scholarly journals Shared Health Governance: The Potential Danger of Oppressive “Healthism”

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 57-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy M. Carter ◽  
Vikki Ann Entwistle ◽  
Kirsten McCaffery ◽  
Lucie Rychetnik
Keyword(s):  
Potential Danger ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Shared Health Governance

Global Health Inequalities and Justice

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Policy System ◽  
Global Institutions ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Global Health Policy ◽  
Health Justice ◽  
Shared Health Governance

This chapter discusses challenges of global health inequalities in the current global health policy system. It then describes provincial globalism and a shared health governance framework as approaches to these challenges. Moral philosophers have for some time argued that global poverty and associated human suffering are universal concerns and that there is a moral obligation, beyond matters of charity, for wealthier countries to do more. Being serious about addressing the problem of global health inequalities requires developing a conception of global health justice. Moreover, addressing global health inequalities requires a reexamination of the norms and principles underlying global institutions in order to offer proposals for a better global health policy. This chapter sketches analytical components of provincial globalism, a framework that takes individuals to be the moral unit in both domestic and global contexts and that improves the prospects of alleviating global health inequalities. Provincial globalism promotes the realization of individuals’ health capabilities and supports a shared health governance that enables institutions to reexamine the objectives, policy goals, and decision-making procedures of the global health architecture. Shared health governance, in turn, provides standards for regulating global and domestic institutions and practices to create the conditions for realizing individuals’ health capabilities.

scholarly journals Shared Health Governance

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 32-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Keyword(s):  
Health Governance ◽  
Shared Health Governance

Global Health Governance as Shared Health Governance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Global Health Governance ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
Health Justice ◽  
Shared Health Governance ◽  
Global Health Justice

PG as a global health justice theory joins with the theory of SHG to apply justice principles to health governance. SHG rests on a genuine commitment among global health actors to achieve health justice as opposed to pursuing narrow self, group, or state interests alone. SHG elucidates standards of global and domestic responsibility and accountability for health equity. It proposes a common conceptual and policy framework with a set of distinct but complementary responsibilities for governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the private sector, and individuals themselves. In the SHG framework, the state has duties to create conditions in which all individuals have the opportunity to be healthy and to reduce and prevent the shortfall between actual and potential health within their countries. Global actors have a duty to help shape conditions in which countries can develop and flourish and promote the health of their populations.

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