challenges
This article explores the health hazards posed by contemporary globalisation on human health and the consequent urgent need for global health law to facilitate effective multilateral cooperation in advancing the health of populations equitably.
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| Author | Lawrence O. Gostin? and Allyn L. Taylor O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Global Public Health Surveillance under New International Health Regulations
This article assesses the surveillance system in International Health Regulations adopted by the world health assembly in 2005 (IHR 2005) by applying well established frameworks for evaluating public health surveillance.
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| Author | Michael G. Baker and David P. Fidler |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Infectious Disease Movement in a Borderless World: Workshop Summary
This workshop summary is organized into chapters as a topic-by-topic description of the presentations and discussions that took place at the workshop. Its purpose is to present lessons from relevant experience, to delineate a range of pivotal issues and their respective problems, and to offer potential responses as discussed and described by the workshop participants.
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| Author | David A. Relman, Eileen R. Choffnes, and Alison Mack, Rapporteurs; Forum on Microbial Threats; Institute of Medicine |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Intergovernmental Organisations Committee - First Report
We were appointed in November 2007 as a new ad hoc Select Committee of the House of Lords to review the effectiveness with which intergovernmental organisations (IGOs) are operating in specific fields and how the UK is making use of its membership of those organisations to ensure that their objectives are being met. For our first inquiry we have examined how IGOs are tackling the global spread of infectious diseases.
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| Type | Paper |
| Subject | New and emerging infectious diseases Regulation and governance |
| Tags | UK report |
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Is Transition of Internationally Educated Nurses a Regulatory Issue?
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Based on a review of initial evidence, this article suggests that transition of internationally educated nurses (IENs) is a regulatory issue. Given the absence of global nurse regulation, the questionable credibility in many areas where national regulation does operate, and more important, the commercialization of nurse training in some countries to meet international demand, the quality and competence of IENs are likely to be varied in both quantitative and qualitative terms. This variability in quality and competence affect their ability and readiness to practice with direct implications for patient safety and quality of care. After description of a transition program as a proposed regulatory mechanism modeled after the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s Transition Initiatives, this article calls for comparative outcomes research on IENs and U.S. educated nurses to definitively determine if transition of IENs is a regulatory issue.
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| Author | Yu Xu, PhD, RN, CTN, CNE |
| Type | Article |
| Subject | Education Migration of health professionals Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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Smart Global Health
SmartGlobalHealth.org is the website for the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. The Global Health Policy Center is a leading policy research institution focused on building bipartisan awareness about global health and its importance to U.S. national security.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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The 10 challenges of global health governance
In a presentation delivered at the June 2010 "Global Health: Together we can make it" conference in Brussels, Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Director of the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute, Geneva and Chair of the Global Health Europe Task Force, summarized the key challenges that have to be tackled in order to improve global governance for health.
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| Type | Website |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | opinion piece |
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The Revised International Health Regulations: A Framework for Global Pandemic Response
The 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak tested the revised International Health Regulations [IHR (2005)] robustly for the first time. The IHR (2005) contributed to swift international notification, allowing nations to implement their pandemic preparedness plans while Mexico voluntarily adopted stringent social distancing measures to limit further disease spread – factors that probably delayed sustained human-to-human transmission outside the Americas. While the outbreak revealed unprecedented efficiency in international communications and cooperation, it also revealed weaknesses at every level of government. The response raises questions regarding the extent to which the IHR (2005) can serve as a framework for global pandemic response and the balance between global governance of disease control measures and national sovereignty.
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| Author | Rebecca Katz and Julie Fischer |
| Type | Document |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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World Health Law: Toward a New Conception of Global Health Governance for the 21st Century
The international community joined together during the late twentieth century to form a world trade system. Although imperfect, the world trade system contains adjudicable and enforceable norms designed to facilitate global economic activity. Human health is at least as important as trade in terms of its effects on the wellbeing of populations. Moreover, health hazards-biological, chemical, and radionuclear-have profound global implications. Whether these threats' origins are natural, accidental, or intentional, the harms, as well as the response, transcend national frontiers and warrant a transnational response. Despite their high importance, the International Health Regulations (IHR) are antiquated, limited in scope, and burdened by inflexible assumptions and entrenched power structures.' This essay examines problems of obsolescence, narrow reach, and rigidity associated with the IHR, and proposes a new conception for world health law in the 21st Century.
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| Author | Lawrence O. Gostin |
| Type | Paper |
| Subject | Regulation and governance |
| Tags | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/globalhealth/browse/list_titles/tag/466 |
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