9. Global Public Goods for Health: Use and Limitations
Richard D Smith, David Woodward
Overview
This session looks at:
- importance of correctly identifying a GPGH
- ‘production’ of a GPGH
- knowledge, international legislation and access goods
- means to assess costs and benefits of GPGH
- relationship between GPGH, rights & equity
- relationship between GPGH & other GPGs
- funding of GPGH
- applicability and usefulness of GPGH concept
- research and policy agendas
This session draws together the main messages and lessons that arise from these other sessions, in order to draw some conclusions concerning the usefulness and limitations of the GPG concept in the context of health, and consider the next step for the GPG concept in health.
It considers:
- the primary importance of correctly identifying a global public good for health
- aspects of the 'production' of a GPGH
- the importance of knowledge, international legislation and access goods in securing a GPGH
- the means by which the costs and benefits of GPGH may be assessed
- the relationship between GPGH and wider issues of human rights and equity
- the relationship between GPGH and non-health GPGs funding of GPGH
- the applicability and usefulness of the GPG concept in health