Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Global public goods and the global health agenda: problems, priorities and potential | Globalization and Health BioMed Central Debate Open Access Global public goods and the global health agenda problems priorities and potential Richard D Smith 1 and Landis MacKellar2 Address 1Health Policy Unit Department of Public Health and Policy London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London UK and international Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Vienna Austria and Health Economics Centre City University London UK Email Richard D Smith - Landis MacKellar - landismac@ Corresponding author Published 22 September 2007 Received 19 December 2006 Accepted 22 September 2007 Globalization and Health 2007 3 9 doi 1744-8603-3-9 This article is available from http content 3 1 9 2007 Smith and MacKellar licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The global public good GPG concept has gained increasing attention in health as well as development circles. However it has suffered in finding currency as a general tool for global resource mobilisation and is at risk of being attached to almost anything promoting development. This overstretches and devalues the validity and usefulness of the concept. This paper first defines GPGs and describes the policy challenge that they pose. Second it identifies two key areas health R D and communicable disease control in which the GPG concept is clearly relevant and considers the extent to which it has been applied. We point out that that while there have been many new initiatives it is not clear that additional resources from non-traditional sources have been forthcoming. Yet achieving this is in effect the entire purpose of applying the GPG concept in global health. Moreover the proliferation of .
