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Using an approach that combines transnational and comparative social policy analysis with international relations, this book assesses various global social policy actors and compares their ideas and prescriptions about national health care systems. It highlights the importance of considering health policies across multiple scales.

Table of Contents

1. Global Social Policy Actors and Health Care Systems Ideas

2. UN Organisations: Health for All and All for Health Care Systems?

3. The OECD and the WTO: Outside the UN but Increasingly Important?

4. The New Centres of Power? G8, G20 and the BRICS and Health Care Systems

5. The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria: A Hybrid Organisation as the Best Health Care Systems Actor?

6. Non-Governmental Organisations and Health Care System Ideas

7. The Polish Health Care System Under Global Scrutiny

8. Conclusions: Multiple Actors, Uncertain Ideas, Nested Discourses

Shaping Global Health Policy Global Social Policy Actors and Ideas about Health Care Systems

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    Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan UK
    Publication Date: 8/10/2015 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9781137308887, 978-1137308887
    ISBN10: 1137308885
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    Medical sociology International relations Regional, state and other local government

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Using an approach that combines transnational and comparative social policy analysis with international relations, this book assesses various global social policy actors and compares their ideas and prescriptions about national health care systems. It highlights the importance of considering health policies across multiple scales.

    Table of Contents

    1. Global Social Policy Actors and Health Care Systems Ideas

    2. UN Organisations: Health for All and All for Health Care Systems?

    3. The OECD and the WTO: Outside the UN but Increasingly Important?

    4. The New Centres of Power? G8, G20 and the BRICS and Health Care Systems

    5. The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria: A Hybrid Organisation as the Best Health Care Systems Actor?

    6. Non-Governmental Organisations and Health Care System Ideas

    7. The Polish Health Care System Under Global Scrutiny

    8. Conclusions: Multiple Actors, Uncertain Ideas, Nested Discourses

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