A social explanation for the rise and fall of global health issues

A social explanation for the rise and fall of global health issues

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This paper proposes an explanation concerning why some global health issues such as HIV/AIDS attract significant attention from international and national leaders, while other issues that also represent a high mortality and morbidity burden, such as pneumonia and malnutrition, remain neglected.The rise, persistence and decline of a global health issue may best Regulator Control Board be explained by the way in which its policy community - the network of individuals and organizations concerned with the problem - comes to understand and portray the issue and establishes institutions that can sustain this portrayal.This explanation emphasizes the power of ideas and challenges interpretations of 3 IN 1 CEDAR issue ascendance and decline that place primary emphasis on material, objective factors such as mortality and morbidity levels and the existence of cost-effective interventions.This explanation has implications for our understanding of strategic public health communication.If ideas in the form of issue portrayals are central, strategic communication is far from a secondary public health activity: it is at the heart of what global health policy communities do.