The World Health Organization between north and south /

The World Health Organization between north and south /

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Author / Creator:	Chorev, Nitsan.
Imprint:	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 273 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies Supplement II.
Subject:	World Health Organization. World Health Organization World Health Organization. World health. Public health -- International cooperation. Global Health. International Cooperation. Public health -- International cooperation. World health. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11150252

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ISBN:	0801463920 9780801463921 9780801450655 0801450659
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. In English.
Summary:	"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, the WHO bureaucracy has faced the challenge of reconciling the preferences of a small minority of wealthy nations, who fund the organization, with the demands of poorer member countries, who hold the majority of votes. In The World Health Organization between North and South, Nitsan Chorev shows how the WHO bureaucracy has succeeded not only in avoiding having its agenda co-opted by either coalition of member states but also in reaching a consensus that fit the bureaucracy's own principles and interests. Chorev assesses the response of the WHO bureaucracy to member-state pressure in two particularly contentious moments: when during the 1970s and early 1980s developing countries forcefully called for a more equal international economic order, and when in the 1990s the United States and other wealthy countries demanded international organizations adopt neoliberal economic reforms. In analyzing these two periods, Chorev demonstrates how strategic maneuvering made it possible for a vulnerable bureaucracy to preserve a relatively autonomous agenda, promote a consistent set of values, and protect its interests in the face of challenges from developing and developed countries alike"--Publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Chorev, Nitsan. World Health Organization between north and south. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012 9780801450655
Standard no.:	40020807743 10.7591/9780801463921

Table of Contents:

The World Health Organization
The strategic response of international organizations
A new international order in health
Appropriate technology, inappropriate marketing
The WHO in crisis
Health in economic terms
How to win friends and influence enemies
Conclusion : structural transformations of the global health regime.