International Journal of Health Policy and Management

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Towards a Global Social Support System: A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Document Type : Correspondence

Authors
Martin McKee 1
Gorik Ooms 2
David Stuckler 1, 3
Sanjay Basu 4
1 Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
2 Protection International, Brussels, Belgium
3 Department of Sociology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
4 School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
10.15171/ijhpm.2016.18
Keywords
Global Social Support System
Redistribution
Solidarity
Subjects

When we invoked the example of the US National Basketball Association’s (NBA’s) scheme for redistribution of new talent as a model offering lessons for a possible future global social support system we hoped that we would stimulate debate. Consequently, we are very grateful to Goldblatt1 and Labonté2 for their insightful commentaries that explore some of the issues that arise from our suggestion... (Read more...)

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  • Received Date 05 February 2016
  • Revised Date 16 February 2016
  • Accepted Date 15 February 2016
  • First Published Date 01 May 2016
  • Published Date 01 May 2016