In two years, the uncompleted tasks of the Millennium Development Goals will be merged with the agenda articulated in the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. This process will seek to integrate economic development (including the elimination of extreme poverty), social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and good governance into a combined sustainable development age...

Drawing on an in-depth analysis of eight global health networks, a recent essay in this journal argued that global health networks face four challenges to their effectiveness: problem definition, positioning, coalition-building, and governance. While sharing the argument of the essay concerned, in this commentary, we argue that these analytical concepts can be used to explicate a concept that h...

A global model that forecasts risk for portfolios with holdings across several markets will typically disagree with the predictions of a model specifically adapted to a single market. Given a global model and a collection of single market models, we describe an optimal, consistent way to embed the single market forecasts into the global model. The method involves framing the problem as an optim...

In Absolute or Relative Terms?How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity ofHealth Plan Choice This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers’ decision toswitch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurancecan be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to...

Solomon Benatar offers an important critique of the limited frame that sets the boundaries of much of what is referred to as ‘global health.’ In placing his comments within a criticism of increasing poverty (or certainly income and wealth inequalities) and the decline in our environmental commons, he locates our health inequities within the pathology of our present global economy. In that respe...

medical mobilities offer both opportunities and challenges. this tension follows the same ratio as many other historic fora, but offers at the same time a sustainable equilibrium. multi-disciplines are, therefore, the key to the medical lifeworld for the global health and well-being of transnational health users around the globe.

this article contends that legitimacy in the exercise of power comes from the consent of those subject to it. in global health, this implies that the participation of poor country citizens is required for the legitimacy of major actors and institutions. but a review of institutions and processes suggests that this participation is limited or absent. particularly because of the complex political...

Industry lobbying remains an obstacle to effective health-oriented alcohol policy. In 2013, an increase in excise tax on spirits was announced by the Polish government. This article presents a qualitative analysis of the public debate that ensued on the potential economic, health and social effects of the policy. It focuses on how competing groups, including industry actors, framed their positi...

politics is not the ghost in the machine of global health policy. conceptually, it makes little sense to argue otherwise, while history is replete with examples of individuals and movements engaging politically in global health policy. were one looking for ghosts, a more likely candidate would be democracy, which is currently under attack by a new global health technocracy. civil society moveme...