Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Rockefeller Foundation, New York City, NY, USA.
Int J Health Policy Manag. 2015 Dec 25;5(3):207-9. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.213.
Gorik Ooms recently made a strong case for considering the centrality of normative premises to analyzing and understanding the underappreciated importance of the nexus of politics, power and process in global health. This critical commentary raises serious questions for the practice and study of global health and global health governance. First and foremost, this commentary underlines the importance of the question of what is global health, and why as well as how does this definition matter? This refocuses discussion on the importance of definitions and how they wield power. It also re-affirms the necessity of a deeper analysis and understanding of power and how it affects and shapes the practice of global health.
戈里克·奥姆斯(Gorik Ooms)最近提出了一个有力的观点,认为在分析和理解政治、权力和过程在全球卫生中的被低估的重要性时,必须考虑规范前提的核心地位。这篇评论性文章对全球卫生和全球卫生治理的实践和研究提出了严重的问题。首先,这篇评论强调了全球卫生是什么以及为什么以及如何定义这个问题的重要性?这将讨论的重点重新放在了定义的重要性以及它们如何发挥权力上。它还再次肯定了深入分析和理解权力以及它如何影响和塑造全球卫生实践的必要性。