- Copyright Page
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Global Health Politics: An Introduction
- The History of International Health: Medicine, Politics, and Two Socio-Medical Perspectives, 1851 to 2000
- Globalisation and the Politics of Global Health
- The Politics of Global Health Inequalities: Approaches to Studying the Role of Power
- Critical Approaches to Global Health
- Global Health Diplomacy
- Security and Health
- Global Health and Human Security
- Critical Security Studies and Global Health
- Biosecurity and the Risk to Global Health
- Military Assistance during Health Emergencies
- Global Health and International Development
- The Politics of Gender and Global Health
- Global Health Governance
- The State and Global Health
- Emerging Powers and Global Health Governance: The Case of BRICS Countries
- The Politics of Global Health Agenda Setting
- The Politics of Intergovernmental Organizations in Global Health
- Civil Society and Global Health Politics
- The Role of the Business Sector in Global Health Politics
- Philanthropy and Global Health
- Trade and Investment Agreements and the Global Politics of Health
- The Global Politics of Healthcare Reform
- Towards a Critical Political Economy of Global Health
- The Human Right to Health and Global Health Politics
- Reporting Disease Outbreaks in a World with No Digital Borders
- The Politics of Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
- The Global Politics of HIV and AIDS
- The Global Politics of Neglected Tropical Diseases
- The Politics of Global Vaccination Policies
- The Global Politics of Access to Medicines: From 1.0 to 2.0
- Non-Communicable Diseases and Global Health Politics
- The Politics of Global Tobacco Control
- The Politics of Global Bioethical Frameworks
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The influence of for-profit businesses in collective action across countries to protect and promote population health dates from the first International Sanitary Conferences of the nineteenth century. The restructuring of the world economy since the late twentieth century and the growth of large transnational corporations have led the business sector to become a key feature of global health politics. The business sector has subsequently moved from being a commercial producer of health-related goods and services, contractor, and charitable donor, to being a major shaper of, and even participant in, global health policymaking bodies. This chapter discusses three sites where this has occurred: collective action to regulate health-harming industries, activities to provide for public interest needs, and participation in decision-making within global health institutions. These changing forms of engagement by the business sector have elicited scholarly and policy debate regarding the appropriate relationship between public and private interests in global health.
Keywords: business sector, corporate actors, public-private partnerships, transnational corporation, global health governance
Kelley Lee, Simon Fraser University
Julia Smith, Simon Fraser University
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- Copyright Page
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Global Health Politics: An Introduction
- The History of International Health: Medicine, Politics, and Two Socio-Medical Perspectives, 1851 to 2000
- Globalisation and the Politics of Global Health
- The Politics of Global Health Inequalities: Approaches to Studying the Role of Power
- Critical Approaches to Global Health
- Global Health Diplomacy
- Security and Health
- Global Health and Human Security
- Critical Security Studies and Global Health
- Biosecurity and the Risk to Global Health
- Military Assistance during Health Emergencies
- Global Health and International Development
- The Politics of Gender and Global Health
- Global Health Governance
- The State and Global Health
- Emerging Powers and Global Health Governance: The Case of BRICS Countries
- The Politics of Global Health Agenda Setting
- The Politics of Intergovernmental Organizations in Global Health
- Civil Society and Global Health Politics
- The Role of the Business Sector in Global Health Politics
- Philanthropy and Global Health
- Trade and Investment Agreements and the Global Politics of Health
- The Global Politics of Healthcare Reform
- Towards a Critical Political Economy of Global Health
- The Human Right to Health and Global Health Politics
- Reporting Disease Outbreaks in a World with No Digital Borders
- The Politics of Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
- The Global Politics of HIV and AIDS
- The Global Politics of Neglected Tropical Diseases
- The Politics of Global Vaccination Policies
- The Global Politics of Access to Medicines: From 1.0 to 2.0
- Non-Communicable Diseases and Global Health Politics
- The Politics of Global Tobacco Control
- The Politics of Global Bioethical Frameworks
- Index