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Global Health Law.

Gostin, Lawrence O.

Global Health Law. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (560 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Global Health Narratives: Listening to the Voices of the Young -- Part I: Failures in Global Health and Their Consequences - Health Inequities in Today's Globalized World -- 1. Global Health Justice Toward a Transformative Agenda for Health Equity -- 2. Globalized Health Hazards: The Need for Collective Global Action -- 3. Global Health Law in the Broader Currents of Global Governance for Health -- Part II: Global Health Institutions -- 4. Fulfilling the Promise of the World Health Organization -- 5. Old and New Institutions From the World Bank to the Global Fund, the GAVI Alliance, and the Gates Foundation -- Part III: International Law and Global Health -- 6. The International Health Regulations Responding to Public Health Emergencies of International Concern -- 7. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: The Global Response to Tobacco -- 8. Health and Human Rights Human Dignity, Global Justice, and Personal Security -- 9. Global Health, International Trade, and Intellectual Property: Toward a Fair Deal for the Global South -- Part IV: On the Horizon - The Quest for Global Social Justice -- 12. Pandemic Influenza: A Case Study on Global Health Security -- 13. The "Silent" Pandemic of Noncommunicable Diseases -- 14. Imagining Global Health with Justice -- Notes -- Glossary of Abbreviations, Key Terms, and Actors in Global Health -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Despite global progress, staggering health inequalities between rich and poor raise basic questions of social justice. Defining the field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective governance and offers a blueprint for reform, based on the principle that the opportunity to live a healthy life is a basic human right.

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Public health laws.
Public health laws, International.
Public health-International cooperation.


Electronic books.

K3570

344.04

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