Making Sense of the Global Health Crisis: Policy Narratives, Conflict, and Global Health Governance.
Health has become a policy issue of global concern. Worried that the unstructured, polycentric, and pluralist nature of global health governance is undermining the ability to serve emergent global public health interests, some commentators are calling for a more systematic institutional response to...
| Published in: | Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 253 - 296 |
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Duke University Press
Apr2012
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