![]() Global health can also be characterized by co-morbidities between chronic and infectious diseases, the stress on therapeutic intervention, risk management, health as an instrument of 'community' development and the deployment of new modes of surveillance and epidemiological prediction. The construction of markets for medical goods takes a central place in this new era, as does regulation by civil society actors. ![]() The actors, intervention targets and tools of contemporary global health contrast with previous international health efforts. This older system was characterised by disease eradication programs and by the dominance of nation states and the organisations of the United Nations. ![]() The framing of health as a global issue over the last three decades has carved out an intellectual, economic and political space that differs from that of the post-war international public health field. ![]()
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