Addressing Global Health Governance Challenges through a New Mechanism: The Proposal for a Committee C of the World Health Assembly

Kickbusch, Ilona; Hein, Wolfgang; Silberschmidt, Gaudenz

doi:10.1111/j.1748-720x.2010.00511.x

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“…Some scholars call for mechanisms to generate and apply new knowledge or technical interventions [80-82]. Others perceive the deficiencies of GHG as organisational, with analyses focused on improving administrative, management or legal structures and processes [83-87]. Where there are reports of poor standards of practice, efforts are given to establishing and enforcing quality control measures [88].…”

Section: Ontological Variations In Ghg Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There has been a strong focus, in particular, on institutional innovation arising from the need to govern beyond governments [86,87,113-116]. Fidler [117], for example, defines GHG as “the use of formal and informal institutions, rules, and processes by states, intergovernmental organizations, and nonstate actors to deal with challenges to health that require cross-border collective action to address effectively”.…”

Section: Ontological Variations In Ghg Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The multiple meanings of global health governance: a call for conceptual clarity

2014

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BackgroundThe term global health governance (GHG) is now widely used, with over one thousand works published in the scholarly literature, almost all since 2002. Amid this rapid growth there is considerable variation in how the term is defined and applied, generating confusion as to the boundaries of the subject, the perceived problems in practice, and the goals to be achieved through institutional reform.MethodologyThis paper is based on the results of a separate scoping study of peer reviewed GHG research from 1990 onwards which undertook keyword searches of public health and social science databases. Additional works, notably books, book chapters and scholarly articles, not currently indexed, were identified through Web of Science citation searches. After removing duplicates, book reviews, commentaries and editorials, we reviewed the remaining 250 scholarly works in terms of how the concept of GHG is applied. More specifically, we identify what is claimed as constituting GHG, how it is problematised, the institutional features of GHG, and what forms and functions are deemed ideal.ResultsAfter examining the broader notion of global governance and increasingly ubiquitous term “global health”, the paper identifies three ontological variations in GHG scholarship - the scope of institutional arrangements, strengths and weaknesses of existing institutions, and the ideal form and function of GHG. This has produced three common, yet distinct, meanings of GHG that have emerged – globalisation and health governance, global governance and health, and governance for global health.ConclusionsThere is a need to clarify ontological and definitional distinctions in GHG scholarship and practice, and be critically reflexive of their normative underpinnings. This will enable greater precision in describing existing institutional arrangements, as well as serve as a prerequisite for a fuller debate about the desired nature of GHG.

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Section: Ontological Variations In Ghg Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ontological Variations In Ghg Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

The multiple meanings of global health governance: a call for conceptual clarity

2014

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“…Fragmentation and competition for funding in the domain of global health governance are increasingly blamed for undermining collective action and sustainable policy making (e.g., Cohen 2006;Kickbusch et al 2010;Lee 2010).…”

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Local orders in international organisations: the World Health Organization's global programme on AIDS

Hanrieder¹

2013

J Int Relat Dev

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In 1990, the World Health Organization (WHO) started to downsize its renowned Global Programme on AIDS, despite continued donor and member state support. This turnaround has decisively contributed to WHO's loss of leadership in HIV/ AIDS politics. From the viewpoint of both rationalist and constructivist theories of international organisation (IO) agency, an IO engaging in 'mission shrink' is a striking irregularity. In order to account for such apparently self-defeating behaviour, this article adopts an open systems view of IOs and identifies trans-organisational coalitions as important agents of IO change. I argue that subunit dynamics rather than systemic conditions drive IO behaviour, in particular where member states' material power and their formal control of organisational veto positions do not coincide. This approach will be used to retrace the changes in subunit coalitions that drove WHO's erratic HIV/AIDS programme and thus to solve this puzzle of 'mission shrink'. On the basis of insights from the WHO case, the article concludes by offering a heuristic of trans-organisational coalitions and the types of IO change associated with them.

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“…For example, more than 200 public-private partnerships now work on global health issues. 77 In less than a decade, 60,000 NGOs have focused their work only on HIV/AIDS. 78 In 2010, there were 185 accredited NGOs in official relationships with the WHO.…”

Section: The Power Shift Beyond Nationsmentioning

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Addressing Global Health Governance Challenges through a New Mechanism: The Proposal for a Committee C of the World Health Assembly

Cited by 61 publications

References 14 publications

The multiple meanings of global health governance: a call for conceptual clarity

The multiple meanings of global health governance: a call for conceptual clarity

Local orders in international organisations: the World Health Organization's global programme on AIDS

21st Century Health Diplomacy: A New Relationship Between Foreign Policy and Health

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