Global public health

Aziza Ahmed and Jason Jackson

Chapter 47 in Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), 2025, pp 573-580 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter highlights the ways in which a TWAIL perspective is essential for understanding pervasive inequalities in global health. Despite a growing recognition of the constitutive role of international law in global health, much of the existing global health literature takes an uncritical approach to international law. A TWAIL perspective reveals how international law, even in the register of human rights, often reinforces deep underlying structural inequalities. These structural inequalities perpetuate health disparities between and within nation-states, shaping the highly uneven terrain of global health

Keywords: Global health; International law; Political economy; Inequality; TWAIL (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789901511
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