Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Int J Health Policy Manag. 2015 Jan 30;4(2):111-3. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.20. eCollection 2015 Feb.
This article agrees with recent arguments suggesting that normative and epistemic power is rife within global health policy and provides further examples of such. However, in doing so, it is argued that it is equally important to recognize that global health is, and always will be, deeply political and that some form of power is not only necessary for the system to advance, but also to try and control the ways in which power within that system operates. In this regard, a better focus on health politics can both expose illegitimate sources of power, but also provide better recommendations to facilitate deliberations that can, although imperfectly, help legitimate sources of influence and power.
本文赞同最近的一些观点，即规范性权力和认识性权力普遍存在于全球卫生政策中，并进一步举例说明了这一点。然而，本文认为，同样重要的是要认识到，全球卫生一直而且永远是政治性的，某种形式的权力不仅是该体系向前发展所必需的，而且也是试图控制该体系内权力运作方式所必需的。在这方面，更加关注卫生政治不仅可以揭露权力的非法来源，而且还可以提出更好的建议，以促进审议，虽然不完美，但可以帮助合法的影响力和权力来源。
