| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 278 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
Scale up existing interventions to achieve significant health gains -- Generate and share knowledge to address health problems endemic to the global poor -- Invest in people, institutions, and capacity building with global partners -- Increase U.S. financial commitments to global health -- Set the example of respectful partnership -- Call to action -- A. Statement of task -- B. Committee biographies -- C. Public committee meeting agendas -- D. Working group meeting agendas -- E. Commissioned paper: IOM Committee on the U.S. Commitment to Global Health: Global Health Governance Report / by Lawrence Gostin and Emily Mok -- F. Commissioned paper: Sharing knowledge for global health / by Anthony D. So and Evan Stewart. |
| Summary |
The U.S. Commitment to Global Health examines ways in which the United States could contribute to advances in global health, including the following four areas of action: Generate and share knowledge to address problems endemic to poor countries, Invest in people, institutions, and capacity building in resource-poor settings, Increase both quantity and quality of U.S. financial commitments to global health, Be a respectful partner and leader. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World health -- Government policy -- United States.
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World health. |
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Government policy. |
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United States. |
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Global Health. |
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Financing, Government. |
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Public Policy. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
United States commitment to global health |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the U.S. Commitment to Global Health. U.S. commitment to global health. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2009 9780309138215 (DLC) 2009033431 (OCoLC)402275966 |
| ISBN |
9780309138222 (electronic book) |
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0309138221 (electronic book) |
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030913921X |
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9780309139212 |
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9780309138215 (paperback) |
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0309138213 (paperback) |
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