Global Health Governance - Couverture rigide

Youde, Jeremy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0745653081 ISBN 13 : 9780745653082

Editeur : Polity Press, 2012

Synopsis

Global Health Governance In recent years the spread of diseases such as AIDS, SARS and avian flu has pushed health issues towards the top of the international agenda. Such outbreaks have serious political, economic, and social consequences and remind the world of the necessity of global cooperation in order to deal effectively with the challenges they pose."Global Health Governance" offers a comprehensive introduction to ... Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"An accessible and clearly written introduction to the subject."
LSE Politics Blog

"In an era of increasing integration, the challenge of governing global health could not be more pressing. Scholars and policy analysts alike require a clear framework for understanding the complex web of actors and interests in this arena. Jeremy Youde′s Global Health Governance offers a critical resource for making sense of past, present, and future developments."
Evan S. Lieberman, Princeton University

 

"This book will become an important reference for scholars and practitioners engaged in global governance and public health. Accessible and interesting to the non–expert, Global Health Governance draws on an impressive range of examples in order to demonstrate why today ′health has assumed a prominent place on the international agenda.′"
Kim Yi Donne, Texas A&M University

"Provides a very useful and accessible introduction to some of the key actors and issues in contemporary global health governance. Does a good job of setting GHG in historical context, showing the ways in which the field has changed in recent years and the impact of the entrance of a variety of new actors."
Simon Rushton, Aberystwyth University, Wales

 

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jeremy Youde is assistant professor of political science at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0745653081
• ISBN 13: 9780745653082
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240