Global Public Goods for Health - Health Economic and Public Health Perspectives

Zusatztext Overall, if you are interested in understanding economic issues of globalization and health this is a good start, lots of useful information is wrapped up in here, from some of the leaders in the field. Klappentext There is a growing awareness of cross-border issues in health that require new policy responses and financing mechanisms. This expanding importance of health as an international issue! and the growth in attention given to health by non-health sector bodies! has brought to prominence theconcept of Global Public Goods (GPGs) as applied to health: 'goods' that are in the interest of the world as a whole! but where 'public good' attributes (non excludability and non rivalry in consumption) mean that there is a lack of incentive to produce these goods. The book addresses the growing globalism of health from the unique perspective of the economic concept of public goods. This concept identifies where a 'good' or service! such as knowledge of an infectious disease outbreak which would be of benefit globally! will not be produced if left to 'themarket' because of a lack of incentive due principally to not being able to exlude people from using the good. in this case the producer! of the information on disease outbreak for example! cannot charge a price and therefore cannot recoup production expenses. Nationally! the production of thesegoods is usually assured by government intervention! but at the global level there is no 'global government' to undertake this role. The Global Public Good concept therefore extends the economic analysis of public goods to this international level. In this book we consider specifically the aspectsof health that may be classed as Global Public Goods and considers how the concept helps to ensure their provision. Zusammenfassung This book considers specifically the aspects of health that may be classed as 'Global Public Goods' and considers how the concept helps to ensure their provision. The main focus of analysis is whether and how best, the GPG concept can be used to advance health of poor populations, especially those in poor countries. Co-publication with the World Health Organisation....

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• Authors: Robert Beaglehole, Tom K. McArthur, R. Smith, Richard Beaglehole Smith
• Assisted by: Robert Beaglehole (Editor), Beaglehole Robert (Editor), Nick Drager (Editor), Drager Nick (Editor), Richard Smith (Editor), David Woodward (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2003
• EAN: 9780198525448
• ISBN: 978-0-19-852544-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; MEDICAL / Public Health, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Developing Countries, Economic theory & philosophy, Public health & preventive medicine, Health systems & services, Public health and preventive medicine, Health systems and services, Economic theory and philosophy, Global South / Developing countries