Includes index. Brown, G. W., Yamey, G., & Wamala, S. (Eds.). The handbook of global health policy. Malden, MA : John Wiley and Sons Inc.

Introduction -- Part I: Global health policy and global health governance -- Understanding global health policy -- Critical reflections on global health policy formation: from renaissance to crisis -- Contemporary global health governance: origins, functions, and challenges -- Global health justice and the right to health -- Part II: Narrowing the gap between knowledge and action -- Measuring the World's Health: how good are our estimates? -- Achieving better global health policy, even when health metrics data are scanty -- An argument for evidence-based policy-making in global health -- Can global health policy be depoliticized? a critique of global calls for evidence-based policy -- Part III: The politics of risk, disease, and neglect -- Dietary policies to reduce non-communicable diseases -- Ethical reflections on who is at risk: vulnerability and global public health -- Ethical and economic perspectives on global health interventions -- Global health policy responses to the world's neglected diseases -- The fight for global access essential health commodities -- The social determinants of health -- Part IV: Diplomacy, security, and humanitarianism -- Arguments for securitizing global health priorities -- Viral sovereignty: the downside risks of securitizing infectious disease -- The changing humanitarian sector: repercussion for the health sector -- The limits of humanitarian action -- Part V: Financing and the political economy of global health -- The global health financing architecture and the millennium development goals -- Can international aid improve health? -- The exterritorial reach of money: global finance and social determinants of health -- Trade rules and intellectual property protection for pharmaceuticals -- The health systems agenda: prospects for the diagonal approach -- Will effective health delivery platforms be built in low-income countries? -- Part VI: Health rights and partnerships -- A right-based approach to global health policy: what contribution can human rights make to achieving equity? -- From aid to accompaniment: rules of the road for development assistance -- Global health partnerships: the emerging agenda -- Partnerships and the millennium development goals: the challenges of reforming global health governance -- Part VII: Beyond globalization -- Preparing for the next pandemic -- Globalization and global health

The Handbook of Global Health Policy provides a definitive source of the key areas in the field. It examines the ethical and practical dimensions of new and current policy models and their effect on the future development of global health and policy. Maps out key debates and policy structures involved in all areas of global health policy Isolates and examines new policy initiatives in global health policy Provides an examination of these initiatives that captures both the ethical/critical as well as practical/empirical dimensions involved with global health.