China engages global health governance: Processes and dilemmas

Chan, Lai-Ha; Lee, Pak K.; Chan, Gerald

doi:10.1080/17441690701524471

Cited by 32 publications

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“…Some focus on issue-specific agreements to protect and promote population health such as the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) [50-52], International Health Regulations (IHR) [53,54] or Doha Declaration on TRIPS (Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights) and Public Health [55,56]. Others take a broader approach, seeking to understand the increasingly crowded and complex institutional arrangements shaping global health policy including the rise of new state [57-61] and non-state actors [62-71], and their assemblage into public-private partnerships [72-75]. Still others consider institutions beyond the health sector, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Trade Organisation (WTO), which have broader impacts on the social determinants of health [76-79].…”

Section: Ontological Variations In Ghg Scholarshipmentioning

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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%

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

2014

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“…The recent decision on a new rural cooperative medical system is one of its efforts to provide its rural residents by 2010 with more equitable and accessible health care [9]–[11] and improve its diseases surveillance system at the local level. In addition, both the “loss of face” in the SARS outbreak and its aspiration to be seen and respected as “a responsible state” have pushed China to enhance its cooperation with international institutions in dealing with other pressing health issues [12].…”

Section: China Since the Sars Outbreakmentioning

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“…Its substantial health assistance to sub-Saharan Africa in building hospitals and training health practitioners forms part of its health diplomacy and contribution to global health governance. It has also been proactively engaging with both regional and global health institutions since 2003 and set up different health surveillance networks with its ASEAN partners as well as other intergovernmental organizations, such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum [12].…”

Section: Was Sars a Watershed?mentioning

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China's Engagement with Global Health Diplomacy: Was SARS a Watershed?

Chan

Chen

2010

PLoS Med

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“…International criticism was levelled against authorities in the PRC for not revealing the extent of the epidemic earlier, prior to SARS spreading internationally, when it could have potentially been contained [9]. Whereas political considerations within the PRC clearly contributed to the delay in communicating with the international community [9], significant deficiencies in the structure of its public health service severely limited its ability to recognize and track potential epidemics [10,11].…”

Section: Surveillance and Limiting Initial Spreadmentioning

confidence: 99%