nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/199427b6a509f759 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240328s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/199427b6a509f759 doi eng 342 23 von Achenbach, Jelena Author aut Power and Distribution in Global Health Governance - On the Failure of COVAX and the limits of market-based mechanisms von Achenbach, Jelena Verfassungsblog 2024-03-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Since at least the 1980s, private actors and market-based mechanisms have played an increasingly important role in the provision of public goods and services and the pursuit of public policy objectives in general. A market approach is also widely used in the field of public health. In effect, the PPP approach, as illustrated by COVAX, can work to structurally protect the interests of (a majority) of the high-income countries. While PPPs in global health may do a lot of good things, their private law, contractualist nature and structures safeguard formal state sovereignty and voluntarism, predominantly benefitting high-income donor countries CC BY-SA 4.0 COVAX COVAX Pandemic Treaty Private Ordering WHO (DE-588)126259474x gnd COVAX Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/power-and-distribution-in-global-health-governance/ raw object