Lee, Kelley; Buse, Kent; Fustukian, Suzanne. (eds.). 2002. Health Policy in a Globalising World.Lee, Kelley; Buse, Kent; Fustukian, Suzanne. (eds.). 2002. Health Policy in a Globalising World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP) is a publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534, and one of the two privileged presses (the other being Oxford University Press). . 331 p. Increasing recognition of the impact that globalisation may be having on public health has led to widespread concern about the risks arising from emerging and re-emerging diseases, environmental degradation Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of wildlife. and demographic change. This book argues that health policymaking pol·i·cy·mak·ing or pol·i·cy-mak·ing n. High-level development of policy, especially official government policy. adj. Of, relating to, or involving the making of high-level policy: is being affected by globalisation and that these effects are, in turn, contributing to the global health issues being faced today. The book explores how the context, processes, actors and direction of health policy are changing as a result of globalisation, raising concerns about growing differences in who can influence health policy, what priorities are set, what interventions are deemed appropriate and, ultimately, who enjoys good and bad health. The contents in Part One of this collection include the following papers entitled: An introduction to global health policy; The public health implications of multilateral trade agreements; Globalisation and multilateral public-private health partnerships: issues for health policy; Global approaches to private sector provisions: where is the evidence?; Regulation in the context of global health market; Global policy networks: the propagation The transmission (spreading) of signals from one place to another. of healthcare financing reform since the 1980s; The globalisation of health sector reform policies: is 'lesson drawing' part of the process?'; and, Cost-effectiveness analysis cost-effectiveness analysis Cost-utility analysis Clinical trials A form of economic analysis in which alternative interventions are compared in terms of the cost per unit of clinical effect–eg cost per life saved, per mm Hg of lowered BP, per yr of and priority-setting: global approach without local message? Part Two includes papers on: Global rhetoric and individual realities: linking violence against women and reproductive health Within the framework of WHO's definition of health[1] as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, reproductive health, or sexual health/hygiene ; The globalisation of directly observed therapy directly observed therapy Therapeutics A strategy for ensuring Pt compliance with therapy, where a health care worker or designee watches the Pt swallow each dose of prescribed drugs. See Patient compliance. Cf Directed observation. : tuberculosis as a global emergency; Ageing and health policy:global perspectives; Workers' health and safety in a globalising world; and, Globalisation, conflict and the humanitarian response. And Part Three is on: Globalisation and health policy: trends and opportunities. Source: Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK. Website: www.uk.cambridge.org |
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