Essay On Global Health Governance

Introduction

Global health governance (GHG) is defined as the structures, systems, rules and processes at the global level for making decisions about health policy, financing and implementing them, while ensuring accountability in the process (McCoy, 2009). It assumes the supraterritorial nature Scholte highlights and cuts across the inefficiencies of national and regional health systems, becoming, like Lee (2002) said, cooperation among state and non-state actors to address issues of a transborder nature. Thus it is the only true means by which health determinants, status and actions can be influenced positively, considering the intensification of the transborder flows of people, goods and services, and ideas in the globalized era (Dodgson, Lee, & Drager, 2002). However, just like globalization itself, huge challenges exist to prevent the attainment of a sound GHG architecture.

Unique governance challenges affecting Global Health Governance from the need to address factors across geographical boundaries and involve a broad range of interests and actors, to addressing health determinants through a multi-sectoral perspective (Dodgson et al., 2002). Lee K. et al (2009) extensively expounded five areas of weaknesses that are detrimental to attaining good GHG. These are policy coherence and coordination; transparency and accountability;

Currently two-thirds of its income comes from voluntary donations and the rest as assessed contributions. However, only 7% of voluntary contributions are tagged core, meaning they can be used at the volition of the organization. This year there will be a second WHO Financing Dialogue to try and find ways to better and fully fund the organizations budget (WHO,