Global Health Diplomacy - Concepts, Issues, Actors, Instruments, Fora and Cases

The world's problems are indeed world problems: social and environmental crises, global trade and politics, and major epidemics are making public health a pressing global concern. From this constantly changing scenario, global health diplomacy has evolved, at the intersection of public health, international relations, law, economics, and management-a new discipline with transformative potential. Global Health Diplomacy situates this concept firmly within the human rights dialogue and provides a solid framework for understanding global health issues and their negotiation. This up-to-the-minute guide sets out defining principles and the current agenda of the field, and examines key relationships such as between trade and health diplomacy, and between global health and environmental issues. The processes of global governance are detailed as the UN, WHO, and other multinational actors work to address health inequalities among the world's peoples. And to ensure maximum usefulness, the text includes plentiful examples, discussion questions, reading lists, and a glossary. Featured topics include:The legal basis of global health agreements and negotiations.Global public goods as a foundation for global health diplomacy.Global health: a human security perspective.Health issues and foreign policy at the UN.National strategies for global health.South-south cooperation and other new models of development.A volume of immediate utility with a potent vision for the future, Global Health Diplomacy is an essential text for public health experts and diplomats as well as schools of public health and international affairs.

List of contents

1. Global Health Diplomacy: An Introduction.- 2. Current Issues in Global Health Diplomacy.- 3. The History and evolution of global health diplomacy.- 4. Global Health Law.- 5. The New Dynamics of Global Health Governance.- 6. The Process and Practice of Negotiation.- 7. Human Rights and Equity: The Value Base of Global Health Diplomacy.- 8. New diplomacy for health: a global public goods perspective.- 9. Diplomacy and Global Health Security.- 10. Global Environmental Diplomacy: Comparing and Sharing.- 11. Global Trade and Health Diplomacy: Maximizing Cooperation and Minimizing Conflict through Coherent International Rules.- 12. The World Health Organization as a key venue for global health diplomacy.- 13. Instruments of global health governance at the World Health Organization.- 14. Instruments for Global Health Diplomacy in the UN System beyond the WHO.- 15. Global Health Diplomacy at the United Nations General Assembly.- 16. The EU as an actor in Global Health Diplomacy.- 17. The G8/G20 and Global Health Governance: extended fragmentation or a new hub of coordination.- 18. Civil Society Organizations, Global Health Governance and Public Diplomacy.- 19. Health is Global: A UK Government Strategy 2008/13.- 20. National Strategies for Global Health.- 21. Power shifts in Global Health Diplomacy and New Models of Development: South-South cooperation.- 22. Reflection: The Copernican Revolution: The changing relationship between foreign policy and health.

About the author

Ilona Kickbusch is a private health consultant, and formerly Head of the Division of Global Health at Yale University School of Medicine, in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. She joined Yale after a long career with the World Health Organization where she initiated the OTTAWA Charter for Health Promotion and headed a range of innovative programs. She has published widely on the new public health and is the founder and chair of the editorial board of the journal Health Promotion International. She continues to act as an adviser to the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization and a range of foundations, NGOs and the private sector on matters of global health and the development of health promotion. Presently she acts as the senior health advisor to the United Nations Association of the USA s global health campaign. She has also been designated the distinguished Fulbright NewCentury Scholars Leader on "Challenges of Health in a Borderless World." She received her Ph.D. in political science at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Summary

The world’s problems are indeed world problems: social and environmental crises, global trade and politics, and major epidemics are making public health a pressing global concern. From this constantly changing scenario, global health diplomacy has evolved, at the intersection of public health, international relations, law, economics, and management—a new discipline with transformative potential. Global Health Diplomacy situates this concept firmly within the human rights dialogue and provides a solid framework for understanding global health issues and their negotiation. This up-to-the-minute guide sets out defining principles and the current agenda of the field, and examines key relationships such as between trade and health diplomacy, and between global health and environmental issues. The processes of global governance are detailed as the UN, WHO, and other multinational actors work to address health inequalities among the world’s peoples. And to ensure maximum usefulness, the text includes plentiful examples, discussion questions, reading lists, and a glossary. Featured topics include:

The legal basis of global health agreements and negotiations.
Global public goods as a foundation for global health diplomacy.
Global health: a human security perspective.
Health issues and foreign policy at the UN.
National strategies for global health.
South-south cooperation and other new models of development.

A volume of immediate utility with a potent vision for the future, Global Health Diplomacy is an essential text for public health experts and diplomats as well as schools of public health and international affairs.

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From the book reviews:
“The intent of the book’s 22 chapters is to highlight all aspects of the concept of ‘global health diplomacy’ (GHD) and to delineate the challenges and opportunities offered by this new concept and buzzword. … Its format is very much handbook-oriented, providing guidelines and learning points at the beginning, and questions at the end of each chapter, making the book very accessible. … the edited book is a welcome trailblazer in the field of GHD.” (Alexia J. Duten, Medicine Conflict and Survival, January, 2015)

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From the book reviews:
"The intent of the book's 22 chapters is to highlight all aspects of the concept of 'global health diplomacy' (GHD) and to delineate the challenges and opportunities offered by this new concept and buzzword. ... Its format is very much handbook-oriented, providing guidelines and learning points at the beginning, and questions at the end of each chapter, making the book very accessible. ... the edited book is a welcome trailblazer in the field of GHD." (Alexia J. Duten, Medicine Conflict and Survival, January, 2015)

Product details

• Assisted by: Nick Drager (Editor), Ilona Kickbusch (Editor), Graha Lister (Editor), Graham Lister (Editor), Michaela Told (Editor), Michaela Told et al (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9781489993717
• ISBN: 978-1-4899-9371-7
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 238 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 605 g
• Illustrations: XXIV, 372 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; B, Medicine, Political Science, Political science & theory, Health Administration