Global Public Health Unit, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Int J Health Policy Manag. 2014 Aug 24;3(3):149-50. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2014.75. eCollection 2014 Aug.
Politics is not the ghost in the machine of global health policy. Conceptually, it makes little sense to argue otherwise, while history is replete with examples of individuals and movements engaging politically in global health policy. Were one looking for ghosts, a more likely candidate would be democracy, which is currently under attack by a new global health technocracy. Civil society movements offer an opportunity to breathe life into a vital, but dying, political component of global health policy.
政治并非全球卫生政策这架机器中的幽灵。从概念上讲,这种观点毫无意义,而历史上也不乏个人和运动在全球卫生政策方面进行政治参与的例子。如果要寻找幽灵,那么一个更有可能的候选人将是民主,民主目前正受到新的全球卫生技术统治论的攻击。民间社会运动为为全球卫生政策中一个重要但正在消逝的政治组成部分注入活力提供了机会。