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Civil society: the catalyst for ensuring health in the age of sustainable development
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Sustainable Development Goal Three is rightly ambitious, but achieving it will require doing global health differently. Among other things, progressive civil society organisations will need to be recognised and supported as vital partners in achieving the necessary transformations. We argue, using illustrative examples, that a robust civil society can fulfill eight essential global health functions. These include producing compelling moral arguments for action, building coalitions beyond the health sector, introducing novel policy alternatives, enhancing the legitimacy of global health initiatives and institutions, strengthening systems for health, enhancing accountability systems, mitigating the commercial determinants of health and ensuring rights-based approaches. Given that civil society activism has catalyzed tremendous progress in global health, there is a need to invest in and support it as a global public good to ensure that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development can be realised.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Smith, J., Buse, K., & Gordon, C.
- Affiliations
- Simon Fraser University (CA)
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Smith, Julia
- Venue
- Globalization and Health
- Published
- 2016-07-16
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 40-40
- ISSN
- 1744-8603 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4947319
- OpenAlex
- W2471564892
- Cited by
- 124
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 15.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Globalization and Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Cancer Institute (R01-CA091021)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Public Health Policies and Education
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Public health and occupational medicine
- Keywords
- civil society, global health, Sustainable Development Goal 3, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, civil society organizations, global health partnerships, health system strengthening, accountability, commercial determinants of health, rights-based approach, global public goods
- MeSH terms
- Civil Rights, Conservation of Natural Resources, Community Participation, Health, Health Policy, Humans, Social Responsibility, Global Health
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