ABSTRACT

In the early twenty-first century, key public health issues and challenges have taken centre stage on the global scene, and health has been placed at the heart of our collective aspirations for human development and well-being. But significant debate exists not only about the causes, but also about the possible solutions for nearly all of the most important global health challenges.

Competing visions of the values and perspectives that should underlie global health policies have emerged, ranging from an emphasis on cost eff ectiveness and resource constraints on one extreme, to new calls for health and human rights, and renewed calls for health and social justice on the other. The role of different intergovernmental agencies, bilateral or unilateral donors, public or private institutions and initiatives, has increasingly been called into question, whilst the spread of neoliberal policies and programmes, and existing international trade regimes and intellectual property rights, are deeply implicated in relation to global health responses.

This volume critically evaluates how the global health industry has evolved and how the interests of diverse political and economic stakeholders are shaping the context of a rapidly changing institutional landscape. Bringing together leading authors from across the world, the Handbook’s eight sections explore:

• Critical perspectives on global health

• Globalisation, neoliberalism, and health systems

• The changing shape of global health governance

• Development assistance and the politics of global health

• Scale-up, scale-down, and the sustainability of global health programmes

• Intellectual property rights, trade relations, and global health

• Humanitarian emergencies and global health politics

• Human rights, social justice, and global health

The Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Global Health addresses both the emerging issues and conceptualisations of the political strategies, policy-making processes, and global governance of global health, along with expanding upon and highlighting the critical priorities in this rapidly evolving field. It provides an authoritative overview for students, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers working in or concerned with the politics of public health around the globe.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Global Health

part I|1 pages

Critical perspectives on global health

chapter 1|7 pages

Fault-lines in global health

Intersecting inequalities, human rights, and the SDGs

chapter 2|9 pages

The right to health under capitalism

Threats, confrontations, and possibilities

chapter 3|11 pages

South African AIDS activism

Lessons for high-impact global health advocacy

chapter 4|9 pages

Neglect in global health

chapter 6|16 pages

From global health to planetary and micro global health

Theorising global health’s present remodeling and scaling

part II|1 pages

Globalisation, neoliberalism, and health systems

part III|1 pages

The changing shape of global health governance

part IV|1 pages

Development assistance and the politics of global health

chapter 19|12 pages

Disrupting global health

The Gates Foundation and the vaccine business

chapter 20|10 pages

National influence in global health governance

The case of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development

chapter 22|14 pages

On the life history of HIV interventions in India

Avahan, organic intellectuals, and the fate of community mobilisation

part V|1 pages

Scale-up, scale-down, and the sustainability of global health programmes

chapter 23|11 pages

Scaling-up and losing the signal

The global HIV and AIDS epidemic

chapter 26|8 pages

Enabling positive change

Learning from progress and setback in HIV and sexual and reproductive health

part VI|1 pages

Intellectual property rights, trade relations, and global health

chapter 29|9 pages

Trading away global health?

Unravelling the intellectual property, trade, and investment nexus and the impact on the right to health

chapter 31|14 pages

Taking on the challenge of implementing public health safeguards on the ground

The experience of Argentina and Brazil from a civil society perspective

chapter 32|11 pages

The politics of malnutrition

Achieving policy coherence in a globalised world

part VII|1 pages

Humanitarian emergencies and global health politics

chapter 33|9 pages

Forced migration and health

Problems and responses

chapter 34|6 pages

Geopolitics, political violence, and global health

Ethical obligations for professionals acting within wars and conflict settings

chapter 35|8 pages

Sovereignty, development, and health

Humanitarianism and health care provision in the Gaza Strip

part VIII|1 pages

Human rights, social justice, and global health

chapter 37|8 pages

The invisible reality of ‘chintar rog’ (a life of chronic worry)

The illness of poverty in Dhaka’s urban slum settlements

chapter 39|10 pages

Research and sex work

How neo-colonialism and biomedicalisation impact struggles for sex workers’ rights

chapter 40|12 pages

In pursuit of genomic justice

Sovereignty, inclusion, and innovation in Mexico