Using an approach that combines transnational and comparative social policy analysis with international relations, this book assesses various global social policy actors and compares their ideas and prescriptions about national health care systems. It highlights the importance of considering health policies across multiple scales.
Using an approach that combines transnational and comparative social policy analysis with international relations, this book assesses various global social policy actors and compares their ideas and prescriptions about national health care systems. It highlights the importance of considering health policies across multiple scales.
1. Global Social Policy Actors and Health Care Systems Ideas
2. UN Organisations: Health for All and All for Health Care Systems?
3. The OECD and the WTO: Outside the UN but Increasingly Important?
4. The New Centres of Power? G8, G20 and the BRICS and Health Care Systems
5. The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria: A Hybrid Organisation as the Best Health Care Systems Actor?
6. Non-Governmental Organisations and Health Care System Ideas
7. The Polish Health Care System Under Global Scrutiny
8. Conclusions: Multiple Actors, Uncertain Ideas, Nested Discourses