The political process in global health and nutrition governance: the G8's 2010 Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Child, and Newborn Health

• Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 1331; no. 1; pp. 186 - 200
• Main Authors: Kirton, John, Kulik, Julia, Bracht, Caroline
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2014; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Accountability; and child health; Canada; Child; Commerce; Congresses as Topic; Developing Countries; Female; G8 summit; Galvanizing; Global Health; global health governance; global nutrition governance; Governments; Health; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Markets; maternal; Maternal Welfare; maternal, newborn, and child health; Negotiations; newborn; NGOs; Nongovernmental organizations; Nutrition; Organizations; Partnerships; Priorities; Private Sector; Public Health; Public-Private Sector Partnerships; United Nations; Canada; Africa; G8 summit; global nutrition governance; global health governance; maternal, newborn, and child health

Why do informal, plurilateral summit institutions such as the Group of Eight (G8) major market democracies succeed in advancing costly public health priorities such as maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), even when the formal, multilateral United Nations (UN) system fails to meet such goals,...