- 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
Organised efforts to prevent the spread of infectious diseases through mass vaccination began slowly. By World War I, although successes in saving soldiers’ lives offered encouragement, vaccination practices differed from country to country. In 1945, amid the rapid post-war spread of tuberculosis, preventive vaccination was deemed a necessary ‘technological fix’. During the Cold War period, technical cooperation coexisted with ideological rivalry. Although the Soviet Union and the United States supported vaccination for different reasons, they successfully cooperated on the WHO smallpox eradication programme beginning in 1965. Out of this grew the EPI, and disputes between supporters of ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ approaches emerged. In recent decades new vaccine production has become a major driver of market growth for the pharmaceutical industry. New forms of collaboration between public and private sectors (such as public-private partnerships) have been crafted, whilst the global introduction of new vaccines is supported by the GAVI Alliance. However, at a time of shrinking health care budgets the wisdom of disease eradication targets is contested, and parents everywhere are becoming more critical.
Keywords: disease eradication, global immunisation policy, vertical approach, horizontal approach, EPI, vaccine production, public-private partnership, GAVI Alliance
Stuart Blume, University of Amsterdam
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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