influenzas, and maternal mortality. Given the rapid globalization that is a defining feature of today's world, the need for a …, and institutions designed primarily to attain the highest possible standard of physical and mental health for the world …'s population. Global health law is not an organized legal system, with a unified treaty monitoring body, such as the World Trade …

A global health treaty, a Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) – grounded in the right to health, with the … central goal of reducing immense domestic and global health inequities – could serve as a robust global governance instrument … essential conditions for a healthy life – public health, health care, and the positive social determinants of health – while …

Experience teaches that the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) will need a financing facility if it is to …

This brief article is a review of Global Health Law by Lawrence O. Gostin (Harvard University Press, 2014). Building on … his background in human rights and public health law, Gostin seamlessly integrates those fields into his discussion of how … the international system attempts to address the major health-related challenges of our time. Gostin focuses much of his …

The U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI) represents the Obama administration’s new strategy for international … development assistance in health. With a pledge of $63 billion over six years, GHI aims to fund PEPFAR and a set of broader global … health issues (e.g., maternal and child health, nutrition, and neglected tropical diseases). GHI is also being framed as …

impoverished areas of the world. Why are health outcomes among the world’s poor so dire after the first decade of the Millennium … world’s poor; and proposing a global architecture to improve health as a matter of social justice. With the human right to … Development Goals (MDGs) and despite a quadrupling of international health assistance over the past two decades? We believe that …

multisector response (including the health, agriculture, and veterinary sectors), global coordination, and financing mechanisms …

Justice is so central to the mission of public health that it has been described as the field's core value. Our account … impulses that animate public health: to advance human well-being by improving health and to do so particularly by focusing on … controversies in the field, and it provides examples of the kinds of policies that public health agencies guided by a robust …

expenditures in health sector and a lower exposure of population to air pollution, regardless a higher percentage of population …

today’s global health challenges. Given the importance of global health cooperation, few would dispute that a stronger, more …. Stakeholders demand clarity on how their resources will achieve improved health outcomes, as they shift towards results … they effectively translate into better health outcomes. (3) Exercise Closer Oversight of Regions. WHO headquarters should …