300073 Global Health Policy (in English) (S) (WiSe 2014/2015)

This seminar focuses on health policy in a global social policy perspective. After an introduction to different approaches to global social and health policy and governance, we focus at a number of global health actors, namely the WHO, the World Bank, the ILO, the WTO, the Global Fund to Fights Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria and non-governmental actors and their activities with regard to health policy and health systems.
The literature is in English and the seminar's presentations and discussions are expected to be in English as well.

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen, notwendige Vorkenntnisse

very good command of English

Literaturangaben

Hein, W. and Kohlmorgen, L. (2008) ‘Global Health Governance: Conflicts on Global Social Rights’, Global Social Policy 8 (1): 80-108
Koivusalo, M. and Ollila, E. (2008) ‘Global Health Policy’, in N. Yeates (ed.): Understanding Global Social Policy. Bristol: The Policy Press: 149-77
K. Lee, K. Buse and S. Fustukian (eds) (2002): Health Policy in a Globalising World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Kaasch, A. (2013) ‘Contesting Contestation. Global Social Policy Prescriptions on Pensions and Health Systems’, Global Social Policy 13 (1): 45-65