Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I
- 1 An introduction to global health policy
- 2 The public health implications of multilateral trade agreements
- 3 Globalisation and multilateral public–private health partnerships: issues for health policy
- 4 Global approaches to private sector provision: where is the evidence?
- 5 Regulation in the context of global health markets
- 6 Global policy networks: the propagation of health care financing reform since the 1980s
- 7 The globalisation of health sector reform policies: is ‘lesson drawing’ part of the process?
- 8 Cost-effectiveness analysis and priority-setting: global approach without local meaning?
- Part II
- Part III
- References
- Index
- References
1 - An introduction to global health policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I
- 1 An introduction to global health policy
- 2 The public health implications of multilateral trade agreements
- 3 Globalisation and multilateral public–private health partnerships: issues for health policy
- 4 Global approaches to private sector provision: where is the evidence?
- 5 Regulation in the context of global health markets
- 6 Global policy networks: the propagation of health care financing reform since the 1980s
- 7 The globalisation of health sector reform policies: is ‘lesson drawing’ part of the process?
- 8 Cost-effectiveness analysis and priority-setting: global approach without local meaning?
- Part II
- Part III
- References
- Index
- References
Summary
Globalisation is among the most discussed, and is undoubtedly one of the most disputed, terms to have come into common parlance in recent years. Scholarly and popular writing about globalisation has grown exponentially over the past decade or so, spurred by often heated debates over whether or not the process is actually occurring, to what extent, for what reasons, in what forms and with what consequences. Economic globalisation has initially received the lion's share of attention, but recognition of the political, social, cultural, technological, environmental and other aspects of globalisation has rapidly grown in more recent years.
It is in the latter context that this book, which explores how health policy-making is being affected by forces broadly defined as globalisation, was conceived. Health is an important sector of most economies and a core area of social policy. For example, total expenditure on health as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is as high as 14 per cent in the US and is over 10 per cent in a number of additional OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) member countries. Public expenditure on health as a proportion of total public expenditure varies widely between countries, with India and Indonesia spending 3.9 and 3.0 per cent respectively, and Andorra and Argentina spending 38.5 and 21.6 per cent respectively (WHO 2000a).
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- Health Policy in a Globalising World , pp. 3 - 17Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002