[EQ] Governing Global Health

 

Governing Global Health

 

David E. Bloom is Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard School of Public Health

Finance & Development - A quarterly magazine of the International Monetary Fund - IMF
December 2007, Volume 44, Number 4

 

How better coordination can advance global health and improve value for money

 

Available online at: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2007/12/bloom.htm

 

“…..As global health threats have grown, new players have altered the shape of the health system. But is the current system of health governance adequate to oversee the changing array of players and ensure that the right health issues are being tackled?....”

 

“…….Health problems have never respected borders. Leprosy spread from Asia to Europe in the 4th century B.C., thanks most likely to the army of Alexander the Great. The Black Death originated in Central Asia and subsequently ripped through Europe and the Middle East in the 1340s. Diseases carried across the Atlantic by European invaders decimated native populations in the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries.

 

Health threats have become increasingly global in modern times. In 1918–19, the Spanish flu took an estimated 50–100 million lives—more than all those killed in World War I. And these days, the ever-greater integration of economies makes it that much easier for diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, to cross borders and leap continents. Moreover, some argue that if avian flu makes the jump to human-to-human transmissible form, the rapidity of its spread could be devastating….”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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