Book description
Global health is at a crossroads. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has come with ambitious targets for health and health services worldwide. To reach these targets, many more billions of dollars need to be spent on health. However, development assistance for health has plateaued and domestic funding on health…
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1 author picked Global Health Priority-Setting as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book was really influential in developing how I understand the challenges facing tackling diseases worldwide and theories of prioritisation to deal with them.
The ethics of priority setting is far more developed in the health sphere than in other spheres, stemming from difficult decisions that medical professionals and global health actors have had to make in how to allocate scarce resources.
This book brings together some of the top figures in the field, each with insightful contributions.
From James' list on The best books to understand how the global order is changing.
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