Communicable disease control: a 'Global Public Good' perspective
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Communicable disease control: a 'Global Public Good' perspective.
Despite the increasing 'globalization' of health, the responsibility for it remains primarily national, generating a potential mismatch between global health problems and current institutions and mechanisms to deal with them. The 'Global Public Good' (GPG) concept has been suggested as a framework to address this mismatch in different areas of public policy. This paper considers the application...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Policy and Planning
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1460-2237
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czh032