Democracy – The Real ‘Ghost’ in the Machine of Global Health Policy; Comment on “A Ghost in the Machine? Politics in Global Health Policy”

Document Type : Commentary

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Global Public Health Unit, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Abstract

Politics is not the ghost in the machine of global health policy. Conceptually, it makes little sense to argue otherwise, while history is replete with examples of individuals and movements engaging politically in global health policy. Were one looking for ghosts, a more likely candidate would be democracy, which is currently under attack by a new global health technocracy. Civil society movements offer an opportunity to breathe life into a vital, but dying, political component of global health policy.

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  • Receive Date: 06 August 2014
  • Revise Date: 24 August 2014
  • Accept Date: 22 August 2014
  • First Publish Date: 22 August 2014

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