The World Bank’s Global Health Governance Functional Study

The raging new crown pneumonia epidemic has highlighted the importance and urgency of global health governance.As one of the most important international mechanisms in the field of global development,the World Bank has entered the field of global health governance since the 1970 s.After more than 50 years of development,the World Bank today has become one of the most important actors in the field of global health governance.one.During the COVID-19 pandemic,the World Bank has played a huge role in helping developing countries purchase and distribute vaccines,train medical personnel,purchase medical facilities,and also provide developing countries with a large number of low-interest loans and grants.Why did the World Bank turn from a financial institution to the field of global health governance? What are the paths for the World Bank to participate in global health governance? What structural contradictions does the World Bank,which practices neoliberal theory,face when participating in global health governance? A comprehensive overview of the World Bank’s global health governance can help answer the above questions.In different historical periods,the focus of the World Bank’s health governance work is also different.In the 1970 s,the World Bank’s health governance work paid more attention to the health conditions in rural areas;in the early 1980 s,the World Bank’s health governance work focused on primary medical care;from the late 1980 s to the end of the century,the World Bank set off a worldwide health Sectoral reforms aimed at improving the efficiency of the health sector in developing countries.At the beginning of the 21 st century,the World Bank briefly focused its health governance work on the treatment of several specific diseases such as AIDS and malaria.Soon afterwards,the World Bank began to pay more attention to the entire health system of the recipient country.Today,the World Bank’s health work The goal is to help recipient countries achieve universal health coverage.Through a comprehensive review of the World Bank’s global health governance work,this paper draws the following conclusions: the reason why the World Bank participates in global health governance basis of governance.Subjectively speaking,the two failures of governance put the World Bank in jeopardy.The World Bank actively seeks to participate in global health governance to save its international prestige.It is difficult for the World Health Organization to cope with the increasingly complex work of global health governance,which provides a good opportunity for the World Bank to enter the field of global health governance;in addition to providing financial support for global health governance,the World Bank also provides global health governance knowledge and settings Health Governance Agenda Two ways to participate in global health governance;as constructivism said,material power can only be meaningful through conceptual structures,the World Bank advocates neoliberalism,neoliberalism distrusts the government,superstitious market power and health governance There are irreconcilable contradictions between them.In addition,there are also huge contradictions between the World Bank’s pursuit of profit and the nature of public health governance,between the dominance of developed countries and the actual needs of developing countries,which dooms the World Bank to play only a limited role in global health governance.