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Moon, Suerie --- "Global health law and governance: concepts, tools, actors and power" [2018] ELECD 1032; in Burci, Gian Luca; Toebes, Brigit (eds), "Research Handbook on Global Health Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 24

Book Title: Research Handbook on Global Health Law

Editor(s): Burci, Gian Luca; Toebes, Brigit

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781785366536

Section: Chapter 2

Section Title: Global health law and governance: concepts, tools, actors and power

Author(s): Moon, Suerie

Number of pages: 31

Abstract/Description:

This chapter focuses on the relationship between global health law (GHL) and global governance, conceptualizing GHL as an outcome of and input to broader global governance processes. I offer a definition of global health law as: a codified rule (whether binding or non-binding) with the explicitly-stated intention to protect or promote health, endorsed by a governmental or intergovernmental entity, agreed by three or more countries and with effects beyond a single region. The existence, contents, application and impact of GHL are shaped by a wide range of states and non-state actors using a broad range of power resources at their disposal, and interacting in a complex system. GHL is one among many tools that actors wield to pursue their interests in the global arena, and it can play an important role in performing key functions of the global health system. However, it is likely to remain underused due to the reluctance of states.