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Governing Global Health - Who Runs the World and Why? (Paperback)
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Governing Global Health - Who Runs the World and Why? (Paperback)
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The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of
international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to
eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola
attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented health
organizations. These organizations may be national, regional,
international, or even non-state organizations-like Medicins Sans
Frontieres. One of the more important recent trends in global
health governance, though, has been the rise of public-private
partnerships (PPPs) where private non-governmental organizations,
for-profit enterprises, and various other social entrepreneurs work
hand-in-hand with governments to combat specific maladies. A
primary driver for this development is the widespread belief that
by joining together, PPPs will attack health problems and fund
shared efforts more effectively than other systems. As Chelsea
Clinton and Devi Sridhar show in Governing Global Health, these
partnerships are not only important for combating infectious
diseases; they also provide models for developing solutions to a
host of other serious global health challenges and questions beyond
health. But what do we actually know about the accountability and
effectiveness of PPPs in relation to the traditional multilaterals?
According to Clinton and Sridhar, we have known very little because
scholars have not accumulated enough data or developed effective
ways to assess them-until now. In their analysis, they uncovered
both strength and weaknesses of the model. Using principal-agent
theory in which governments are the principals directing
international agents of various type, they take a closer look at
two major PPPs-the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
and the GAVI Alliance-and two major more traditional international
organizations-the World Health Organization and the World Bank. An
even-handed and thorough empirical analysis of one of the most
pressing topics in world affairs, Governing Global Health will
reshape our understanding of how organizations can more effectively
prevent the spread of communicable diseases like AIDS and reduce
pervasive chronic health problems like malnutrition.
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