Improving access to essential medicines: how health concerns can be prioritised in the global governance system
This paper discusses the politics of access to essential medicines and identifies 'space' in the current system where health concerns can be strengthened relative to trade. This issue is addressed from a global governance perspective focusing on the main actors who can have the greatest im...
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| description | This paper discusses the politics of access to essential medicines and identifies 'space' in the current system where health concerns can be strengthened relative to trade. This issue is addressed from a global governance perspective focusing on the main actors who can have the greatest impact. These include developing country coalitions and citizens in developed countries though participation in civil society organisations. These actors have combined forces to tackle this issue successfully, resulting in the 2001 Doha Declaration on Public Health. The collaboration has been so powerful due to the assistance of the media as well as the decision to compromise with pharmaceutical companies and their host countries. To improve access to essential medicines, six C's are needed: coalitions, civil society, citizenship, compromise, communication and collaboration. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:b27ae716-2611-4abc-8448-9b0f2a3986de2022-03-27T04:11:58ZImproving access to essential medicines: how health concerns can be prioritised in the global governance systemJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:b27ae716-2611-4abc-8448-9b0f2a3986dePolitical scienceHealth and health policyEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordOxford University Press2008Sridhar, DThis paper discusses the politics of access to essential medicines and identifies 'space' in the current system where health concerns can be strengthened relative to trade. This issue is addressed from a global governance perspective focusing on the main actors who can have the greatest impact. These include developing country coalitions and citizens in developed countries though participation in civil society organisations. These actors have combined forces to tackle this issue successfully, resulting in the 2001 Doha Declaration on Public Health. The collaboration has been so powerful due to the assistance of the media as well as the decision to compromise with pharmaceutical companies and their host countries. To improve access to essential medicines, six C's are needed: coalitions, civil society, citizenship, compromise, communication and collaboration. |
| spellingShingle | Political science Health and health policy Sridhar, D Improving access to essential medicines: how health concerns can be prioritised in the global governance system |
| title | Improving access to essential medicines: how health concerns can be prioritised in the global governance system |
| title_full | Improving access to essential medicines: how health concerns can be prioritised in the global governance system |
| title_fullStr | Improving access to essential medicines: how health concerns can be prioritised in the global governance system |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving access to essential medicines: how health concerns can be prioritised in the global governance system |
| title_short | Improving access to essential medicines: how health concerns can be prioritised in the global governance system |
| title_sort | improving access to essential medicines how health concerns can be prioritised in the global governance system |
| topic | Political science Health and health policy |
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