The World Health Organization between North and South / / Nitsan Chorev.

Since 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched numerous programs aimed at improving health conditions around the globe, ranging from efforts to eradicate smallpox to education programs about the health risks of smoking. In setting global health priorities and carrying out initiatives,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 2 line figures, 2 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. The World Health Organization
  • 2. The Strategic Response of International Organizations
  • 3. A New International Order in Health
  • 4. Appropriate Technology, Inappropriate Marketing
  • 5. The WHO in Crisis
  • 6. Health in Economic Terms
  • 7. How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies
  • Conclusion: Structural Transformations of the Global Health Regime
  • References
  • Index