The Dynamics of Power Flow From the Global Health Financing; Comment on “Power Dynamics Among Health Professionals in Nigeria: A Case Study of the Global Fund Policy Process”
This article agrees with Lassa et al that biomedical paradigms and medical professionals are a dominating force within the policy dynamics of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) and that there needs to be greater community involvement in how global health initiatives (GHIs) are adopted, designed, implemented and evaluated. However, we argue that many of the conditions identified are entrenched and perpetuated by how GHIs are financed and the financing modalities employed in Development Aid for Health (DAH), particularly in low resource settings. As a result, the dynamics of power not only flow from traditionally entrenched epistemic authorities but are disproportionally sustained by global health financing modalities that favour particular GHIs over others. As we argue, these DAH modalities can exert forms of power with problematic effects on policy-making.
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Brown, G. W., & Rhodes, N. (2023). The Dynamics of Power Flow From the Global Health Financing; Comment on “Power Dynamics Among Health Professionals in Nigeria: A Case Study of the Global Fund Policy Process”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 12(Issue 1), 1-4. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2023.7806
MLA
Garrett Wallace Brown; Natalie Rhodes. "The Dynamics of Power Flow From the Global Health Financing; Comment on “Power Dynamics Among Health Professionals in Nigeria: A Case Study of the Global Fund Policy Process”". International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 12, Issue 1, 2023, 1-4. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2023.7806
HARVARD
Brown, G. W., Rhodes, N. (2023). 'The Dynamics of Power Flow From the Global Health Financing; Comment on “Power Dynamics Among Health Professionals in Nigeria: A Case Study of the Global Fund Policy Process”', International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 12(Issue 1), pp. 1-4. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2023.7806
VANCOUVER
Brown, G. W., Rhodes, N. The Dynamics of Power Flow From the Global Health Financing; Comment on “Power Dynamics Among Health Professionals in Nigeria: A Case Study of the Global Fund Policy Process”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2023; 12(Issue 1): 1-4. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2023.7806