Health for Some: The Political Economy of Global Health Governance

摘要

This anthology's point of departure is the conclusion by the 2005-set Commission on the Social Determinants of Health of the World Health Organization (WHO) that global socio-economic inequities define populations' health and wellbeing. This reference lays down an understanding of global health centered not just in function of a sum of leading individual epidemics (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis or malaria), but also in an evolving complex linking intercontinental travel to viral transmission, or consumption of nutritionally poor food to augmentation of coronal diseases in poor countries, notably.