Global health law: issues, actors and processes

Abstract

Protection of public health and improvement individual health indicators increasingly involve innovation in national and international legislation. In addition to traditional international organizations focused on health (Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization), an increase has been observed among other actors with their own rules and regulations that directly or indirectly have repercussion and impact on healthcare, such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, private foundations, etc. This article does not intend to provide an exhaustive account of a conceptual thought on Global Health Law, but aims to give an overview of it according to three of its essential features: themes, actors and polítical processes of negotiation.