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Shaping Global Health Policy

Global Social Policy Actors and Ideas about Health Care Systems

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  • © 2015

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  1. Alexandra Kaasch

    1. Bielefeld University, Germany

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Global Social Policy Actors and Health Care System Ideas

    • Alexandra Kaasch
    Pages 1-18

  3. UN Organisations: Health for All and All for Health Care Systems?

    • Alexandra Kaasch
    Pages 19-70

  4. The OECD and the WTO: Outside the UN but Increasingly Important?

    • Alexandra Kaasch
    Pages 71-83

  5. The New Centres of Power? G8, G20 and the BRICS and Health Care Systems

    • Alexandra Kaasch
    Pages 84-96

  6. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: A Hybrid Organisation as the Best Health Care System Actor?

    • Alexandra Kaasch
    Pages 97-101

  7. Non-Governmental Organisations and Health Care System Ideas

    • Alexandra Kaasch
    Pages 102-112

  8. The Polish Health Care System Under Global Scrutiny

    • Alexandra Kaasch
    Pages 113-128

  9. Conclusions: Multiple Actors, Uncertain Ideas, Nested Discourses

    • Alexandra Kaasch
    Pages 129-144

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 145-172
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Using an approach that combines transnational and comparative social policy analysis with international relations, this book assesses various global social policy actors and compares their ideas and prescriptions about national health care systems. It highlights the importance of considering health policies across multiple scales.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Bielefeld University, Germany

    Alexandra Kaasch

About the author

Alexandra Kaasch is Junior Professor in Transnational Social Policy at Bielefeld University, Germany. She has previously published Transformations in Global and Regional Social Policies (edited with Paul Stubbs, Palgrave Macmillan 2014) and The Welfare State as a Crisis Manager (with Peter Starke and Franca van Hooren, Palgrave Macmillan 2013). She is editor of the Global Social Policy Digest.

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