Recent shifts in global governance: implications for the response to non-communicable diseases

Devi Sridhar; Claire E Brolan; Shireen Durrani; Jennifer Edge; Lawrence O Gostin; Peter Hill; Martin McKee

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001487

Recent shifts in global governance: implications for the response to non-communicable diseases

PLoS Med. 2013;10(7):e1001487. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001487. Epub 2013 Jul 23.

Authors

Devi Sridhar¹, Claire E Brolan, Shireen Durrani, Jennifer Edge, Lawrence O Gostin, Peter Hill, Martin McKee

Affiliation

¹ School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Devi.sridhar@ed.ac.uk

Abstract

Devi Sridhar and colleagues discuss how three major trends in global governance, the rise of emerging economies, the increase in multi-bi financing and institutional proliferation, have ramifications for whether NCDs will be included in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals agenda.

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Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Delivery of Health Care / economics
Delivery of Health Care / legislation & jurisprudence
Delivery of Health Care / organization & administration*
Delivery of Health Care / trends
Global Health* / economics
Global Health* / legislation & jurisprudence
Global Health* / trends
Humans

Grants and funding

Go4Health is a research project funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Program, grant HEALTH-F1-2012-305240, and by the Australian Government's NH&MRC-European Union Collaborative Research Grants, grant 1055138. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.