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Chapter 35 - Global Health Governance for Developing Sustainability

from Section 6 - Shaping the Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2021

By
Erica Di Ruggiero
Edited by
Solomon Benatar  and
Gillian Brock
Solomon Benatar
Affiliation:
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Cape Town
Gillian Brock
Affiliation:
Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland
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Summary

Health is an intrinsically and indisputably global endeavor. Global challenges to the health of populations and to the planet are on the rise, as are concomitant calls for innovative strategies and “solutions” that aspire to contribute to the development of sustainability (Bensimon & Benatar, 2006). Increased economic globalization; the flow of trade, capital, and labor; widening gender and health inequities; increased migration; and planetary health are among the many complex issues that challenge nation-states, global institutions, and the overall governance of the global commons (or the commonly pooled resources at global, international, and supranational levels). Health has also become highly vulnerable in a global policy context dominated by growing interests in national security and economic competitiveness (Labonte, 2014). Efforts to “depoliticize” health and the work of global institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO) dedicated to the achievement of health for all have not necessarily succeeded, and suggestions that health is not political have been repeatedly refuted (Kickbusch & Reddy, 2015).

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Global Health
Ethical Challenges
 , pp. 440 - 449
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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