Abstract
Of Politicians and Technocrats, and Why Global Health Scholars Are Inevitably a Bit of Both: A Response to Recent Commentaries.
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Ooms from a cosmopolitan perspective, all human life years have equal value, so spending at least $500 per person per year on healthcare in all countries would have my vote
When I wrote “Navigating Between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health,”[1] my primary intention was to fuel the interdisciplinary dialogue on norms, politics, and power that had been started in this journal by others
I fully agree with Kickbusch when she writes that “[p]olitics play a central part in determining health and development outcomes, health is to a large extent a political choice.”[4]. And I would argue that it is even more true for global health
Summary
Ooms from a cosmopolitan perspective, all human life years have equal value, so spending at least $500 per person per year on healthcare in all countries would have my vote. Even if we had one – arguably, the World Health Organization (WHO) could assume this role – at the global level, we do not have the equivalent of the UK Parliament, that sets the political framework for NICE.
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