Global rules for global health: Why we need an independent, impartial WHO Devi Sridhar and colleagues argue that who's unique political legitimacy makes it essential to achieving international action on global health and call for governments to re-establish guaranteed core funding

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 348, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Sridhar, Devi ^a,b   Frenk, J ^c   Gostin, L ^d   Moon, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84902590395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g3841     Document Type: Review

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