actors working in global health often portray it as an enterprise grounded in principled concerns, advanced by individuals and organizations who draw on scientific evidence to pursue health equity. this portrait is incomplete. it is also a field of power relations—a social arena in which actors claim and draw on expertise and moral authority to gain influence and pursue career, organizational a...

OBJECTIVE We conducted a content analysis of public comments to understand the key framing approaches used by private industry v. public health sector, with the goal of informing future public health messaging, framing and advocacy in the context of policy making. DESIGN Comments to the proposed menu-labelling policy were extracted from Regulations.gov and analysed. A framing matrix was used ...

despite a renewed focus in the field of global health on strengthening health systems, inadequate attention has been directed to a key ingredient of high-performing health systems: management. we aimed to develop the argument that management – defined here as the process of achieving predetermined objectives through human, financial, and technical resources – is a cross-cutting function necessa...

the current limited focus on management in global health activities is highly problematic given the amounts of financial and human resources that are pouring into health system strengthening interventions and the complexity of clinical operations across settings. by ensuring that public health and healthcare practitioners in domestic and international settings receive management training in the...

A Simple Intervention to Reduce Framing Effects in Perceptions of Global Climate Change Eric P. S. Baumer, Francesca Polletta, Nicole Pierski & Geri K. Gay To cite this article: Eric P. S. Baumer, Francesca Polletta, Nicole Pierski & Geri K. Gay (2015): A Simple Intervention to Reduce Framing Effects in Perceptions of Global Climate Change, Environmental Communication, DOI: 10.1080/17524032.201...

There have been recent indications that the primacy of AIDS among global health issues may be under threat. In this article we examine one response to have emerged from the AIDS policy community as a result of this perceived threat: the 'AIDS plus Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)' approach, which argues that the AIDS response (the focus of MDG6) is essential to achieving the other MDG target...

Responsibility frames in media coverage describe the mediated attribution of responsibility for causes and remedies (treatments, solutions) health issues, mostly differentiating between individual societal responsibility. Field application/theoretical foundation: Media topics, public opinion formation, responsibility, framing studies, social on issues Example studies: Gollust & Lantz (2009)...

Despite encouraging progress towards the health targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)— including improved child mortality and coverage of antiretroviral treatment and malaria interventions— many health systems in low-income and middle-income countries face structural challenges. Health workforce inadequacies are regarded as a major impediment, especially for maternal mortality targ...

Medicalization analyses have roots in sociology and have critical usefulness for understanding contemporary health issues including the 'post-2015 global health agenda'. Medicalization is more complex than just 'disease mongering' - it is a process and not only an outcome; has both positive and negative elements; can be partial rather than complete; and is often sought or challenged by patients...

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