Advancing One Health Policy and Implementation Through the Concept of One Medicine One Science

The Paradox of Health Policy: Revealing the True Colours of This ‘Chameleon Concept’; Comment on “The Politics and Analytics of Health Policy”

Health policy has been termed a ‘chameleon concept’, referring to its ability to take on different forms of disciplinarity as well as different roles and functions. This paper extends Paton’s analysis by exploring the paradox of health policy as a field of academic inquiry—sitting across many of the boundaries of social science but also marginalised by them. It situates contemporary approaches ...

The role of the Islamic value system in the correct implementation of the policies of the Forensic Medicine Organization

  PhD student in public administration, decision-making and policy-making orientation, Islamic Azad University, Kerman branch, Iran Assistant Professor, Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Iran (Responsible Author) Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Assistant Professor, Business Management, I...

Introducing "One Health" as an Overlooked Concept in Iran

Advancing Global Health – The Need for (Better) Social Science; Comment on “Navigating Between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health”

In his perspective “Navigating between stealth advocacy and unconscious dogmatism: the challenge of researching the norms, politics and power of global health,” Ooms argues that actions taken in the field of global health are dependent not only on available resources, but on the normative premise that guides how these resources are spent. This comment sets out how the application of a predomina...

Knowledge and Networks – Key Sources of Power in Global Health; Comment on “Knowledge, Moral Claims and the Exercise of Power in Global Health”

Shiffman rightly raises questions about who exercises power in global health, suggesting power is a complex concept, and the way it is exercised is often opaque. Power that is not based on financial strength but on knowledge or experience, is difficult to estimate, and yet it may provide the legitimacy to make moral claims on what is, or ought to be, on global health agendas. Twenty years ago p...