Towards Establishing Fiscal Legitimacy Through Settled Fiscal Principles in Global Health Financing.
Scholarship on international health law is currently pushing the boundaries while taking stock of achievements made over the past few decades. However despite the forward thinking approach of scholars working in the field of global health one area remains a stumbling block in the path to achieving the right to health universally: the financing of heath. This paper uses the book Global Health Law by Larry Gostin to reflect and take stock of the fiscal support provided to the right to health from both a global and an African perspective. It then sets out the key fiscal challenges facing global and African health and proposes an innovative solution for consideration: use of the domestic principles of tax to design the global health financing system.
Commercial Law Department, Law School, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. attiya@uonbi.ac.ke.
Attiya
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6916-771X
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Waris
Go4Health Project, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. latif.lyla@gmail.com.
Laila Abdul
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Latif
D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D005380:Financing, Government; D014943:Global Health / Q000191:economics*; D061889:Healthcare Financing; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D040841:Resource Allocation; D013660:Taxes
Africa; Canons of taxation; Health financing; International health financing; Tax law; Tax policy