Ensuring "health for all" remains a persistent and entrenched global challenge. G20 governments are in a position to elevate the priority accorded to health, and acknowledge the centrality of health to attaining the SDGs. The authors call on G20 leaders to build nations that are more inclusive...

Introduction : the road to universal health coverage : progress, prospects and the private sector / Jeffrey L. Sturchio and Louis Galambos -- Conceptualizing the health economy / Ilona Kickbusch and Christian Franz -- The relationship between health employment and economic growth / Pascal Zurn,...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction. The Road to Universal Health Coverage: Progress, Prospects, and the Private Sector -- 1. Conceptualizing the Health Economy -- 2. The Relationship between Health Employment and Economic Growth -- 3. Engagement of the Private Sector in...

Politics play a central part in determining health and development outcomes as Gorik Ooms highlights in his recent commentary. As health becomes more global and more politicized the need grows to better understand the inherently political processes at all levels of governance, such as...

Peter J. Taylor has produced a sweeping, empirically grounded, defense of cities as fundamental building blocks of long-term, large scale social structures; a way of freeing social science from state-centric bias; and indeed, mankinds hope. However, the single greatest strength of this complex,...

This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world. -- By treating cities at a global scale, it focuses on the ‘stretching’ of urban functions beyond specific place...