title: Governing for the Common Good.
abstract: The proper object of global health governance (GHG) should be the common good, ensuring that all people have the opportunity to flourish. A well-organized global society that promotes the common good is to everyone's advantage. Enabling people to flourish includes enabling their ability to be healthy. Thus, we must assess health governance by its effectiveness in enhancing health capabilities. Current GHG fails to support human flourishing, diminishes health capabilities and thus does not serve the common good. The provincial globalism theory of health governance proposes a Global Health Constitution and an accompanying Global Institute of Health and Medicine that together propose to transform health governance. Multiple lines of empirical research suggest that these institutions would be effective, offering the most promising path to a healthier, more just world.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3401 Market Street, Suite 320, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. jenpr@upenn.edu.
authors.forename: Jennifer Prah
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Ruger
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health; D006076:Government; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D012935:Social Justice
keywords: Cooperation; Global health governance; Health capability paradigm; Inequity aversion; Provincial globalism; Social motivation