ABSTRACT
K. Lee and A. Kamradt-Scott identified three distinct uses of the term Global health governance: globalization and health governance; global governance and health; and governance for global health. Health governance has been limited to the national and subnational level and national authorities have assumed primary responsibility for the health of the population in the country. The emergence of new actors with significant political and economic power has occurred as a result of an unresolved structural weakness of the World Health Organization (WHO) struggling to define its role in the new context. Member states may have one set of priorities expressed in the WHO’s own governing forums, while their funding to the WHO and other institutions may reflect a different set of priorities. The need to protect and promote health in global governance processes outside the global health system led to the concept of “global governance for health.”
