Global Health Governance was one of the key topics during last year’s European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG). The EHFG is the leading health policy event in the EU and it provides a major platform for decision-makers from public health & health care. The official congress summary has now been published and is available online. During […]
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This glossary provides a guide to global health issues from a European perspective, providing introductory articles on each topic and links to the organizations and sources most closely involved in each field. The Glossary is an updated and expanded edition of European Perspectives on Global Health-a policy glossary (Kickbusch and Lister, 2006). It is a living resource that is intended to grow to reflect the comments and engagement of participants in Global Health Europe. If your perspective is not yet reflected in the glossary, you are welcome to add comments and links so that we can understand each other better and improve how we work together.Below you’ll find an alphabetic list of topics covered in the glossary. The articles are organized into four main sections dealing with:
- the values that underlie our European approach to global health
- the key issues and actors involved in global governance for health
- European commitments to global health
- European actions and action for global health Please log-in and begin shaping the glossary with your comments today!
The following text is an excerpt of a well-informed article on the future of the Millennium Development Goals process, published by the Brookings Institution. The [Millenium Development] goals will expire on December 31, 2015, and the debate over what should come next is now in full swing. This year, a high-level UN panel, co-chaired by […]
A new book on Global Health Diplomacy, edited by Ilona Kickbusch, Graham Lister, Michaela Told and Nick Drager, has recently been published. The book sets out defining principles for global health diplomacy and examines the current agenda of the field as well as relationships between the different diplomatic areas. Featured topics include: The legal basis […]
This week the United Nationals Environment Programm (UNEP) successfully concluded a series of high-level multilateral negotiations to address the global threat posed to health and the environment by mercury. The text of a legally binding Treaty was finalized this week and is expected to be signed by over over 140 countries. In summary, the treaty […]
Global Health Europe a organized a discussion meeting on “Research for Health and Sustainable Development” at this year’s World Health Summit. The meeting, held on October 23rd, 2012, emphasized that meeting people’s aspirations for health and health equity required a special kind of symbiosis between policy, research and practice.Taking this vision of a unified effort […]
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The Eurozone Crisis and Global Health
Global Health Europe and the Global Health Working Group of the British International Studies Association organized a discussion meeting on “Beyond the Eurozone Crisis: Europe and the New Realities for Global Health”. The meeting, held on 27 September 2012, was hosted at the European Commission Representation (Europe House, London) and was co-sponsored by the UK’s […]
On October 03-04, Maastricht University and Global Health Europe jointly hosted a forum on global health governance at the 15th European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG). The EHFG is the leading health policy event in the EU and it provides a major platform for decision-makers in public health & health care. The forum contributed to the […]
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A policy brief on US global health diplomacy
The United States government recently announced its intention to create an “Office of Global Health Diplomacy” at its State Department. As Josh Michaud and Jen Kates from the Kaiser Family Foundation point out in their policy brief, this elevates, at least structurally, the role of diplomacy in U.S. global health efforts.The compiled information provides useful […]
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Lancet series on Universal Health Coverage
The Lancet recently released a special collection of papers exploring the social, political, and economic issues around the global movement towards universal health care coverage. The series provides much needed input for tackling the challenge of universal health care coverage – a key objective of the European global health community. Click here for an overview […]
According to OECD Health Data 2012, growth in health spending slowed or fell in real terms in 2010 in almost all OECD countries, reversing a long-term trend of rapid increases. While government health spending tended to be maintained at the start of the economic crisis, cuts in spending really began to take effect in 2010. […]